“I was very happy to hear Piers Morgan, Douglas Murray, Ian Haworth who’s been on the show, with a much more measured position on him. I just think as a conservative man, and as somebody who’s a more right leaning myself, woman, we don’t need him [Brand]. Why would anybody expend capital defending this guy? We have absolutely lovely, brilliant, honorable, thinking, polite, respectful men everywhere on this side of the aisle. And frankly, there’s a lot on the other side of the aisle too. But I’m just saying there’s no need to own Russell Brand or make sure he doesn’t get diminished in the face of these incredibly weighty charges.”

[I think it’s legit and healthy to question the timing of the media interest in these allegations, and also the appropriateness of demonetizing someone on the basis of media-pushed allegations. But it’s a mistake to just assume that the allegations are false. Megyn has it correct — we can raise those issues without reaching conclusions on the allegations before seeing evidence. — Ed]