A Fun Weekend Watch
Ben Shapiro, right wing talker and all round smartass, got owned yesterday by BBC host Andrew Neil, who dared to ask Shapiro about his hypocrisy. The interview was supposed to be an opportunity for Shapiro to plug his new volume of manure titled The Right Side of History, and ironically subtitled How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great. His entire premise is hilarious, because exactly zero of his assertions are neither reasoned of moral.
At 16 minutes it’s a long watch, but very entertaining. If you want to get to the really good stuff, fast forward to about minute 11. After Shapiro abruptly ended the interview, Neil got in one last shot saying, “…and thank you for showing that anger is not a part of American political discourse.” LOL.
That was entertaining. I’m in love with Andrew Neil and I want to have his children. On the other hand Shapiro is a petulant child.
1Priceless! Shapiro completely reveals himself as simply another RW pseudo-intellectual shill. Love the Brits, and love BBC.
2Since the Internet never forgets, the rightwing’s only recourse is either what Shapiro did or what Trump does, deny he said what everybody can hear he said.
I’d say Neil’s characterization as a new dark age is about right.
3Is there a transcript anywhere? Shapiro sounds like a weasel on helium.
4And Andrew Neil, Murdoch’s boy, a leftie? Get a clue, Ben.
Just another book that will quickly end up on the sale table, then the incinerator.
5“Ben Shapiro, right wing talker and all round smartass,”
you misspelled “dumbass”.
6The thing is, Andrew Neil isn’t a liberal, or Liberal: his magazine, the Spectator, is regarded as conservative. I know who he is: but I listen to the Beeb frequently.What we see here is Shapiro’s amazing arrogance and simple failure to do a bit of research, or watch a Neil interview. Unlike US journalists, cowed into not asking hard questions (especially of right wingers), The Brits expect the interviewed to answer for their own expressed views, and past inflammatory statements..
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