The Megyn Kelly Show
How the Left Gaslighting America Relates to Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni: Megyn Kelly's Full CPAC Speech
Sat, 22 Feb 2025
Megyn Kelly appeared at CPAC 2025 to talk about the gaslighting by the left and the media over the past 10 years, how Trump's victory in 2024 was able to put an end to some of it and was a win for reality, the end of the corporate media, why the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni story is important to politics and culture, and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
Chapter 1: Who is Megyn Kelly and what is her connection to CPAC?
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome journalist and host of The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly.
Hey! Hi! Hey guys! How's everybody doing? It's so great to see all of you. Hello, CPAC. Love you.
Appreciate it, guys. Gosh, you guys have been out there all day. This is amazing. I have to tell you, especially now that I do my own show in my own studio, I don't get out enough. And it's wonderful to actually get out there and see the people and actually glad hand with people who watch the show.
Yes, it can be like a little heady because you're like people there at an event like this, they come over, they say the nicest things. And you can almost be in danger of getting a little too drunk on your own wine. You know, like, wow. Oh, God, I think you meant J.D. Vance. I think that's what you're J.D. He's he's 48. Um, so yeah, 49. So you can start to get a little drunk on your own wine.
However, the good thing is God is always there to balance things out for you. God or my mom, uh, and bring it down a peg when you need it. And I, this reminds me of the inauguration just last month. I went with so many great people who were, they were loving Trump. They were loving the Just the rebirth of our nation. And this one guy came over to me and he was so excited to see me.
And he was like, oh my God, I can't believe it's you. Can I please have a picture with you? I'm like, oh, of course, I'd be happy to. Took a selfie. He's like, I'm sending this to my mom. She's never gonna believe this. I'm like, oh, I think I'm a pretty big deal. I'm like really making an impression on this man. And he walks away and we hear him say, I can't believe I just met Carrie Underwood.
So thank you, God. I appreciate that. It's important to remember who you are and who you definitely are not. But it was kind of a compliment either way. Anyway, speaking of big names, you definitely will know. Have you heard about what's happening with the Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni case? I'm just going to walk because I actually held that. Can you hear me OK like this? OK. OK.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni case?
Are you obsessed with this case? All right, there are millions of people who are obsessed with this case. I'm going to give you a little background on it, and then you will be obsessed with it. And I'll tell you, there's a reason why conservatives in particular are following this so closely. It makes sense to me. All right, so you know who Blake Lively is, right? Most people know her.
Yeah, see, the people who are booing, they know. Then there's this guy Justin Baldoni who's not as well known. See, they've been following the story. So he optioned this book called It Ends With Us, and it's about domestic violence. And he managed to get Blake Lively to star in his movie across from him. He played the abusive guy and she played the woman.
And this is the thrill of a lifetime for this guy. He had done another TV project, but nobody knows who he is. So he gets Blake Lively. She's married to Ryan Reynolds. These are Hollywood A-listers. He's gonna put him on the map. And she agrees to be his female co-star. Great, they're off to the races. Well, shortly into production,
Chapter 3: How did Blake Lively's actions impact the film's production?
Blake Lively is very dissatisfied with virtually everything around her and decides to allege that Justin Baldoni, this, I mean, forgive me, very effeminate, evolved, modern feminist man bun kind of guy. is like this virulent sexual harasser who can't stop harassing one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in front of everybody on the set. I've got questions.
I'm not sure why he would do that, whether he'd have the guts to do that, or whether the man bun is the most likely harasser in general. But you never know. Sometimes the ones who kind of bend over backward to be as woke as possible are the most, so okay, I'm open-minded about it. This is going someplace. Would you trust me? I'll get us there.
So she says he's been harassing her and they bring in some team and he says, whatever you want, I will do it or not do it. You tell me. So they go forward. Well, we move forward in the story and she's got to go do PR for the film. And she goes out in the summer, this past summer, and she had about two minutes of bad PR.
The problem for Blake Lively, in my opinion, is that she does not improve upon acquaintance. And so the more time we got to spend with Blake Lively, the less we liked her, the more her promotional efforts for a film about domestic violence felt off. She was full of giggles and laughter and wanted to promote her liquor brand. Like, nothing says domestic violence like a bottle of tequila. What?
So it felt weird and she started to get hit by some of the media for being insensitive. Then this one reporter re-upped a video in which she interviewed a then pregnant Blake, a then eight-month pregnant Blake, and kicked off the interview as you would do as a journalist if there's something obviously different about somebody physically by saying, oh, you have such a cute baby bump.
And Blake was taken aback, even though it was obvious, and said, oh, so do you. The reporter was not pregnant. It was a nasty jibe at her for no reason. So normal people at home who don't care about this woman at all are looking at her like, I don't like her. She seems like a bully. She seems like somebody who punches down to somebody who's only trying to do something nice for her.
So negative press swirled around her during this whole, like a month, right? Later she would describe this as though it was the pile on against Trump. Honestly, it's like most of us, especially in Republican politics or the news, this is called Tuesday for us. It's like, grow up. You're in the public eye. You've got probably hundreds of millions thanks to your husband. Just shut up.
No one cares that you've got a couple of bad articles about you in the Daily Mail. She winds up suing Justin Baldoni. She files a complaint with the Human Rights Commission out in California saying he sexually harassed me and then he retaliated me by pushing all this bad press about me. He was behind it because I found his agent, his PR agent's nasty text saying, we can ruin her.
If we have to ruin her, we will. And those texts do exist. And Blake Lively went to the New York Times and the New York Times wrote the sympathetic, poor Blake Lively story. Oh, we were all wrong about her and her weird PR. She's actually a good person and a Me Too victim. And then Justin Baldoni did something very smart.
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Chapter 4: What are the legal and public relations consequences of the Blake Lively case?
that Justin Baldoni ultimately, by the time they got to the premiere, was mandated by Blake Lively to spend the night in the basement away from his co-stars and didn't even get to see the final cut of his own movie because Blake Lively insisted that she be the one to approve it until he watched it on the screen with his editors, who also hadn't seen it because her editors finished it up.
That's the situation he says he was in. So it's a real he said, she said. Who's telling the truth? Is he some creep harasser who took a shot at somebody like Blake, jeopardizing his movie and his future career? Or is she just extremely high maintenance and someone who plays the victim when she doesn't get her way?
Well, I've got my opinion, and I think you can guess what it is based on our little discussion here. The other thing is Brian Friedman produced text messages between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. So we don't have to take his side's word for it. And what they showed is that Blake Lively has got a bit of a God complex.
She's texting Justin Baldoni about how she sees herself as Khaleesi from Game of Thrones, Mother of Dragons. Did you watch that? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. So Khaleesi is stunningly beautiful. She's this effervescent, strong character with temerity and resilience. And just, she's fierce. She's literally the mother of dragons in Game of Thrones. That's her. That's me. That's Blake.
And she says, and I've got the greatest dragons on earth, Ryan Reynolds and my best friend, who is Taylor Swift, though she's not named or they blacked it out. So she's telling him, I'm mother of dragons, and my dragons will cut a bitch. And my dragons are named Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. So the message is pretty clear. Like, okay, she's a powerful person with powerful friends.
And she's got a bit of a God complex. All right, now we get into litigation. She files her human rights campaign. The movie comes out. It does all right. He's in the basement for the premiere. And he hires Brian Freeman and countersues her and the New York Times for $400 million, claiming this is a massive defamation. Okay? Drags Ryan Reynolds into it as well. And now we're off to the races.
And where do things stand now as a result of all this? As a result of Blake Lively apparently wanting control of a movie she did not control, wanting to get the camel's nose under the tent as an actress and then take over the entire production, mission creep on steroids, and was shocked, shocked when Justin Baldoni did not want her to do those extra things.
And then when it all blows up, lawsuits and cross lawsuits. And Blake Lively, who I believe thought she would be received or perceived as an Alyssa Milano or Ashley Judd Me Too victim, is instead looking a lot more like Amber Heard. How did that work out? Bad move. And honestly, to me, the lesson is, A, be a good person.
But B, if you're a Hollywood star or any sort of a public figure, would you just please take your licks in the press and shut up about it? People have real problems. They don't give two craps that you had a couple of negative articles written about you in the Daily Mail.
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Chapter 5: How does Megyn Kelly view public figures handling negative press?
And in her complaint, the thing she's bitching about is that this terrible PR campaign that was opened up against her hurt sales of her liquor brand and her hair care products. Oh, my God. While this is going on, inflation is like at 9%. Get a grip. Okay. So it was a terrible idea. They shouldn't have done any of this.
But I think the reason that conservatives are so interested in this is a couple of fold. Number one, you seem to be watching the unwrapping of a public figure, like the unspooling. you know you've caught someone in what you believe is a lie. That's how I feel. And it's amazing to see it told and to kind of gone down the lane like, okay, maybe, oh, here we go. Oh, wow.
Oh, wow, because Baldoni's released these text messages. She says, he inappropriately smelled my neck when we were doing a scene. Then you see the scene. They're dancing, they're caressing, they're making out. It's like, but the neck thing was too much when he smelled it? Like, all right. They went into my trailer when I was breastfeeding my baby. You're like, that's disgusting.
What's wrong with these people? Then you see his text message where she says, come on over to my trailer. I'm breastfeeding baby, but it's fine. Yeah, she says his weird producing partner showed me porn. I'm like, these people are freaks.
Then you see what he actually says he showed her, the producing partner, which was she was filming a birth scene in the movie and it was a still shot of a water birth his wife had at home. You can't see anything X-rated. It's a PG photo. You can't see anything at all. It's like artistic. It made me wish I had a water birth. All right, so you wind up kind of feeling a little bitter.
And this is where we come in. Because everyone in this room, because you're here, I know this about you, you've been gaslit to high heaven every time you've picked up a newspaper in the United States. Every time you've turned on CNN. You've been lied to. You've been bullied or seen others with lesser power bullied by the media and the leftist Democrats.
You have been the victim of overbearing and controlling leftists who think they are the final arbiters of what's best for you and your life. And it's wonderful to see someone fighting back. Right? She's become like an avatar for leftist overreach in a different, special way. I really believe this is why so many people on the right are kind of into this story. Just kind of want to see how it ends.
Will it end as it ended for us on November 5th? Because we were pretty happy with how that went. Right? Or is it going to be something else? I mean, only time will tell. But it's bringing up like room to explore the past 10 years that we've all been through and how, you know, Trump put a period at the end of it, we hope, or at least the beginnings of the end by, by winning.
So the bully thing, what was one of the biggest stories this past year? Daniel Penny, right? You guys know who that is. Daniel Penny stood up for others on the New York city subway when there was a crazed man who was out of his mind on drugs, threatening to kill people.
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