'Misjudging your audience': Megyn Kelly thinks firing Tucker Carlson is FOX News' biggest mistake

'This is a terrible move by Fox, and it's a great thing for Tucker Carlson,' Kelly declared on her podcast

UPDATED APR 25, 2023

Megyn Kelly doesn't agree with Tucker Carlson's exit from Fox News (Jason Koerner/Getty Images and Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Tucker Carlson's unexpected departure from Fox News has created quite the buzz among the media personalities and journalists in the United States. Megyn Kelly considers that the television channel has made a wrong move by letting Carlson go after 14 years. The former morning show host did not hold back in expressing her opinion regarding the shocking move after the right-wing network's announcement that the Republican journalist will no longer be associated with the company.

"This is a terrible move by Fox, and it's a great thing for Tucker Carlson," Kelly declared during the Monday, April 24, episode of her SiriusXM podcast, 'The Megyn Kelly Show'. "I don't know what drove Fox News to make this decision."

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'They're not letting him say goodbye'

"It was clearly Fox News’ decision because they're not letting him say goodbye. That's my supposition. That's not inside knowledge… Talk about misjudging your audience yet again!" she continued to rant about the situation. "I think this is a massive error," Kelly, who previously worked for Fox News, explained before referencing the lawsuit against the network that was recently settled. "I think this is a massive misjudgment of what their audience wants."

'Why is Maria Bartiromo there?'

Kelly went on to question why Carlson became the only journalist to get fired from the company and no one else was. "If ... this is a reaction to the Dominion lawsuit, why is Maria Bartiromo there?" she asked. "Why is Jeanine Pirro still there? Why is Suzanne Scott still there? The CEO of Fox News – she got them in far more trouble with her executive emails panicking about Dominion and the audience than anything Tucker did behind the scenes. I realized the left hates Tucker's guts."

Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses 'Populism and the Right' during the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel March 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. Carlson talked about a large variety of topics including dropping testosterone levels, increasing rates of suicide, unemployment, drug addiction and social hierarchy at the summit, which had the theme 'The Case for the American Experiment.' (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"This will be good for Tucker. This is going to be great for Tucker," Kelly noted, sending goodwill to the conservative television star. "I'm not worried about Tucker at all. I predict Tucker goes independent, Tucker launches a podcast or digital show, and crushes it. Absolutely crushes it."

Fox News is yet to come up with a proper explanation as to why they decided to cut ties with the conservative journalist. "We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor," Fox said in a statement, while noting that his broadcast on Friday, April 21, was Carlson's last.

Tucker Carlson speaks onstage during Politicon 2018 at Los Angeles Convention Center on October 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Rich Polk/Getty Images for Politicon )