Tucker Carlson: “Anyone pushing for a war like the war with Iran clearly hates you, clearly, no matter what they say”
Carlson: Ben Shapiro has a “middling IQ” and is the beneficiary of “unearned privilege”
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From the August 12, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So maybe the last thing they need is to be lectured by people who are clearly the beneficiaries of unearned privilege, like Ben Shapiro, who somehow got into Harvard Law School despite a middling IQ. How did that happen? Never asked. People like that have no standing at all to lecture the rest of America's young people about whether or not they complain about their clearly declining standard of living and their future prospects. They have no standing at all, but they do it anyway.
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There was deep feeling behind it, and that feeling was contempt. That was loathing of the people complaining. That was loathing of the population. And that is part and parcel of this whole program. And this ultimately is the reason that the neocon worldview is a cancerous worldview, not simply because it's wrong about which countries we ought to invade, which leaders we ought to topple, which democracies we ought to erect in countries whose languages we don't speak. Okay, it's obviously all wrong. But that's not the worst thing about it. The worst thing about it is not just its inattention to the fortunes of actual Americans.
It's hostility. Its hatred of Americans. Because there's no other way to describe the kind of feelings that could get you to give a lecture like the one Ben Shapiro gave. If someone you loved turned to you and said, you know, man, I'm overwhelmed by the cost of food. If you love that person, you know, you might ultimately explain, well, maybe you're buying the wrong food, and I have, like, a solution for you. But would your first impulse be to tell a person to shut up and be grateful for a burrito from Del Taco? Probably not.
That's the way you speak to people you hate, who you resent, whose degradation pleases you. That was the most revealing moment because it showed you the true motive of Ben Shapiro and people like Ben Shapiro. They don't like you. And if they did, they wouldn't talk like that to you. They would show compassion, but they don't ever. It shouldn't surprise you, by the way. Anyone pushing for a war like the war with Iran clearly hates you, clearly, no matter what they say.