Ben Shapiro Embarrasses Himself on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’

On Friday evening, two of the nation’s foremost Islamophobes sat throughout from each other on HBO to debate the problems of the day. In a single nook was Invoice Maher, a self-professed liberal who spends 90 p.c of his Actual Time present railing against Muslims, platforming conspiracy theorists and/or white nationalist trolls, and whining about “cancel tradition.” The opposite had Ben Shapiro, the Every day Wire co-founder who, when he’s not being an outrageous hypocrite or distributing movies by producers with a long history of overlooking sexual misconduct, spends 90 p.c of his time whining about “cancel tradition” or “proudly owning the libs” by saying hateful drivel like this:

The final time Shapiro visited Maher’s late-night show, the 2 tradition warriors bought alongside famously, with the comic failing to problem the equivocating pundit on his Trump flip-flopping or doubtful claims that liberals had been extra illiberal than conservatives. On Friday, issues had been a bit extra contentious, as Shapiro joined this system to advertise his new guide The Authoritarian Second, about how the American left has change into extra “authoritarian” than the suitable.

“Your thesis is, the authoritarian second is coming from the left. And I need to say, after I learn the guide, I don’t disagree with a variety of what you’re saying—I’ve definitely made that case myself… I simply wished to know, the place’s the opposite half of the guide?” requested Maher. “Sure, I agree with you: Woke Twitter has energy… it’s simply gentle energy. I simply discover it perverse that you simply discover that much less alarming than the form of old-school authoritarianism that Trump and his ilk are going for.”

Maher then cited Trump’s makes an attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, together with that point he incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol and achieve this on his behalf, in addition to a latest ballot from Enterprise Insider saying that 47 p.c of Republicans imagine “it could be time to take the regulation into our personal arms.”

Cue Shapiro, who employed his traditional strawman: briefly acknowledging that that was certainly “alarming,” earlier than arguing that Trump’s makes an attempt to subvert democracy weren’t so authoritarian as a result of Democratic establishments prevented him from doing so, earlier than someway drawing a line between 1/6 and the Black Lives Matter motion.

“It’s a pleasant title for his guide, and I believe lots of people who would assume that he’s speaking about actual authoritarianism might be trapped into supplying you with $28.99,” supplied visitor Malcolm Nance, a former Navy officer and present MSNBC contributor, who once more introduced up how Donald Trump commanded an rebellion, which he argued is way extra authoritarian than “Twitter gossip.”

When Maher introduced up how Fox Information host Tucker Carlson was hobnobbing with fascist chief Viktor Orban in Hungary, Shapiro ignored the query and as an alternative countered with the time then-President Obama sat with then-Cuban President Raul Castro at an exhibition baseball recreation and CDC masks mandates (?).

As soon as the topic bought to essential race concept, with Shapiro falsely arguing that it’s being taught to kids throughout America (you’ll be able to actually solely discover it in regulation college), Nance had had sufficient, telling him, “Is that this what you do in your present? As a result of it sucks.”

That quip prompted a visibly irritated Shapiro to say, “You already know, Malcolm, I… I admire that, however I’ll consolation myself tonight by sleeping on my mattress made of cash.”

Sure, he actually mentioned that.