Andrew Neil just destroyed Ben Shapiro, darling of the American right, and it’s a great watch
There were quite a few people unhappy at the prospect of Andrew Neil giving Ben Shapiro, the controversial American conservative political commentator, a platform on his Politics Live show today.
But when they actually got to watch it, well, most people were quite glad he had him on. Because this happened.
Stick this in my veins. pic.twitter.com/j2XEekjwe7
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) May 10, 2019
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. And when we say nicer guy, we mean the opposite, Shapiro having described gay sex as a ‘sin’, claimed African-Americans are not the victims of injustice and branded transgenderism a mental illness.
It generated no end of comments, of which these are our favourites.
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LOL, Andrew Neil is one of the most prominent longtime conservative media figures in the UK. Idiotic self-own by Shapiro https://t.co/NRPeEa2O4t
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 10, 2019
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https://twitter.com/JHWeissmann/status/1126832330520309761
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Here's regular user of the term "snowflake" Ben Shapiro shortly before he ran away from an interview because he found *Andrew Neil* to be too left wingpic.twitter.com/4U7cG2qwS0
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 10, 2019
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Ben Shapiro vs Ultra conservative British journalist Andrew Neil.
Google is your friend.
pic.twitter.com/j3ldN4ya1U— Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) May 10, 2019
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1 minute. That is the length of time it takes for Andrew Neil to destroy the poster boy of the hard right. And he did it with cold, hard, facts. Sublime. pic.twitter.com/1pCF3uXT9Y
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 10, 2019
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Ben Shapiro sounds like if helium inhaled helium
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 10, 2019
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https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1126818725875810307
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Absolutely hooting with laughter that Ben Shapiro has just accused Andrew Neil of being a terrible, biased, liberal leftie #PoliticsLive
— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) May 10, 2019
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Ben Shapiro would probably find Tommy Robinson “too much of a leftist virtue-signalling soy-boy cuck” for his tastes.
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 10, 2019
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Shapiro: “(It’s) a way for you to make a quick buck on BBC off the fact I’m popular and no one has ever heard of you”
Neil: “There aren’t many bucks to be made on the BBC unlike American broadcasting Mr Shapiro”
An actual exchange. Incredible.
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) May 10, 2019
Shapiro later tried to save some face, but by then it was too late.
"I'm so far-right I thought Andrew Neil was a lefty…" pic.twitter.com/HqdGlhoTLz
— Andrew Bartlett (@AndrewBartletta) May 10, 2019
Oh, and this.
https://twitter.com/politijoe1/status/1126837562189012993
Plus, you can watch the whole thing here.
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