Overview

• Kelly told the New York Post’s Miranda Devine that Reid is an “insane lunatic” who is “extremely racist” and claimed Reid dislikes white people, comments delivered in a discussion tied to Devine’s “Pod Force One.”
• She asserted NBC had “had enough” of Reid and predicted Reid would “fail in the independent lane” because she is “too toxic.”
• Reid was dismissed in February during an MSNBC programming shake-up led by president Rebecca Kutler and has since launched an independent audio and video show.
• Reporting this week noted MSNBC formally separated from NBC News under Comcast’s new Versant cable group, with editorial independence and a planned rebrand to “MS NOW” later this year.
• Coverage also highlights Reid’s past claims that managers bristled at her social-media posts and cites the Daily Caller’s publication of remarks from her August Substack livestream criticizing white people.