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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Baragona

Right-wingers accuse The Babylon Bee of ‘inciting murder’ against Megyn Kelly with deleted pager bomb joke

Conservative satire site The Babylon Bee is being accused of “inciting murder” and “threatening to kill Megyn Kelly” for joking that the former Fox News star had gotten rid “of an old pager just to be safe,” invoking Israel’s 2024 electronic device attack on Hezbollah.

The Bee’s social media post and satirical article about Kelly, which appeared to reference her increasingly critical stance towards Israel amid its war in Gaza, were quickly deleted after the conservative podcaster tweeted “WTF” while tagging the site’s editor-in-chief, Seth Dillon.

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