Megyn Kelly: “Coward” Ben Shapiro Wants To Both Parent Me And Be My Child, Tell Me Who I Have To Say What To
Megyn Kelly sits down with Jack Posobiec at Turning Point’s AmFest 2025 conference to discuss what’s really behind the right on the right, the truth about the Candace-Erika summit, what’s next for the conservative movement and Turning Point, and honoring Charlie Kirk’s legacy.
MEGYN KELLY: I found it kind of funny that Ben thinks he has the power to decide who gets excommunicated from the conservative movement, which shows a willful blindness about his position in it. It reminded me of when a little girl who was the head of our middle school chorus told me she was going to take all my friends away from me. Chorus? Head cheerleader, maybe? But eh. But so I resent the whole thing. I object to the whole thing. He had the nerve to call me a friend right before he called me a despicable coward for not calling out the people he wants called out. So he both wants to parent me and be my child. He wants to tell me what I have to do and who I have to say what to, and then when I don’t, he and some of his friends want to act like other victims, because I won’t do what they say, they need me, I have to be their daddy and step in to protect them, and I am not their daddy. And I resent that he thinks he’s in a position to decide who must say what to whom and when. So I don’t think we are friends anymore. I’ve been a very good friend to Ben. Nobody knew who the heck Ben Shapiro was when I started putting him on my shows on the FOX News Channel, and I helped make him a star. And I’ve been very, very good to Ben over the years, and he’s been good to me too. He just recently came on my tour and to you [Jack Posobiec], and I gave him the most kind introduction I could possibly give him, because I know that he’s losing subscribers – a lot. And so I tried to do something nice for him by giving him a long ten minute intro and personally vouching for him. And we mixed it up on Israel, out on stage. It wasn’t Israel because we’re on the same place on Israel, we mixed it up over whether Tucker Carlson should be excommunicated from the conservative movement, which I do not believe. And when it was over, we hugged, said goodbye, and then we had a nice text exchange a couple days later, saying our friendship was important to us, and the next thing I saw was him attacking me on stage last night as a coward. So that’s not friendship, and I think that’s fine with me – with friends like that.
