Megyn, it’s honestly sad to watch someone who was once a respected and serious journalist let bitterness and emotion override the principles that built her career. Reposting content from Ryan Grim, cofounder of the Soros funded Drop Site News, just because you share a problem with Israel, is a stunning collapse in judgment.
You’ve said nothing about the tens of thousands of Israeli children who have been bombarded by nonstop Hezbollah rockets in the past week…the very reason Israel has had to strike in Lebanon in the first place. But you’re amplifying a platform that pushes the grotesque implication that because someone’s relatives died in war, someone whose brothers were allegedly members of a terror organization that murders American citizens (Hezbollah), committing an antisemitic terror attack in Michigan can somehow be understood or excused.
For the record, multiple people associated with Drop Site News have alleged links to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The outlet has profiled Hamas terrorists, denies rape on Oct 7, and regularly aligns with the same pro-Putin figures who spent years shilling for Assad in Syria. Editorially, Drop Site News is blatantly pro-Islamic Republic, pro-Hamas, and anti-American.
This is what you’re amplifying now, @megynkelly?
I agree with a lot of @MattWalshBlog 's takes and watch every show. But this is one topic where I don't agree. @SpencerGuard makes the case for this strike on Iran so well. I hope @MattWalshBlog sees and responds to this!
Matt, this is not accurate to what the President actually stated are the goals of Operation Epic Fury.
The President did not say the objective was to “bring freedom to the Iranian people.” He was clear: the goals are to end Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, end the expanding ballistic missiles program, stop its development of ICBMs designed to reach Europe and eventually the United States, and neutralize threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategically vital economic choke points.
He also pointed directly to Iran’s record of killing hundreds of Americans through proxies and let alone its attempts to assassinate him, twice. Those are not abstract humanitarian concerns. They are direct threats to American lives and American interests.
Regime change, as the President stated, would be a byproduct if it occurs, not the strategic objective. The objective is threat elimination tied directly to U.S. national interests.
You ask how this benefits Americans.
A nuclear-armed Iran fundamentally alters the strategic balance in the Middle East. It deters U.S. freedom of action. It shields proxy networks that have targeted Americans for decades. It increases the likelihood of nuclear proliferation across the region. It raises the probability of coercion against global energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil supply transits. Economic shock there is not Israel’s problem. It is America’s problem. It hits U.S. consumers, U.S. markets, and U.S. strategic stability.
You cannot simultaneously argue that Iran is harmless and that preventing its nuclear breakout is unnecessary. Nor can you ignore that deterrence works precisely because capability and intent matter before a threat fully matures. Strategic theory is clear on this point. Waiting until an adversary achieves protected nuclear breakout status dramatically increases the cost of preventing catastrophe later.
“America First” does not mean America alone or America isolated. It means U.S. power is used in service of U.S. interests. The Trump administration has repeatedly demonstrated that force can be applied with limited, defined objectives tied to national security rather than open-ended nation building. Peace through strength is not a slogan. It is a deterrence framework rooted in capability, credibility, and clarity of purpose.
You also raise domestic political consequences. Elections matter. But national security decisions cannot be reduced to midterm calculations. If preventing a hostile regime from acquiring nuclear weapons and expanding a ballistic missile arsenal aimed at our allies and potentially our homeland is not worth political risk, then we have redefined leadership in purely partisan terms.
Demanding clarity is not disloyalty. It is responsible citizenship. But the case has been made. It is grounded in preventing nuclear proliferation, degrading missile capability, protecting global economic stability, deterring attacks on Americans, and preserving U.S. strategic freedom of action in a region that still matters to our security and our economy.
If someone does not understand the strategic logic of preventing nuclear breakout, missile expansion, and economic coercion, then the solution is not to assume there is no logic. It is to engage with experts in U.S. foreign policy, strategic theory, and Middle East security who have studied these dynamics for decades.
This is not about abstract freedom promotion. It is about concrete American interests.
And yes, we should pray for our country. But we should also understand the stakes clearly.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Holocaust museums:
1. It doesn't work.
2. It only gives them ideas.
3. Give your money to build Torah instead of "fighting antisemitism".
So much love and respect for Robert Kraft, but it's almost impossible to imagine a more retarded ad than this. First off, let's do the same thing we did last year, to make sure you understand we have no creativity left. Second of all, let's make the call to action posting a #BLM like bullshit square, because that's what serious people do. Third of all, let's make sure the story we tell is of a dweeby Jew getting gallantly rescued by a cool Black dude. If I had ten million dollars to spend on a Super Bowl ad, I'd just show a bunch of exploding beepers, dead Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, hot Israeli girls with guns, and the caption "Fuck Around, Find Out." But hey, why go with Jewish power and pride when quivering victimhood mixed with the worse of social media clicktivism is exactly what some committee of overpaid PR pros and professional Jewish org types thought would work wonders.
Imagine if this money went into funding Jewish day schools where it would have a lasting impact instead of a Super Bowl ad that will fade into irrelevancy within minutes.
.@MegynKelly’s claim that @BenShapiro is “creating antisemites” rests on a straw man. No one is trying to censor criticism of Israel. What is being called out is something else entirely: the deliberate reframing of Jews as a foreign lobby, as “Israel-firsters,” and as a suspect collective whose loyalty is questioned. Ben did not make this about Jews or Israel, he didn’t even mention it. But others did, repeatedly, by dragging Jews into the argument and recasting disagreement as proof of Jewish power influence and disloyalty.
That is how modern Jew hatred operates. Jews are accused of being “Israel firsters” and of inventing/exaggerating Jew hatred to protect power and when Jews object, they are blamed for the hostility directed at them. All are permitted to disagree except the Jew. This is inversion.
Blaming Jews for Jew hatred is one of the oldest tactics in history. It is the early warning sign of a civilization in decline — and you’re jumping on the bandwagon Megyn.
Megyn, I’ve been on your show many times in the past, I welcome open dialogue. We can talk about this as colleagues.
People ask my all the time where I get my ideas and arguments from
I read @jordanbpeterson
I watch @benshapiro
I listen to @DennisPrager
Those three are by far the most effective, wise, intelligent, and impactful thinkers of our time!
This photo says everything.
In 1932, Rabbi Akiva Posner and his wife Rachel placed their menorah in the window of their home in Kiel, Germany, directly across from a Nazi headquarters flying the swastika.
Rachel took this photo and wrote on the back:
"Our light will outlast their flag."
She was right.
The Nazis are gone.
We are still here.
This is what it means to be Jewish. To light in defiance. To never bow.