Ben Shapiro Actually Blames Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death on ‘Broken Leftist Culture’

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Less than 12 hours after actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent heroin overdose in his Manhattan apartment, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro thought it would be appropriate to mark the occasion by attributing his death to America’s “broken leftist culture.” In what could only have been a hastily-produced, 130-word blog post on the National Review’s website, Shapiro briefly praised the actor’s “talent” before using his untimely death to critique those godless Hollywood liberals.


Below is Shapiro’s post in its entirety:

Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of the most talented actors of his generation, a leading man without leading-man looks, an actor whose magnetism onscreen sprang from intelligence and fervor rather than appearance. But his self-inflicted death is yet another hallmark of the broken leftist culture that dominates Hollywood, enabling rather than preventing the loss of some of its greatest talents. Libertarianism becomes libertinism without a cultural force pushing back against the penchant for sin; Hollywood has no such cultural force. In fact, the Hollywood demand is for more self-abasement, less spirituality, less principle, less standards.

No one knows what sort of demons plagued Seymour Hoffman. But without a sound moral structure around those in Hollywood who have every financial and talent advantage, the path to destruction is far too easy.

full: http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-shapiro-actually-blames-philip-seymour-hoffmans-death-on-broken-leftist-culture/

Just comes to show that a guy like Shitziro can graduate high school at age 16 then from UCLA and Harvard Law with high honors and still be utterly clueless. See my other post showing how he can shamelessly write so ignorantly about the Prop. 8 case despite being a Harvard Law grad. (But then again Harvard Law also produced Ted Cruz...)

ETA: A more reality-based view: Thom Hartmann writes for Truthout: PSH's death "could have been prevented if we in the United States started to do what countries like the United Kingdom and Switzerland have been doing for years: prescribing heroin to heroin addicts."

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2. This is Shapiro, not Stein.

Both assholes, but two different guys.

[RainDog]

4. LOL. I am an angry bird this afternoon. will delete.

though, yes, Stein remains an asshole.

[Warpy]

3. I knew a few wunderkinds back in Boston

who graduated early and went through the Ivies or MIT and graduated knowing absolutely nothing that hadn't been taught to them in one class or other. They focused entirely on that because being wunderkinds with a 4.0 average is what made them special. The problem is that people without that background thought they knew what they were talking about in every case and that is simply not the truth. Once you are done with their specific academic field, you're done with them.

They have whatever prejudices their parents dinned into their impressionable little heads when they were little kids and never go beyond them, never question anything.

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11. Describes BS (as in Ben Shapiro) perfectly.

Raised in a religiously conservative family and reacted to his UCLA education by writing a book Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth.

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5. Yes, a "broken leftist culture" was behind Limblow's drug addiction

And made noted fire-breathing liberal Rep.Trey Radel (R-FL) snort lines of cocaine.

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6. Whatthefuckever

[Boomerproud]

7. Another con blowhard-why should anyone care what he thinks?

n/t

[Cha]

8. Fuck the idiot Ben Shapiro and I'm rec this to

expose the idiot.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Ben who? n/t

[Prophet 451]

10. Shapiro can kiss my fat Roma ass n/t