Megyn Kelly has lately been candid about a friendship that makes a lot of sense to patriotic Americans: she and Glenn Greenwald often clash on policy but remain friends, proving you can disagree without descending into the cancel-culture mob. That message matters because too many in the media now mistake political purity for character and friendship for betrayal, and Kelly used her platform to say so plainly.
Anyone who has listened to Kelly’s show knows she regularly hosts Greenwald and lets the arguments fly — from the Middle East to the excesses of the mainstream press — and neither of them pretends the other is wrong about everything. Those debates are exactly what conservative voters want: rigorous, unapologetic questioning that refuses to bow to the sacred cows of the elite media. Letting different conservative and libertarian voices spar in public is how we sharpen our arguments and win policy fights.
So when a despicable, politically motivated leak of private videos involving Greenwald surfaced, Kelly didn’t join the pile-on; she defended his right to privacy and called the stunt what it was — a criminal attempt to weaponize someone’s private life for political ends. Greenwald himself said the videos were released without his consent and condemned the publication as malicious, stressing that the encounters were consensual and that the release was intended to silence him. Any decent, freedom-minded American should recoil at that kind of dirty politics.
Kelly’s swift public backing of Greenwald — telling her audience she had “love & respect” and that the attempt to embarrass him was “irrelevant BS” — was refreshing in an era where too many on the right cave to spectacle or reflexively weaponize private matters when it suits them. Her response was not about endorsing every position Greenwald holds; it was about defending principle: privacy, due process, and the right to do politics without being stalked by political hit squads. Conservatives should admire someone who picks principle over partisan advantage.
This episode exposes the broader decay in today’s media culture, where personal scandal is the preferred substitute for actual reporting and where the left’s cancel machine treats any inconvenient voice as a target. Megyn Kelly’s approach — fierce skepticism of elites, insistence on honest debate, and refusal to engage in petty public lynchings — is the sort of backbone Republicans and independents need if we’re going to reclaim public discourse. It’s a reminder that decency and toughness are not mutually exclusive.
If conservatives want to win back the country, we must defend free speech, privacy, and fair play even when the person under attack isn’t a perfect ideological ally. Kelly lived that lesson this week, standing with a fellow journalist against political dirty tricks while continuing to argue with him about ideas. That is the kind of principled, patriotic behavior that earns the trust of hardworking Americans and rebuilds a healthy public square.
