TV host Bill Maher shut down noted right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro with a comment about how news is spread in connection with the shooting death of fellow conservative Charlie Kirk.
It started with Shapiro saying we "know" that the suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, was "of the political left." Shapiro cited a report from the Guardian, which was later partly retracted.
"How are you so sure?" Maher asks Shapiro as Maher explains various examples of initial reports that later fell flat. Maher then brought up other reports that Robinson could be right-wing, and Shapiro was stopped in his tracks before admitting that was a possibility, too.
After the retraction of part of the Guardian piece, ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan chimed in, "This was Ben Shapiro’s big source last night on Bill Maher for claiming it had been proved the shooter was a leftist."