What an unfortunate thing to happen on free eggs night.
I can tell you that the show has definitely gotten worse. I listen every day and while in the past his shows were master lessons in spin and half truths lately they have become increasingly dumb on multiple levels. If it’s not making every excuse possible for Trump it’s new content like his staff plays some classical music from a movie score and he guesses what it is. There are whole episodes of that in the last six months. And his Oscar coverage did not just exist (which it shouldn’t have) but each and every time it was part of an ad for betting app prediction markets. The value of the show, as small as it was before, is crashing rapidly.
I listen every day
I have thirty different questions I want to ask here but all of them can more or less be boiled down to “Why”.
Why?
I started listening to Rush Limbaugh back in 92. I have always found it useful to listen to the biggest name on the conservative side so I can know what arguments are being used. Know thy enemy and all that.
Back in the day it meant tuning in at a specific time for three hours. Now we have the benefits of podcasts you can listen to whenever you want and at 2.5x speed so an hour takes 24 minutes.
I have listened to Ben for a long time. I’ve seen his attitude on Trump change. He knows that Trump has no political philosophical foundation. He knows that ethically he is just like Andrew Tate, a guy he tried to say nice things about once and failed. He used to do a segment called Good Trump Bad Trump where he would find something he agreed with Trump on and something where Trump was an idiot.
Then he stopped. Then he started fundraising for Trump. He found it harder and harder to find something negative to say about a guy he clearly loathes from an ethical base. He can still be extremely critical of the tariffs issue but on every other topic he will dance around any negative he might have.
And dancing is what he is good at. His ability to make sure he always misrepresents his opponents is amazing. Turn on any of the great dystopian radio speeches from movies or TV and he sounds exactly like them in his words. Except he has a higher pitched voice that’s never going to get him a job in Hollywood.
And he so desperately wants to be Hollywood. He is spending a lot of time and money trying to make his own TV and movie production company. He has the script movies like Run Hide Fight. The epics like whatever his king Arthur thing was, to kids programming.
And all of it starts with hammering Christian values first and then building a story around it. Even though he isn’t Christian and is constantly putting him self in danger by doing business with the dumbest and most anti-semitic people out there like Candace Owens. Because he believes that the enemy of your enemy is a potential profit center. He doesn’t realize he is feeding his enemies that will destroy him because he always thinks he is the smartest guy in the room.
I keep thinking I need to find a co-host and do a Know Rogan or Knowledge Fight version of Ben Shapiro. Because even at 2.5x speed I can dismantle his positions and know where he used to be on topics.
Good
Hahaha
I really do hate that man.
I do but also he is kind of an irrelevant ragebaiting propagandist. Like remember when grock was telling everyone who asked how boosted or suppressed they were on Twitter, Ben Shapiro was one of the most boosted people. And I would be surprised if he wasn’t on the other platforms.
He’s boosted, sitting atop mountains of ‘investor’ cash, and dudes media empire is still collapsing cause no one is interested in what he is peddling.
Besides being a window into what propaganda zionist and right wing elites want to push he is in my opinion easily ignored.
