{"id":516917,"date":"2026-03-05T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:22:09","slug":"ben-shapiro-calls-piers-morgan-jerry-springer-of-political-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516917\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Calls Piers Morgan ‘Jerry Springer’ Of Political TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro<\/a> tore into fellow political pundit Piers Morgan<\/a> for platforming what he described as \u201cAmerica haters\u201d on his show, calling the right-wing Brit the \u201cJerry Springer of political television\u201d during Wednesday\u2019s episode of his own YouTube series. <\/p>\n

The Daily Wire co-founder was left fuming<\/a> over Morgan\u2019s Tuesday edition of \u201cPiers Morgan Uncensored,\u201d in which comedian-turned-commentator Dave Smith slammed<\/a> the U.S. and Israel\u2019s joint attack on Iran and called the U.S. \u201carguably the worst terrorist organization in the world,\u201d given the number<\/a> of civilians<\/a> killed in U.S. military operations over the last 25 years.<\/p>\n

Accusing Morgan of making \u201ca mockery of the entire industry by putting on screen whatever dregs are still willing to go on screen,\u201d Shapiro compared the Brit to infamous tabloid talk show host Springer, then blasted Smith as unfunny and ill-informed about foreign policy.<\/p>\n

\"BenBen Shapiro, here in 2024, fumed at fellow political pundit Piers Morgan for having “America hater” Dave Smith on his show this Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Connecticut Post\/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Shapiro, a staunch defender of Israel and its allyship with the U.S., seethed as he told viewers, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, but you hate the country if you say America is the worst terrorist organization in the world. You just do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make that argument, you have to deliberately obscure the difference between actual terrorists \u2014 who actually are seeking deliberately to kill innocent people in the name of politics, not collateral damage, deliberately seeking to kill innocent people \u2014 and nation-states who are seeking to avoid civilian casualties, often while fighting those actual terrorists,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Shapiro then speculated that Smith was probably thrilled to even be mentioned by him, and called the idea of debating \u201ctrolls\u201d a waste of time.<\/p>\n

\"PiersPiers Morgan, here at London’s BBC studios last November, hosted a panel Tuesday in which comedian-turned-political podcaster Dave Smith argued that the U.S. might be “the worst terrorist organization in the world.”<\/p>\n

Carl Court via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hours after Shapiro\u2019s criticism went live, Morgan shot back a reply in a Thursday morning post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people are curious why @benshapiro has suddenly turned on me, this may explain it\u2026\u201d he said while retweeting a January video from his show. \u201cThe guy just can\u2019t take anyone criticizing Israel\u2019s govt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to their apparent falling-out, Shapiro had made several appearances on Morgan\u2019s show, including for a 2025 debate about Israeli and Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tore into fellow political pundit Piers Morgan for platforming what he described as \u201cAmerica…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[75950,49,48,75,5897,204525,22416,348],"class_list":["post-516917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ben-shapiro","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-iran","tag-jerry-springer","tag-piers-morgan","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}