There are several people that I would be hesitant to tangle with in the public arena of the vigorous exchange of ideas. After just reading this article about Megyn Kelly scorching George Clooney, I have added Megyn to that list. 

Megyn deflated Clooney with her spot-on commentary.

I read about what she said right HERE:

“He’s starring in a play about Edward R. Murrow because Clooney fancies himself a journalist, you see, and has lots of thoughts on how journalists need to do journalism,” Kelly said.

Ok. Go on…

“And then only after that president humiliates himself on the national stage at a Presidential debate, and then refuses to step down as the entire Democrat Party watches its electoral chances up and down the ticket go swirling down the toilet.”

“Finally, he decides to write an op-ed in the New York Times saying Joe Biden is not up for the job,” she continued.

Damn. Just damn Megyn.

George, get Brad Pitt and Matt Damon over STAT to help boost your self-esteem up pronto. 

This is part of why Megyn went after the Biden angle, if you recall. My colleague Katie Jerkovich had this nugget about George a while back here: George Clooney Talks More About Dems’ Split With Biden, and Which Democrat He Wants to Run for 2028

“I feel as if there was a lot of profiles and cowardice in my party through all of that, and I was not proud of that and also I believed I had to tell the truth,” he added.

Just easier to tell the truth after you have seen those polling numbers about how your boy got thrashed.

Kelly decided to throw a bit more mud in the eye with this parting shot.

“So now he’s starring in his Broadway show … by the way, what’s the matter, George? Are the Hollywood roles getting a little hard to come by as you age and get decidedly more smug and self congratulatory? I’m just asking!”

DOUBLE DAMN.

Like I said above, Clooney is an actor, and when you become a decent enough actor and you win some awards and make a lot of money, you believe that you absorb knowledge from pretending to be somebody else. You don’t become that person or know about the profession that they were in.

The dirty little secret was that he was just pretending to be somebody else who was a bit eccentric, thus acting eccentric in that role. I’m sure Carrey, having watched film on Kaufman, felt that he got to know him that way, but he never actually was Andy Kaufman.

Clooney, having played a doctor on ER, should have been able to tell that Joe Biden was suffering from something long before the fundraiser that Clooney attended and claimed that he was shocked at how dysfunctional Biden was. But he wrote an op-ed in July after the debate in June. How much more noble can you be?

Now, for my money, I’m going to take Megyn Kelly’s form of journalism over George Clooney’s pretending to be a journalist. Also, I’m going to try to never tick Megyn Kelly off for the rest of my life.