Heidi Stevens: Megyn Kelly doesn’t speak for me in her unhinged rant about immigrants
It’s tempting to ignore Megyn Kelly’s latest rant, given her long and storied history of inane rants.
From insisting back in 2013 that both Jesus and Santa are white (despite Jesus Christ being born in the Middle East and Santa being born in your imagination), to downplaying sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes because his victims were 15 and not “like, 8-year-olds,” (her words), Kelly has repeatedly reminded us not to take her seriously.
After the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that allows the Department of Homeland Security to end temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria, Kelly took ranting to new levels of awful.
“We don’t want you,” she said on her podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “We don’t care if you’re offended. Get out. Go home. Go back to (expletive) Haiti.”
Temporary protected status was created in 1990 to provide sanctuary for people fleeing war, natural disasters and “extraordinary and temporary” conditions. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 200,000 people qualified the nation and its people for the status, until last month. The Supreme Court’s........
