WASHINGTON — The conflict in the world of conservative podcasts just got even more intense.
The ongoing clash took a heated turn this weekend when commentator Megyn Kelly delivered a personal jab at radio host Mark Levin after he labeled her as “evil” and “diabolical.”
The dispute began when Kelly shared a post from Ryan Grim, co-founder of the left-leaning Drop Site News. The post highlighted that the suspect in the recent Michigan synagogue bombing had lost family members in an Israeli strike.
Levin criticized Kelly for sharing Grim’s post, using harsh terms like “evil” and “diabolical” to describe her actions.
In response, Kelly took to X to snap back at Levin, saying, “I’m sorry you have a micro penis but don’t drag the rest of us into your drama.”
This exchange is part of a broader feud between Kelly and Levin, which has been simmering for months. The discord reflects a larger schism among conservative podcasters, centered around topics like Israel, Iran, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens.
Kelly has been a critic of the US and Israeli war in Iran and refused pressure to denounce likeminded conservative pal Carlson or Owens.
Levin has meanwhile been a staunch supporter of Israel and raged against Carlson and Owens.
“Poor Megyn Kelly. An emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck,” Levin wrote Sunday. “She’s completely revealed and destroyed herself.
“She’s everything people say she is, but much worse. Never an intelligent, thoughtful, or substantive comment. Utterly toxic.”
Levin currently has a show on Fox News, and Kelly also used to be a primetime anchor at the cable news giant before she publicly clashed with then-President-elect Donald Trump, among other things, and left for NBC.
The “Megyn Kelly Show” podcaster re-upped her lewd jab at Levin on Sunday and compared him to stalkers she’s dealt with in the past, suggesting he was even worse.
“Micropenis Mark thinks he has the monopoly on lewd,” she wrote on X.
“He tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible. Literally more than some stalkers I’ve had arrested. He doesn’t like it when women like me fight back. Bc of his micropenis.”
For a time, Kelly had tried to stay somewhat neutral in the conservative-podcast wars, maintaining a friendship both with Carlson and podcaster Ben Shapiro, who has largely been aligned with Levin.
Then late last year, Shapiro, who has been beefing with Carlson, called her out by name during TurningPointUSA’s America Fest for not denouncing Owens, who has been spewing baseless conspiracy theories about Erika Kirk being involved with her late husband’s murder.
Carlson also has become infamous for his controversial softball interview with white supremacist troll Nick Fuentes last year.
But Kelly declared that she would “rather die” than cave to the pressure from the Levin and Shapiro flank.
She and others have accused Shapiro of directing broadsides at them because of their skepticism about Israel’s actions.
Shapiro has contended his beef with Kelly primarily comes from her refusal to denounce Owens for spreading bogus claims about Erika being involved with her husband’s assassination.
The war in Iran has poured fuel on the rhetorical scrum in the conservative podcast sphere. Further bickering took place on all sides over the weekend when Carlson claimed that the CIA read his text messages with Iranian officials and fretted that he could face foreign agent charges.
“If they come for Tucker, we ride at dawn. Really nothing else to say here. We’re not doing the gulags 2.0 with these Bolshevik descendants,” Owens declared.
