Walsh, one of the remaining hosts over at the Daily Wire, is not a fan of the war in Iran. In fact, just recently he posted something that speaks to my own heart about the liars who have cheerlead this war when the US has uh only lost. We haven't won anything from [00:00:18] this. He says pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran war assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit that they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wish casting. [00:00:36] This whole crap show has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goalposts repeatedly and have even to this day refuse to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we'll know [00:00:56] that it's been achieved. Now in response to that post, uh Congressman Thomas Massey said, I hope you don't lose your job over this. That's literally what I was about to say. And of course, he's alluding to the fact that Ben Shapiro is a huge cheerleader of the war against Iran, [00:01:12] always has been. um in fact, let's just go to uh D1 just to give you a little taste of the kinds of arguments Shapiro makes. uh His right to go after the Iranian missile facilities, [00:01:31] his right to go after their nuclear facilities, his right to blow up their Navy, his right to take down their Air Force, and Operation Epic Fury. Operation Economic Fury, which is the blockade on Iranian oil, has been similarly good and brave. Now, I didn't agree with the original ceasefire in April. I think we should have continued to strike them and strike their [00:01:47] oil facilities. But here's the thing, you never know the outcome of a war until it's over. You don't know the outcome. So there are a lot of people out there today claiming that America has lost. somehow this is an endless war, which is again a very strange term for a war that lasted a few weeks and then since basically April has been in a state of stasis. By the [00:02:10] way, the US and Iran have been exchanging strikes. Just now I checked to see if there were any updates. Iran is targeting uh US military bases in Kuwait. And there are alarms going off in Bahrain. So Shapiro seems to be getting his way. But the reason why I showed that video [00:02:27] is because obviously there's a huge disagreement here between Shapiro and Walsh. And I don't know if Walsh was shadow boxing Ben Shapiro in that post, but it kind of feels like it. All right, well, interesting. guess Matt Walsh's days are numbered because Ben Shapiro, or we're [00:02:42] going to find out does Ben Shapiro completely run daily wire or does he not? because if he does, he's not going to tolerate anyone being anti-war. He loves war, especially war for Israel. I know to be fair, only war for Israel because if we waste our resources doing war against anyone else, no, no, no, we should reserve those for helping Israel. To be fair, Ben Shapiro [00:03:02] is a huge supporter of us defending Ukraine against Russia. Because Russia is opposed to Israel, and Russia was defending Syria. There's always a connection, but- And Russia was defending Iran. Look at that, after Russia was busy in Ukraine, what did Israel do? They [00:03:18] attacked Syria and Iran. Funny. It did help with the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, which is something Israel really wanted. That's so weird how they seem to have liked that war for two. On the other hand, if you were going to actually build a nuke like North Korea, the Israelis are like, no, no, no, no, no, who cares? The South Koreans and the Japanese, [00:03:36] if they die from those nukes, they're not Israelis, their lives don't count. Don't waste any effort there on the people actually building a nuclear weapon. Let's go after the ones that are not building nuclear weapons, but that are our neighbors and we want to murder and defang. [00:03:52] Okay, anyway, so Matt, I'm surprised that you're not for more murder and mayhem, but that'll cost you. Okay, so let's see how that plays out. But now Shapiro, I like it's almost at a point where I'm tuning him out. I know what he's going to say, you know it before every [00:04:07] clip. I'm more worried, I gotta do what Israel wants. Maybe give a little bit of Shapiro, a little bit of Mark Levin there. so this is on sustainable guys. And I think what Matt Walsh is doing here, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, which I really don't want to [00:04:25] do, but that he actually does mean it. to some degree. No, no, he means it. I mean, he has put out other statements previously, cautioning against the war or criticizing the war. So I do think he actually believes this. I do, but I think that there's a second component [00:04:41] because he believed this for a long time, but hasn't said it until now. I think he gets the sense this is a sinking ship. So he's looking for the exit. And an easy way to get an exit is, hey, maybe if I start saying something against Israel, They'll have to pay me off to have [00:04:57] me leave, right? And then I take that money and I start my own thing and I get his biggest Candace, whatever it is, right? He's not going to make it. So is the, that's fine. I don't, I certainly don't think so, but it's okay. But you see the machinations being played. And so the timing of this is what makes me curious about why he said it now. What's also interesting [00:05:18] is we learned through a recent free press. piece that Shapiro has influence regularly texting with prominent Republican lawmakers and senior Trump administration cabinet members. And as Trump's recent decision to green light his second Iran war shows, the president's [00:05:38] thinking on foreign policy aligns more closely with Shapiro than with many of Shapiro's new enemies on the right. Okay, let me ask this question. Shapiro is now one of the smallest shows in the right wing media ecosystem. Why is the White House taking his call and not [00:05:53] Sean Ryan's call when Sean has a show that's what 10, 20, 40 times larger? I don't know what the exact numbers are, but Sean Ryan's top 10, Tom Croson's top 20, Megyn Kelly on and on. Those people actually talk to his voters, to his base, to the right wing. Shapiro's [00:06:12] got three guys left that he talks to and it's Mark Levin, Laura Loomer and Randy Fine. So- It's not about the relative size of their audience. Ben Shapiro is connected to Israel, so he will get his call answered at the White House every single time. 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