This transcript–faithfully taken at half speed to compensate for his vomitous speaking style–demonstrates how badly conservative gadfly Ben Shapiro wants to turn his pathetic, wimpy torching of toys because of a perceived demasculinization of the doll-based Ken character into a PR win. Note how Shapiro now claims people are getting outraged over his reaction to a movie about a doll when he literally set things afire because of a movie about a doll.
The reaction to me burning a Barbie car with, like, Barbie and Ken in it, is like the reaction in the Islamic world when someone burns a Koran in Sweden. It’s totally crazy. Idon’teven–like wow, guys. Wow. I mean, there’s an article, in NBC, NBCNews.com: ‘The internet is roasting for hatewatching Barbie while dressed like Ken.’ Apparently, being dressed like Ken amounts to black jeans and a black shirt. … There’s a really serious undertone to a lot of this stuff. I mean, I actually got some death threats over the Barbievideo, I’m not kidding you. There are people on, on Twitter that are literally tweeting out about, can we do something about this Shapir– like, over a Barbie movie.
Unshockingly, Ben Shapiro confuses the outrage Muslims feel when someone burns a Koran with the general mocking he endures after his publicity stunt backfires and he becomes the target of ridicule.