Megyn Kelly’s latest show dug into something we conservatives have been saying for years: the left keeps turning every painful corner of American life into political theater. Kelly brought on James Woods to push back hard on the media’s obsession with identity narratives, and Woods didn’t hold back in calling out the performative fury the left traffics in to score cultural points.
This week’s spectacle involved actress Pam Grier appearing on The View and tearfully recalling an episode in which her mother allegedly pulled her away from a lynched body “hanging from a tree” while she was growing up in Columbus, Ohio. The clip earned gasps and standing ovations on the show as Grier tied her memory to a broader warning about racial violence and intimidation.
But the powerful emotion in the studio did not make the memory a historical fact. Viewers and historians quickly pointed out that the last documented lynching in Ohio took place in Cleveland in 1911 and that there is no recorded lynching in Columbus during the era Grier described, facts that undercut the literal claim even while acknowledging the real history of racial terror elsewhere.
What happened next is familiar to anyone watching the modern media carnival: an unverified personal story is amplified and sanctified, then scraps of historical accuracy are slapped on afterward by outraged users. Conservatives aren’t denying the reality of past racial atrocities, but we do insist that public discourse — especially on national television — be anchored in truth, not theatrical recollection used as a political cudgel.
Kelly and Woods framed this episode as part of a wider pattern where left-wing outlets reward dramatic, grievance-driven narratives that fit their political script while demonizing any pushback as heartless. That’s not coincidence; it’s a deliberate strategy to manufacture moral authority and shame opponents, and it leaves ordinary Americans tired of being lectured by a media class that always knows the proper outrage for the day.
If conservatism stands for anything, it’s defending the dignity of truth and refusing to let political advantage rewrite history or weaponize pain. The remedy isn’t silence or dismissal of legitimate suffering — it’s demanding accountability from celebrities, hosts, and networks who trade in emotion without bothering to check the facts. America deserves better than manufactured misery and moral theater; it deserves honest history, honest journalism, and leaders who will stop turning grief into a fundraising pitch.
