{"id":23249,"date":"2026-04-16T01:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/ben-shapiro-lays-into-the-low-iq-podcast-class\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:44:35","slug":"ben-shapiro-lays-into-the-low-iq-podcast-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/ben-shapiro-lays-into-the-low-iq-podcast-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Lays Into The \u2018Low IQ\u2019 Podcast Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Ben Shapiro laid into the \u201clow IQ grievance ideology\u201d of Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly on Tuesday night, urging a packed crowd of college students to reject the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">conspiracy theories, doomsday predictions, and anti-Trump rage being pushed by the podcasters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">During a speech at the University of Pennsylvania, the Daily Wire founder said that the three are pushing \u201ca grievance-based view of the world in which they and those like them are perennial victims of the American system.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Shapiro\u2019s speech came just a few days after President Donald Trump <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-goes-nuclear-on-tucker-megyn-and-candace?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Goes+Nuclear+On+Tucker%2C+Megyn%2C+And+Candace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">ripped<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> Carlson, Owens, and Kelly, saying they all have \u201cLow IQs.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cThey\u2019re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Shapiro expanded on the president\u2019s observation and argued that the group of anti-Trump podcasters has bought into \u201cconspiratorial grievance politics,\u201d which he compared to a \u201czombie infection.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cThe attraction of low IQ ideology is envy,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cA belief that lack of success is somehow a reflection not of bad decision-making or the hardship of life, but of a cruel system, designed by a nefarious cadre of evildoers. Envy. As Adam Smith put it, envy is \u2018that passion which views with malignant dislike the superiority of those who are really entitled to all the superiority they possess.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2Q54Jt70-Xo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Case for High IQ Conservatism | Ben Shapiro at the University of Pennsylvania\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Q54Jt70-Xo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Some of these beliefs have recently been demonstrated by Carlson, Owens, and Kelly, Shapiro said, giving multiple examples of how they have pushed conspiratorial grievance politics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cYou are indeed rolling in low IQ horesh*t if you believe, as Tucker Carlson does, that the president is a \u2018slave\u2019 to Israel, or that Alex Jones is a \u2018prophet,\u2019 or that the chief opposition to Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was \u2018globohomo,\u2019 or that Russia is wonderfully run, or that Sharia Law produces wonderfully clean and robust civilizations, or that Winston Churchill was the villain of World War II, or that Nick Fuentes is less evil than Ted Cruz.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Shapiro then called out the \u201clow IQ slop\u201d and \u201cconspiratorial trash\u201d pushed by Owens, who has suggested that Erika Kirk and Turning Point USA, along with the Israeli government, were involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Shapiro also blasted Owens for saying that Charlie Kirk appeared to her in a dream and for latching onto the conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron \u201chas testicles.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cAnd worst of all, you are preying on low-IQ people when you cynically humor all of the foregoing for clicks and cash, as Megyn Kelly does,\u201d Shapiro continued. \u201cNobody is upset with Megyn Kelly\u2019s facile, trite, hackneyed takes on Middle Eastern politics. People are upset with her absolute cowardice and annoyed by the fact that, as a 55-year-old person, she cosplays courage like a clout-chasing 16-year-old girl.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Shapiro said the \u201clow IQ grievance ideology\u201d pushed by Carlson, Owens, and Kelly opposes the basic principles of what Shapiro called \u201chigh IQ conservatism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cHigh IQ conservatism rests on four foundations: free minds, free markets, public virtue, and a properly constructed government designed to protect these first three values,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To Make America Great Again, we need high IQ Conservatives. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@benshapiro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YZ56hkT1ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/YZ56hkT1ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YAF (@yaf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yaf\/status\/2044558892617597251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cBut low IQ grievance ideology rejects the fundamental basis of these central principles,\u201d Shapiro added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">He broke down how \u201clow IQ grievance ideology\u201d attempts to tear down free minds by arguing \u201cthat we are all victims of a sort of Marxist false consciousness, implanted in us by nefarious outside forces.\u201d The ideology also attacks free markets \u201cin true Marxist style.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cLow IQ grievance ideology also argues that public virtue is a sham. The church your parents sent you to as a child? It\u2019s probably fundamentally broken. Either it\u2019s cucked, or it\u2019s intolerant,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The ideology says \u201cthe people we really need to emulate are true heroes like alleged rapist Andrew Tate and role models like Clavicular,\u201d Shapiro added. \u201cOr people spouting new forms of Christianity that are actually old forms of non-Christianity that revive the Marcion heresy and revel in attributing literally everything to demons, from aliens to underwater sea creatures to strange nighttime dog scratches.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The line for Shapiro\u2019s speech at UPenn, his first college speech this year, stretched around the block.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Students are lining up around the block to see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@benshapiro<\/a> speak tonight at the University of Pennsylvania! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qTakAnsrNt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/qTakAnsrNt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YAF (@yaf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yaf\/status\/2044185131716325859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ben-shapiro-lays-into-the-low-iq-podcast-class\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shapiro laid into the \u201clow IQ grievance ideology\u201d of Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly on Tuesday night, urging a packed crowd of college students to reject the conspiracy theories, doomsday predictions, and anti-Trump rage being pushed by the podcasters. During a speech at the University of Pennsylvania, the Daily Wire founder said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}