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Ben Shapiro Loses Sponsors Over 'March for Life' Appearance

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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro’s speech at the March for Life on Friday has cost him a second sponsor.

Quip, a maker of toothbrushes, pulled its ads Friday. Later in the day Calm, a relaxation and meditation app, announced that it too would stop advertising on Shapiro’s podcast.

Shapiro came under fire for comments about the idea of aborting Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

The Daily Wire editor-in-chief told the crowd at the Washington, D.C., march that “no pro-life person would kill baby Hitler” because “baby Hitler was a baby.”



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The Huffington Post was the first to report that Quip was distancing itself from Shapiro.

“Our mission is to make good oral health more accessible to everyone, and podcast advertising is one way we’re able to realize this,” Quip said in a statement. “However, following one of our ads being read in a venue we did not endorse, we have chosen to discontinue our advertising relationship with this show. We are also taking steps to ensure all of our advertising partners are aligned with our oral health mission and values.”

Calm tweeted its decision.

“We do not align with this message. We’re pulling our sponsorship,” the company said.

Shapiro was broadcasting live during Friday’s march, the biggest annual event of America’s pro-life movement, when he began a discussion of “baby Hitler.”

“The argument, I guess here, is that would you kill baby Hitler?” Shapiro said.

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“And the truth is that no pro-life person on earth would kill baby Hitler, because baby Hitler wasn’t Hitler, adult Hitler was Hitler. Baby Hitler was a baby.

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“What you presumably want to do with baby Hitler is take baby Hitler out of baby Hitler’s house and move baby Hitler into a better house where he would not grow up to be Hitler, right? That’s the idea.”

Self-described “progressive activist” Jordan Uhl tweeted a short clip of Shapiro’s comments.

It wasn’t long before “#babyhitler” was trending on Twitter and Shapiro was being bombarded with criticism.

Shapiro responded Friday by saying Uhl cut his remarks “completely out of context.”

“Here’s the good news: you don’t have to take my word for it!” he tweeted. “Simply watch the entire video or listen to today’s podcast, in which I say all of this. Or, alternatively, keep lying.”

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Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.
Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.
Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com.
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