‘Do you know how far down the list you have to get before you can get to anything remotely recommendable about Nicolas Maduro?’
“Who gives a shit!” That was Ben Shapiro’s response to Tucker Carlson’s argument that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has some great qualities, like his opposition to gay marriage.
“Who gives a shit!” Shapiro said. “The guy’s a communist dictator. Everyone in his country is eating dog. He’s shipping fentanyl to the United States to kill Americans. I don’t give a shit whether he’s anti-LGBTQ rights. This is the number one thing about Nicolas Maduro? Do you know how far down the list you have to get before you can get to anything remotely recommendable about Nicolas Maduro?”
Shapiro, appearing with Megyn Kelly for a live taping of The Megyn Kelly Show in Jacksonville, Fla., was responding to Kelly’s summary of Carlson’s argument: “Tucker has made the point—I’m not going to be here to be Tucker’s defender—but he’s made the point that Maduro is culturally conservative,” she said.
“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 that the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro is actually not that bad because they’re being attacked by, in his words, ‘Globohomo,'” Shapiro said.
Carlson discussed Maduro in an Oct. 29 episode of his podcast, asking, “Why are we so opposed to Nicolas Maduro?” He conceded that “Maduro and his government are very left-wing on economics” but lauded the communist’s social policies.
“Gay marriage is banned, abortion is banned, sex changes for transgenderism is banned, it’s one of the very few countries in the entire hemisphere with those policies,” he said. “And by the way, the U.S.-backed opposition leader who would take Maduro’s place if he were taken out is of course pretty eager to get gay marriage in Venezeula. So for those of you who thought this whole project was ‘Globohomo,’ not crazy, actually.”
Carlson did not identify President Donald Trump, who has pinpointed Maduro as the “narco-terrorist” leader of the Venezuelan drug-trafficking organization Cartel of the Suns and ordered strikes on its drug boats, as the leader of that “project.” Instead, he said the “prospect of regime changing Maduro is like Viagra to Lindsey Graham,” the GOP senator from South Carolina.
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