A podcast has sparked an internet firestorm after calling Erica Kirk “attractive” and Kirk’s late husband a “repentant racist.”
Jennifer Welch, one of the presenters of the program I have had it podcast, also said that the widow should be “marginalized” in the episode that aired on Sunday.
Welch ripped Erica after the CEO of Turning Point USA claimed that women voted for Zahran Mamdani to be mayor of New York City because they want government to become a “replacement” for relationships.
“What I don’t want to happen is that women, young women in the city look to government as a solution,” Kirk said in an interview. The New York Times Last week’s event Postponing having a family or marriage because you rely on the government to support you instead of uniting with a husband.
The outraged host said Kirk’s message was hypocritical, pointing out the difference between a right-wing influencer encouraging women to stay home to raise families while headlining an event in Manhattan.
“You are an opportunistic man who uses your gender to humiliate women,” Welch said. “You are a walking, talking, breathing example of why nobody, number one, wants to be a Christian, and number two, nobody wants to be a hypocrite like you.
“For you to joke around in Manhattan and lecture the women who are abundantly aware of the clothes we’re riding in… so that their voices can be heard.”
Welch also called Charlie Kirk “racist” and “homophobic.”
Her co-host, Angie Sullivan, suggested that there is more to life than “identifying as someone’s wife or mother.”
The pair’s comments caused a storm on social media, with one user describing Welch as one of the “most lovable and hateful people I’ve ever met”.
Another angry comment read: “Both are jealous. The old one overwhelmed the feminists with so much regret.”
One user wrote: “Jealousy is a terrible trait. Jennifer clearly needs some soul searching.”
However, there was an outpouring of support for Welch on social media, with one person saying they “couldn’t agree more”.
Another described them as “telling it like it is.”
Welch and Sullivan launched their podcast in 2022, but first rose to fame as hosts of the Bravo reality show. sweet home oklahoma.
I have had it It is known for its harsh rhetoric, which prompted left-wing political commentator Hasan Paykar to describe it as cutting As “the most radical progressive podcast in North America”.
Welch and Sullivan even interviewed the man at the center of their row with Erica Kirk, Zahran Mamdani, on the show.
Kirk was promoting his late wife’s book on Fox News the day after being accused of being a “cob.” Hannity.
under the title Stop in God’s Name: Why Observing the Sabbath Will Transform Your Lifethe book was finished just a month before the gunman was killed on September 10.
“He didn’t just write this book,” she said. “He lived it.”
The book details the Kirk family’s belief in keeping the Sabbath as a day of rest and even suggests that readers put away their phones and televisions for a day.
Charlie Kirk’s widow claimed you “don’t even have to be religious” to enjoy the book and suggested the landmark US founder became a “next-level husband” after deciding to keep the Sabbath.
Sean Hannity described Charlie Kirk as a “biblical scholar” and claimed that the book advocates “true rest.”
Independent Jennifer Welch and Landmark USA have been contacted for comment.
