(ProsperNews.net) – A war of words broke out between online commentator Ben Shapiro and former Fox host Tucker Carlson over the latter’s response to the terror attack against Israel on Oct. 7. The two conservatives, who usually agree on political and social issues, had a public falling out when Carlson appeared to compare the atrocity in southern Israel with the fentanyl crisis in the United States.
Speaking with GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Carlson said Republican candidates were much more outraged by events in Israel than the 100,000 Americans dying yearly from fentanyl.
In response, an outraged Ben Shapiro said Carlson was trying to downplay what had happened in Israel and said fentanyl use and drug addiction more broadly were completely different issues. Shapiro said it is right to care about fentanyl deaths, but killing children and kidnapping and raping women is not the same. Shapiro added that this is a “cheap way” of telling Americans not to look at the atrocities committed against the Jewish people.
The Daily Wire host expressed disgust at Carlson’s labeling of fentanyl addiction as “genocide” and accused him of idiocy, saying his comparisons were a “moral blight.”
Shapiro, who is Jewish, has expressed anger at much of the American response to the Hamas attack but highlighted a “necessary” letter from several governors to President Biden voicing their steadfast alliance with the State of Israel. The letter called on the Biden administration to provide “unequivocal support to Israel as it defends itself and works to eliminate the Iran-backed terror group Hamas” and to “ease your appeasement and empowerment of Iran.”
The Islamic Republican of Iran is the primary backer of Hamas and provides it with millions of dollars in funding each year. The Biden administration recently unfroze $6 billion in oil-sales funding to be used by Iran for “humanitarian” reasons, which many Republicans see as weakness – with some even accusing Biden of aiding Hamas.
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