WHO GIVES A SH*T!? Ben Shapiro EXPLODES on Megyn Kelly Over Her Defense of Tucker Carlson

LEFT: Ben Shapiro RIGHT: Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro exploded after Megyn Kelly offered a soft defense of Tucker Carlson’s advocacy on behalf of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro during an event hosted by Kelly on Thursday night.

Shapiro — who spent the last few years embroiled in a feud with Carlson over, among other things, the former Fox News host’s promotion of anti-Semitic ideas — was explaining his problem with Carlson when Kelly offered the excuse.

“If I see somebody breach basic moral values by having on a Nazi, and in my own view — take your own view — in my own view, gloss the Nazi, then I’m going to speak out about that,” began Shapiro. “I’m gonna point out that there is a long pattern of him ideologically laundering terrible ideas over the course of the last two years, ranging from traveling to Russia to sniff the bread and explain why the Russian regime is actually wonderful, to saying last week the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro is actually not that bad because they’re being attacked by, in his words, ‘globo-homo.'”

Kelly replied: “Tucker’s made the point — I’m not gonna try to be Tucker’s defender — but he’s made the point that Maduro is cultural conservative.”

“Who gives a sh*t!?” fired back Shapiro incredulously. “The guy’s a communist dictator!”

He continued:

I don’t give a sh*t whether he’s anti-LGBTQ rights! This is the number one thing about Nicolás Maduro? You know how far down the list you have to get before you can get to anything remotely recommendable about Nicolás Maduro?

Kelly has raised eyebrows with her defensiveness over Carlson, which she has attributed mostly to her friendship with him.

“I love him [Carlson], we’re friends, I don’t think he’s an anti-Semite at all,” she insisted last month. “I think Tucker’s a very important, valuable voice in the national conversation.”