Megyn Kelly Brings Up Blackface — To Slam Trump-Bashing Oscar Host Jimmy Kimmel

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly brought up the issue of blackface to slam Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel — who mocked former President Donald Trump during the telecast — and complained about her exile from television over the issue.

Kimmel earned Trump’s ire as he mocked Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) during the 96th Academy Awards — The Oscars! — then read Trump’s response on the air live during the telecast. Kimmel is a longtime antagonist of Trump.

On Monday’s episode of Sirius XM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly trashed Kimmel over his past use of blackface to portray characters like Karl Malone (for which he apologized in 2020), as well as past Oscar telecast portrayals.

Throughout the show, Kelly contrasted her own treatment over the blackface remarks that derailed her career with the treatment of Kimmel and others:

MEGYN KELLY: This week. Last night was the 96th Academy Award show, and while you might have missed it, there was one clear winner.

No, not Oppenheimer. It was sanctimonious leftists for their lead role in pretending they are better than you.

Several people shared in this achievement. Winner number one Jimmy Kimmel. For the fourth time, Kimmel hosted the Oscars before an adoring crowd of Hollywood stars who laughed and curried favor with the man who wore blackface so many times. He’s second only to Justin Trudeau in his fondness for the practice.

Yes, some of the very same celebrities who wanted you to believe they were horrified. Horrified after yours truly said in 2018 that people used to don dark makeup in order to imitate well-known Black celebrities, and it wasn’t a big deal. Absolutely ate up the performance by Hollywood darling Mr. Kimmel, whose blackface costumes included his oft repeated bit as basketball star Karl Malone.

JIMMY KIMMEL: (Malone clip0

MEGYN KELLY: And let’s not forget Oprah in a fat suit.

JIMMY KIMMEL: (Oprah clip)

MEGYN KELLY: In truth, the Academy Award show, though it’s since gone on to lecture us incessantly about the importance of racial equity, has long been a promoter of celebrity blackface. The 2012 Oscars ceremony featured actor Billy Crystal in blackface, announcing a Best Picture nominee.

BILLY CRYSTAL: (video clip)

MEGYN KELLY: Just a few years before that, Robert Downey Jr was honored with a Best Supporting Actor nomination for the film Tropic Thunder, in which Downey Jr. famously wore, you guessed it, black face while donning an afro and attending, quote, Ebonics vocal training.

He won last night for Oppenheimer. Congrats!

Obviously, Kimmel’s love of blackface was not a deal breaker for ABC, which already employs him as a late night host and which, in addition to its many blackface awards shows, also produced and promoted many shows and stars in blackface.

It appears the real sin with blackface, you see, is talking about how standards on it have changed, not actually wearing it. You can still win Oscars and host the Oscars after doing that.

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By the way, De Niro is also very upset that Donald Trump is an alleged racist. Wonder if he pulled Jimmy Kimmel aside last night and asked him to atone for his blackface loving past!

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Hey, you know, you got the Sunday morning show. Was Stephanopoulos into the evening Academy Awards broadcast with Kimmel and ABC elevating, you know, the blackface lovin’ Kimmel who was speaking in Ebonics wearing an afro. And, like, no problem. Right. It’s okay with the bald head and then the fat suit and then, okay, that’s no problem for them.

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While we’re on the topic of blackface now, this woman did not wear blackface, and I actually didn’t really even know very well who this person is. But she’s a celebrity chef named Padma Lakshmi. And she, for some reason, decided to leave the kitchen and to get up in my grill back in 2018 on NBC, when I said, you know, people used to wear blackface and it wasn’t such a big thing. When did we get to the point where people found it offensive? With I mean, she went off on me on Twitter.

Watch above via Sirius XM’s The Megyn Kelly Show.

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