Megyn Kelly Defends ‘Force for Good’ Tucker Carlson: Churchill-Hitler Revisionism Is ‘Worth It’

Megyn Kelly defended Tucker Carlson in a new interview released by The Free Press on Tuesday, calling him a “force for good” who takes “risks.”

Kelly’s defense of Carlson came after she was asked by host Michael Moynihan about her friendly relationship with Carlson, who she recently joined for an event on his national tour.

“You know, there’s been a lot of controversy about Tucker for ages now. But it seems to have become something that the right is engaged in, right? I mean, we had an episode with Victor Davis Hanson  saying Tucker’s gone a little too far on this stuff about [Winston] Churchill and World War II and about some of this revisionism. You know, his embrace of Alex Jones, and he said the other day Alex Jones has been right about almost everything,” began Moynihan. “Do you think that there are boundaries that one shouldn’t trust past in the way that kind of William F. Buckley [Jr.] kind of used to police the kind of outer fringes of conservatism and say, ‘Too far for us’? Do you think that that’s happening, particularly with somebody like Tucker?

“No, not with him,” answered Kelly immediately. “I’m not gonna say there are no boundaries because I’ve certainly revolted in watching certain personalities go really out there — he’s not one of them. So for me personally, there are some people that push it too far, but I wouldn’t say Tucker is in that category. And I didn’t here VDH on Honestly, my apologies, but I did hear him on his own podcast and I agreed with every word he said. I think if you’re on the wrong side of VDH when it comes to history, especially World War II, you’re on the wrong side, period.”

“But my own take on it is A. I don’t have a ton of time to study World War II history and exactly what Churchill, you know, how neocon-y he was, like OK, there’s other people who are gonna look into that. But I think Tucker is and remains a very, very positive force for good even though he does some podcasts that I don’t align with or agree with or, I don’t know, approve of — that’s not really the right word,” she continued.  “But there’s plenty I disagree with him on and plenty he disagrees with me on, but he’s a force for good.”

As an example, Kelly cited Carlson’s interview with Dr. Casey Means, who Kelly said quit her job as a surgeon because she realized “the healthcare system was trying to keep us sick.”

“That thing went totally viral because it was really interesting and Tucker did a great interview. And then, the next thing you know, Robert F. Kennedy’s [Jr.] out there endorsing Trump, saying Make America Healthy Again and citing Casey Means,” she explained. “And now the national conversation has been changed. And it’s because Tucker will put on people who aren’t everywhere, he’ll take risks that a lot of people won’t take, and so look, while he may, I don’t actually know whether he did this, this is a joke, but maybe he’ll do something on the moon landing that some people may think is crazy, or maybe he’ll go really controversial on Churchill vs Hitler. But it’s worth it because he generates attention and he, in more times than not, uses that attention for good.”

Kelly went on to blast Jones over the lies he’s told about the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, but also to say that when her team went to fact-check him during an interview she conducted with him for NBC, much of what he said turned out to be true.

Moynihan pressed her on the issue.

“I wonder, though, if there are certain things that are disqualifying. The thing that I found about Alex Jones — and this is the thing about Tucker, too — is that, you know, you say that people like Mike Johnson, he has an enormous reach and has enormous amounts of influence,” he observed. “When you’re Alex Jones and you’re saying that 9/11 was an inside job, and now Tucker is flirting with those ideas, too, which offend me greatly. And you know, saying something like Hitler was the great-, Churchill was the biggest enemy of World War II, which is, you know, obviously an insane thing to say. And for some reason people are doing this to kind of vindicate or actually lessen the guilt of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis is quite worrying.”

“I mean, what are the guardrails when you say, if somebody says something that is just so transparently crazy, I stop trusting them as a source to kind of aggregate information, adjudicate what’s true or not when you say that 9/11 was a controlled demolition or something like that?” asked Moynihan.

“No, I hear you. A couple of things on that,” replied Kelly before saying she would disqualify anyone who came out and accused the Jews “of some terrible libel against them.”

“But I don’t see Tucker as that. I see Tucker, and you know he’s done, I haven’t seen his 9/11 stuff, but I understood his piece on Churchill to be a revulsion, by Tucker, to anybody who is, he considers a neocon. He really is anti-war. You know, he’s kind of a peacenik, but especially when it comes to the United States of America and anybody who has got their foot on the gas, recklessly pushing us toward that kind of a conflict is gonna get it from Tucker,” she argued. “And that is probably the lens through which he decided we should reevaluate Churchill and just how bellicose he was and how willing he was or wasn’t — and I’ve heard Victor’s defense — to get us, to get Great Britain involved and get them to pull us into it and so on.”

“So that I can categorize for Tucker and sort of make sense of, for me,” concluded Kelly.

Carlson recently described podcaster Darryl Cooper as the “the best and most popular historian in the United States” while promoting an episode of his show in which Cooper identified Churchill as the “chief villain” of World War II and suggested that the Holocaust was an accident.

That episode followed months of anti-Semitic dog whistles, which included similarly fawning interviews with a Palestinian pastor who accused Israel of “killing Christians,” as well as Candace Owens.

Carlson also promoted the conspiracy theory that 9/11 may have been the result of a controlled demolition on Joe Rogan’s show earlier this year.