Ben Shapiro v Andrew Neil

neckbeardthethird · 10 May 2019 at 19:17

This is getting quite a lot of attention today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82PJiY8RIY

Interested to see GD's take on it.

neckbeardthethird · 10 May 2019 at 22:14

Even though I think he’s a fraud and hypocrite I’ll give him props for at least being self aware enough to realise he had a complete mare.

https://mobile.twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1126894051456774144

It was a pretty timid grilling by Neil as well, seen him go in far harder on numerous other guests.

neckbeardthethird · 10 May 2019 at 22:47

mjt said:
Define well-known. I’d never heard of him.
Why should Andrew Neil have heard of some right-wing blogger?

He's pretty well known in the US, not so well known in the UK unless you're quite engaged with American politics (which most people aren't).

neckbeardthethird · 14 May 2019 at 01:01

Lord-Jaffa said:
No, because he wasnt really shown up was he?

He used an identity argument when he called Neil a leftist and used his feelings rather than facts to arrive at that conclusion. Quite a blunder for someone whose favourite quote is 'facts don't care about your feelings', he also resorted to a high school insult of 'im more famous than you'. He had a shocker and he knows it. It all came about because he's not used to this type of interviewing technique where the interviewer play devils advocate and puts forward the other sides position in order to challenge the person being interviewed. Its very common in the UK but Shapiro was presumably hoping for a nice cushy interview like you see on most US networks... he didn't do his homework on Andrew Neil and paid the price for that.