I saw that this was happening earlier this evening and questioned whether I wanted to write about it here. Do I really want to give oxygen to a guy like Nick Fuentes who has demonstrated that he’s a racist and an anti-Semite? Well, it turns out I needn’t have worried because 25 minutes into what was supposed to be a 2-hour conversation, Kanye bailed and Milo and Fuentes followed. As Tim Pool said later, “It was all hype and then all nothing.”
Kanye pulled the plug the instant he was challenged on some of his claims that Jewish people, collectively, were the source of his troubles. My old boss at Breitbart, Joel Pollak, already has a story up about it titled: “WATCH: Kanye Canceled — by Kanye; Walks Out of Tim Pool Interview When Asked to Defend His Antisemitism.”
Pool allowed West to express his views, largely uninterrupted, for the first fifteen minutes of the broadcast…
West claimed that it was “beautiful” that people could see how Jews — whom he referred to as “Zionists” at one stage — cancel people…
Pool expressed empathy for West’s experience of being canceled: “I think they’ve been extremely unfair to you.”
“Who is ‘they’, though?” West replied. “We can’t say who ‘they’ is, can we?”
“Corporate press,” Pool replied.
Fuentes interjected: “It is ‘them,’ though, isn’t it?”
Pool replied: “No, it’s not.”
And that was it. At the very first sign of resistance Kanye got up and left. Here’s a video clip of the final exchange.
Ye got up and left the @Timcast studio less than 10 minutes into the show when Tim pushed back on the claims he made that Jewish people control the world and are responsible for harming him. pic.twitter.com/NItWMHFHSi
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 29, 2022
Moments after Ye left, Milo said he needed to check on him and also left. Fuentes who had been trying to argue the point left as well. Tim Pool and his co-hosts then spent the next hour talking about what happened.
So maybe this turns out to be a very good example of why you should allow people with extreme views to talk. Certainly in this case they didn’t come out of it looking too good. Indeed it’s hard to imagine what they thought was going to happen. The dinner with Trump is big news specifically because Fuentes was there. This was obviously going to be discussed. Did Kanye think no one was going to push back on bringing a holocaust denier to the dinner?
“I can’t say I’m surprised,” Pool said. He continued, “What do I even do? Other than ask him, please elaborate on this. Are you referring to individuals or are you quite literally blaming an entire group of people for that fact that powerful individuals are causing you harm?”
Later Pool added, “If Kanye is going to say these things and them immediately start getting involved with Fuentes, that only amplifies the accusations made against them. But I guess if they genuinely believe these things, that’s who they are.”
That’s clearly who Nick Fuentes is and based on tonight it seems like Kanye holds some of the same views. Here’s the full video which runs for about 2 hours.
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