Shock Nancy Guthrie 2013 Today Show Segment, Ben vs. Piers, and Charlie Kirk's Mission of Dialogue and Debate, with Andrew Kolvet and Blake Neff | Ep. 1270
On today's show, Megyn Kelly is on spring break, but you won't want to miss her take on Iran, Lindsey Graham's Iran rant, and more. Plus, the latest on the attempted terrorist attack in New York City, and a tribute to Charlie Kirk.
00:01:18.920If you can believe it, that homicidal maniac Lindsey Graham was right back on Hannity last night, getting as much pushback as he's gotten thus far, meaning zero.
00:01:31.680This is why, you know, you need a firm hand on the tiller over there because somebody needs to intervene and tell them that the way journalism is practiced is there's pushback.
00:01:43.920When someone continues to make frothing at the mouth claims about how many countries we should bomb, as the United States, someone, a responsible host would say,
00:01:51.480Oh, but gee, what about the human death toll?
00:01:54.440Oh, but gee, how does that endanger the United States of America?
00:02:01.220And equally crazy over on CNN is Abby Phillip, who is not only allowing but actually pushing herself the lie that what happened in New York City the other day with this attempted terrorist attack with the two IEDs was an attack, a terror attack on Mayor Mabdani.
00:02:21.480That it was a Muslim being attacked by IEDs at a white supremacist rally.
00:02:28.660That's exactly the opposite of what happened.
00:02:31.160It was radical Muslims launching the bombs, attacking those who were protesting, and cops.
00:02:38.660The bomb was thrown at the cops who were on duty.
00:02:41.180But this passes for journalism over on CBS, and by the way, sorry, CNN, and by the way, CBS was also complicit, running a story that when they talked about those who threw the bombs, showed MAGA supporters.
00:04:19.560I would say I have less of that, you know, protective instinct because I'm – Charlie wasn't a journalist.
00:04:25.960He was, you know, a political operative and a very smart pundit and a thought leader and a faith leader.
00:04:32.100I'm in a bit of a different role but also feel loyalty to the president and absolutely want to see him succeed and us succeed and our troops succeed here.
00:04:38.900But I also feel it's my patriotic duty to object when I do and not be shy about saying I don't think this is a good idea.
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00:07:52.180Well, basically, since my bed's already made, the most important thing you have to do is to make sure this top sheet is really pulled in here tightly because that's going to give you your smooth corner.
00:08:04.740And then you pull this over, and you make kind of like a triangle.
00:29:01.060Who has a naked picture of themselves framed in their homes?
00:29:04.820Because this is framed – she clearly had that done and had it up on her wall.
00:29:11.180And I guess now she has new naked pictures of herself or something, so she wants you to have it, and you can, for $250.
00:29:18.020She's auctioning off her Coldplay EconoMuff earmuffs for $50, clearly a gift from her husband, $50.
00:29:23.960Okay, so, you know, I mean, the love goes stale, and I guess so do the earmuffs, which look more like headphones.
00:29:33.240Maybe it's just what they call Coldplay headphones.
00:29:36.680I don't know, but she's no longer into them.
00:29:39.120And she's apparently no longer into the Jeffrey Dahmer eyeglasses that we believe she wore to that trial when she was sued for the ski mountain mishap.
00:29:48.440Remember, she made news for wearing, like, they were direct – they look like Jeffrey Dahmer glasses, and here they are.
00:34:27.420Like, this is crazy what these women are doing.
00:34:30.520And what is with the weird exhibitionism?
00:34:33.520Why can't anyone in Hollywood just age?
00:34:36.740I think this is a desperate ploy by her to hold on to her youth.
00:34:41.380The same reason she's photographing herself naked and wanting you to look at her naked,
00:34:46.860now, you know, in her mid-50s, is the same reason she said yes to that shower scene.
00:34:52.440Because she doesn't have the class or self-confidence of Julia Roberts.
00:34:56.480Again, Julia Roberts and I have very different politics.
00:34:58.420She did the very annoying ad for Kamala where she suggested Trump voters like the women would undermine their husbands who always have strict control over them by secretly voting for Kamala.
00:35:32.140I mean, truly, who would debase themselves this way?
00:35:35.100It's never enough for these Hollywood actresses, right?
00:35:37.280Like, you can become whoopee and you still hate America.
00:35:39.340It's still racism, notwithstanding the EGOT and the millions and so on.
00:35:42.480You can become Gwyneth and you can look great and be this alleged wellness guru and still a movie star and having married Chris Martin, now this other guy, whatever, consciously uncoupled from the first husband.
00:36:00.620You need to do naked shower scenes with somebody who is literally 25 years younger than you or almost because you need people to look at you and think of you as, like, a sexy, hot vixen.
00:36:10.600As opposed to just, like, an entrepreneur and a mom and someone who looks great, like, period, as opposed to being – in the news today is Margot Robbie, who's – I mean, she truly might be the most beautiful person on earth right now.
00:37:28.200She has lost the slight, ever-so-slight fullness that was in her face before.
00:37:34.540Now she's got the sunken, sunken cheek.
00:37:37.340And I don't know if that is, they say all these Hollywoods are getting that buccal fat removal from their faces, which obviously she did not need.
00:37:44.300Or the speculation online is that this is Ozempic, that she decided this is her on the right looking normal and stunning, and this is her on the left looking skeletal at the Chanel show.
00:37:58.620Many questioning now whether she's taking the weight loss drugs.
00:38:07.340It's never enough for these Hollywood celebrities.
00:38:10.680Margot Robbie's not ripping on the United States, at least that I know of, so that's to her credit.
00:38:14.980But this is one of the dangers in letting your child get sucked into the Hollywood madness.
00:38:20.020We talked about Britney Spears and her DUI last week.
00:38:24.360That's what happens when you make them childhood stars.
00:38:26.360Look at, I mean, the Kardashian-Jenner's are, they're not getting DUIs every day, but they are absolutely obsessed with themselves, with their appearance, which they think is everything.
00:38:38.760This whole industry, you know, this on-camera Hollywood star-led and slash influencer industry is extremely pernicious and has its values ass backwards.
00:38:54.420I'm glad they feel like they're somewhat important, but I really think they needed more time with, like, solid parents who helped them learn how to fill themselves up from the inside, as opposed to looking to these false gods of money or bashing America, in Whoopi's case.
00:39:12.420It's a false religion that the woke do, as you know.
00:39:14.540Or, you know, extreme anorexia, which appears to be the case for Demi Moore and others in Hollywood, as some sort of filler, you know, as something that's going to make them feel better about themselves.
00:39:31.680We're going to have on the turning point, guys, in a minute, but there's a couple things that I want to get to first.
00:39:38.360And that includes the war that is unfolding between Ben Shapiro and Piers Morgan.
00:39:45.160Just by way of background, as you guys know, I was very good friends with Ben, and then he attacked me, to my surprise, utter shock, at the turning point event in December.
00:39:54.820He thought that I should be lumped in as, like, one of the problems when it comes to, I guess, anti-Semitism, even though I have spent the past two and a half years fighting anti-Semitism very, very vocally on this show, and will continue to.
00:40:10.440What we saw on college campuses post-10-7 was absolutely abhorrent.
00:40:31.620His sin was platforming, in quotes, Dave Smith, who is definitely a critic of Israel, who Charlie Kirk platformed as well at turning point.
00:40:42.360And that's why Charlie was called an anti-Semite.
00:40:44.680Remember when Charlie and I had our long discussion about both of us who had been called anti-Semites because we went to the turning point event last July?
00:40:52.940And in one very quick exchange, we talked about Jeffrey Epstein's possible ties to intelligence and said maybe it was Israel.
00:41:00.040Like, literally, that's all we discussed about Israel.
00:41:02.980We were both called anti-Semites by this leading Jewish organization.
00:41:05.920It wasn't some random internet commentator.
00:41:07.780And one of the reasons Charlie also got it after that was he platformed Dave Smith across from Josh Hammer, who's as pro-Israel as they come.
00:41:20.600So Piers did with Dave Smith what he always does with everybody, which is he had a big panel with, like, six people, the pro-Israel side there, the anti-side there as well.
00:41:29.920And that was not okay with King Ben, who decided to go for him in Sot One.
00:41:36.500So, last night on Piers Morgan, which is the Jerry Springer of political television, where people gather to throw chairs at one another and determine paternity.
00:41:46.400Piers Morgan, who has sort of made a mockery of the entire industry by putting on screen whatever dregs are still willing to go on screen with Piers Morgan.
00:41:55.280He had on Dave Smith, who has, you know, apparently his job is never to tell jokes, but to instead give poorly informed foreign policy tags.
00:42:33.240Well, honestly, he kept bringing on actual Nazis and the Nazi adjacent and then treated them all too often as voices worthy of a large audience.
00:43:21.640OK, Israel right now is imparting a genocide and a holocaust on the Gazan people.
00:43:26.920Listen, it's Piers' choice who he decides to have on his show and how he decides to conduct the kind of clown car battle royale that he does on a show every night.
00:43:37.480And it's my choice not to join that circus.
00:43:39.620We all make our choices and we all live with them.
00:43:41.600But some of us make our choices based on, you know, actual principles and not the clay.
00:43:46.300OK, so Piers has to be condemned as a Jerry Springer joke, and he's not allowed to have Dave Smith on, even if Dave Smith comes on with a bunch of pro-Israel people because Ben objects.
00:43:57.680And then Ben pulls a bunch of clips of contentious, which was not revealed by Ben, interviews that Piers has done with various people on his show.
00:44:08.200Well, Piers did not take kindly to any of this.
00:44:10.320And he decided to play the other side of those interviews because Piers does push back on his guests.
00:44:19.180If he's going to have a Nick Fuentes on, he's going to give him a hard time.
00:44:22.540By the way, that's how it would go on this show, too.
00:44:24.940But I've chosen not to platform him because I have absolutely no desire to talk to him or to advance his message with my audience.
00:44:32.380Piers went a different way, and I have no problem with that.
00:44:34.440I have no problem with having whatever.
00:44:36.880People do their shows the way they want to do them.
00:44:38.920And Ben was right that he doesn't have to go on Piers if he doesn't.
00:44:43.080But there was absolutely no point in attacking him, making an issue of Piers Morgan, and he's been attacking him ever since, just because he platformed, quote unquote, one guy you don't like in the midst of many others who are espousing your view.
00:44:55.860I guess they have to have a monopoly on Piers' show, which you don't control, and I guess you're very upset about it.
00:45:01.340Here's Piers showing the other side of those interviews.
00:45:03.340And 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.
00:45:14.300His montage of the same interviews could have looked like this.
00:45:59.060Yeah, but you have to listen to what I say.
00:46:01.260You want me to believe you when you say you weren't aware of the scale of this for several days.
00:46:06.960And I find that just... I'm incredulous. You want me to believe that?
00:46:11.100This country, which was formed in 1948 by pretending to be refugees, if you will, and being invited into the homes of Palestinians, the horrific story of what happened...
00:46:21.300Well, they weren't pretending to be refugees. They were people fleeing a holocaust.
00:46:25.880You can take the view, as many do, that interviewing people with extreme opinions is pointless.
00:46:30.360You 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.
00:46:38.040Totally disingenuous clip by Ben Shapiro.
00:46:41.700He takes the controversial piece that these people have said, some of these people, and airs it as though this is Piers' sin.
00:46:48.380That he's allowed these people to come on and just have his platform and spew racist talking points like, you know, Hitler's very fucking cool in the case of Nick Fuentes.
00:46:56.060Without showing what Piers always does.
00:47:26.000If you disagree with him, you're a Nazi, he says, channeling Kamala Harris.
00:47:32.320Everybody knows my position on Israel.
00:47:34.780I vehemently defended Israel's right to respond and defend itself after October the 7th.
00:47:39.620I became increasingly critical of Israel because its government's actions in Gaza became impossible to defend.
00:47:45.820If Ben listened to some of the arguments, instead of just throwing tantrums about them, he might understand why.
00:47:51.360Just as I continue to host people who defend Israel's conduct in Gaza, where many people wish I wouldn't and say I shouldn't, Ben Shapiro does.
00:48:00.100He, of course, has my phone number and my email address.
00:48:03.600He could have discussed his differences with me in private, which I would have preferred.
00:48:07.480But he hasn't bothered to even politely reply to my occasional messages for a very long time now.
00:48:12.960Oddly, since the very moment I started criticising the Israeli government.
00:48:17.140And he chooses to get on his own podcast and throw pathetic potshots at me instead.
00:48:22.300So let me use my platform to respond directly.
00:48:25.420The difference between me and you, Ben, is that I'm heavily criticised by both sides because I listen to both sides.
00:48:31.320And very often I criticise both sides too, without fear or favour.
00:48:35.860You're only criticised by one side because you choose to air only one side and you choose to ignore or even silence the other.
00:48:43.240I'm a journalist, you are a propagandist.
00:48:51.920It's very sad to me as somebody who's known Ben forever and helped make Ben.
00:48:59.060100% he became a star on my show, The Kelly File.
00:49:03.000Well, I'm very sorry to see this happen.
00:49:06.960And like there is absolutely no cause to go run around policing the guests on somebody else's show and trying to diminish somebody who is as interesting, but, and I mean this complimentary, benign as Piers Morgan.
00:49:28.560I think he's really interesting and I think his interviews are great.
00:49:30.520But now we have to get rid of Piers Morgan.
00:49:34.400So obviously in Ben's view, Tucker had to go.
00:49:37.420Clearly, even though he helped build Candace, she had to go.
00:49:41.540Then I had to go, even though I've had a 15-year friendship with a guy, publicly attacked me.
00:49:46.600Same thing, not even a text in advance.
00:49:48.780Even though we had had a text like literally four months or four weeks earlier saying no matter what, who we're friends with, because he was mad I was friends with Tucker,
00:49:56.280our friendship means more to us than anything, and we won't do anything to F it up.
00:50:01.580Next thing I know, I get attacked by him on stage at Turning Point.
00:50:04.560Now Piers Morgan, like how many people have to go?
00:50:06.940Truly, how many people must be culled from the conservative movement in order to make Ben happy?
00:52:57.640There's like absolutely no affect, but she's saying crazy things.
00:53:00.240Last night tried to spin the two radical Muslim men who attacked cops and protesters who were out there protesting against having the Muslim call to prayer run five times a day over loudspeakers in New York City.
00:53:17.520They were attacked by two radical Muslims who threw an IED, two of them, at them and at cops as an attack on the Muslim mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani.
00:53:31.620Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here.
00:53:34.360After an attempted terror attack against New York's mayor, Zoran Mamdani, and the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing really to condemn those comments.
00:54:20.680Yeah, I think, you know, it kind of goes back to that old expression, Megan, that, you know, the lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put on its pants.
00:54:27.360And when we saw this over the weekend, there was a bunch of press headlines that were saying outside of Mom Donnie's, you know, Gracie Mansion.
00:54:37.920So, I think she probably just thinks that that's true, actually.
00:54:41.640I think this is ignorance because if you listen to her show, all she knows how to do is parrot left-wing talking points.
00:55:53.120The FBI is investigating two men after an explosive device with bolts and screws was thrown into a crowd.
00:55:59.780It happened in New York City on Saturday during a protest that turned violent outside the mayor's official residence.
00:56:06.380Okay, so I'm just going to replay that.
00:56:07.760And I want the listening audience to know every word she speaks is next to the picture of a Trump supporter wearing a Trump T-shirt until she says it happened.
00:56:16.840When she says it happened, we switched to the video of the Muslim guy with his IED running away after having dropped it.
00:56:22.700So listen to this again, knowing that every word she speaks is with a picture of a Trump supporter, a MAGA guy, prior to the words it happened.
00:56:29.220The FBI is investigating two men after an explosive device with bolts and screws was thrown into a crowd.
00:56:36.540It happened in New York City on Saturday during a protest that turned violent outside the mayor's official residence.
00:56:43.640It's unbelievable, Blake, but and yet it's totally believable.
00:56:46.460Well, of course, it's believable if you I was actually reminded, I think a decade ago and 30 years ago, the New York Times has a repeated habit of blaming the city of Dallas, for example, for JFK's assassination.
00:57:02.740JFK was, of course, murdered by Oswald, who was a communist who defected to the Soviet Union.
00:57:07.420And the left ran articles calling Dallas the city of hate.
00:57:12.280And that was that was what consumed JFK, this this right wing city that he was in.
00:57:23.920The left in general is more likely to have a terrorism problem.
00:57:27.600The left in general is a lot more likely to have its young activist wing go unhinged, kill somebody.
00:57:34.780We, of course, saw that with Charlie himself and rat because they're able to control the media apparatus.
00:57:42.220They're pretty consistent about attempting to reverse it and say, actually, it's it's you guys who are driving the violence in society.
00:57:50.380I mean, we saw them do that with the FBI.
00:57:52.520One reason we're having more of these foreign elements come into the United States and launch terror attacks is that the Biden administration repurposed DHS repurposed the FBI to say that white American men who go to Latin mass or whatever are the chief terror threat in the United States.
00:58:12.020And the reality is that's just a distortion of numbers.
00:58:15.900It's a distortion of what they choose to count as terrorism.
00:58:59.040And here, Andrew, now just literally half an hour ago, not even 20 minutes ago, she tweeted, I want to correct something I said last night.
00:59:09.460The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers was thrown, no subject verb agreement, into a crowd of anti-Muslim protesters and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mom Domi.
00:59:23.880That wording was inaccurate and I didn't catch it ahead of time.
01:00:54.060There was an exchange on the show, Blake, with Republican Joe Borelli, who fought with, I think it was Anna Navarro, over this exact claim.