On his HBO show Friday night, Bill Maher invited on Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro for the first ever sit-down between the two ideologically opposed political commentators. Rather than yet another incoherent shouting match between political opponents, as the American public witnesses all too often, the two men conducted exactly the kind of civil debate so many are desperate to see. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t some fireworks, particularly on the topic of civil discourse, which Shapiro argued was easily as much a problem on the left as Maher said it was on the right.
“I always say this to conservatives that come on our show: I’m a little jealous of their guts because they have more guts than the liberals,” said Maher when he first introduced Shapiro (video below). “Liberals don’t go on conservative shows — they don’t even come on this show sometimes. So I appreciate it because you know the crowd is not with you.”
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