This image was removed due to legal reasons. Ben Shapiro, the right-wing “thinker,” baby Hitler-defender, and former toothbrush startup-endorser, rose to fame thanks to his combative, shrill interview style that promised TOTAL DESTRUCTION of any liberal talking point or talking head he encountered. Unfortunately, as the old saying goes, if you live by the SICK BURN you die by the SICK BURN, and today the wheel of online ownage turned for Ben. Advertisement Consider this interview today with BBC presenter Andrew Neil, purportedly about Shapiro’s new book. Neil and Shapiro started to clash when Neil read Shapiro some of his tweets and challenged him on some of the things that he has done and said. Shapiro started out relatively irate, which looked particularly silly in contrast to Neil’s dispassionate, vaguely bemused line of questioning. Shapiro’s general argumentative style is to talk louder and faster than anyone he’s speaking to, which didn’t really work when Neil refused to play on his level. The whole thing fell apart when Shapiro tried to nail down Neil for his “bias” during a pointed discussion over the concept of a six-week abortion ban. Shapiro didn’t have a lot to concretely defend his views, and really didn’t like the line of questioning (i.e... actual questions) that Neil was asking, so he tried to pivot to accusing Neil of being “on the left.” Neil, for reference, was editor of Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times and currently is the chairman of the very conservative British magazine The Spectator. While he’s obviously an incisive, challenging interviewer, calling him “on the left” is, as Neil pointed out, insanely dumb. The full interview, which was 16 minutes long, led to Shapiro getting more and more flustered, particularly when Neil started reading out all the heinous shit Shapiro has tweeted before, building to this incredible finish: Advertisement As Shapiro huffed and puffed and took off his microphone, Neil, for lack of a better word, DESTROYED him one more time. “Thank you for your time, and for showing that anger is not part of American political discourse. Now Mr. Shapiro, we’ll say goodbye.” Watch the full interview below.<doc-sep>Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro conceded he was “DESTROYED” after walking out of an ill-tempered interview with BBC interrogator-in-chief Andrew Neil. Shapiro, a popular YouTube pundit perhaps best known for fan video compilations in which he is purported to “DESTROY” various left-wingers with “FACTS and LOGIC”, clashed with the British journalist in an interview on the Politics Live programme. Neil challenged Shapiro on a variety of issues, including his former #NeverTrump stance on the U.S. President, support for new “heartbeat” anti-abortion legislation in Georgia, and comments alleging “Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage” in Palestine — eventually triggering Shapiro into telling Neil, “I’m popular and no-one has ever heard of you”. “I don’t give a damn what you think of me since I’ve never heard of you,” he repeated to the 69-year-old shortly afterwards, before terminating the interview as a “waste of time”. The pair also touched upon Mr Shapiro’s former employment by Breitbart, which Shapiro claims to have left in protest over Breitbart’s mischaracterized handling of an incident involving a Breitbart reporter and a member of the Trump campaign. Mr Shapiro did not, however, mention that prior to his resignation from Breitbart, he had already staked a “Never Trump” position and started a competing website with undisclosed backing from Never Trumpers Dan and Farris Wilks. Here's @afneil interviewing @benshapiro on #politicslive– this is the full, unedited version. It is not Fox News or an unmediated YouTube video but a tough interrogation. https://t.co/9hn6MtdSJx — Rob Burley (@RobBurl) May 10, 2019 Neil and Shapiro had a particularly testy exchange on the subject of abortion, with Neil forced to explain that “My job is to question those who have strong views and put an alternative to them; if you were [a pro-abortion] person I would be putting [anti-abortion] questions to you” after playing Devil’s Advocate with respect to whether or not the aforementioned Georgian legislation represented a return to “the dark ages”. “Why don’t you just say that you’re on the left? Is this so hard for you? Can’t you just be honest?” Shapiro demanded. “Mr Shapiro, if you only knew how ridiculous that statement is, you wouldn’t have said it,” Neil responded. British broadcasting rules differ from American broadcasting rules in that a greater degree of “balance” is required, with the publicly-funded BBC, in particular, being subject to impartiality requirements by its charter. It is true that the corporation is generally regarded as having a left-liberal bias, with panels often appearing to be stacked against Brexit supporters, for example, and anchors seemingly more willing to interrupt Brexit-supporting or right-leaning guests, and sometimes appearing to inject their own beliefs into the discourse. Andrew Neil, however, is something of a rarity in that he has a firm background in right-wing journalism — and is often accused of right-wing bias by the British left — having been a champion of free market ideology during his early newspaper career, and serving as chairman of the conservative Spectator magazine today. . @afneil DESTROYS Ben Shapiro! So that's what that feels like ;) Broke my own rule, and wasn't properly prepared. I've addressed every single issue he raised before; see below. Still, it's Neil 1, Shapiro 0. https://t.co/UAtAUtIWtO — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 10, 2019 Shapiro appeared to realise he has misjudged his interlocutor shortly after terminating their discussion, tweeting: “Just pre-taped an interview with BBC’s [Andrew Neil]. As I’m not familiar with him or his work, I misinterpreted his antagonism as political Leftism (he termed the pro-life position in America “barbaric”) – and that was apparently inaccurate. For that, I apologize.” He appeared to further concede that he had been on the losing end of the exchange overall in a subsequent social media post, tweeting: “[Andrew Neil] DESTROYS Ben Shapiro! So that’s what that feels like ;) Broke my own rule, and wasn’t properly prepared. I’ve addressed every single issue he raised before; see below. Still, it’s Neil 1, Shapiro 0.” Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter: @JackBMontgomery<doc-sep>New York Times bestseller Ben Shapiro lasted 16 tense minutes with the BBC’s Andrew Neil on Friday before calling it a day. Worries over a Republican-led “Dark Ages,” Mr. Shapiro’s alleged role in “coarsening” American discourse, and “anger” stoked by social-media stars were on the docket Friday for “Politics Live.” The issue for Mr. Shapiro, however, seemed to be the BBC host’s insistence that his behavior was in accord with his being an objective reporter. “I’m interested that you think there’s a thought movement inside the Republican Party,” Mr. Neil said early on. “I mean, haven’t the conservatives run out of ideas in America? All the new policies, the Medicare-for-all, $15 minimum wage, the Green New Deal, they’re all coming from the left and they’re popular.” The author of “The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great” noted that massive government programs and Keynesian economics are not new ideas before defending his conservative worldview. “The idea that new ideas are absent in the Republican Party is obviously untrue,” Mr. Shapiro said. “It is intellectual sneering of the highest order to suggest that only the left has new and decent ideas.” “Some of the new ideas that are popular on your side of politics would seem to take us back to the Dark Ages — Georgia, new abortion laws, which you are much in favor of,” the BBC host countered. “You’re a supposedly objective journalist calling policies with which you disagree barbaric and suggesting only one side of the political aisle has ideas, so I just want to point out that I would wish that you would at least be honest in your own biases,” Mr. Shapiro said. “Would you suggest that late-term abortion is brutal?” Mr. Neil balked at the question. “You as a journalist are proceeding to call one side of the political aisle ignorant, barbaric, and sending us back to the Dark Ages,” the conservative continued. “Why don’t you just say that you’re on the left? Is this so hard for you? Why can’t you just be honest?” The interview ended shortly after the BBC host accused Mr. Shapiro of “coarsening” public discourse while erroneously citing the titles of YouTube videos created by random individuals. “Why are you picking out random YouTube videos put up by people who are not me and attributing the titles to me?” Mr. Shapiro asked. “Frankly, I find this whole thing a waste of time. … I’m not inclined to continue an interview with a person who as badly motivated as you as an interviewer. So, I think we’re done here.” “I am not inclined to continue an interview with someone as badly motivated as you” US conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro ends spiky interview with @afneil Watch #politicslive interview in full: https://t.co/tXVdNWnXWi pic.twitter.com/WEO2UKOc79 — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) May 10, 2019 Sign up for Daily Newsletters Manage Newsletters Copyright © 2021 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.<doc-sep>
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro walked out of a BBC interview after being pressed on old comments he made. Shapiro appeared on the BBC to talk about his new book “The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great.” But shortly after exchanging the pleasantries, the host Andrew Neil went on offense and drilled down on Shapiro’s views, asking the commentator whether the recent pro-life bill in Georgia is like bringing back the “Dark Ages” in the U.S. BEN SHAPIRO SHAMES THE ECONOMIST AFTER REFERRING TO HIM AS 'ALT-RIGHT': 'THAT'S A VILE LIE' Shapiro retaliated against Neil, a former editor of the Sunday Times and a chairman of a media group that includes right-leaning magazine The Spectator, and accused him of harboring left-wing views. “You purport to be an objective journalist, BBC purports to be an objective, down the middle network,” Shapiro snapped. “It obviously is not, it never has been. And you as a journalist are proceeding to call one side of the political aisle ignorant, barbaric, and sending us back to the dark ages, why don’t you just say you’re on the left.” “Mr. Shapiro, if you only knew how ridiculous that statement is you wouldn’t have said it,” Neil replied and went on to question Shapiro about comments he has made previously on abortion and transgender rights, as well as his remarks questioning the Jewishness of those voting for President Barack Obama. BEN SHAPIRO RECEIVED 'SERIOUS' DEATH THREATS; 1 ARRESTED: REPORT Soon before the interview was put to a halt, Shapiro said Neil tried to go through and find “lone things that sound bad out of context” as a way to make “a quick buck on BBC off the fact that I’m popular and no one has ever heard of you.” “This whole thing is a waste of time. Frankly, I don’t care — I don’t frankly give a damn what you think of me since I’ve never heard of you,” he added. “I think we’re done here.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Shapiro later admitted that his attack on Neil was misdirected, tweeting that “As I’m not familiar with him or his work, I misinterpreted his antagonism as political Leftism (he termed the pro-life position in America ‘barbaric’) – and that was apparently inaccurate. For that, I apologize.”