George Clooney hit back at Megyn Kelly, saying he’s “not quite sure what she’s done to be a journalist.”
“I’ve at least been to Darfur and Sudan and the Congo and been shot at to try to get stories out,” Clooney said during Variety’s “Actors on Actors: Broadway” with Patti LuPone, which was released Tuesday. “I’m not quite sure what she’s done to be a journalist.”
Clooney’s comments come after Kelly criticized his Broadway play “Good Night, and Good Luck,” which is an adaptation of the 2005 film Clooney co-wrote, co-starred in, and directed that is set in the 1950s and follows broadcast news journalist Edward R. Murrow reporting on Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare. During a March “60 Minutes” interview to promote the play, Clooney said journalism “has to be waged,” like war.
Clooney’s interview seemingly frustrated Kelly. On her YouTube channel, Kelly mocked Clooney for “lecturing” journalists on how to do their job.
“George Clooney’s idea of journalism is just toe the party line when it helps the left and say what needs to be said and bury what needs to be said so long as it will hurt the right,” Kelly said on her YouTube channel in March.
Clooney addressed Kelly’s remarks during his “Actors on Actors: Broadway” with LuPone, telling LuPone that he never said he was a journalist.
“Neither is she, by the way,” LuPone quipped back.
At the end of the “Good Night, and Good Luck” play, a montage of television news plays, which includes a clip from Kelly. Clooney said the play simply shows Kelly but never tells the audience what to think.
“It’s not out of context,” Clooney said. “We don’t manipulate it. We literally just go, ‘There are your words.’”
He continued, saying the play shows the montage “in context and we let everybody make their own decisions.”
“If people want to be angry about that, that’s OK,” Clooney said.
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