It's not 2,000. It's about 10. edit: someone said he thinks Shapiro said "two dozen" not 2,000, and listening it to again, that sounds right. It's a little high but it's not that far off.
I like Ben Shapiro and think he's a smart guy usually. I know this sub hates him, so enjoy me shitting on him in this post, I guess. I don't know if he's gotten too busy and can't keep his facts straight sometimes, or has gotten too complacent with his daily show, but once in a while he says clearly dumb, wrong shit where he should clearly know better.
The other day he said Russia needs Crimea to have a "warm water port", which is retarded, since Rostov & Novorossiysk are right next door. And no, while I don't expect Ben to know the details of Russian ports, I do expect him to know the basic geography of the Black Sea and the fact that Russia has a number of other coastal cities/ports on it. Anyway, this kind of thing happens more often than it should, and he ought to have better or more staffers giving him research and fact checking.
Graphic I've seen him link before where he mocked libs for being wildly wrong and thinking that thousands of unarmed blacks were mowed down by the cops every year when the true answer is about 10... and then he did the very thing he mocked the libs for himself today.
Shapiro is a neocon grifter who figured out a YouTube Fox News would be a great monetizing method for “the new wave of conservatives”.
Nothing the right hates more than someone on the right who actually accomplishes something. Crab mentality all around.
That’s adorable, is the crab mentality in play for known grifters like Candace Owens, a prominent DW figure? The entire setup of DW is literally the same as Fox. They have their Tuckers, their Hannitys, and their diversity selection.
Do you even know what a crab mentality is?
Is it good or bad that Shapiro built the Daily Wire? I say it's very good. Even if you say it's not perfect, which nothing is, the world is better with the Daily Wire than without it.
Remember when I said this is how you fall on the freedom/security line? It’s objectively bad the DW exists, they are pure neocon at the end of the day, it’s like saying Joe Biden is a good Democrat because he stands for the destruction of Americana but only so him and his kids profit.
Then there's nothing to discuss.
I dislike neocons as much as you do, but it's better to have neocons + good on basically everything else than a media consisting on bad on everything.
"It's better to have the frog ferry the scorpion than the spider"
"It's better to have 0% than 95%."
I agree, I actually really like knowles. He has some excellent critiques against conservatism, and for a more traditionalist and catholic viewpoint.
I don't agree with everything he says, but I do think he is an effective and useful voice pushing for the right things.
Some of the others? Very meh, but the existence of more slightly right media is a good thing so long as they don't gatekeep or punch right as much as they do left.
How many right wing policies has Shapiro successfully passed or implemented? Chris Rufo did more in 5 minutes emailing Trump about CRT than this midget did with all the money in the Levant.
While that is true generally, Shapiro is still a Neocon grifter. He'd probably have gotten a gig at Fox if they weren't trying to make Bill O'Riley and Sean Hannity the avatars of Conservativism. He probably realized he could just do it himself without being as hamstrung by corporate restrictions.
I don't care if he is, no more than I care that my butcher is a grifter who wants my money.
Presumably your butcher actually delivers unadulterated meat, making him de facto not a grifter.
Simply wanting to make money doesn't automatically make someone a grifter.
Am I insane? He obviously said two dozen, not two thousand?
This. From the video link in the OP, he is clearly saying 2 dozen not 2 thousand.
I updated.
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I could swear he has given the correct info on that before. Weird he would say that. I remember him mentioning a poll where democrats thought the number was in the thousands due to the media
He 100% has. I remember seeing him post the graphic I linked and mock the libs for being so dumb that they think thousands of black people get shot by cops when it's actually about 10.
I'm starting to think he's lying to us about how much sleep he is getting on his Helix Sleep™ mattress & his Boll & Branch™ sheets.
Ha! Good point. He does have three little ones
I feel like Ben Shapiro has stopped trying and just assumes he’s correct without doing any research or actually trying to learn anything. Most of his faux pas that I’ve noticed over the last few years are of this nature, where he says something wrong that could have been corrected with a 30 second Google search.
Remember when he went on a UK TV and attacked a well-known conservative host for being a Leftist? His response was something like, “well I’m famous and nobody knows who you are so it’s not my fault” or something. Just very lazy and disrespectful.
When you are "right all the time", you can get arrogant and complacent and sloppy.
Holy shit he will never live that down. Dude, he gave 1 bad interview in his whole life where he has admitted many times afterward he went into it totally unprepared and fucked up. I think he even talked about this recently, and admitted that he got tilted after the British dude kept badgering him.
Yet everyone acts like it was Shapiro's defining moment. That's bullshit. One "off day" and one mistake do not define someone. Nobody's perfect. This is how people treat me, too. I'll crush them 99 times in argument, they'll win once, and then they'll throw themselves a fucking Roman Triumph over that 1 time, and never stop talking about it.
Dude, everyone in the British Media establishment is a Leftist to almost all Americans. Britain is so much further to the Left than the US that it's actually hard for Americans to tell what a political right would even look like in Britain, Ireland, or Germany. That's also because... well, they kinda don't have one.
When Tommy Robinson is considered "extremist, far-right, terrorist", the Overton Window is completely out in Left Field at that point. When Lauren Southern and Steven Molyneux are being banned from the country for being (let's look at Wikipedia: "an Irish-born Canadian far-right white nationalist and white supremacist podcaster, blogger, author, political commentator, and banned YouTuber who promotes conspiracy theories, scientific racism, men's rights, and racist views."), it's really not capable of recognizing a Liberal, let alone a Conservative or a Traditionalist.
I used to make fun of Democrats for in majority believing that it's more than 1000.
Propaganda is powerful.
In fact, I'd be surprised if there was anyone here who had a mind completely free of regime propaganda.
That said, seems to me that misspeaking is the most likely scenario.
idk man it's pretty hard to confuse 10 for "maybe 2,000 on the high end."
Also his argument, which is that "maybe 2,000 on the high end." is actually totally okay because "there are 40 million black Americans in this country" so gunning down 2k a year is really just a drop in the bucket, isn't just a "typo" kind of argument, it's a fully formed argument built around the wrong number of 2k, and it's actually a super retarded argument that is politically tone deaf from a man with a long history of arguing that Republicans shouldn't say stupid politically tone deaf things.
That’s what I’m thinking because I’ve heard him mention the poll you are talking about
I only wrote that last part after reading your comment. It's just unlikely that he would believe this crap. The other stuff unfortunately still stands though.
Over 60% of Democrats think the Economy is doing great.
Most of the Left spends all it's time talking to itself, and as such, they aren't even aware that outside opinions exist.
Hell, where's that poll where a huge amount of Democrats thought 50% of the population of the US was black, and 30% was gay.
Shapiro said people shot, not people killed, which is where the 10-15 per year stat comes from.
Two-thousand still sounds awfully high (and if true, the 2000 shootings to 10 dead ratio indicates some seriously poor shot placement by the police), but Shapiro tends to be pretty pedantic on stats, so I'm not dismissing this out of hand.
Shapiro belongs to a certain tribe that has a history of not being on the right side of history...
He 100% says two dozen here
Shapiro is the new representative of Neoncon 2.0.
Sometimes?
Shapiro usually gets his facts right. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. Probably just a brain fart.
His opinions, however, are pretty much basic establishment neocon war hawk.
He's been messing up more lately. I think he might be distracted by the business side of his Daily Wire operations and phoning it in on his daily show.