Two conservative titans, Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro, are at odds with one another.
In November, Carlson interviewed Candace Owens, who had a public spat with Shapiro over U.S. involvement in the Israel-Hamas war. Owens accused Shapiro of engaging in ad-hominem attacks in his defense of Israel. The discussion hinted at a shared view of Shapiro between Carlson and Owens.
Mediaite's Isaac Schorr described how Carlson's animosity toward Shapiro spilled into public view this weekend. While discussing the ongoing conflict in Gaza on the podcast “Breaking Points,” Carlson accused The Daily Wire co-founder of being unpatriotic:
Carlson was asked by host Saagar Enjeti about Shapiro's previous criticism of Carlson — who has persistently attacked those who have expressed concern for Israel in the wake of the October 7 terrorist for supposedly being more worried about Israel than the United States.
“I've watched the entire kind of right-wing ecosystem get embroiled in fundamentally what is a third-world conflict,” asserted Enjeti after name-dropping Shapiro. “Now we can say support, not support, we can have criticisms, etc. of that. But what explains this like literal allegiance on Ukraine, Israel? Why is it that so many of these people don't seem to have the same level of care for actual American citizens?”
After some commentary on the war between Ukraine and Russia, Carlson moved on to Israel.
“In the case of Israel and the Arab world, I've spent a fair amount of time in both and I like both. And I felt terrible for the people who were killed on October 7, I still do. So I had no weird motive, I was just thinking about it from an American perspective: Is this good for us or is it not?” insisted Carlson. “And I was just amazed by the intolerance and the willingness to immediately go to invective and character assassination.”
“I can't imagine how someone like that could get an audience of people who claim to care about America because he doesn't, obviously,” Carlson said of Shapiro.
On the other hand, Shapiro has criticized Carlson's position on Israel and accused Tucker of “moral stupidity” for comparing the overseas conflict to America's drug epidemic.
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