The View has spent years using a grieving father's worst nightmare as political ammunition.
Now that father is asking them to say it to his face.
And Megyn Kelly just issued a dare that puts The View's spine on the line.
Jeff Metcalf Fires Back After Sunny Hostin Defends Karmelo Anthony on The View
Jeff Metcalf lost his 17-year-old son Austin to a knife in April 2025.
Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf once in the chest at a Frisco, Texas track meet.
The jury that sat through four days of testimony took less than three hours to reject the self-defense claim.
They sentenced Anthony to 35 years.
And that should have been the end of it.
Instead, The View's Sunny Hostin went on national television and suggested Anthony might have grounds for an appeal – because the jury had no black members.
Jeff Metcalf appeared on Fox News' The Will Cain Show and didn't hold back.
"She has no idea about the facts of the case," he said of Hostin. "But she wants to spew her public opinion on a platform that reaches millions of people every day."
He called it exactly what it is: an attempt to "monetize the death of my son."
Then he made an offer. Fly me to New York, he said. Put me at that table. Let me talk to all of you.
Hostin Got the Facts Wrong on Karmelo Anthony Self-Defense Claim
Megyn Kelly – a trained attorney who spent a decade in corporate litigation before building one of the most-listened-to political shows in America – dismantled Hostin's argument on The Megyn Kelly Show.
On the jury composition claim, Kelly was blunt: "That is a blatant misstatement of the law. As she knows, the Supreme Court has specifically held that you have no right to have individuals of your same race on your jury."
That's settled constitutional law. Hostin knows it.
Hostin also got the basic facts wrong. She claimed Metcalf outweighed Anthony by 70 pounds – a number designed to make the stabbing look like self-preservation. The actual trial record shows Metcalf at 200 pounds and Anthony at 162 pounds.
Not 130.
Hostin also ignored the record on provocation. Witnesses placed Anthony – not Metcalf – as the aggressor. Anthony walked into the rival school's tent. Anthony refused to leave after being asked 15 times. Anthony reached into his bag and told Metcalf, "Touch me and see what happens."
Then Metcalf touched him.
And Anthony stabbed him in the heart.
Kelly said: "You cannot taunt someone, beg someone to lay hands on you and then when they do so, stab them in the heart and say, oh, gee, I was just defending myself."
Hostin Knew the Facts and Said It Anyway
The left-wing media machine needed Karmelo Anthony to be a victim. The racial framing was too useful to abandon – even after a multiracial jury reviewed the evidence and came back with murder in three hours.
Prosecutors proved Anthony walked into that tent carrying a knife. He picked the fight. He drove a blade into a kid who said he wasn't looking for trouble.
Austin Metcalf's twin brother Hunter watched his brother die in his arms at a high school track meet.
Kelly accused ABC of enabling Hostin's "willful misinformation" to "push a racial agenda" that has no basis in the trial record. She dared The View's hosts to bring Jeff Metcalf to New York – calling him "a grieving dad of an actual murder victim at 17 years old" who was offering to come on and "talk truth."
"Do it if you have any heart or spine whatsoever," Kelly said.
Don't hold your breath.
Sunny Hostin prosecuted cases for the federal government. She knows what the law says about jury composition. She knows Anthony provoked the confrontation. She said it anyway.
That's not ignorance. That's what it looks like when a network decides a murdered white kid from Texas is more useful as a racial narrative than as a victim.
Austin Metcalf died in his twin brother's arms.
Sunny Hostin went on television and made sure it wasn't over.
Sources:
- Zachary Leeman, "'I Dare You': Megyn Kelly Issues Scathing Challenge to The View to Host Austin Metcalf's Father," Mediaite, June 23, 2026.
- Kevin Haggerty, "Megyn Kelly dares The View to put Austin Metcalf's father on air," BizPac Review, June 24, 2026.
- Staff, "Austin Metcalf's father accuses media pundits of trying to monetize his son's death 'for clicks,'" Fox News, June 23, 2026.
- Staff, "Karmelo Anthony sentenced to 35 years in fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at Frisco track meet," Houston Public Media/KERA, June 10, 2026.
- Staff, "Karmelo Anthony convicted of murder, gets 35 years," Fox News, June 2026.