As NewsBusters reported earlier this week, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were outraged that conservative commentators would dare to pan their precious Barbie movie. Despite doing their part to promote the movie ahead of its release, they whined that people cared so much about just “a movie about a doll.” Well, one of the people they whined about was Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, who tore into their hallow complaints on his podcast on Wednesday.
At the top of the segment, Shapiro quipped about The View was the latest in a lineup of lefties that had been freaking out about his “opposition to the morality of the Barbie movie.” He declared they were outraged that he stepped on their holy idol and reminded his viewers that they’ve refused to invite him on the show even during the days of Meghan McCain:
This presumably is why the great intellects over at The View were decrying my specific critique of the Barbie movie. So, as always, I am perfectly willing to go on The View. Not only am I perfectly willing, I’m perfectly eager to go on The View. It has been several years since I’ve suggested that I come on The View. And yet, I’m shocked, I’ve never received an invite.
Now, I know for a fact why that is. I mean, I’m friendly with Meghan McCain who was on the show for years. She routinely asked the producers if I could come on the show and they routinely said “no.” I wonder why? Hmm.
Following a montage of clips put out by NewsBusters that concluded with moderator Whoopi Goldberg suggesting Shapiro “looks like he should be in the Barbie movie,” he quipped: “In what capacity, Whoopi? … I look like I should be in the Barbie movie because of my stunning Ryan Gosling-like good looks?”
The joking aside, Shapiro said the most upsetting thing going on was “the insane gaslighting by people like Whoopi Goldberg” in terms of suddenly suggesting the movie was not important at all:
They play this dumbass game. It’s a really ridiculous clown-nose-on-clown-nose-off game: “Well, it’s so political, it’s so important, everyone should see it, it has such important things to say about the state of modern womanhood.” And then we’re like, “Yeah, what it has to say is garbage and stupid and wrong and bad for girls.” And they’re like, “It’s just a movie about a doll. It’s just a movie about a doll. Why are you so upset about a movie about a doll?”
I don’t know, why are you so upset that I’m upset about a movie about a doll?
“Because it’s not just a movie about a doll you idiots, obviously. You’re really liars. I mean, you know it’s not a movie about a doll only, it’s a movie about men and about women and about feminism and about the patriarchy. You know who would tell you that? Greta Gerwig, who made the damn thing,” he told them off.
Shapiro also trained his sights on The View’s faux conservative, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who attacked him for purportedly feeling emasculated by the movie, but he had a cold hard truth for her: what really was emasculating was her becoming “the designated conservative” her “pseudo friends dump on every single day and where you win points of favor and they pat you on the head and give you little Scooby treats if you say the right thing.”
He also made the expert point that they “spent a lot of [their] airtime on this. So, yeah. Obviously, it was important enough for you to comment on.”
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
The Ben Shapiro Show
July 26, 2023BEN SHAPIRO: Well folks, the great intellectualites over at The View, well, they had some comments on my opposition to the morality of the Barbie movie. It was wise as always.
The latest in the continuing fallout from me not liking Barbie – apparently this is just an endless national story and I am confused as to why. Except I’m not confused. As I mentioned a couple of days ago on the show, the reality is I stepped upon the idol. You’re not supposed to upon the idol, you’re not supposed to mention that Barbie is a bad movie. You’re not supposed to mention that radical feminism is a complete failure. You’re not supposed to any of that because the idolatry of these movies, of these cultural totems must be complete and you must be made to bow before them.
This presumably is why the great intellects over at The View where decrying my specific critique of the Barbie movie. So, as always, I am perfectly willing to go on The View. Not only am I perfectly willing, I’m perfectly eager to go on The View. It has been several years since I’ve suggested that I come on The View. And yet, I’m shocked, I’ve never received an invite.
Now, I know for a fact why that is. I mean, I’m friendly with Meghan McCain who was on the show for years. She routinely asked the producers if I could come on the show and they routinely said “no.” I wonder why? Hmm.
In any case, Whoopi Goldberg, leading light and a person who believes apparently Hitler was not a racist. Whoopi Goldberg had some views about panning the woke Barbie movie.
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Oh. I – In what capacity, Whoopi? That’s a strange – I look like I should be in the Barbie movie because of my stunning Ryan Gosling-like good looks? What are we talking about here?
So, just a few comments on this. A few comments on this.
Number one, the insane gaslighting by people like Whoopi Goldberg is amazing. So, made Barbie into a cultural moment. It’s a cultural moment and the movie stacked with politics. Every single review, left and right, points out the movie is stacked with politics.
They play this dumbass game. It’s a really ridiculous clown-nose-on-clown-nose-off game: “Well, it’s so political, it’s so important, everyone should see it, it has such important things to say about the state of modern womanhood.” And then we’re like, “Yeah, what it has to say is garbage and stupid and wrong and bad for girls.” And they’re like, “It’s just a movie about a doll. It’s just a movie about a doll. Why are you so upset about a movie about a doll?”
I don’t know, why are you so upset that I’m upset about a movie about a doll?
Because it’s not just movie about a doll you idiots, obviously. You’re really liars. I mean, you know it’s not a movie about a doll only, it’s a movie about men and about women and about feminism and about the patriarchy. You know who would tell you that? Greta Gerwig, who made the damn thing. You know who would tell you that? Every member of the media. Including Whoopi Goldberg.
So, this whole routine, “Oh well, I don’t even know why you’re so upset about this. I don’t even know why you care.”
Okay, first of all, the movie’s bad. I’m upset I wasted two hours of my life on the movie. But, what really is upsetting is the gaslighting, is the lying. You don’t get to say, “Look at this super important thing.” And then I notice it and I’m like, “Yeah, I think it’s bad.” And they’re like, “It’s not even important at all. Why are you even noticing it?” It’s so irritating. So, that’s number one.
Number two: Alyssa Farah Griffin. Okay. So, I know Alyssa. Okay? Alyssa used to work in Mike Pence’s office. The first time I visited the White House, Alyssa was an aide to Mike Pence and she was a fan of the show. Okay?
And I’m only making this personal because Alyssa decided to make this personal. So, let me point out here, when we are talking about, you know, emasculation and all the rest; you know what is kind of emasculating? Moving from Mike Pence’s office over to The View where you get to be the designated conservative that all your friends – your pseudo friends dump on every single day and where you win points of favor and they pat you on the head and give you little Scooby treats if you say the right thing.
As for as feeling emasculated on a personal level, I just had my fourth kid, man. Like, give me a break. My reproductive success has been assured at this point folks. I’m not particularly concerned about the emasculation charge from Alyssa Farah Griffin.
By the way, again, you guys, I noticed that you spent a lot of your airtime on this. So, yeah. Obviously, it was important enough for you to comment on.
Here’s the overall take. The overall take again, is that for a group of wine moms who are daytime drunk watching the Barbie movie by themselves crying at America Ferrera, whining about being a woman, and then they go on The View, and then they talk about it, and then you mention the movie is bad. This is idolatry. You must never ever ever speak ill of the Greta Gerwigs of the world. You must speak ill of a movie as important as this. And if you do, then they will pretend that the real story is that, “Why are you even noticing? Why? It’s a movie about a doll.”
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