Megyn Kelly drew plenty of criticism after she told Tucker Carlson that she found Nick Fuentes to be “very interesting” and “very smart.” Dana Loesch joined the chorus during her show on Thursday.
On The Dana Show, Loesch criticized Kelly and Carlson — who she said she was “friendly” with — for failing to talk about the largest topics of the day, but rather instead spent large portions of their podcast interview talking about themselves and the criticisms they’ve received in recent weeks.
Loesch’s largest sticking point came from comments made by Megyn Kelly, who spoke highly of Nick Fuentes and also defended her relationship with Candace Owens. Kelly argued it isn’t her job to “police” what Owens says, and that she wouldn’t distance herself from the fellow podcaster over comments she’s made in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Dana Loesch said there’s a fallacy to Kelly’s arguments.
“Criticizing someone like Owens or Fuentes, apparently that’s not allowed to happen, because that’s the gatekeeping that’s happening,” Loesch said. “You’re being told that you’re not allowed to criticize the backwoods, single-cell, almost incestual product of thinking that is demonstrated by Owens and Fuentes on their podcast. You’re not allowed to criticize that. And if you criticize the people that platform it or that air it, and then don’t even do their due diligence of asking tough questions about it, you’re accused of trying to cancel that individual or control their speech.”
Dana Loesch added that it’s clear, from her perspective, that Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson are afraid to diminish the audiences they’ve built by saying things that might be unpopular.
“That is being afraid that you’re going to lose clicks from that audience,” Loesch said. “You’re being a digital prostitute, and you’re too afraid of losing that digital share, that slice of the pie for audience … I find it to be an obscenely intellectual dodge to complain that somehow asking for consistency is the same thing as trying to cancel someone. People need to stop flattering themselves. No one is calling to cancel anyone. They’re simply remarking — accurately — on the inconsistency and not asking hard questions of everybody.”
“I don’t have to depend on anybody,” Loesch later continued. “I don’t have to depend on Qatari investors. And I don’t have to depend on business partners or anybody else in order to make my bottom line. I would never debase myself by trying to pander to the audience of a Nazi twink in order to make my daily bread. So I don’t have to play those reindeer games, so to speak … People should know better, speaking as friends.”
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