{"id":2570878,"date":"2026-02-18T00:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-rips-randy-fine-for-going-full-bigot-in-anti-muslim-post\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:26:08","slug":"megyn-kelly-rips-randy-fine-for-going-full-bigot-in-anti-muslim-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-rips-randy-fine-for-going-full-bigot-in-anti-muslim-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly rips Randy Fine for going &#8216;full bigot&#8217; in anti-Muslim post"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmegyn-kelly-rips-randy-fine-for-going-full-bigot-in-anti-muslim-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2570878&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly condemned Florida Rep. Randy Fine for an anti-Muslim post, telling him to \u201cf*** off\u201d after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">suggested<\/a> that, if forced to choose, \u201cthe choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.\u201d fine had challenged Kelly after she quoted his post and asked whether she had \u201cfigured it out yet.\u201d The piece notes that the posts involved a claim about dogs and Islam in New York City and references Nerdeen Kiswani of Within Our Lifetime, who said her own comments were satirical and accused Fine of spreading a \u201cgenocidal\u201d statement about her. Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Dan Goldman, condemned Fine\u2019s remarks as unacceptable and Islamophobic, while Fine replied that New York residents would want to keep their dogs. The article portrays the episode as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/islamic-justice-man-arrested-for-trying-to-marry-girl-6-forced-to-wait-til-shes-9-report\/\" title=\"Islamic &#039;Justice&#039;: Man Arrested for Trying to Marry Girl, 6 - Forced to Wait Til She&#039;s 9 - Report\">broader rise<\/a> in hyperpartisanship in the House, with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >related stories highlighted<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Megyn Kelly rips &lsquo;sweaty man&rsquo; Randy Fine for going &lsquo;full bigot&rsquo; in anti-Muslim post<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1873485\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Conservative commentator <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/megyn-kelly\/\">Megyn Kelly <\/a>on Tuesday condemned Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4434285\/randy-fine-probe-left-wing-groups-minnesota-ice-protests\/\">Randy Fine<\/a> (R-FL) for a controversial statement he made about Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly told Fine to &ldquo;f*** off&rdquo; in response to a social media post Fine <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepFine\/status\/2023161539897720931\">made over the weekend <\/a>that said, &ldquo;If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.&rdquo;&nbsp;Fine asked if Kelly had &ldquo;figured it out yet&rdquo; after she quoted the post with &ldquo;wtf is this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4461105\/nancy-mace-cia-relationship-epstein\/\">Mace demands CIA release records on possible intelligence relationship with Epstein<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4460828\/jeffries-randy-fine-accountable-democrats-win-house-majority\/\">Jeffries pledges to hold Randy Fine accountable if Democrats win House majority<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4460830\/hillary-clintons-says-no-links-epstein\/\">Hillary Clinton says &lsquo;we have no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-says-we-have-no-links-to-epstein\/\" title=\"Hillary Clinton says \u2018we have no links\u2019 to Epstein\u00a0\">links&#038;rsquo<\/a>; to Epstein&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;What I figured out, you pathetic sweaty man, is when an idiot Muslim says &lsquo;no dogs in NYC,&rsquo; instead of attacking the person or the policy, you went full bigot,&rdquo; Kelly wrote <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/megynkelly\/status\/2023889407791820981?s=46\">in a post<\/a> to X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fine <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4460828\/jeffries-randy-fine-accountable-democrats-win-house-majority\/\">made the controversial statement <\/a>in the context of his accusation that the leader of a Palestinian group with ties to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani suggested dogs should be banned indoors because they are unclean, in accordance with Islamic law. Within Our Lifetime founder Nerdeen Kiswani later said her comments were satirical, aimed at reports of New York dog owners not picking up their pets&rsquo; waste. She <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NerdeenKiswani\/status\/2023204437335105841\">accused Fine<\/a> of spreading a &ldquo;genocidal statement about me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we&rsquo;ve said all along, they are unclean,&rdquo; she said <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NerdeenKiswani\/status\/2022091365182845006\">in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-suv-plows-through-crowd-that-was-mobbing-his-car-while-responding-to-street-racing-in-tacoma-video\/\" title=\"Police SUV Plows Through Crowd that Was Mobbing His Car While Responding To Street Racing In Tacoma (VIDEO)\">original post<\/a><\/a> to X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What I figured out, you pathetic sweaty man, is when an idiot Muslim says &ldquo;no dogs in NYC,&rdquo; instead of attacking the person or the policy, you went full bigot. Fuck off. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UrJko5BuB1\">https:\/\/t.co\/UrJko5BuB1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/2023889407791820981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Fine alleged Kiswani&rsquo;s position was that &ldquo;dogs should be forbidden from New York City because, to some Muslims, it bothers them,&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepFine\/status\/2023445804950892690\/photo\/1\">criticizing the <\/a>&ldquo;key Mamdani advisor&rdquo; and saying, &ldquo;We will not be shamed into being conquered like the Europeans.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If they&rsquo;re going to make us choose between dogs and them [Muslims] going home, the choice is easy,&rdquo; Fine added <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepFine\/status\/2023746175136940141\">during a<\/a> Newsmax interview.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3894358\/rise-censures-highlight-hyper-partisanship-house\/\"><strong>RISE IN CENSURES HIGHLIGHT HYPERPARTISANSHIP IN HOUSE: &lsquo;GOD-AWFUL MESS&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His comments have invited a flood of criticism, including from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who described the statement as an &ldquo;unacceptable and revolting Islamophobic comment.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepFine\/status\/2023613332901482547\">In response<\/a> to Goldman, Fine said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d think your New York constituents would want to keep their dogs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly slams Randy Fine for anti-Muslim post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2570879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Megyn_Kelly.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[73993,73995,73994,73992,73984],"class_list":["post-2570878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-anti-muslim","tag-bigotry-2","tag-media-controversy-2","tag-megyn-kelly-2","tag-randy-fine-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Megyn_Kelly.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570882,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570878\/revisions\/2570882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}