shapiro's voice grates on my last nerve;

The controversy on the political right over Israeli and Zionist influence in Republican politics came into full view at Turning Point USA’s AmFest in Phoenix this past weekend, with acute demands for “deplatforming” critics of Israel from Ben Shapiro and sharp rebuttals from Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Steve Bannon and Vice President J.D. Vance.

Tensions began when Shapiro gave his keynote address last Thursday evening where he attacked Candace Owens for “casting aspersions at TPUSA “ in a “vicious” way, charged his “friend” Megyn Kelly with “cowardice” for not condemning her, and then went on to assail Tucker Carlson for interviewing Nicholas Fuentes, who is often referred to as a “white nationalist and antisemite,” Andrew Tate, and Daryl Cooper.

Megyn Kelly: ‘We’re not the policemen of the conservative movement’

In addition to Owens providing her own response on her popular podcast, Megyn Kelly replied during a “fireside chat” the next day with Jack Posobiec, who happened to hold a Holy Rosary during the interview.

Though describing herself as “pro-Israel,” she recalled how she and Charlie Kirk felt pressured to “not allow the doubters their say, to try to censor them or disagree with them publicly or call them out. And neither Charlie nor I felt like that was what we wanted to do at all, nor was it our job. We’re not the policemen of the conservative movement. I’m not, he wasn’t. Ben Shapiro isn’t either.”..........more.......