US EditionBen Shapiro blasts Tucker Carlson over Nick Fuentes interview
- Last week, Ben Shapiro, a prominent conservative podcaster, publicly condemned Tucker Carlson, former Fox News host, after his interview with Nick Fuentes aired, saying it deepened GOP divisions.
- On the podcast, Nick Fuentes praised Joseph Stalin and blamed `organized Jewry` for divisions, while Tucker Carlson said Republican Israel supporters suffer from a `brain virus`, fueling backlash.
- Amid mixed conservative responses, The Wall Street Journal editorial board condemned the episode while Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation President, first defended Carlson but later condemned antisemitism, prompting Ben Shapiro's pushback on moral boundaries.
- At the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership summit last weekend, top GOP Jewish leaders sought to distance Carlson, while CEO Matt Brooks called antisemitism `a very small, limited problem in our party` and attendees waved `TUCKER IS NOT MAGA` placards; Carlson declined to comment Monday.
- Last month, incidents included a nominee bragging of a `Nazi streak` and a leaked Young Republicans chat praising Hitler, while a Nazi symbol was found in a GOP congressional office, prompting conservative critics including Ben Shapiro to warn the party risks being `eaten by its radicals.
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Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson is the 'main agent' in 'normalizing Nazism within the Republican Party'
"The main agent in that normalization is Tucker Carlson, who is an intellectual coward, a dishonest interlocutor" The post Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson is the “main agent” in “normalizing Nazism within the Republican Party” first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
If Only William Buckley Was Around to Debate Nick Fuentes
VDH and Jack unpack the controversies surrounding Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes and how the legacies of William F. Buckley Jr. and “Firing Line”—a show that confronted radicalism head-on—need to serve as examples for how conservatives handle extremists and bad-faith actors, as well as a recent poll out of Gaza showing alarming support for Hamas among Palestinians. The post If Only William Buckley Was Around to Debate Nick Fuentes …
Radio Host Levin Rebukes ‘Bigots’ Carlson, Fuentes
Conservative talk show host Mark Levin delivered a fiery denunciation of Tucker Carlson and white nationalist Nick Fuentes after Carlson's decision to host Fuentes — a known antisemite and Holocaust denier — on his podcast. In a blistering opening to "The Mark Levin Show" on Monday, Levin vowed that patriots in the Republican Party will root out "the bigots, the racists, the antisemites, the women haters, Black haters, [and] America haters." "Yo…
Tucker Carlson Unites the Right-Wing Media Against Him Over Nick Fuentes Interview
Tucker Carlson’s decision last week to interview 27-year-old white nationalist Nick Fuentes for over two hours last week sent shockwaves through conservative media circles, with everyone from the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro to Bari Weiss’ the Free Press to the editorial board of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal eviscerating the former Fox News host for platforming a far-right figure who’s made his hatred of Jews a facet of his appeal. But the …
View: Can anyone stop Tucker Carlson?
I wrote last month about the emerging fissures in a right-wing media that now propels the White House’s decisions.Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes. While Carlson disagreed at points with the 27-year-old commentator, he mostly listened patiently as Fuentes shared his life story and complained about “organized Jewry in Americ…
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