Podcaster Dave Smith: Ben Shapiro's coverage of Iran is “low IQ slop propaganda”
Smith: “How stupid does Ben Shapiro think people are?”
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From the June 22, 2026, edition of Part of the Problem, posted on YouTube
DAVE SMITH (HOST): But it really is rich for Ben Shapiro to go like, that's a lie. You're a liar. This isn't an endless war. An endless war is the 47-year conflict we've had with — like, what is, what is this? How stupid does Ben Shapiro think people are? This is what he's always like — I know Ben Shapiro, he's always like, talks fast and he's smug, but how stupid does he think we are?
That you literally sit here and go, oh, he's gonna say you're being misleading for using the term endless war, which is a term that's come up, you know, over the history of the the global war on terrorism over the last 25 years. Now, Rob, I guess if he wants to, I don't know. It was an old joke in The Simpsons. Ben Shapiro will be the lawyer who sues the movie The Neverending Story. Okay, you're right. It technically does end at one point.
Like yeah. Rob, you call it an endless war. Well, Afghanistan wasn't endless, Rob. It was only 20 years. It was only the longest war in American history, but it wasn't endless. Yeah then, okay. So, like, what are you even doing here? You're getting into the definition of what an endless war means. Okay yes, technically, we haven't been at war with Iran for an endless amount of time. The point is that your prescription keeps it going and going and going, and this is how wars like Iraq and Afghanistan turned into wars that were also supposed to be very quick and short.
Like, they said Iraq was gonna be a cakewalk, and it ended up being like 8 years of, like, intense bloody civil war, 10 years of military war, and then many more years of that, of military occupation. Afghanistan ended up being 20 years. It could have been like a 4-month special ops campaign. So anyway, so but, so he picks on that, but that's kind of vague the way you call it an endless war. And then goes, it's an endless conflict because this government's been in power.
As if that's what any of us are talking about. Like this is just, this is, this is low IQ slop propaganda. Oh, you mean like any Ayatollah or any Mullah being in power in Iran equals we're at war.
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SMITH: Just really dumb. Like what, do you think the rest of us are as stupid as people who fall for this shit?