Conservative pundits Piers Morgan and Ben Shapiro’s feud spun out into a days-long social media spat which descended into nasty name-calling, video rants and mocking memes this week.
While the two have been at odds over the Israel-Palestinian conflict for some time, Morgan practically begged for a blow-up when he asked fellow right-wing rabble-rouser Milo Yiannopoulos about Shapiro calling him “a decrepit pervert“ and “scuzzbucket” in a rant about the Brit being abruptly deported from the U.S. last week.
When Yiannopoulos chalked The Daily Wire co-founder’s comments up to jealousy during his Tuesday interview on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Shapiro shot back with a testy X post.
“It remains a source of astonishment that in Piers Morgan’s world, the defense to charges of moral turpitude is ‘look how many clicks I get,’” he sneered.
Morgan returned fire by taunting Shapiro about his cratering viewership, writing, “It used to be your world, Little Benjy.. until people stopped watching you.”
Returning to his reply section the next day, Morgan said he’d “banned” Shapiro from his show because he’s “ratings kryptonite,” prompting his nemesis to snark back by comparing him to a controversial porn performer.
“Oh no you’re banning me from a show I announced publicly I wouldn’t do months ago because you’re Political Bonnie Blue, whatever will I do now,” Shapiro bemoaned before branding Morgan and Yiannopoulos “midwit British clickwhores” in a separate post.
Fired up enough to record a 20-minute video retort, Shapiro skewered the former CNN journalist’s YouTube show as a “Jerry Springer-Click-Bordello.”
Morgan accused Shapiro of playing the same attention-grab game with his content, using X to announce, “BREAKING: Humbled to see Little Benjy @benshapiro has used me to shamelessly and hypocritically clickbait-whore his floundering show in a desperate attempt to get his viewing numbers up!”
Things devolved into visual jabs from there, as Morgan posted a photo of himself standing beside a miniature version of Shapiro, earning the Englishman a reminder of his cinematic doppelgänger: the pigeon lady from “Home Alone.”
Then, in a feeble pivot back to the high road, Morgan replied, “Brenda Fricker was a wonderful Oscar-winning actress who died a few weeks ago, aged 81.”