Monday, May 20, 2019

ben shapiro

I've never thought much of Ben Shapiro, and his recent interview on the BBC only confirmed those feelings. Shapiro showed himself to be an emotional adolescent, at one point saying to his interviewer, 'I'm more popular than you are!' More than that, though, he showed himself unwilling or unable to defend his own positions when challenged by an adult.

Shapiro's whole shtick is that he's so flat-out brilliant that his tongue can barely keep up with his lightning mind. He has used this motormouth delivery in 'debating' kids on college campuses. If he were to slow his delivery down to a normal pace, most of what he says would be recognized for the shopworn right-wing talking points they are. For flyoverlanders, he epitomizes the fast-talking, flim-flamming city slicker of whom we have been traditionally and rightly suspicious.

He's clearly not somebody who's particularly interested in the truth. Trained as a lawyer, he's more interested in 'winning the case,' at any cost. He's not a reflective person and probably hasn't entertained the notion that he might be wrong about anything since he was, oh, about twelve. If he were a practicing lawyer, he'd be a shyster. It brings to mind Thomas Jefferson's characterization of the law as 'a dubious and talkative profession.'

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