Crowd goes wild.
It’s a direct callback to the nuclear meltdown of their March 2024 feud, the one where Owens went full conspiracy mode on Israel, “Jewish influence,” and Kanye-level rhetoric, got the boot from The Daily Wire, and spent the next two years painting Shapiro as the villain who ruined her life.
Candace has been radio silent so far. But her army is already mobilizing on X, calling it “pathetic,” “cringe,” and “proof Ben can’t move on.”
The conservative infighting has been ugly for years, Kirk’s assassination last fall only made the trenches deeper. But this is Shapiro reminding everyone why he’s still the king of the quick-draw comeback.
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If you’re into zero-chill conservative comedy after 10 p.m., you’re gonna want to watch this one on repeat.The war rages on. Pass the popcorn.
P.S. Shapiro is not the only one who was openly mocked Candace for her many embarassing mispronunciations. Another satirist who did it masterfully is L.E. Staiman. Also known as Lyle Culpepper (the king of savage Candace edits), Staiman dropped a 30-second masterclass in pronunciation torture. He took her real clips, the legendary “compromentalize,” “architexture,” “illegitimate” (she says “de-legitimatize”), and a few more, and “taught” her like a patient kindergarten teacher. The sarcasm was nuclear. It’s the video that basically invented the modern Candace mispronunciation meme.
In fact, this is the clip Ben Shapiro was directly nodding to in his Ben After Dark roast. Lyle’s been milking this vein for months, and this particular upload from late January 2026 went mega-viral (hundreds of thousands of views, still getting stitched daily).
