Ben Shapiro feuds with Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan as Iran war roils right-wing podcast sphere

The rightwing podcast-sphere is in turmoil as Ben Shapiro’s all-out feud with Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan rages on after he accused the hosts of platforming antisemites and letting conspiracy theories go unchecked during the war on Iran.The group traded fresh barbs this week after Shapiro accused Morgan of platforming “actual Nazis and the Nazi-adjacent,” adding that he refuses to appear on Morgan’s talk show for that reason.Shapiro, who co-founded the Daily Wire, called Morgan’s show the “Jerry Springer of political television” as he tore into the British talk show host for inviting Dave Smith, a controversial comedian known for his vocal criticism of Israel, onto the show.Shapiro then rolled a montage of clips from Morgan’s show of guests who invoked antisemitic conspiracy theories and praised Adolf Hitler – but Morgan responded that those snippets only told half the story.“It’s outrageously disingenuous that the clips he showed did not include the parts of those interviews where I called out every single one of them about things I didn’t agree with,” Morgan fumed on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” where he played the omitted footage from those same interviews.“You can take the view, as many do, that interviewing people with extreme opinions is pointless.You can stick your head in the sand like an ostrich or hide behind your very big desk and wish they didn’t have an audience, but they do,” Morgan continued, after tweeting a photo showing Shapiro shrunken down to less than half his height.Kelly came to Morgan’s defense during an episode of her show on Wednesday, arguing that he always pushes back on his guests and ridiculing “King Ben” for trying to cancel him.“It’s very sad to me as somebody who’s known Ben forever, and made Ben.

One-hundred percent – he became a star on my show,” Kelly averred.“And like, there is absolutely no cause to go run around policing the guests on somebody else’s show....