Tucker Carlson attacks Ben Shapiro's support for Iran war, “It's pretty weak coming from a guy who literally knows nothing about the rest of the world”
Carlson: “It's never a question that's occurred to Ben Shapiro — is this good for America?”
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From the March 11, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So if you have questions about this war, whether it's in your interest, your country's interests or not, and it's never a question that's occurred to Ben Shapiro — is this good for America? It's really not under consideration. But if it's under your consideration, if you've raised that question, you are tantamount to a Holocaust denier. You're insane. You're a crazy person.
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And above all, you are a disloyal person. Disloyal to the United States. You are, quote, rooting for Iran to win. You're part of the grievance party. How dare you complain? How dare you have grievances? It's pretty weak coming from a guy who literally knows nothing about the rest of the world at all. So, you know, you can get annoyed by it at some point, especially if Iran wins. People like that will, will double their calls to arrest anyone on the other side. They're already calling for it.
These people should be investigated. Anyone who's against this should be investigated on a FARA charge. They should go to jail. Their ideological opponents should go to jail. Who's the totalitarian here?
And you'll hear a lot more of that, but you will not see people pay a ton of attention to yelping, childish yelping like that, totally uninformed screaming like that ever again, because again, this conflict has entered what the military refers to euphemistically as the kinetic stage. People are actually firing munitions at each other. So it kinda doesn't matter what people on the sidelines say at this point. This is a hot war and it will be decided by force. One of the reasons you don't wanna get into a hot war.
In other words, we've exited the part of the exchange where it's two guys in the parking lot. What'd you say? I'll mess you up. And we've gotten to the part where one guy just punches the other guy in the face and keeps going unless he's stopped. So that's exactly where we are. So it doesn't kinda matter what you said before the punching started. Not that Ben Shapiro has any experience of that, but it's just true that once people start hurting each other, words matter less, and the dominant party will emerge victorious.