The 3 Least Factual Things Ben Shapiro Has Said This Week
As usual, no one's asked for his opinion, and these facts don't care about his feelings.
Right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro really wants to know what Brett Kavanaugh's genitalia look like.
He also doesn't believe that rap music is music because his daddy says so, and he thinks American healthcare is just fine the way it is (despite multiple metrics ranking the U.S. as having the worst healthcare system of any developed nation). As the editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire and host of The Ben Shapiro Show, the 35-year-old has haunted the Intellectual Dark Web for years with his mantra, "Facts don't care about your feelings." As the author of 10 books, he's been ruining the days of millions of Americans for years with his bastardization of facts twisted to suit his conservative ideology. Here are just three of the gems he's said this past week.
Ben Shapiro dismisses allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh with "Nobody has yet described Kavanaugh's [genitalia]"
After another individual came forward about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulting an individual during his college years, Ben Shapiro expressed the best litmus test to judge if an accuser is telling the truth: "We've had a bevy of public figures in recent years, who have had their genitalia described on national television by people who alleged sexual assault. Right, Stormy Daniels famously described President Trump's genitalia, Bill Clinton's genitalia, details of such were talked about," Shapiro said. "Nobody has yet described Kavanaugh's genitalia—now that's not dispositive, maybe they were generic, who knows."
Yes, there is definitely, positively, absolutely no reason why someone who's been sexually assaulted wouldn't be able to describe their assailant's genitalia.
▲Rap Music Isn't Real Music
In a conversation with rapper Zuby on another episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, Shapiro said that rap music isn't music because his father said so: "In my view, and in the view of my music theorist father who went to music school, there are three elements to music. There is harmony, there is melody and there is rhythm," Shapiro said. "Rap only fulfills one of these, the rhythm section. There's not a lot of melody and there's not a lot of harmony. And thus, effectively, it is basically spoken rhythm. It's not actually a form of music. It's a form of rhythmic speaking. Thus, beyond the objectivity of me just not enjoying rap all that much, what I've said before is that rap is not music."
In point of fact, rap music is a form of music because of, among other things, its use of instrumentation and pitch.
▲Ben Shapiro defends the US healthcare system, saying life expectancy is high "if you take away car accident deaths, and homicide, and suicide"
After the latest Democratic debate, Shapiro defended Joe Biden's implication that Americans justly pay more for healthcare (despite said healthcare being notoriously worse than most developed countries). Shapiro took to his show to state, "The fact is medical innovation happens here, if you want a surgery you're going to be able to get a surgery in the United States of America. In fact, health care outcomes in the United States are still pretty good when you remove all of the confounding factors. In fact if you take away car accident deaths and homicide and suicide from the national statistics, what you end up with is the United States as one of the top countries as far as life expectancy. So Joe Biden is not wrong on any of this."
As plenty of Twitter commenters pointed out, "If you ignore all the deaths, life expectancy is infinite!" But to break down the particulars, one area in which the United States is egregiously lacking is simple health care for new mothers. The maternal-mortality rate has been steadily rising in the U.S., more than doubling between 1991 and 2014, and America is the only developed nation in the world where maternal health care has declined. According to the World Health Organization, black pregnant women in the U.S. die at the same rate as pregnant women in Mexico or Uzbekistan.
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