You can say one thing about conservative propagandist Ben Shapiro—he always knows how to get people talking. And his recent appearance on his Daily Wire network is no exception.
In a long diatribe about Democratic President Joe Biden's earlier this week, Shapiro compared Biden's supposedly disastrous presidency with late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide.
While discussing Biden's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Shapiro called Biden "the Kurt Cobain of politics" and accused him of shooting America in the head.
See his comments below.
Ben Shapiro: "Joe Biden is the Kurt Cobain of politics. He put a shotgun in the mouth of the American body politic and then pulled the trigger. And the brains are on the wall"pic.twitter.com/7om4KwvAbv— Jason Campbell (@Jason Campbell) 1646242682
Shapiro made the comments about Cobain while discussing Biden's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which he accused Biden of lying about in order to cover up how terrible his first year in office has been.
“This is where the lies start. Because when you’re the president of the United States and you’ve had the worst 14 months of any president of the United States ever-- Abraham Lincoln had a full scale insurrection on his hands at the beginning of his administration.
"That wasn’t caused by Abraham Lincoln. Everything bad that has happened over the last 14 months is a completely self-inflicted wound.”
It was then that Shapiro used his shockingly worded Cobain analogy in order to further underline Biden's supposed failures.
"Joe Biden is the Kurt Cobain of politics. He put a shotgun in the mouth of the American body politic and then pulled the trigger. And the brains are on the wall."
"The President of the United States is really, really bad at this ... [so] he has to just lie to you. He has to explain to you, actually everything is just fine."
Not to split hairs, but that sounds a lot more like a murder than a suicide, so the Cobain metaphor doesn't really work. And the U.S.'s COVID cases are the lowest they've been since October of 2020, when Shapiro's beloved former Republican President Donald Trump was in charge. But whatever!
On Twitter, people weren't particularly fond of Shapiro's choice of words.
Deep thoughts, from the guy who considers himself a \u2018conservative intellectual.\u2019https://twitter.com/jasonscampbell/status/1499076578675986434\u00a0\u2026— ZukiRex^2 (@ZukiRex^2) 1646254272
Seems dramatic and an unintelligible analogy.— A.R.G \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@A.R.G \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1646242812
Can we just not share the Ben Shapiro video? Instead, let's appreciate that Kurt Cobain was a kind, loving, funny guy who cared deeply about and inspired countless people. \n\nHe gave far more to the world than Shapiro ever will, and if he were here he'd probably just laugh at him.pic.twitter.com/QGoqoNYCou— Robert Maguire (@Robert Maguire) 1646255182
Or how suicide works for that matter.— PCR RitesGood (@PCR RitesGood) 1646248288
Ben Shapiro, the night before the SOTU: "Alexa: what death can I exploit for the biggest shock value? One that would really upset good people without advancing my viewpoint in the least"— okay, that's warm enough (@okay, that's warm enough) 1646246213
Kurt Cobain has been dead since 1994 and he still does more good every year than Ben Shapiro.— John Fugelsang (@John Fugelsang) 1646266587
ah, yes. kurt cobain, famous for shooting someone else, not himself.\n\nwho was it that said ben shapiro is a dumb person's idea of a smart person?https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1499076578675986434\u00a0\u2026— Leon Thomas (@Leon Thomas) 1646247858
Kurt Cobain was a genius.\nBen Shapiro is Ben Shapiro.https://twitter.com/jasonscampbell/status/1499076578675986434\u00a0\u2026— Tom Arnold (@Tom Arnold) 1646250476
Ben Shapiro knows as much about Kurt Cobain as he knows about the female orgasmhttps://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1499076578675986434\u00a0\u2026— \u2693\ufe0fImani Gandy\u2693\ufe0f (@\u2693\ufe0fImani Gandy\u2693\ufe0f) 1646315442
Sleeping soundly knowing Kurt Cobain railed against the masculinity Ben Shapiro so desperately wants to performhttps://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1499076578675986434\u00a0\u2026— Gillian Branstetter (@Gillian Branstetter) 1646315879
In conclusion, here's your friendly reminder that Kurt Cobain would have hated Ben Shapiro's guts.
I see why Ben Shapiro doesn\u2019t like Kurt Cobain. Kurt actually cared about other people.pic.twitter.com/QEco6J9mwL— M. Sukhanova (@M. Sukhanova) 1646269720
And he understood how metaphors work.
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