*Candace Owens and her Daily Wire boss Ben Shapiro had a little spat on Twitter recently after he became triggered by a seemingly anti-Jewish post that she retweeted.
It all started when Shapiro called out Owens for sharing a post from Max Blumenthal on Sunday. As reported by MEAWW, Owens appeared to agree with Blumenthal’s comments that “White American Jews are living through a golden age of power, affluence, and safety.” Blumenthal said this is a “welcome reality” that “threatens the entire Zionist enterprise, from lobby fronts like the ADL to the State of Israel, because Zionism relies on Jewish insecurity to justify itself.”
Owens responded, “You are about to get into a lot of trouble for stating this. Reminds me of when I said something similar about the NAACP and BLM way back when. When you disrupt the trauma economy and call out the not-for-profits that benefit from it, you become their next target.”
Shapiro was quick to clap back at Owens for sharing Blumenthal’s message with her 3 million+ followers.
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I think the ADL is a partisan hack organization, too. But RTing Max Blumenthal, who spends his life covering for Jew-haters and stumping for Israel’s destruction, makes the conversation significantly worse. It’s garbage. pic.twitter.com/Y5hr6RwfjJ
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 6, 2022
“I think the ADL is a partisan hack organization, too,” he wrote. “But RTing Max Blumenthal, who spends his life covering for Jew-haters and stumping for Israel’s destruction, makes the conversation significantly worse. It’s garbage.”
Owens responded, “I don’t know who Max Blumenthal is, but I do know that you have my number and could have informed me in earnest,” she tweeted. “Real relationships should trump Twitter theatre. Let’s set a better example going forward.”
Meanwhile, we reported previously that Shapiro criticized Owens’ friendship with Kanye West (now known as Ye) during a speech recently at Texas A&M University for the “Young America’s Foundation.”
“He is an anti-Semite. He’s saying lots and lots of anti-Semitic things,” Shapiro stated, as shown in a clip from the event circulating on Twitter via Jason Campbell. “I’m not sure what more there is to say about that. The only thing I might add is that he’s pretty obviously bipolar, and I would think that right now he looks like he’s in the middle of a manic episode.”
Kyrie Irving should not give a single red cent to the ADL.
Like BLM, they are part and parcel of a humiliation ritual— demanding donations for social forgiveness.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 6, 2022
He continued: “I only say that because I have members of my family who have been bipolar and have had manic episodes. And one of the characteristics of a manic episode is that everything that comes out of your mouth, you think is a wonderful idea, even when everyone around you is telling you to stop. Which seems pretty obvious because he continues to destroy his career and his wealth base — based on his own foolishness, malice, and bigotry.”
Shapiro also admitted he is “amused” by some of the rapper’s assertions about Jewish people.
Always want to thank everyone for the overwhelming response to my monologue, explaining why I find it necessary to stand by @KyrieIrving.
Kyrie, I hope you know how loved you are and how much I felt and heard your heart in that press conference. https://t.co/ZJJEmu5CGZ
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 8, 2022
“That’s all I have to say about Kanye. I will say that I’m amused by some of his theories. I have some questions about some of his theories. I mean, namely his theory that the Jews perverted Kim Kardashian — that’s a weird one,” he said.
“I think his line was that Kim Kardashian was a wonderful Christian mother of four black children, and then the Jews perverted her. And I seem to remember Kim Kardashian before she was a beautiful Christian mother doing — some things,” he added, referring to Kim’s infamous sex tape with Ray J.
“My friend Candace Owens is friends with Kanye. She initially gave a response — Candace is great, but she initially gave a response that I thought was pretty wrong. Both morally and sort of logically, but we allow disagreement at The Daily Wire, even when I think that some of my colleagues are wrong,” Shapiro said.
“Let’s put it this way if she had said what Kanye had said she wouldn’t be working at The Daily Wire. She did not say what Kanye said. Instead, she defended her friend initially in a way that I didn’t like. But that is not a fireable offense. Nor do I even have the power of firing at The Daily Wire, which is why Michael Knowles still works there,” he continued.
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