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Daily Wire CEO explains why he and Ben Shapiro wouldn’t fire Candace Owens despite public disagreement

November 18, 2023 | | Print Article

Firebrand conservative commentator Candace Owens will remain gainfully employed at The Daily Wire, one of the company’s top execs revealed Friday.

In an X post, The Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said that neither he nor editor emeritus Ben Shapiro “would fire” her despite her recent public feud with Shapiro.

“I am currently on a leave of absence from my executive duties @realdailywire while overseas producing #thependragoncycle. In my current capacity, I cannot fire Candace Owens. That’s something Ben and I have in common since he is also not an executive in the company and cannot hire or fire people,” he wrote.

“But even if we could, we would not fire Candace because of another thing we have in common – a desire not to regulate the speech of our hosts, even when we disagree with them. Candace is paid to give her opinion, not mine or Ben’s. Unless those opinions run afoul of the law or she violates the terms of her contract in some way, her job is secure and she is welcome at Daily Wire,” he added.

Look:

The post went mega-viral, attracting oodles of praise from Owens’ supporters, in addition to general fans of The Daily Wire.

“I respect this position though I disagree with Candace,” one X user wrote.

“Exactly how it should be. I don’t agree 100% with Ben or Candace, but I enjoy listening to both of them,” another X user added.

See more responses below:

As previously reported, the beef erupted when Shapiro was caught on camera slamming Owens as “absolutely disgraceful” at a private event where she wasn’t present.

He called her that over his anger at her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas conflict. Whereas Shapiro is staunchly pro-Israel, Owens has chosen to sidle the middle, and in doing so, she’s greatly angered Jewish Americans like Shapiro.

In response, Owens posted the following tweets, angering Shapiro further:

Responding to her tweet, Shapiro posted his own tweet effectively encouraging her to quit.

“Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit,” he tweeted.

Look:

For Owens, that was a step too far.

“You have been acting unprofessional and emotionally unhinged for weeks now. And we have all had to sit back and allow it and have all tried to exercise exceeding understanding for your raw emotion. But you cross a certain line when you come for scripture and read yourself into it. I will not tolerate it,” she replied in a tweet.

She later appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show, where she expounded further on how she feels about everything that has happened.

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