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Ben Shapiro Gets Wrecked on the BBC for Racism Against Palestinians and American Jews

Andrew Neil so thoroughly destroys Ben Shapiro that he has a snowflake meltdown and retreats in the middle of the interview to his own safe space, off-camera. 

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The video plays at the 10:00 minute mark where Neil begins to break down Shapiro on his statements about President Obama, Palestinians, and American Jews.

Let’s set the context – popular conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, known for his aggressive debate style in the public square, visited the BBC to promote his new book.  The interviewer, Andrew Neil, after giving Shapiro a chance to introduce himself to the BBC audience, questioned him about the anger both the left and the right feel towards one another, and Shapiro’s own role in stoking that anger and polar opposition within the Republican party over many years.

The reason for this line of questioning is because Shapiro claims this to be a problem in American discourse and fails to consider his own contribution to the problem, and it is this hypocrisy that Neil confronts him about.  Shapiro attempts to respond, but is promptly crushed by Neil’s responses with Shapiro’s own quotes.  For example, he brings up the following tweet written about Palestinians which Shapiro agrees was wrong but hasn’t taken down:

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Shapiro futilely attempts to respond, but Neil continues to quote Shapiro until he is left with no choice except to throw ad hominems at his interviewer, which were deftly turned back on Shapiro, leaving him to look even more petty for his attempted condescending remarks.  The end result is the man claiming earlier to welcome a spirited debate quickly found himself running away to lick his wounds.

Perhaps the greatest irony in this debate – Shapiro accused Neil of being an opinion journalist of the left-leaning variety, while Neil is a conservative and chairman of The Spectator, whose editorial outlook is conservative.

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4 Comments

4 Comments

  1. Jeff Peterson

    May 11, 2019 at 5:31 PM

    The full 16 minute video gives a better commentary on the context.

    Did you also report that Shapiro owned his failing and expressed his regret in an almost immediate tweet? No, I did not think so, as that would be balanced and against the narrative.

    • Sheila

      May 11, 2019 at 7:06 PM

      Lolol. Nice try! Is this you, Ben????

  2. Sheila

    May 11, 2019 at 7:04 PM

    Lol. He did an awesome job on Shapiro who is used to “owning” the interview with his nasty tongue….but Shapiro didn’t stand a chance against Neil,who was totally prepared and professional.

  3. Basil

    May 20, 2019 at 2:31 AM

    He roasted Little Ben, the Intellectual Dork Web mascot with the Napoleon complex.

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