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Related: About this forumThe meltdown of Ben Shapiro. What’s in Breitbart kid’s ‘closet’?
Ben Shapiro, the editor-at-large wunderkind at Breitbart.com, guest-hosted for the Hugh Hewitt radio show on the day of the Chuck Hagels confirmation as defense secretary in late February. The Hagel news really tipped the teeter-totter for Shapiro, burning a few more cards out of a deck that was already missing several face cards. This video distills eight minutes from the three hour program, eight minutes of prime frustration, projection, hectoring, complaining, accusation and moral posturing, all delivered in Shapiros rapid-fire nasal whine.
Shapiro suggested that Hamas was handing out candy in Gaza to celebrate the Hagel nomination, bluntly tried to smear Hagel as an open anti-Semitic guy, a defense secretary for Islamists, an anti-Semite who is the worst nominee in American history and, for good measure, bleated that Obama is a jerk, bully and morally deficient human being who has come out of the closet in terms of pretending to care about people. Meanwhile, in Shapiros world, Mitt Romney is legitimately one of the most honorable men, maybe the most honorable man, ever to run for high office in this country and Noam Chomsky is not really Jewish, is Jewish in name only. He simultaneously accuses everyone but the man in the mirror of being whiny and doing smear jobs.
In the middle of the tirade, Shapiros self-awareness bloats to the point where he can ask How can (Obama) possibly say this with a straight face? and to end with this: Democrats, they live in a world of unreality. They live in magic unicorn land They dont deal with reality. Its up to us to deal with reality.
Shapiros high-energy angst, his fevered finger-pointing at moral deficiency and other faults of those who dont deal with reality is eerily reminiscent of the long line of disgraced fire-and-brimstone evangelists, from Jimmy Swaggart romping with prostitutes to Ted Haggard doing meth with his gay masseuse, who work so hard to hide the fact that they are guilty of all the sins they preach against. How long until Shapiro cracks?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)Iggo
(47,486 posts)Israel is just a part of their end-of-the-world masturbatory fantasies.
Where do these crazed loons come from? I've heard right wing nut jobs that make my jaw drop but this guy's is right up there with the top clowns. Talk about misguided delusional rantings! I never heard of this guy until I saw this and I hope to never see or hear him again.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Shapiro's the heir apparent to the Andrew Breitbart mini-empire. Like Breitbart, Shapiro can string words and sentences together for long periods of time, which is more than 90% of the team. Like Breitbart, he's quite tireless in his spite and vitriol. Breitbart's last public act before he died was a drunken, sloppy fit of anger at Occupy protesters. We'll see if Shapiro lasts a little longer before his final meltdown.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts). . . who once advocated for the right of the Israeli government to "transfer" Palistinians from the West Bank, who links himself to the memory latter-day yellow journalist Andrew Breitbart and who is now says he's okay with the very idea vulture capitalist as president.
No, Mr. Shipiro, you are a right wing moron clinging to the most morally deficient expressions of public policy of all.
And, Mr. Shapiro, spare me your idea of reality. Clearly, your idea of the world, like those of other right wing kooks who have for too long misappropriated the label conservative, is as real as Never Never Land.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)a shmuck. That is all.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)That was his shtick for years, that he was a virgin, and oh, so proud of it.