Ben Shapiro Called Bill Burr ‘Woke’ After Comedian Lashed Out at CEOs as ‘Selfish, Greedy Pieces of S—.’ Burr Now Responds: ‘That Guy Is a Jerk-Off’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Bill Burr recently spoke to The New York Times and shrugged off Ben Shapiro‘s criticism of him.

The conservative political commentator and Daily Wire co-founder called out Burr in December for “going woke” after the comedian lashed out at “selfish” and “greedy” CEOs in the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson. “All he knew is if he put ‘woke’ on what I said, he would make more money,” Burr now said of Shapiro’s claim. “I don’t know who he is, but that guy is a jerk-off.” While Burr did not support Thompson’s killing, he observed on an episode of his “Monday Morning Podcast” in December that news organizations were not taking note of “the incredible lack of empathy from the general public about this because of how these insurance companies treat people when they at their most vulnerable, after we’ve all given them our money every fucking month, and now we finally need you and all you do is deny us.” “And then these pussies and all of these things are taking the pictures of their CEOs off of their websites,” Burr continued at the time. “You know, I gotta be honest with you, okay?

I love that fucking CEOs are fucking afraid right now. You should be! By and large, you’re all a bunch of selfish, greedy, fucking pieces of shit, and a lot of you are mass murderers.

You just don’t pull the trigger. That’s why it looks clean.” Burr clarified on a following podcast that he did not mean in any way that Thompson deserved to be killed.