When is Shapiro going to run for President?

He seems to have enough facts and logic to run a good campaign.

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He could have addressed those questions without getting all butt hurt. His shtick gets old quick. If he's so uncomfortable answering blind questions, he should supply the questions he's willing to answer beforehand.

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Hard to see the BBC acquiescing to a guest's demands like that but I could be wrong.

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Definitely a bad look for him. At least he owned up to it somewhat after the fact.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

I thought Ben was fine right up to the time he quit like a pussy.

What about when he called a former Rupert Murdoch underling a leftist shill?

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It was fine. He was acting like a leftist shill.

No he wasn’t. His characterization of Georgia’s anti abortion bills is accurate. And I’m against abortion being legal. I’m not in favor of sending a woman to jail for decades for getting one. It’s fair to call that bill barbaric.

It’s hard to take seriously a criticism of Neil if you watched the entire clip.

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Also, as an aside, it’s crazy that Neil is only 69 years old. He looks like he’s 95.

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I watched the entire clip and then read Ben being a critic of himself. He has never shied away from saying some of his tweets and/or statements from the past were either wrong or showed poor judgement. He's been writing prodigiously since he was like 16. There's a lot to hammer him on. Interviewer went down that road. Seemed pretty shill-like to me. I'm not mad that he was perceived as taking a beating, I'm mad that he folded up like a deck chair.

Going down the twitter road may have been unnecessary but that’s irrelevant. The tone of the interview was set when Shapiro couldn’t answer for Neal’s accurate characterization of a lot of the policy and rhetoric coming from America’s right wing.

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Wasn't my impression. Interviewer set out to maul him to prove Shapiro has been picking low fruit for years. Since he folded, I guess he was right.

I think it’s clear Neal wanted an answer on how Shapiro could lament our devolving civil discourse while actively contributing to it and Shapiro couldn’t answer for it. I don’t think there’s any other relevant takeaway from it.

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I think the big takeaway here should be that Ben isn't gonna fall for the banana in the tailpipe.

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Exemplifies the extreme path we are moving towards in this country.

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We’ll be fine.

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He answered fine. He has had many civil discourses and said he strives constantly to have civil discourses.
But as you know, shit happens now and then. And it was pounced on. Hey, what can I tell you. I watch the man often. He's far from say, Sean Hannity.

Idk.

I’m sensing civil war.

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As recently as 2017 he defended direct and blatant white suptemacist comments from Steve King. Sure he later apologized for it but he cannot defend himself from justifiable accusations of him contributing to our public discourse becoming less civil and more antagonistic. If you watch the man often you know you’re just proffering bullshit here

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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Yeah but you’re emotional and not always bright.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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My problem with Shapiro is just that he's a dick. Like he always has to get real fuckin' smug with that "facts don't care about your feelings" stuff. You just don't have to rub everyone's face in it. That's called bad manners where I come from.

Like when he called that Tur transgender crazy to her face. No need for that. I happen to agree with Shapiro but what is the good in pointing it out?

I could go up to him and start ridiculing his kippah and the fact that his wife sleeps in a red tent a few days each month and demand the factual basis for his stupid feelings. But that would make me an asshole just like him.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

I like this. Please continue.

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He is less of a dick than every little liberal black apologist though. That’s where real hate is produced now.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

WfR getting into grandpa's cough medicine early tonight!

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Nah. Real hate is produced pretty equally by far left and far right folks, but if it leans anyway it’s still to the far right folks who shoot up churches, mosques and synagogues.

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Oh, I don't figure many would take him up on it.

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What a self-loathing loser.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

CNN and msnbc would. Them ratings.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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While I always use stoners to allow me to access "real hate" I still know that flying planes into buildings wins the death count.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?