On Monday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro joined Fox News host Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle” to discuss the attacks launched by the Left on him and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the last week. Ingraham noted that it seemed that she talked to Shapiro every time the Left became unhinged, adding, “You have a special way of unhinging them. But this was really — I keep saying a new low, but this really is a new low.” Shapiro fired back at the Left, asserting, “The level of insanity to which the Left devolves every day is a testament to how much President Trump is in their heads and a testament to how their utopian idealism under President Obama has absolutely collapsed.”
Ingraham began the segment by noting the attack on Shapiro, stating:
The unhinged Left sinks even lower. Joshua Topolsky, cofounder of the tech website “The Verge” has sparked an uproar after a vile attack against conservative commentator and writer Ben Shapiro, tweeting, quote, “Ben Shapiro is the Jew who helps other Jews onto the train.” Topolsky has now deleted the tweet, but not because it’s disgusting to compare Shapiro, who is Jewish, to a Nazi collaborator, for other reasons. And in a follow-up, he tweeted, quote, “I deleted it because a mob on the right of the rightwing babies who were flooding my mentions, and it was frankly pretty annoying, as were the DM death threats.”
Joining us now to respond is The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro. Ben, we are always talking to you — when the Left is unhinged. And you have a special way of unhinging them. But this was really — I keep saying a new low, but this really is a new low. I’ve never heard of this person before, but I guess he is kind of big in the tech world. Where are we here?
Shapiro responded, “I’ve been called worse by better. So that’s the way things go I guess these days. I guess that he works for, said that he worked over at Vox, and then it turns that he was not in fact a cofounder of Vox, if he was from Vox, then Vox is not sending its best. That is all I can really say about it.”
Ingraham noted, “But we have an individual who works for this tech website, saying that someone who is an observant Jew is helping put other Jews on the train, meaning, I guess, the Trump train, can’t ever look past that. But he’s obviously — I think he is Jewish, as well. But coming from him, who I believe is Jewish, does that have any special significance to you? Is it kind of a self-loathing deal? What is it?”
Shapiro answered, “Not particularly. I think he is calling me a Nazi. But he wouldn’t be the only one. The way that the Left works these days is that anyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi. So it really isn’t a giant surprise. And I always find it ironic when the Left attacks me as an alt-right Nazi considering I was literally the number one recipient of alt-right hatred in 2016 according to the Anti-Defamation League, which is not a right-wing source.”
Ingraham agreed, “Right. And Ben, there are others on the Left who have gone from their Never Trump mania to just completely out of touch with the reality of politics today. One of them is, I guess, a blogger for The Washington Post who is on television quite a bit. Her name is Jennifer Rubin. Let’s watch.”
Ingraham then played a clip of Rubin stating, “Sarah Huckabee has no right to live a life of no fuss, no muss after lying to the press, after inciting against the press. These people should be made uncomfortable, and I think that is a life sentence, frankly.”
Ingraham continued, “‘You should be made uncomfortable for life. It should be a life sentence.’ You notice that the words that the Left and the Never Trump, I don’t know, Republican, or Bush, I don’t know [any] idea how you describe Jennifer Rubin because there’s literally no constituency other than like Bill Kristol for what she says. But they now use this criminal imagery. ‘Trump is jailing babies. They are criminalizing parenthood with the separation of families. The concentration camps, the detention centers are concentration camps.’ It’s all — it’s beyond descriptive. It is descriptive in this criminal, over-the-top, purposely outrageous manner. What of that now, coming from, I guess, a former Republican?”
Shapiro replied:
She is obviously engaged in the endorsement of thug tactics, and this is the desperation to which the Left and some people formerly of the Right have driven. Jen Rubin is a person who not only endorsed Mitt Romney and pushed very hard for Mitt Romney. Just a few years ago she was suggesting that Roe v. Wade needed to be overturned. Now she says that any judge who is appointed to the Supreme Court by President Trump cannot want to overturn Roe v. Wade.
There’s a certain derangement obviously that’s set in with a lot of people where they have reversed principles that they supposedly once held specifically because they don’t like Donald Trump, which I find not only troubling but morally vacuous. And when you look at Jen Rubin saying stuff like Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be made uncomfortable for life and she doesn’t have a right to be comfortable in the United States, she does have a right to basically not be mobbed when she goes out to a gas station or when she goes out to eat dinner. The same people who are saying bake the cake to religious bakers are saying that it’s a wonderful thing when a restaurant owner decides to deny service to someone based on political affinity.
Now, what people are on the Left have even gone further than that. They are talking about not just about restaurant owners saying they don’t want Trump employees in their establishments. They are talking about how it is now okay for mobs to descend on other people’s establishments and drive people out of those establishments. That is what happened to Kirstjen Nielsen. So the level of insanity to which the Left devolves every day is a testament to how much President Trump is in their heads and a testament to how their utopian idealism under President Obama has absolutely collapsed.
Ingraham concluded, “And the farther left they go, the higher his numbers seem to go. So they don’t see the correlation. But perhaps saner minds will prevail ultimately. Ben, have a happy Independence Day. Thanks so much for being with us tonight.”
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