Ben Shapiro Slams Tucker Carlson for Downplaying Hamas Attack

(VINnews) — Orthodox Jewish podcast host Ben Shapiro slammed Tucker Carlson for “downplaying” the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, accusing Carlson, formerly of Fox News, of “idiocy” and “moral stupidity”.

Shapiro also accused Tucker of “playing a dumb game.”

On Monday, just two days after the horrific attack, Carlson acknowledged that the kidnapping and murder of Jews, in addition to so many other unspeakable horrors and atrocities, constituted a “crime”, before he shifted gears about 25 seconds into a video he posted.

“The question for American policymakers, however, is what do we do next?” asked Carlson before suggesting that the current path could easily lead to war with Iran and even the use of nuclear weapons.

Carlson ridiculed Nikki Haley for suggesting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “finish” Hamas once and for all.

“She’s a child and this is the tantrum of a child,” said Carlson, who mistook Haley for talking about Iran rather than Hamas while characterizing her as “ignorant and bloodthirsty.”

Shapiro blasted Carlson on his Wednesday episode. “He did an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy, and he likened what just happened in Israel… I mean, he’s showing a video of this happening like as he’s talking about this. He compared that to drug overdose deaths in the United States. Now, I believe we should fully care about the 100,000 drug overdose deaths that happen in the United States — these are two completely different issues. To go this far afield, to link the issues, the only reason you’re doing this is because you wish to downplay the atrocity that just happened in Israel,” said a passionate Shapiro.

He continued: “You’re not up-playing the atrocity of what’s happening on American streets. Those are two different types of atrocities. People who are addicted to fentanyl, sticking needles in their arms and overdosing is a moral blight. It is a moral atrocity and a moral evil for people to kidnap women…and drag them back to the Gaza border. Those are not the same thing and Tucker knows that. But this is a cheap way of telling you not to look. Don’t look. Stop caring. Because after all, what does it matter? What does it matter? Now again, I don’t know who thinks that that’s a sophisticated point of view, especially when nobody is calling for America to go to war with Iran. The entire purpose of having an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean is to avoid that. But here is Tucker playing — I don’t even know the game he’s playing. It’s just a dumb, it’s a dumb game.”

After playing a clip of Carlson’s interview with Ramaswamy in which the host claimed that “no one” expresses the same outrage over overdose deaths in the US, Shapiro continued:

“First of all, people are on bullhorns yelling about drug overdoses and the open border all the time. All the time. What is he even talking about? What he’s attempting to do is minimize what happened in Israel. He’s not attempting to maximize what happened in the United States. He’s attempting to minimize, as though America can’t walk and chew gum, morally speaking, at the same time, which is absurd. And those two things are nothing alike. I’m sorry, that is not alike. It is not alike for drug smugglers to smuggle drugs over the border, which someone then takes and shoves into their arm and then they die of an overdose. That is not the same thing. I promise you, it is not the same thing as a terrorist breaking into your home and murdering your children in their beds in front of you and dragging your wife off…That is not the same thing. Pretending that is a moral, it’s a moral blight. It’s idiocy. It’s just moral stupidity at the highest level. Of course, we should care about what happens with fentanyl. Of course we should care about — we should close our border. Have I been unclear about this? Of course America should have closed borders when it comes to this sort of stuff. I’m on the same side as Tucker on that. I just don’t understand why he’s not on my side when it comes to ‘Hamas has to be wiped off the face of the earth.’ What exactly is the counter argument?”

Shapiro concluded by saying: “When it comes to comparing the Holocaust-level evil we just saw in Kfar Aza with people overdosing on the streets of Philadelphia, I have some moral questions. I do,” he said.