Megyn Kelly rips backlash over 'conservative dad' pinup calendar

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A pinup calendar by a self-styled “conservative dad” featuring scantily clad beauties have some on the right riled up, but Megyn Kelly thinks it’s much ado about nothing.

Kelly, the former Fox News prime time personality who currently hosts the SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show,” declared during Wednesday’s episode that “conservatives can be saucy!”

The controversy erupted after Seth Weathers, who first made headlines by marketing the “100% Woke Free” Ultra Right Beer as an alternative to Dylan Mulvaney-endorsed Bud Light, started selling “Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America.”

The $25 calendar, which boasts swimmer Riley Gaines on the cover, is billed as one that is “featuring the most beautiful conservative women in America!”

Gaines has been vocal in calling for the banning of biological men who transitioned to becoming women from female sports.

Among other prominent right-wing women who are featured in the calendar are radio host and former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch; Josie Glabach, the internet personality and podcaster known as “The Redheaded Libertarian”; and influencer Sara Gonzales.

“I gotta be honest, I couldn’t care less about people doing this,” Kelly said on her Wednesday show, adding: “I think this is great.”

Kelly hailed the bikini-clad Gaines as “gorgeous” and said that the criticism reminded her of similar push back she received when she posed for a provocative photo shoot with GQ Magazine.

Megyn Kelly wholeheartedly endorsed a pinup calendar featuring “beautiful conservative women.” Getty Images
A pinup calendar by a self-styled “conservative dad” features scantily clad beauties. Ultra Right Beer
Riley Gaines, the swimmer and social activist, is featured prominently in the calendar. Ultra Right Beer
The calendar also includes Josie Glabach, the internet personality and podcaster known as “The Redheaded Libertarian.” Ultra Right Beer

“I was very pregnant at the time and I was proud that I could still squeeze myself into one of these numbers,” Kelly said of her racy photo session which appeared in the Nov. 2010 edition of GQ.

“But I got a lot of blow back for that too,” Kelly said. “And it was all from conservatives who were like ‘That was a mistake. That’s not what conservatives stand for’.”

Kelly dismissed suggestions that the calendar was in poor taste. Brittany Jean is pictured above. Ultra Right Beer

Kelly lamented the criticism, saying: “Why do conservatives have to be all stuffy and like, not sexy?” 

Some conservatives online voiced their displeasure at the calendar. One commenter wrote on X: “Everyone involved in this marketing disaster should be Bud Lighted immediately.”

Everyone involved in this marketing disaster should be Bud Lighted immediately

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) December 27, 2023

You can probably guess what I think about a calendar branded for “conservative dads” filled with pictures of women, many of them married and many of them very scantily clad. Hate it. I also find the discourse ridiculous, as if we’re all supposed to pretend we don’t understand the…

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) December 27, 2023

Bud Light suffered from a steep drop in sales after conservatives boycotted the brand over its partnership with Mulvaney, a transgender social media influencer with a following of millions.

Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative podcaster and author, panned the calendar as “soft porn” that is being “marketed…to married (or unmarried) men.”

Dana Loesch, the former spokesperson for the NRA, is also featured in the calendar. Ultra Right Beer

“You can call me a prude, puritanical, or jealous of these women’s beauty — whatever makes you feel better,” Stuckey wrote on X.

The Post has sought comment from Weathers, Gaines, Loesch, Glabach and Gonzales.

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