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That is not how I expect a 35 year old Harvard lawyer to conduct himself. Shapiro is too conditioned by the hostile "my team vs your team" climate in the US, and was thoroughly unprepared for another country's interviewer that wasn't playing that game.
There's a line from the old show Doogie Howser, "you might be a genius, but you have a lot to learn"
Our US friends won't get to see this but the BBC's best political interrogator Andrew Neil interviewed Ben Shapiro this lunchtime.
It's a classic of its genre.
Is he really the best political journalist in the BBC?
I'm surprised Shapiro ended the interview, he should have just kept going at the sanctimonious twit Neil who was attempting to condescend the whole time. But I guess after 15 minutes he felt there really was no point.
If he is the best the UK has, and opens with a contention that Shapiro supports imprisoning women who experience a miscarriage - just call him another shock jock. Embarrassing.
Is he really the best political journalist in the BBC?
I'm surprised Shapiro ended the interview, he should have just kept going at the sanctimonious twit Neil who was attempting to condescend the whole time. But I guess after 15 minutes he felt there really was no point.
If he is the best the UK has, and opens with a contention that Shapiro supports imprisoning women who experience a miscarriage - just call him another shock jock. Embarrassing.
Neil is considered my most politicians to be the best in the business and is equally forensic in his questioning of the Left and Right.
Shapiro's demeanour during the interview and his ending of it abruptly has attracted ridicule on this side of the pond.
But maybe we do politics differently.
Neil is considered my most politicians to be the best in the business and is equally forensic in his questioning of the Left and Right.
Shapiro's demeanour during the interview and his ending of it abruptly has attracted ridicule on this side of the pond. But maybe we do politics differently.
No, it looked like politics. But I think Ben was expecting journalism from the BBC.
No, it looked like politics. But I think Ben was expecting journalism from the BBC.
Nah,I think he was expecting his usual soft interview where he could spout on with casual disregard for facts.
Hubris finally got the better off him so he concluded the interview.
And ended up looking like a turnip.
Nah,I think he was expecting his usual soft interview where he could spout on with casual disregard for facts.
Hubris finally got the better off him so he concluded the interview.
And ended up looking like a turnip.
Why would he expect that from the BBC?
Seems quite clear he was expecting an objective interview. Do you think the "journalist" was objective?
"I'm interested that you think there is a thought movement in the Republican Party"
"All the new policies, Green New Deal, $15 min wage, medicare for all are all coming from the left, and they're popular"
"The ideas that are popular on your side of politics would seem to take us back to the dark ages"
"New abortion laws which you are much in favour of are that a women that miscarries could get 30 years"
Just a few pearls of objective journalism in the first 4 minutes. His appalling capability as a journalist is revealed with the final quote above. He has relied on an opinion piece from the extreme left rag, Slate for that absurdity. A sentence with two easily verified errors (if he wanted to be accurate) stated as fact. What could explain this?
You sure this is the best the BBC has to offer?
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