Mary Margaret Olihan

These false claims, Shapiro said, must be called out by conservatives.

Shapiro also outlined obligations that conservatives owe their audiences.

Notably, Owens was not invited to the event.

But Shapiro's reference to the people speaking at AmFest did cause a stir, to say the least.

He specifically named Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and also slammed Steve Bannon.

All three of them did go on to speak and unsurprisingly criticized Shapiro, claiming he was calling for censorship and deplatforming.

Though Kelly did say that she wants Owens to move on from Turning Point and Erica Kirk.

Now, while there was some drama, there was also a lot of unity at the event.

And it seems right to give Erica Kirk the last word on this here.

She remarked on some of the contentious moments when she took the stage on Friday after Megyn Kelly and Jack Posobiec discussed Shapiro's speech.

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Because of rules like this, we can see individuals that are going to be forced to skip meals.

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So the turkey pardoning will be happening tomorrow.

And, you know, this has always been a little a quirky little tradition.

I think we're used to it at this point.

But it is kind of funny that the president of the United States will be choosing from several turkeys, which one's going to die and which one won't.

Something I didn't really realize before I started this beat is that there's a little more that the first lady does that goes into this.

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