‘Simply Not True’: Ben Shapiro Responds to Tucker Carlson’s ‘Absurd Accusation’ That He Doesn’t Care About America
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro professed to be astonished by Tucker Carlson’s “absurd accusation” that he doesn’t care about America during an interview on The Megyn Kelly Show on SiriusXM last week
After being asked about the chasm between Shapiro and Carlson’s positions on Israel last month — Shapiro has previously criticized Carlson for “downplaying” the October 7 attack on Israel and being “disingenuous” in his attacks on the pro-Israel right — Carlson concluded that Shapiro “obviously” didn’t “care about America.”
After playing the clip of Carlson leveling the charge at Shapiro, Kelly asked her guest for his reaction.
“A bit of an astonishing statement there from Tucker. I would never doubt his love for the country, even though he and I disagree wildly about a number of topics,” began Shapiro.
He continued:
First of all, he attributes to me a bunch of things that simply are not true. If anybody has listened to my show — which has a few listeners — over the course of the last several months, you’ll see that I talk about all the issues that he mentions there, including the border issue, all the time. If you watch my show, he actually attributes to me, I believe in that interview, the view that, for example, the United States has some sort of duty to import Palestinians from Gaza. I’ve overtly opposed that because it’s ridiculous, silly, and be awful for the United States of America. So he just attributes to me a bunch of views that I don’t hold and then proceeds to say that I don’t care about the country. You know, obviously that’s that’s silly and that’s untrue. I think it’s part and parcel of something that Tucker has had a habit of doing recently, which is ‘We disagree, therefore, you don’t care about the people that I care about. You don’t care about the country.’ As for the notion, by the way, that his people have been here for hundreds of years, all four of my grandparents on both sides been here since the early 1900s. So over a century my family’s been here on both sides of the aisle. I also have no intention of moving. So, you know, I don’t know what more there is to say about that other than it’s an absurd accusation, it’s unfortunate. I certainly don’t feel that way about Tucker as much as I disagree with Tucker, as we said, on a wide variety of issues.
Great segment this week between Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro discussing Tucker Carlson and current fracturing conservative influences. pic.twitter.com/a6YzJezJJU
— Publius (@TheAnonReport_) January 3, 2024
Kelly agreed that the skirmish was “unfortunate” before predicting that the two would bury the hatchet.
Carlson recently launched a streaming and content platform that will compete in the same space as The Daily Wire, the conservative media behemoth founded by Shapiro.
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