I've been thinking a lot about cupcakes recently. Specifically, my brain has been crawling with memories of that time the Daily Show team reportedly sent cupcakes to recently ousted Blaze personality Tomi Lahren. According to Lahren's 'gram announcing the sugary gift, the cupcakes came straight from Daily Show host Trevor Noah. That claim, however, was later refuted by TMZ, who clarified the cupcakes were actually sent by Daily Show "peeps," not Noah specifically. At any rate, what was the deal with those fucking cupcakes? Were they delicious? Did they taste like snowflakes? No clue, but they've since become a symbol for the rampant normalization—often by those on the liberal side of the debate—of people who engage in preposterous trolling like calling Black Lives Matter activists "the new KKK."
But let's not throw cupcakes—arguably the best part of an unbalanced breakfast—completely under the bus. Lahren's apparent fall from conservative grace actually has much more to it than just an unfortunate delivery of miniature baked desserts topped with icing.
Blazed by Conservatives After Going Full Pro-Choice on 'The View'
Lahren took a lot of conservative heat for telling The View earlier this month that she supported women's right to choose. Though that stance seems like the only logical choice here on the liberal side of this thing called life, Lahren's comments were not exactly embraced by her core demographic. Glenn Beck, TheBlaze founder and creative Cheetos dust user, allegedly responded to Lahren's viral View appearance by initiating what Page Six described as a permanent ban from the network. However, as a quick Googling shows, Lahren's pro-choice comments weren't revealed during that View interview. Instead, Lahren was simply expanding upon something we already knew about her.
Fueled by Contradictions and Controversy
A New York Timesarticle from December, for example, said Lahren was "pro-choice and does not object to gay marriage." The Times piece also mentioned Lahren's fondness for Kendrick Lamar and Pusha T, two artists we can assume are not fans of TheBlaze. In the same piece, Charlamagne Tha God—who had a controversial Lahren moment of his own last year—called her "misinformed," but urged those who disagree with her to keep establishing lines of communication.
Lowkey Liberal Past Exposed Even Further in Vintage Footage
After some vintage Lahren tweets started making the rounds at the top of 2017, Twitter user Matt Gehring decided to throw it all the way back to her UNLV days as a Glenn Beck-unfriendly personality on UNLV-TV's Scramble program. In a personal favorite, here's Lahren talking about how climate change is indeed a very real thing:
But back to those cupcakes, which I'm now going to assume tasted like absolute shit. The cupcakes were delivered after Lahren faced off against Noah on a particularly perplexing episode of The Daily Show last November. Noah was bashed for giving Lahren a platform, then bashed even harder for those goddamn cupcakes. The worst part? We watched:
​Revisiting this interview months later, a better theory emerges: Maybe everyone on TV is exchanging and eating cupcakes because it's all a fucking game anyway.
Glenn Beck and 'Blaze' Dispute Reports Lahren Was Fired for Pro-Choice Views
In a countersuit against Lahren in the wake of her accusation of "wrongful termination" in April, Beck and the Blaze filed a countersuit alleging that the suspension of her program was also due to "divisive employment conduct," Varietyreported. The countersuit alleged that Lahren's on-air "word choices" bordered on the profane and that her treatment of the show's crew was "inappropriate and unprofessional."
Lahren responded to news of the countersuit with a reference to Wale's Lahren-dissing "Smile" track:
Wale then shared his thoughts:
