Month: August 2026

I must say, though so much else is falling apart around us, the particular falling apart of right-wing media of late has been kind of pleasing to watch. Most recently we’ve had the quite peculiar spectacle of Alex Jones challenging Tim Pool to a boxing match, and we’ve also had Ben Shapiro turning on Tucker Carlson, and the whole bullshit with Candace Owens has been unto itself for a while now. It’s been great watching these shitheads carry on almost like leftists.

But Benji Bear versus Malsh Walsh is an interesting new wrinkle, cos the latter is still part of the former’s Daily Wire setup; this isn’t rival organisations going at each other, this is some internecine shit. Per the video by Rashad Crenshaw, Malsh went on the socials raving about postpartum depression not being a thing and Shapiro hit back on his own show basically saying “actually it IS a thing and fuck anyone who says otherwise”. And, you know, this is kind of inherently funny coming from Ben after the “wet-ass p-word” debacle, from a man who apparently believes that a woman getting wet Down There is actually a bad thing, but at the same time this is, frankly, Ben Shapiro acknowledging women do suffer from something Malsh Walsh refuses to believe in because Wammen, Am I Right?, and let’s acknowledge that’s good.

Walsh, of course, is possibly the most revolting specimen to still be publishing under Shapiro’s banner, and one of the most hate-filled on the right in general; there’s another… interesting video here by Youtuber Mickey Atkins in which she covers Malsh going after her specifically while looking at a broader rant about people going “no contact” with their parents, because, obviously, how DARE people set boundaries and so forth, and the mental health industry hasn’t developed anything new in over a century except make families break up, and HEY I’m Malsh Walsh and not a licensed professional but I don’t really believe most so-called “abuse” actually is that, and you might be pissy at your folks when you were a child and yeah they had flaws but as an adult you should realise how good they were, not cut them off, etc. The latter point was particularly striking; it felt like a pre-emptive threat to his own numerous children to forgive his own failures as a parent, which I suspect are many and varied, saying “I might be a misogynistic racist cunt but you WILL love me, and I will send you to HELL before I ever send you to therapy, which I could do with even more than you probably will”…

Whither Walsh, therefore? Cos I can’t see him taking this reproach from Shapiro lightly… someone reckons in the comments he’ll go full Nick Fuentes, but Crenshaw in the video says Matty actually can’t afford to go independent cos those numerous children I mentioned aren’t going to feed themselves just yet. I feel, though, like the relationship is tenuous enough that he’s going to go too far right even for Shapiro… Walsh is already an overt racist about black people but a carefully quiet antisemite, and I suspect that sooner rather than later he’ll come out as a loud and explicit one. I can even imagine how it’ll happen: Walsh will add to his filmography with a new “documentary” called Am I Jewish?, and Shapiro will be down with it cos he has, you know, form in answering that question negatively about Jews he dislikes, but then at the end of the film Walsh will declare him the “wrong” sort of Jew for some reason and Ben will be all “FFFFFUUUUUUU GOY BASTARD” and that’ll be that…