

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 founder 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.”