Megyn Kelly took Jane Fonda to the woodshed Monday on “Today” after the 80-year-old actress criticized the NBC News morning show host for a plastic surgery question the journalist posed months ago. Rosie O’Donnell, for one, was not impressed with Kelly’s comeback, which basically focused on Fonda’s very public anti-Vietnam War stance.
The former “View” host wrote the following on Twitter: “Megyn Kelly is a moron – spineless wanna be barbie – she sucks and so does her show.”
O’Donnell, who added hashtags #jane and #usuckmegyn, wasn’t alone in her analysis of the 9 a.m. hour’s editorial moment. Read 15 more highly unsupportive (to Kelly) tweets below — some of which were in direct response to O’Donnell.
There were plenty more where these came from, and the general social media sentiment seems to be heavily in favor of Fonda.
Let's be clear, Megyn Kelly is being who she's always been, a disrespectful Fox Propagandist. NBC hiring her casts a true stain. https://t.co/lc4Vf2iaLJ
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) January 22, 2018
I would be more likely to watch clothes tumble in my clothes dryer than watch Megyn Kelly.#NBCToday
— MJdowntheshore (@MJdowntheshore) January 22, 2018
Jane Fonda is a feminist icon, an artistic genius, an exercise mogul, a national treasure. Megyn Kelly is famous for assuring children on a 10pm cable news broadcast that Santa Claus is white.
— Seth Abramovitch (@SethAbramovitch) January 22, 2018
What Megyn Kelly did today was cringe worthy and i think her time may be up at NBC after that stunt
— Diane Garcia (@nawoc) January 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/JackieGotSober/status/955497021254918145
It is possible to think Donald Trump is a jerk for his attacks on Megyn Kelly and also that Megyn Kelly is horrible.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) January 22, 2018
Megyn Kelly: This woman is FIXATED on something that happened *months ago*!!!
Megyn Kelly two minutes later: "During the Vietnam War…" https://t.co/E7ls2VEbNf
— scott rising (@rising) January 22, 2018
Just rename #MegynKellyToday, Megyn Kelly's Fox Mean Girl Hour. That attack on Jane Fonda was one of the worst and embarrassing things I've seen on a NBC News program.
— Jason Elias (@Zebop) January 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/youngsinick/status/955480590144491520
ICYMI, here's Megyn Kelly's embarrassing segment on Jane Fonda. I have never seen anything so petty coming from anyone at @NBCNews. Lashing out at the slightest hint of public criticism is conduct unbecoming of a news anchor. Hiring her was a huge mistake! https://t.co/Hwzy4D9604
— Shannon Fisher (@MsShannonFisher) January 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/andylassner/status/955479547687854080
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/955494504815054851
@Janefonda has more class, intelligence, life-experience, wit, and beauty in that little piece of cancer they recently removed from her lip than Megyn Kelly would ever hope to have in her lifetime! #TeamFonda
— Bussy Riot (@ChrisLeDC) January 22, 2018
Hey NBC:
You can take the "Megyn Kelly" out of "Fox News", but you can't take the "Fox News" out of "Megyn Kelly". pic.twitter.com/53S1JeFrxT
— TrumpsTaxes (@TrumpsTaxes) January 22, 2018
Megyn Kelly is not a journalist.
Megyn Kelly is not a journalist.
Megyn Kelly is not a journalist.
Megyn Kelly is not a journalist.
Megyn Kelly is not a journalist. pic.twitter.com/ZpEsIVBOEy— jon (@prasejeebus) January 22, 2018
TheWrap reached out to Kelly’s reps for comment on the blowback. We did not immediately hear back.
Though Kelly is quiet for now, she was heard loud and clear earlier.
“Honestly, she has no business lecturing anyone on what qualifies as offensive,” the Fox news alum said on this morning’s show.
“Look at her treatment of our military during the Vietnam War, many of our veterans still call her ‘Hanoi Jane’ thanks to her radio broadcasts, which attempted to shame American troops,” Kelly told her audience. “She posed on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our American pilots.”
“[Fonda] called our P.O.W.’s ‘hypocrites and liars’ and referred to their torture as ‘understandable,’” she continued. “Even she had to apologize years later for that gun picture — but not for the rest of it.”
“By the way, she still says she’s not proud of America,” Kelly went on. “So, the moral indignation is a little much.”
This isn’t the first time that Kelly and O’Donnell have been linked.
During a Republican primary debate leading up to the 2016 election, Kelly pressed Donald Trump on unkind things he’s said about women. The future president told her he’s only said those nasty things about O’Donnell.