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Megyn Kelly's FULL "The Pitt" Takedown: Every Single Unnecessary Woke Moment Inserted Into Hit Show | Ep. 1391

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Megyn Kelly's FULL "The Pitt" Takedown: Every Single Unnecessary Woke Moment Inserted Into Hit Show  |  Ep. 1391

Megan Kelly critiques the medical drama *The Pit*, which she initially viewed as a long-awaited ER spin-off starring Noah Wiley, a former *ER* cast member. While she appreciates the show’s medical realism and diverse casting, she finds its narrative deeply offensive and politically biased. The series systematically portrays white characters—doctors, patients, and staff—as racist, ignorant, or morally flawed, while elevating women of color as empathetic, heroic, and naturally loving. Key scenes include a false abortion timeline, misgendering a patient who is a man, a white doctor denying opioid addiction despite clear evidence, and a false arrest involving ICE. Megan notes that these portrayals are not only factually inaccurate but also dangerously misleading in real-world medical settings. She criticizes the show for promoting liberal ideology under the guise of entertainment and for delegitimizing conservative values. After watching 15 episodes, she concludes that *The Pit* is not just unbalanced in its representation but actively harmful to conservative audiences. She declares that she will not watch future seasons and recommends viewers seek alternative medical dramas that reflect balanced, accurate, and respectful portrayals of all communities.

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Welcome to the Megan Kelly show live on Sirius XM channel 111 every week day at Neast. Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show. We have something a bit different for you today. It's been something I've been wanting to do all summer. So hopefully like me, you had a few extra hours on your hands this summer, although I was very busy, but I did manage to find some downtime and I don't know when I'm in my downtime and I'm watching a TV show, I don't really want to watch news related dramas. I'm not really that into, you know, and I watched like the morning show or any of that nonsense. But I do enjoy true crime, as you know, and I like medical dramas as a rule. There haven't been many of them out there that have been like really great in a long time, but I loved the show House. I loved the show ER. There have been some spin-offs like about Chicago. There was one and you know, sort of not spin-offs exactly, but sort of attempts at doing medical drama that I've watched over the years, but there hasn't been a good one in a long time. And there was a rumor that some of the cast and producers of the show ER were trying to get together and form a spin-off and ER has been off. And I loved ER. I thought that was so good. It was gripping, you know, medical drama. Well it didn't come together and whatever, I guess, it petered out until we had news of this show, The Pit. I have got to talk to you about cozy Earth's bamboo stretch knit pajamas. I love mine. They are silky smooth and buttery soft and you can feel it the second you put them on. They are naturally temperature regulating and breathable so they keep you completely cool without ever waking up hot or clammy. They are crafted from viscos, from bamboo, with just the right amount of easy stretch. The fits relaxed, so you look completely put together, even while sipping your morning coffee or answering the front door or doing some small in-home errands. Plus, there is no real risk in trying them out because they offer an easy return and exchange window if the fit is not right and everything is backed by a warranty. Head to cozyearth.com, use my code Megan for up to 20% off, home and sleepwear. That's code Megan which will get you up to 20% off on home and sleepwear. And if you see a post purchase survey, be sure to mention that you heard about cozy earth right here from the MK show. Now I watched it on Amazon Prime, but I guess it's an HBO max production. And it is, in fact, basically, the ER spin-off that they thought about making but never got around to. It stars Noah Wiley, who of course played on the original ER across from George Clooney and Julianna Margolis. He was the young doctor at the time, a med student doctor, and he was, you know, the green, doe eyed, no nothing coming of age doctor back then. And they did, according to what I read, try to actually use him. It was held on a reading here. It says, before the pit, Noah Wiley and producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemel tried to develop an ER sequel featuring Wiley's character, Dr. John Carter. They negotiated with Michael Crichton's estate because, of course, ER was based on Michael Crichton's work. But the negotiations collapsed. And then they created the pit with the same star, same producers and same emergency room setting. Well, that got them sued. Apparently, Crichton's estate is claiming that the pit, this show is an unauthorized ER reboot, which is probably why I was so drawn to it, but I was excited to watch it because it's now done two seasons. It's going to have a third. And I thought, okay, this might be something that I would enjoy. So I pull up, you know, get down in the family room on our couch, I've got my blankie, I'm all excited to watch the pit. And I love Noah Wiley. I think he's so great. I loved him in the first ER who could forget Noah Wiley as this charming, you know, no nothing to learn everything, Dr. Carter. Okay, this isn't going to hurt at all. You still here? What do you think you're doing? Assisting Chapel. Finish her up, start an IV in Room 2. Bye, Mal. Nurse, could you bandage this for me, please? Thank you, Dr. You're very welcome. When do I come to have my stitches out? Oh, three weeks. When my son had stitches in his foot, they said 10 days. Really? Well, 10 days, three weeks, anytime in there, okay. Yes, these scenes are the reasons why I loved him. I loved his character. And I thought he was so earnest and likable and thought, I'll watch him in anything. And then what happened next? We got to see him in a few good men playing yet again this young, earnest marine who was called to the witness stand to testify and was asked by Kevin Bacon, how, where on the US Marine Corps manual, it told him that one of his duties was to give a code red, which he had testified on direct with Tom Cruise that they understood was part of their duties as Marines. And he admitted it's not in the Marine Manual and then came this moment with Tom Cruise on Redirect. Corporal, would you turn to the page in this book that says where the mess hall is? Please. We'll attend a cafe, that's not in the book, sir. Well you mean to say in all your time at Gitmo, you've never had a meal? No, sir, three squares a day, sir. I don't understand. How did you know where the mess hall was if it's not in this book? Well, I guess I just followed the crowd at Chaut Time, sir. No more questions. Corporal Barnes, you may step down. Thank you, sir. So yes, who doesn't love Noah Wiley, okay? And I never thought of him as a particularly political guy. He didn't associate any of his roles or choices with that. I had heard that he'd done some advocacy work for medical facilities and like better treatment of medical staff. And I thought, okay, well that track, that's fine. He's kind of thinks he's a doctor because he played one on TV, but I don't care. He probably knows a fair amount from having spent all those years playing a doctor about the actual concerns of doctors and nurses. All right. So that leads me to the pit. There I am under the blanket. And you know, it starts off the way you might think a medical drama would start off and it's got all like the cases and it's got the cast of characters and I'm into it. Everyone's attractive, which I appreciate. You know, I don't like staring at unattractive people on my television screen. I think I'm not alone in that and they've done a good job of finding beautiful people to start in these roles. So hats off on that. Then we get to episode two and my hackles started to go up a little, okay, just a little. And I'm going to show you why and just before I get to this, this is the reason that we're doing this. Everyone knows that there's a liberal bias in news. That's, if you dispute that, your clue is not worth talking to. But the indoctrination that our children and we suffer through, if we are any place right of, you know, AOC is pervasive. We have to deal with it in virtually every facet of our lives. It's not just, oh, you know, avoid the New York Times and you can go about your business. That is not what life is like for a conservative. It's everywhere. You can avoid it. It's in the ads that are on the subway walls. It's in the billboards that you see in Times Square. It's of course, yes, in your media, diet, no matter where you go, even in the supposedly fair and balanced shows, it'll rear its ugly head. And it's there in Hollywood, of course, when you go to see movies, you see their agenda pushed all the time. And on regular television, it's in everything. If you're just, even if you're just trying to go for entertainment, you know, if you're going to go for television, that's about politics, you might expect it, right? But this is like hospital drama. I loved house. That was another one. I think I think I mentioned that. But like, I wasn't looking for house for politics and I didn't get politics in house. All right. So the problem is you could leave your kid in front of the TV like our parents did to us in the 70s, but your kid is going to get indoctrinated with liberal bias if you don't keep a close eye on him. You know, just ask the parents who have had to deal with the Disney problem for the past 10 years. But you wouldn't necessarily think in a medical drama. There you'd think, oh, you know, I'm in danger of showing my kid something really gross and possibly disturbing about life, death, injury, et cetera. I wouldn't have suspected politics. Oh, how wrong I would have been had I let my kids watch the pit in which they have no interest so they weren't part of this without me. But I did not appreciate. Okay. So there's that issue that like we get exposed to left-wing politics and messaging as virtuous at every turn in our lives. It's a miracle there are any conservatives left. Truly, it's incredible that there are still people voting Republican and actually making Republicans win at, as we know, at least in 2024, most recently. It's incredible given the amount of programming. meant to turn people into good little left-wing ideologues. So I'm watching the show. Episode two comes up. And they kick it off with, I mean, everybody in the whole show is, you know, predominantly minority. So there are some white people. We'll get to this. They're almost universally bad or backward or deeply flawed. So we'll talk about that in a minute. But here you're going to see the young white doctor, the male doctor. He's a med student, I think, and then he graduates later. Get very, very confused about Joyce, who is a black woman coming in on the gurney. And it's enter a brown skinned woman who is-- she is Indian to save the day. Her name is Dr. Samira Mohan. And she is the compassionate third-year resident who saves the day. Watch this. [MUSIC PLAYING] Everybody stop. [SCREAMING] How's the pain, Joyce? Oh, a little better. Starting IV dilated at four an hour, you can press this button. You need a lecture. That only works once an hour, though, so don't go crazy. Could I confer with you? Yeah. You seem surprised by the opiate dosage. Seemed a little high? So was her pain. How do you know she's not drugsy? You can't fake him a globin of six. Again, I'm so sorry about how you were treated when you first arrived. Not everyone who works here is accustomed to dealing with sickle cell. We will be doing everything possible from here on end to manage Joyce's crisis. OK. So we have it all, all right? You've got the black sickle cell, Anemia sufferer, and her brown wife with whom she's cuddling and who's very supportive of her. And then you've got the brown Indian doctor, female. These are all females. Skolding the clueless white guy who doesn't understand anything about sickle cell, even though for sure you learn about that in medical school. And just thinks that she's a drug seeker. What? Because I guess she's black and she's asking for more drugs. And it takes the heroic brown lady to step in to say, oh, stop it. You don't understand sickle cell. And nobody in these hospitals understands sickle cell. And leave it to me to save the day. Then there's a follow-up scene between the two. Because they got to be lesbians, too. They're both women of color and their lesbians. And they have sickle cell. And the white man doesn't understand them, right? It's got everything. Here's the second part of their little story. Stop 51. Hi, story's still making each other laugh. Make each other laugh. Make each other deliverance to the happy. Look at this here. Sorry. I went to get a machine in front of you. Are you kidding me? You two are the sweetest. I never got to see this kind of luck between a married couple. Are you parents worth the lovey-dovey day? My dad died when I was 13. So sorry. Yeah, me, too. He's the reason why I got into medicine. And the reason why I'm conducting research on racial disparity in the ER. I'm doing a retrospective chart review on our last five years of patients of color. Is that how you knew it was going out with me? We don't treat sickle cell here as well. They do another hospital's, but I'm open to change. Okay. So now you've got the two women of color kissing and loving on each other. And the other doctor, who's a, the other woman of color, who's a doctor sitting there. I've never seen this kind of love between a married couple. What? What is that? So like only women of color who are lesbians are actually ever in love. What kind of messaging is that? And then of course, you've got to get the dig in about how any disease related to black people is, by definition, understudied in this hospital doesn't handle it well. I, I, the hero, am going to change all that. So, okay. All right. I already, I'm like, they're checking every box here. But whatever medical drama, I'm going to focus on the medicine. By the way, I should mention that the medicine is, like the medical scenes are very in your face. I mean, there's a birth scene, which we're going to talk about in a little bit, where like, they are showing the baby's head coming out of a vage. I mean, they show the vage. There's one scene in which they show a penis, the injuries that they show are up close and gory. They don't spare you anything, which people say, "Oh, that makes it so realistic." I gotta die. I could be spared a few things. Okay. But onward, I forged. Now we get to episode four. And see if you can figure out what jumped out at me here in "Sat 52." Yeah? Cordero? It's actually Tasha, Cordero, and Mrs. Okay. So, Tasha, what's your favorite wine you've ever tasted? Almost expensive. Same answer for both. 2011, the man de la romanitant. 18 grand for a bottle of wine? It was really that good. Life changing. And I know something about life changing. Oh, how could that be? Tomas slash Tasha. Of course, it is a man posing as a woman. And he too is sophisticated and knows about expensive lines. And you can talk about how life changing they are. And then there's the dopey white doctor treating him. Like, oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, who knew it's about wines, okay? 'Cause of course you've got to, like, the only women who get diminished in this thing are the white ones, by the way. And then you have another Indian doctor, woman of color. She's met med students whooping to help the clueless female white doctor. Oh, 18,000. And this is what the Indian doctor does in trainer. Dr. in training, "Sat 53." Looks good. Nice job, Doc. Thank you for the trust. Now, keep it clean and dry. And see you for a little check in two days. You did great. I didn't feel a thing. Suits are out in a week, but come back soon with a funny redness fever or a drainage, okay? Okay, thank you. I can help with notice. Here's a misgendering error on your chart. I'm really sorry about that. I've got to have fixed it here and on your insurance data file. But it shouldn't happen again. Wow. I am. Thank you. Truly. Thank you both. Yeah, of course. That was cool. I didn't think to check that. I could catch. There's no misgendering. The patient is a man who named Tamas and the chart reflected that. But the young, brown skinned savior had to save the trans person from the horror of being labeled what he is a man and took it upon herself to misrepresent the facts in this person's chart. I mean, I think they're gonna be really confused when the guy comes in with testicular cancer sometime in the future and they look at the chart and see that what do you mean? This is a woman named Tasha. How does she have testicular cancer? Like this is so, this is actually happening. This actually would be farcical if it weren't actually happening in our, in our medical communities, but they don't mean it as a social commentary condemning the woke behavior of young doctors and training. They're celebrating her and this insane decision and this should be condemned because this actually does take place and it's very, very dangerous. And I've heard this from my own doctors directly that this is happening now, that they will shame residents on rounds if they even ask the patient about their biological sex. I mean, like, it's pretty basic. The doctor really does kind of need to know that for a whole host of reasons. Okay, so there we are in episode four. But, you know, I got a bit, I kept going. I was into the drama, they've got, you know, other relationship drama's going on there. I like the upstairs downstairs nature of the residents and attendings versus the med students. You know, like, that's entertaining to me. I don't know, in another life, I was married to a med student who then became an intern and a resident and a attending physician. And so I kind of went through this and many, many of my dear friends are doctors and I was dear friends with them when they went through their training. So like, I have a connection to this that is based in reality. Maybe that's why I'm interested in forged forward, but I did. So here we go into now episode five. Okay, meet Christy, the pregnant teen in the hospital for an abortion. But what she wants is Mifapristone, the abortion drug. And it soon becomes apparent that you can't, and by the way, who goes to the ER to get an abortion drug? But okay, so that's what she does. And they can't give it to her in Pittsburgh where the pit is because she's passed the cutoff. She needs to be earlier in her pregnancy. It should be under 11 weeks. And they had to do a sonogram on her that showed the babies to advanced. And gee, this is a pickle for the woke doctors of the pit. Watch here. Stop 54. Christy, we were 17 years old, pregnant. These are avat's fetal measurements from yesterday and these are mine. 10, 5, and 11, too. Well, ultrasound is an arse and a science. Not if you're here for medication abortion and you passed the mandate and the limit we cut off. Falsify medical records for Christy is flat out illegal. She's 17. She deserves a life. I still don't understand why Christy needs to go through this third time with her third doctor. Yeah, that's our bad. Our computer I had medical records have been glitching lately. And Dr. Collins's image didn't upload properly. We are at 10 weeks and six days. I made it by one day. Oh, we're at the medication. Dr. Collins will go over instructions on taking the pills when they come back from the pharmacy. Thank you so much, Dr. Long. I'm glad I could help. Even more glad to see you've such a supportive mom. Okay. There are all sorts of reasons why you are not supposed to give the abortion drug past 11 weeks, which include complications to the, I'm not going to use the term mother, but to the woman trying to abort the baby like increased bleeding and cramping and other problems. And also in complete expulsion of the baby is another risk. So the baby is going to get killed by its own mother and only part of it will be expelled potentially. This is all very sick and they treat this truly like it's migraine headache. And it's really no big deal. We're just going to falsify the chart to make sure she can kill her baby, this minor, this minor who's in the hospital coming to us and asking us to lie about the age of her baby. Okay. So that's how they introduce us to Christy. Then we see a scene and we do meet Christy's mother who's with her and supposedly in support of this procedure until we get a view at this next scene portrayed in sought 55. Christy! Christy! What the hell are you doing? Language and I should be asking you the same thing. Excuse me. Who are you? I'm her mom. Mom. Aren't you her mom? I can explain. No, that's my sister, Lynnette. Can we all just take a step back here? Mom, I want this. This is my decision. No. Just listen to her. I shut up. You have done enough. My daughter is a minor, so she can't get this abortion without my say-sell, right? Is that right? That's correct. Then there is no way this is happening, no, no, no, no, no. To the tortured look by the minor, looking at the sympathetic black doctor, Dr. Heather Collins, who's a senior resident in this drama, and there's a knowing look between the two of them on how evil the disgusting and, of course, white nasty mother is so non-understanding, so cruel toward her poor daughter who wants nothing more than to kill her own born child without the mother's involvement. Just stop. Come on. Get this evil woman out of here. Just let the aunt pretend she's the mom and eject the mother from this situation. What right does she have to weigh in? This really should be between the strange doctor who she's never met before now, and the hospital that is willing to lie about the age of her baby so that she can get the easiest, simplest abortion possible, oh, notwithstanding the potential complications to the mother and the baby. And we can all just move along happily with our lives. So yeah, secrets and knowing glances between the empathetic black doctor and the tortured white teen with the evil white mother scowling and trying to ruin the party by keeping the baby alive over on screen right, then the mother escalates her interference and physically tries to stop the girl from taking the pill. Here's not 56. There's no way this is happening. No, no. No, no. Mom, stop. This is what you had in mind for your fun weekend with your aunt. All right. Kaya was trying to help her. What would have been helpful is telling me that my daughter is pregnant. Instead, I find out from a confused teenage boy, Jackson told you. Yeah. Whoa, over the okay in here. This is Mrs. Wheeler, Christie's mother. The next is Christie's aunt. She doesn't want to have this face. There's nothing to do with you. Okay. I called him. Lynn. Okay. I don't want to be a team mom. Well, then maybe you should have thought of that before you started having sex. Okay. Emotions are running high. I think a private conversation between mother and daughter is in order. Then that lets you and I step out and I'll buy you a cup of coffee. Okay. Very nice. He's right. There is a private conversation needed between the mother and daughter. However, also we needed actual medicine practice when you, Dr. Rabinavitch, that's Noah Wiley, stepped in earlier to lie about how old the baby was. That was his doing in scene one. The, the, the, the medical resident didn't want to do it. But once again, you have a hysterical mother. The mother who steps in to try to help her daughter to stop her from getting an abortion without the mother's knowledge, consult, or permission is painted as some sort of a demon like a hysteric whose angry and nasty and it takes, you know, Dr. Rabinavitch. To calm things down and allow for a conversation so that we can obviously get to the fastest point of abortion possible, something he'd been pushing from the beginning. So you got it. The, the hysterical white mother who wants to stop the baby from being aborted is obviously evil and unregulated. She's emotionally unregulated. Everybody else is just sad. They're sad and they're empathetic and they're trying to do what's right. And if only we could control this evil, raging grandmother who's upset about the abortion of her grandchild. All right. Now we get to the final scene involving this storyline. The daughter, Kristi, first locks herself in the bathroom and then, well, let's watch it from there. 57. So 57. Kristi. It's Dr. Robbie. No, I'm not leaving with her. Your mom is not out here. Your mom is in the waiting room. Listen, I can put you in a quiet room. You can spend as much time as you want in there, but I cannot have you locking this bathroom for safety reasons. Quiet room without my mom. Of course. Your mom is looking for you. I didn't think my mom would find out if I go home with her. My life is over. Maybe she'll change her room. She's really upset. She'll get over it. Wouldn't you about the same age when you got pregnant with her? Yes. So you know how hard it can be. It was very hard at the time, but she turned out to be the best thing that has ever happened to me. And I hope she feels the same way when she's ready, but right now she's not. For her, the world is ending. If you push her away, she might never come back. Okay. So once again, you have the black doctor explaining to the hysterical white mother that if you push your daughter away, your relationship's over. Got it? So all you moms out there who might be concerned about your teenage daughter is getting pregnant and having an abortion without involving you, you better go along with it or you're not going to have a relationship with them. You heard it on the pit from an empathetic black doctor. I like you, you, you better watch it because your, your teen is never going to have anything to do with you. I mean, there's another way to tell this entire story. It's very obvious to virtually all conservatives out there. There are other options for a teenage girl who doesn't want to actually raise a baby that she's conceived. It's called adoption and there are all sorts of agencies that would be only too happy to help you through the pregnancy and with the placement of this wanted child, wanted perhaps not by you, but by thousands upon thousands of couples out there who are on waiting lists and would kill to be able to raise a baby, not mentioned, not even, there's another way of portraying the mother as somebody who loves her child. It believes in Christ, doesn't believe in abortion, believes as a sin, is worried about her daughter's immortal soul, has thoughts that you may debate or not, you may accept or reject. You could have them debated. That might actually be an interesting scene on a show like this, but no, you've got to portray the mother as a raging lunatic who's frothing at the mouth and clearly the evil one. And then the empathetic, nice, likeable, you know, a black doctor who you're supposed to love, being the one to say your relationship with your daughter is over unless you go along with this. It's over. Let me tell you, as the nice one, I'm here to tell you. And to no one's shock, the episode ends like this. four hours and visit prostal. Everything's in here if you forget. Good luck to both of you. So you have the daughter get the abortion via pill. After all that, there's not, there's not some meaningful conversation about options, etc. The daughter kills her baby and we're supposed to and it's celebrated. Then the doctor, the black doctor gets the, yeah, good for you, the doctor Heather Collins, pets on the back. How'd you convince there? Well, I just told her she'd have nothing to do with her child ever again, vice versa. So she, she exceeded to the daughter's demands and then a rough ride back to Tennessee. There's those bumpkins in Tennessee. I mean, it's got everything, doesn't it? Like, we're the progressive ones up here in Pittsburgh, in the medical community. I don't know what those losers in Tennessee are doing, but ruff ride back, good luck. Thank God we got the baby dead. I mean, this is, so this is entertainment by modern standards. I wasn't entertained. I was really offended. Now I'm like, hate watching. Now I'm like, what are they going to do next? Like what? This is unbelievable that this didn't make more news. And then I googled after the fact and realized it did make some news. There were a couple of like Reddit forums where people were pissed off. And by the way, they were great. But there, there was nowhere near, they're like ubiquitous coverage as we would get. If a medical drama like this portrayed it the way I just said or did what they did only in the right wing. Like, like, you, you know, the, the, the, the daughters, uh, what gonna, gonna have the baby. And the angry, ugly, leftist mom comes in and is like, you're not having that damn baby. You will take this abortion drug right now. And then, you know, the nice white male doctor swoops into, to, to say like, she'll never forgive you if you make her kill her bit. Like, can you imagine the number of articles that would be written? If that's how the medical drama did. Or if the whole, I, I saw you were misgendered thing went the other way. Like, yo, Tomas, I saw that the doctor was calling you, Tasha, and that you're actually a man. This is a medical facility. So we have to stick to biological fact. That's important for your health. Sorry. Like what? This, it would never happen. We all know that would never, ever get made. So we, as right-leaning people need to sit in our homes trying to just be entertained and have our mind taken off work or politics or get, have the same getaway that our liberal friends can have when they watch dramas like this. 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The heroes and the whites are the evils. But just a quick one, I've been talking about Dr. Heather Collins. She's the one who was like rolling the eyes with the 17 year old about her evil mother and who to her credit did not want to change the age of the baby in that one chart. But here's just a quick one how she gets referred to when a black woman comes into the hospital with her black son who was hurting and this black Dr. Heather Collins. Dr. Heather Collins is their doctor just as a quick one. So I'd 66. Hi, look at his beautiful black queen. Are you a doctor? Thank you. Yes, I'm Dr. Heather Collins and I take it. This is Dylan and I'm his mother Tina. Nice to meet you both. Beautiful black queen. Okay, great. Got it. I like I'm wondering how are they how are they treating white guys in general? Let's let's touch base and find out season one episode 11. Let's check in on this guy, sat 68. All indicators are that you have been using opioids that would include pain medication like hydrocodone, oxycodone. I told them I don't do drugs. Wow. Are you lied to me? I didn't lie. I said I was giving you morphine like drug that got rid of your cravings. Well, you know what? This is bullshit. I mean, you know, I can sue all of a year. Am I some junkie on the street? Look, look, I got a family. I got a job. I make good money. You know, I return my shopping cards. Okay, pay my taxes. That's something like a drug addict to you. And he's even worse than some of the other scenes. So I couldn't help but notice the I return my shopping carts line. Okay, that's the thing. Like people talk about, are you a good person or bad person? But that is in particular over the past few years. And Matt Walsh thing like he has t-shirts that are made saying that. And I actually thought it was very clever. He was the first person from whom I heard it. And now I think of Matt Walsh every time I return my shopping card when I'm at the grocery store. I mean, I always do. But now I do it. And I think of Matt Walsh. So I wonder, I do wonder whether that's an express jab at Matt Walsh. I'm a good person. I return my shopping carts. Meanwhile, he's raging opioid addict. And if you see him earlier in the episode, he's obnoxious. He's demanding the drugs. He's very pissed off at a different doctor, not Dr. Heather Collins, but Dr. Samira Mohan, the one who detected the sickle cell, who's an empathetic brown skin Indian doctor, who didn't give him the drugs. She did the test to figure out whether he was addicted to the drugs. So she's the hero you see. So you've got yet another brown female hero and white male dickhead, who's calling them names, denying that he's a drug addict and talking about he's a good person because of his shopping carts. Got it. For several episodes of season one, there's a narrative that somebody has stolen an ambulance out of the ambulance bay in front of the hospital. And everyone's betting who it is and where it will be located when they finally found it. And finally, in episode six, we find out who stole the ambulance. And here's a little bit of that. So 67. You stole an ambulance. I made it. Close down. We were going to drive it and bring it back to campus. I wanted the guy to see my wife. It's a white guy. I think he was cool. It has a hard time. He doesn't really fit in. It's actually kind of sweet. Some cops started chasing us. My mom's freaked out. Pretty sure he was all the rest. It was just supposed to be a joke. Not worth going to jail. My mom's going to kill me. Okay, so there you have it. Surprise, surprise. It's a white college frat kid who made a pledge do it. And yet another white guy in trouble. The most egregious one, I mean, we could be here all day. If we went through the number of sins committed by white guys, there's one white doctor, Dr. Frank Langdon, who is the surgeon. He's not the surgeon, but he is an ER doctor who's more of a senior resident and he's one of the most trusted doctors in the ER. And then we find out that instead of him being an authority figure, he's secretly a drug addict. He's stealing the patient's opioids. And he tries to have the young Hispanic female doctor who turned him in fired. So he's he's a nice guy for a minute, but he's made bad by the end. The one with the opioid problem, which tries to get the nicest panic female doctor fired. But here is probably the most egregious. Throughout the whole episode, the whole season one, we've got this obnoxious, angry, flannel, wearing white dude, who's heavy set with some facial hair named Doug Driscoll. And in virtually every episode, he makes some racially tinged comment, some rude remark. He is entitled, he's nasty, he's belligerent. And I'll just give you a sample of what he looks like and how he's portrayed in here in South 69. - Let's get you back to the wayward. - What? No. So all I've been doing is waiting. I'll just see a doctor now. - Soon. - Let's you know. (laughing) - This is a fucking joke. - Well, it's good to laugh. - Afin' our way to being a third world country. Remind you of home. - Can you know when I'm supposed to pick favorites here? I'm gonna keep my eye on you. - Remind you of home. He says to what appears to be a Hispanic kid, young man. So okay, got it. The fat white guy in the plaid is a racist and obnoxious with the facial hair. And that's not a beautiful black queen. Not a beautiful white king. No, a racist, no nothing. Who's getting upset because he can't get care? Who thinks Hispanics all come from third world countries, shithole countries, got it? You get it. And then it culminates in obnoxious white guy, Doug Driscoll, doing the following to one of the favorite characters on the entire show, who is, she's like the charge nurse here. And this is what happens to her in Nurse Dana Evans in episode nine of season one, SOT70. - Whoa, sir, sir, what is the issue? - Same issue, I've been here all day and you people have done nothing to fucking help me. I just want someone who knows something about hearts to tell me what's happening to me. You know, unlike most of these losers, I have insurance, good insurance, and I pay my taxes, which pays for them to not have any insurance. - Sorry, you've got about five seconds to change your whole attitude before security and the police get involved. - Fuck it, I'll leave it. - She's standing outside having a cigarette, the nurse, someone's hurting her. - He's hurting her? - Behind her. - Oh, I just heard a face. - Okay, so you get it. The evil white men are legion. In this show, there's one who is a child molester who comes in. Great, another doofus who manages to get himself shot with a nail gun in the heart. We talked about the drug addict, the bully, the racist. We could speak and be here all day, unlike the beautiful black queen. And let's just check in to see what else we're missing. - Perhaps we should look at episode eight, sought 59, where they introduce us to the Freedom House Ambulance Service and a man named Willie Alexander. - Trained us for three hundred hours. - They turned out the very first men in the United States. - He started IVs, defibrillated, integrated in the field. They were the heroes of Hill District, but it's a young black dude with saving lives every day. - Why'd you quit? - I didn't. - The city saw how successful it was to go over the program, train pneumatics. - Oh, what? - Everything that Willie and his friends did set the MS standard for the entire country. - It's so amazing. They talk about how he's a hero. This guy's a genuine American hero, Willie. And they created the first ambulance service, which led to the creation of 911. It was all black people in Pittsburgh. By the way, this is a real thing. Fine, fine to celebrate a little bit of black history, but no accident that they did. Trust me on that. You will not hear anything good about whites in any episode of the pit. There is no white history to be celebrated. There are only white, foul mouth, racist bullies who are doofuses or molesting their children or stealing ambulances or insulting their co-workers or doing drugs while supposed to be helping people as doctors and then trying to get Hispanic women fired. That's what you're going to get about white men in America from the pit. And then we get, I'm gonna save the worst one for last. Let's, while we're on the subject of the treatment of anybody from a minority class, all of whom are the doctors, as I point out, in this whole show. And by the way, even Dr. Robinovich, who is Noah Wiley, even he has his fair share of blinders on when it comes to what is required of a decent human being in modern America. There's a thread of a woman who comes in with her teenage son, who seems tortured and unhappy and they begin to suspect that he might have, well, he does have a list of female names and they begin to suspect that he might intend to use it as a shooter list, you know, a target list and that he could be a school shooter. And the clueless white guy, Dr. Robinovich, Noah Wiley at the head of the ER, doesn't realize that this list could potentially place the young women in danger. Because I guess all white men are absolute fucking idiots on this show. And he is pushing to not alert authorities and to not turn this kid in and to not let anybody know. And it takes the courageous white, yes, white, but female, Dr. under him to let authorities know this kid might be your guy 'cause a school shooting, not a school, but a mass shooting does take place. And she's got to school him on how it's really not appropriate when you have a very depressed, very angry kid whose own mother thinks he might be a shooter. And he has a list of women named to not tell anybody. That's inappropriate, Dr. Robinovich. That's happening. (laughs) Okay, but let's check back in on the race narratives and woke narratives happening with the patients, okay? We go to episode 11 where we see a gay couple, one is flamboyantly gay and white, one is gay and not as flamboyant and black, and their surrogate, who of course, who else would help a couple like this, but another beautiful black queen, their surrogate. And this is from, again, episode 11, sought 61. What's going on? Baby shoulder might be a little stuck on your pelvic bone. It's nothing for you to worry about. We'll just try something different on the next push. Ready? Why don't we all take a deep breath, huh? Everybody. One more time, dads too, and in. Dr. Myers with obstetrics, and who's a father? We are. Oh, and who's a mother? We are. Roger that. Here, here you go. There's the baby on the black father's naked chest. You're a natural. You're a natural to a man who's got the baby on his naked chest. Okay, there are a lot of things you could say in that moment, um, you're a natural is not one of them. His, his mother is sitting two feet away with breasts full of milk. Um, that's the natural. The man doing skin to skin with the baby who will now not have a mom is not the natural. Okay, like this is just, it's so in your face, you will see it, you will support it, you will love it, and you will accept it as, quote, natural. You understand? And because every mother listening to me right now, literally every mother out there knows when that baby gets placed on you in those first moments, what the baby wants is to nurse. That's what the baby wants. And the nerve of on a man's chest, you're a natural good God. Just absurd. Then there's the follow up, um, well, that's basically it. I mean, they put, they, they put it all in one, but you get the, you get the gist. We're, so we're to celebrate the gaze. We are to celebrate the trans couples, the, um, the gay men with the newborn baby on the chest are natural. The gay women who are kissing each other black and Hispanic, of course are in love in a way that no heterosexual, sexual couple seen by the doctor ever has been the evil hospital has misgendered an actual male as a male and that has to be corrected, uh, and all minors deserve abortion pills, even over their parents objections. We are still a couple months out, but the midterms are fast approaching and make no mistake. 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Callahan Amelie Doshinsky-Jesse Kelly, real clear politics, and many more. It's bold, no BS news. Only on the making Kelly channel, series XM-111 and on the series XM-10. Now, we get to the most egregious scene. This is from episode 9. The entire theme of season one, one of them is that the ER's waiting room is overrun as it is pretty much everywhere on earth. And in this scene, they have two women, both white because neither looks good, engage in an argument after one woman named Madison offers to put a mask on another woman Wendy's coughing sun. Wendy doesn't much like masks, and a fight between Wendy and Madison ensues. Watch. Do you want me to tell the surges to go no mask for surgery? What? Well, those of us who save lives, for living believe strongly that mask minimize risk when it comes to spreading disease and infection, but I want to respect your beliefs. So, what do you think? With or without surgery without? I want with good call. These people are smug assholes. Do you believe that that was put in there? That I believe that scene was written by Noah Wiley that that episode about the masks was written by Noah Wiley. Okay. So, he knows what he's doing. And yeah, it was. It was written by Noah Wiley. He's the one who had Wendy, the evil Wendy call Madison a Fauci zombie, and they're both extremely homely, but especially Wendy. She's very homely. He makes her as nasty as humanly possible. And of course, dumb. Did you catch the first of all, and B, just these little subtle dicks, she's no nothing. She's against masks, so she's an idiot. It's unbelievable. Where Noah is the reference to the study done by the CDC of 90,000 kids in Atlanta who found that masks do nothing. Nothing. Some of which is reflected in Fauci's own emails that have now been outed. I look forward to you updating your narrative in season three of the pit. But the subtle undermining dicks diminishing of a conservative viewpoint represented in the nastiest version of human possible is not lost on anybody right of center. They're mocking us. They have disdain for us. And then the smug prick doctor actually suggesting that when your body cavity is opened by a surgeon who is a foot and a half away from your heart, your liver, your stomach, that that's the same level of risk when it comes to mask wearing, that children sitting in a school bear with each other or people out on the street who got shamed all over New York City for not wearing their masks outdoors. Fuck off. This is so disingenuous. And of course, it's the ultimate liberal play of where the ones who believe in the science TM. Of course, don't at all. They didn't listen to the results of their own mask studies. They didn't. They lied about the efficacy of the vaccines stopping the spread, which it did not. We could be here all day with the lab leak all of it. They don't care about the science. They just care about liberal dogma and you obeying. That's what they care about. So they've got to paint themselves as the bright ones and the victims, the one who got punched out was the liberal who wanted the mask worn against the evil, no nothing ugly dumb conservatives, right? The racist guy in the plaid who said he feels like home to the Hispanic kid. And now they're the equally unattractive, heavy, red-headed white lady who is using terms like Fauci Zombie and yelling about Matt, it's just so insulting. But before we get too upset about all of this, we have to admit that net net, it is a benefit to the people on our side of the aisle because what you get at the end of a lifetime of shows like this and news like CNN and papers like the New York Times. If you are anywhere in the middle or right of center is smarter and better and more adept at arguing and making your point because you've heard it challenged everywhere you go, wherever you live and look for your entire lifetime. And while the show may not offer the actual conservative retort to this nonsense, you, if you are right-leaning, have become that way because someone has exposed you to these ideas within your family, more than likely within your church, also a possibility, perhaps within your youth group or related entity like a boy scout group, et cetera, but it's still possible. And so you've heard alternate arguments that appeal to you and you've adopted them, which is why you are right-leaning or independent-minded. And when you see your worldview bash like this, place after place after place, it doesn't have the effect of turning you into a liberal. It has the effect of making you stand a little taller in your shoes, want a little more to defend your ideals as you see them misrepresented and honing your skills, sharpening your rhetorical abilities so that when you do have to do battle with a Noah Wiley at an event, you can make mismeat of him because he has no understanding of who you actually are or how you actually feel. None, none whatsoever. Can you give you a little icing on the cake? Season two, which I haven't yet gotten to, did make news this past year because they decided to get into the ice debate. Here's a little bit of how that went in "Sat 63." She doesn't know what I am. I just wanted to know that I'm okay. Seriously, won't let her make a phone call. I don't know if she's processed. She can't make a phone call. She's obviously an illegal, ISIS in the hospital. She's not allowed to touch the phone because the evil ice agent is standing there with his mask on. He's got, you know, like a bandana covering his face because, you know, that's what ice agents do. Even in the hospital setting and they have to be, you know, we got to remind everybody to evil ice wears masks. I didn't hear a reminder about how their families are being threatened, their children are being threatened and they're literally having fingers and appendages bitten off by rabid detractors. So they're not, they're not huge on showing their faces. I get it, Noah Wiley doesn't get it. Then we see ice disrupting the ER and making an arrest here. So at 64. Come on, she's there to go. Hold on. She needs to sleep. She's only take a minute. Relieve it. Hey man, you're hurting her. Jesus Christ, what's going on now? Okay. I'm going to take a minute. I think there were 15 in season one, because I love a medical drama. And I was a genuine fan of Noah Wiley's. And I loved the beautiful faces of all the beautiful black queens and Indian queens. Unlike that, I have nothing against women of color, but unlike the producers of the show and writers who do have something against white people. So I appreciated the physical and aesthetic dynamic of the show. I appreciated the medical dramas and the relationship developments. And I found your presentation of the races in America, so deeply offensive and backward. And everything that touched on conservative values or individuals, deeply offensive. I genuinely, and I always say I'm very tough to offend. We Irish tend to be. But after 15 episodes, you got me, I genuinely felt offended at how you portrayed my side of the aisle. And it was done systematically, episode to episode to episode. And it was wrong. It was factually inaccurate. And it was a neanderthal like approach to entertainment. So shame on you. I don't recommend the show. I will not be watching the second season or the third. They're doing just fine. They have enough lips out there who are enjoying it or conservatives who aren't offended by these stereotypes and portrayals. I'm not one of them. So I'll have to find a new medical drama. If you know of one, let me know. It's Megan at Megankelly.com. See you soon. Thanks for listening to The Megankelly Show, No BS, No Agenda, and No Fear. [MUSIC]

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Megan Kelly reviews the medical drama *The Pit*, a show she believed might be a long-awaited ER spin-off featuring Noah Wiley, who played a doctor on the original *ER*.
  2. The show is criticized for systematically portraying white characters as racist, ignorant, and morally corrupt—such as a white doctor who dismisses sickle cell anemia, denies opioid addiction, and makes offensive remarks about minorities and masks.
  3. The series promotes progressive narratives by depicting women of color as empathetic, heroic, and naturally "in love," while portraying white characters as emotionally unstable, bigoted, or dangerous.
  4. Key plotlines—including a teen abortion scene with falsified medical records, misgendering of trans patients, and a false arrest involving ICE—raise serious ethical and medical concerns.
  5. Megan finds the show deeply offensive due to its political bias, stereotyping, and lack of balanced representation, calling it a "neanderthal approach" to entertainment that undermines conservative values. She concludes it should not be watched by conservatives and refrains from recommending it.

Summary:

Megan Kelly critiques the medical drama *The Pit*, which she initially viewed as a long-awaited ER spin-off starring Noah Wiley, a former *ER* cast member. While she appreciates the show’s medical realism and diverse casting, she finds its narrative deeply offensive and politically biased. The series systematically portrays white characters—doctors, patients, and staff—as racist, ignorant, or morally flawed, while elevating women of color as empathetic, heroic, and naturally loving.

Key scenes include a false abortion timeline, misgendering a patient who is a man, a white doctor denying opioid addiction despite clear evidence, and a false arrest involving ICE. Megan notes that these portrayals are not only factually inaccurate but also dangerously misleading in real-world medical settings. She criticizes the show for promoting liberal ideology under the guise of entertainment and for delegitimizing conservative values.

After watching 15 episodes, she concludes that *The Pit* is not just unbalanced in its representation but actively harmful to conservative audiences. She declares that she will not watch future seasons and recommends viewers seek alternative medical dramas that reflect balanced, accurate, and respectful portrayals of all communities.

FAQs

The Pit is a medical drama set in an emergency room, developed as a potential ER spin-off. It stars Noah Wiley, who played a doctor on the original ER, and shares the same setting and tone. However, it was created after negotiations with Michael Crichton's estate collapsed, leading to legal claims that it's an unauthorized ER reboot.

She criticized the show for systematically portraying white characters as racist, ignorant, or morally flawed, while depicting people of color as empathetic, knowledgeable, and heroic. This, she felt, reinforced harmful stereotypes and presented a biased, politically charged narrative that marginalized conservative viewpoints.

She found scenes involving a white doctor misgendering a trans patient, a white doctor lying about a patient's pregnancy age to allow an abortion, and a white doctor downplaying the risks of masks to oppose public health measures deeply offensive. These moments were seen as politically charged and factually inaccurate.

The show portrays women of color as compassionate, intelligent, and heroic, while white characters are often shown as clueless, racist, or emotionally unstable. It frequently features same-sex couples of color as loving and natural, while depicting white characters as out of touch or morally corrupt.

Yes, the show sparked significant online backlash, particularly on Reddit, where viewers criticized its political bias and harmful stereotypes. It also received coverage in conservative media, highlighting the controversy over its portrayal of race, gender, and conservative values.

She noted that while the medical scenes were detailed and realistic—showing procedures like births and surgeries—she felt the show prioritized political messaging over factual accuracy, such as falsifying medical records or misrepresenting patient care.

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