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Megyn Kelly joined other critics in praising author Coleman Hughes after a tense exchange with The View’s Sunny Hostin where Hostin accused him of being a “pawn of the right.”
“First, it is wonderful to see Coleman getting before so many different audiences w/his measured, well-researched, superior arguments,” Kelly wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Thursday.
She followed up with a dig against Hostin.
“Second, it is an absolute joy to watch him calmly & expertly demolish Sunny Hostin’s fact-free assertions,” Kelly wrote.
Here is the full interview of @coldxman on The View. First, it is wonderful to see Coleman getting before so many different audiences w/his measured, well-researched, superior arguments. Second, it is an absolute joy to watch him calmly & expertly demolish Sunny Hostin’s…
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) March 28, 2024
On Wednesday’s episode of The View, Hughes accused Hostin of making an evidence-free claim when she said he had called himself a “conservative.” Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin jumped in the mix multiple times to say Hughes was not a Republican while Hostin said many feel Hughes’s arguments about race have been “co-opted by the right.”
“I don’t think there’s any evidence I’ve been co-opted by anyone and I think that that’s an ad hominem tactic that people use to not address really the important conversations we’re having here. I think it’s better and it would be better for everyone if we stuck to the topics rather than make it about me without any evidence that I’ve been co-opted,” Hughes told Hostin.
Hostin pushed back against Hughes arguing that there should be a “colorblind approach to politics and culture,” something that’s the subject of his book, The End of Race Politics.
Hostin called the argument “fundamentally flawed” and the two shared tense moments as they argued over Hughes’s political affiliation and the meaning of multiple quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.
