Ben Shapiro is the famous, fast-talking conservative pundit who regularly ‘owns’ aggressive university students with his quick wit and rapid repartee in America.
Alas, Shapiro isn’t so ‘crazy smart’ when he comes up against difficult questions from a real interviewer. Yesterday he just couldn’t cope with an interrogation from the BBC’s Andrew Neil. He decided that Neil must be a typical BBC leftist (complaining at one point that he’d never heard of him) and had an epic tantrum, before storming out of the studio.
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
He then realised his blunder, and that he’d confused rigorous questioning with “political Leftism” and was about to become a laughing stock. He then sought to use Twitter to row back…
Just pre-taped an interview with BBC’s @afneil.
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