(VINnews) — Talk show host Megyn Kelly interviewed frum conservative icon Ben Shapiro on her Sirius podcast this week, and she broached the hot-button topic of Candace Owens’ firing by Shapiro’s Daily Wire.
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“I know it’s a subject you probably don’t want to discuss, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least go there. She left, it made tons of news. The right loves to eat its own, so they loved this,” she said.
“But I’m sure that whole thing was rather unpleasant. It’s now spun into a debate about whether The Daily Wire is pro-free speech,” Kelly continued. “The accusation is you are until it comes to Israel. How do you respond?”
Shapiro defended the DW, and said that Owens’ firing had nothing to do with the war in Gaza.
He said, “What I will say is we have a variety of positions on Israel right now inside the Daily Wire. Matt Walsh is obviously one of the number one hosts at the Daily Wire, and he and I wildly disagree on what America’s Israel policy should be. Matt is much more of an isolationist,” Shapiro said. “He basically believes the United States has no real interest in the Middle East and thus should not be providing material supporting to anyone, including the state of Israel. Matt obviously is well within the sort of group of hosts that we have here at the Daily Wire. So clearly whatever is going on is not about Israel specifically. That’s really all I have to say about it.”
He continued, “As far as the free speech of it, as I’ve said before, The Daily Wire is a publisher, not a platform. I would never call for anyone to be ousted from an actual platform, X, YouTube,” he stated. “Even people who I think are absolutely horrific human beings, I’ve never called for any of them to be ousted. In fact, I’ve called for them to have their accounts restored if they’ve been banned.
Shapiro continued: “That’s not the same thing when it comes to publishers. Publishers obviously have to decide what sort of things they wish to pay for the publication of and when it comes to hosts and publishers parting ways, obviously, there will be a non-meeting of the minds. That’s pretty much all I can say on that.”
Why’s he explaining himself if it was a white person attacking blacks he’s or her’s firing would have been praised. She is a racist anti semite period
She was begging to be fired for ages.
My boss fired me and all i did was act increasingly crazy and spit in his face and stuff like that, should I sue?
I love working with The Daily Wire, and I’ve never found you guys anything other than pro-free speech and the defense of it,” Kelly concluded. “That doesn’t mean you have to be in business, as you point out, with people no matter what they say. And I think Candace will do fine on her own, it wasn’t a good match. I, for one, applaud the separation for a number of reasons.”
The title is misleading. He never said “It Was Not Her Stance on Israel”.
He said DW is a publisher that decides what sort of things they wish to pay for. There is a non-meeting of the minds for her content. So she was fired.