Soldato
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No, because he wasnt really shown up was he?
Ben Shapiro v Andrew Neil
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I didn't dislike him as much as I expected I would but most reasonable people would say he came off second best and was clearly not used to being challenged rather than molly coddled.
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I agree with what you're saying, but hes hardly been destroyed has he? I'm more disappointed in Andrew Neil because hes just wasted a good opportunity to have a proper interview rather than just reel off Twitter quotes from years ago.
Aprt from not being able to hold himself together on TV? Ohhh yea, he came off as the real intellectual he likes to think he is lol. Imagine what Paxman would have done to him.
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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.