Steven Crowder vs the Daily Wire?

If you haven’t payed close attention to social media in the last few days, you may have missed the fact that a major war of words has broken out between the conservative news website Daily Wire, and comedian Steven Crowder.

Steven Crowder has been on the search for a new home for his show Louder with Crowder after leaving the Blaze.

Apparently the Daily Wire was in talks to buy Crowder’s show, but the negotiations fell apart.

Now an odd feud has broken out among the key members of the Daily Wire and Crowder.

The responses from some of the Daily Wire members have been somewhat targeted and aggressive to say the least…

Here’s what happened, as best as we can tell:

Following contract negotiations with the Daily Wire, Crowder released a video claiming that ‘Big Con’ was in bed with ‘Big Tech.’

Crowder did not call out the Daily Wire directly.

However, the Daily Wire’s Jeremy Boreing put out an immediate response in the form of an hour long video, outing the Daily Wire as the company in question.

Boreing gave details of the contract offered to Steven Crowder.

Here is Crowder’s initial video, which did not name the Daily Wire directly:

Big Con is in bed with Big Tech… pic.twitter.com/nH7AitP5Oe

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) January 17, 2023

Here was Jeremy Boreing’s response, which went into detail about the contract offer:

Ben Shapiro, a long-time friend of Crowder, claimed that Steven simply doesn’t understand how contracts work:

Ben Shapiro reacts to Steven Crowder's accusations against The Daily Wire: "There is something rather nasty about attacking people who have been friends for over a decade" pic.twitter.com/SX95JNsBan

— Jason S. Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) January 19, 2023

Candace Owens resorted to ‘name-calling’ against Crowder, which some say was an ugly look for her:

.@RealCandaceO on Steven Crowder: "Unrelatable. People are trying to pay for bacon and eggs right now at the grocery store…and you're over here crying because somebody couldn't meet you at $120 million…It was a total bitch move." pic.twitter.com/7LeKQieER8

— Candace Owens Podcast (@CandaceOwensPod) January 19, 2023

Wow, this is such a self-own.

I was all for saying "both have good points" but in Crowder's defence he made a point of saying this isn't about money, and even went as far as to say the money offered was great.

This was about right & wrong.

The Daily Wire has lost perspective. https://t.co/WIFQsfAHTc

— Joe aka "The Uber Geek" (@The_Uber_Geek) January 20, 2023

As for Crowder, he provided a response to the Daily Wire of his own on Twitter:

Watch my full response to the Daily Wire here: https://t.co/yfu7uvVpd7

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) January 19, 2023

Wow, this has gotten ugly.

Others close to the situation have given their takes on just what happened here:

On the Crowder thing…

I’ve negotiated with everyone you can think of in the space. Even in last few months with Blaze and DW. Sometimes you get there sometimes not. But can truly say I’ve never had bad interaction with anyone at either company. Independence was key for me…

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 20, 2023

At this point I admit I have no idea what’s going with this DW/Crowder issue

It’s just getting weirder by the day

I’m going to take the safe bet & blame Obama for all of this

It hasn’t been the same since 2008

— E (@ElijahSchaffer) January 20, 2023

It sounds like the terms of Crowder’s proposed contract are what he felt would have enslaved him. Not the $50M price tag offered on his brand

Some of us would do unspeakable things for $50M. Steven Crowder is just not one of those people

This is an act of integrity, not conceit

— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) January 19, 2023

Look, I’m not into infighting but after watching responses from both DW and @scrowder I think Crowder is in the right. Bottom line: DW should be making no contracts that will help big tech punish conservatives, especially kids getting their start and hungry to get their name out.

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) January 20, 2023

https://twitter.com/TheQuartering/status/1615952842681974786?s=20&t=JvgzlQxePmcTeFtuA-Va7A

https://twitter.com/DaleStarkA10/status/1616469431122800645?s=20&t=cl8KdOASYOOfP3l4HUGQKQ

https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1616238260778373121?s=20&t=cl8KdOASYOOfP3l4HUGQKQ

The money was contingent on not disobeying Big Tech, Crowder knew he was gonna get kicked off it was just a matter of time so more money would allow his staff to stay on even during the periods they were being demonetized, is my take.

— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) January 20, 2023

Why @scrowder is right – why penalize for big tech strikes when youre building a membership business

Why DW is right – Crowder is owed nothing from DW and people can choose to join or not, no one is owed DW resources

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— Tim Pool (@Timcast) January 20, 2023

All this Crowder/DW drama is just proving that the conservative media sphere is just as toxic as the liberal media sphere.

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) January 20, 2023