Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  @klohr311  It is. He brings it up quite a few times.
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  2. That they make him look bad by repeating his own words back to him?
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  3. Then why does Ben never shut up?
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  4. And Andrew still destroyed Ben. Amazing what a drunk Scotsman can achieve.
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  5. Andrew Neil is a well known right-winger in the UK, even leaving the BBC to go to a new news outlet similar to OANN.
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  6.  @staclips3375  It's called playing Devil's advocate. I did explain that already, but apparently it went over your head.
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  7.  @CatGamer-wc2ij  He didn't ask loaded questions. You can claim they were all you like, but there is a substantial difference between your and Andrew's questions.
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  8.  @CatGamer-wc2ij  Actually I said your personal bias is the issue. If you agree with Ben or not, you seem incapable of making a valid even argument in regards to this specific issue. You openly misrepresent the Liberal view, while also not understanding the basics of Devil's advocate. Playing Devil's advocate against a Conservative requires challenging their fundamental view that life begins at conception. Asking them why killing is okay is ridiculous. They would just say it isn't, that's it. Even your Liberal example is incorrect. You say their view is that Liberals view unborn life as property. This is simply incorrect. The view is that the unborn have equal rights to everyone else, so why do we allow them to remove the rights of the expectant mothers by forcing them to give birth? Your simplistic view of the issue is your bias. Also, wtf is mandatory abortions? What the hell is that about?
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  9.  @CatGamer-wc2ij  No, they are life, I've already explained this. Again, them being alive does not given them the right to leach off others. A right to life does not give you the right to battery. In this same way, people who are braindead technically have a right to life, but since they can't survive on their own and will almost certainly never improve, turning off the machines is not murder. And a mother choosing to no longer be a human incubator is not murder. I would argue in favour of viability laws, as do many as you said, which is where the logical cutoff would be given my previous points. Again, your argument that they are property is not grounded in anything.
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  10.  @CatGamer-wc2ij  I mean, I'm a liberal who supports abortion, so... Most people don't think about the issue in depth enough to actually come up with HOW rights are being taken away. They get that they are, but they don't know the reason.
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  11. You're just describing Ben.
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  12. Neil was using a devil's advocate style of questioning to both challenge and reveal as much about the interviewee as possible. Complaining that Neil is using challenging questions is just ridiculous, and using an example like Thatcher and Reagan clashing to describe Neil and Shapiro ignores 1 fundamental issue, Neil is NOT a politician. He is a journalist, and as a journalist is capable of removing his own opinions to allow him to ask questions from a different worldview. Politicians, and by extension political figures, cannot do this. It sounds like you're just upset that the BBC isn't more right-wing, and Neil isn't Ben's whipping boy.
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  13. He also has similar videos on the Daily Wire, which he owns and is chief editor of.
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  14. Right out the door, and don't come back.
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  15. Always nice when fascist morons advocate for genocide. Go take a long walk off a short plank.
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  16. Is this modern seppuku?
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  17.  @MrTrustme6  You can mean whatever you want, but the image of Ben digging his own grave is burned into people's brains forever.
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  18.  @mtghd1432  Years later at that. This in my opinion was one of his better performances.
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  19.  @ohsnapsonbro4260  Hypocritical more like.
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  20. Lol what?
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  21. Agreed, Andrew Neil needs to stop making all the right-wing extremists look bad.
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  22. Not according to Shapiro. In fact he tweeted the exact opposite of this.
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  23. Doesn't really change much. The questions don't change when they are asked with or without malice.
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  24. Maybe check Ben's twitter, as he said the exact opposite.
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  25. Imagine not understanding global trade.
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  26. Not sure what you think Ben makes American's look like here...
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  27. God forbid we ask people actual tough questions.
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  28. Andrew Neil is conservative. Ben Shapiro openly stated he got rocked in this interview multiple times.
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  29. Yes he is.
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  30. You mean the conservative interviewer who Ben tweeted? Ben said he got destroyed.
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  31.  @victorventura1956  No, Andrew Neil won. Karen ran away with his tail between his legs, and admitted as much on Twitter, and in separate interviews.
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  32. Ben was promoting his book, and Andrew was pointing out everything wrong with it. Ben had ample opportunity to respond to criticisms and failed to do so.
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  33.  @beverleycarroll1551  You're joking right...Ben tweeted about how he got destroyed in this interview. If you don't understand that Ben performed terribly then there is little hope for you.
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  34. He was not winning lol. When you write a book about how we should all improve our political discourse, then have it pointed out that you said that Palestinians love to live in sewage and blow sh*t up, you are not on the winning side of any point. Ben even admitted he got rolled in this interview.
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  35.  @silentserpent597  That's just how interviews work. Who cares about counterpoints or the interviewers views? He answer the question so we move on to the next one.
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  36. Of course. Ben didn't really understand that though.
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  37. All Ben had to do was acknowledge that these tweets were not just dumb, but that he agrees that this was part of the coarsening of public discourse, and he wrote his book to directly contrast even his own actions, learning from his own mistakes. Instead he doubles down on most of them, and tries to sweep the rest away as "just something some dumb 30 year old would say."
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  38. 1. He's right wing. 2. It's an interview, he isn't supposed to be the one answering questions.
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  39. Barbaric was actually Ben's statement, and it doesn't really change the fact that Ben failed to answer the question other than to say "science" which really isn't an answer.
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  40. Was it the part where Ben refused to answer questions, the part where he lied, or the part where he ran away?
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  41.  @anthonyc2159  He's playing Devil's Advocate. His position is irrelevant and the questions were difficult, but not bias.
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  42.  @anthonyc2159  yeah, I watched it you child. That's not bias. Again, they are extreme and hard policies, that's not a debatable point.
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  43. He did talk about his book. Everything he brought up was a topic from his book which he was contrasting with Ben's own history.
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  44. He made Ben look like a total fool. Is he hurting your feelings and that's why you feel the need to lash out?
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  45. I mean, he openly admitted to losing this interview, but okay. Maybe you're so blind that even Ben admitting he lost won't convince you.
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  46.  @deborahwyndham-lewis5188  You're right, just look at the cherry-picked stats from Joe Paul. He states something without context of the population sizes or rates they represent. Using his own stat against him we can see that being unvaxxed makes you 3.1 time more likely to be hospitalised with delta. What are you disagreeing with here?
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  47.  @deborahwyndham-lewis5188  It's definitely not true. For starters, we have records of the number of cases of myocarditis that the vaccines have caused. Current estimates, even in kids and teens, put the risk in the rare range, less than 1 in 10,000. What's more, you can mitigate this by avoiding exercise for 2 weeks after vaccination. The risk is substantially lower than the risk of myocarditis if you catch covid, which is at least 1%, with 70% of deaths having confirmed myocarditis, and 7% of surviving covid patients having some form of organ damage, usually around the heart and lungs. This bizarre claim of 150K vax deaths is completely unfounded.
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  48. We don't support him because he's familiar, we support him because he's right.
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  49. I agree. God forbid we support basic human rights in the US. Disgraceful idea.
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  50. He's on the right. Maybe look up Andrew Neil before commenting next time.
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