MARK:
A CONTROVERSIAL CONSERVATIVE
POLITICAL
COMMENTATOR IS COMING TO OHIO
STATE. BEN SHAPIRO, FORMER
EDITOR OF BREITBART
NEWS, WILL SPEAK TO A SOLD OUT
CROWD AT THE OHIO UNION TOMORROW
NIGHT..
IN THE PAST SHAPIRO'S CAMPUS
VISITS HAVE
STIRRED UP SOME CONTROVERSY AS
NBC4'S TED HART EXPLAINS - THERE
ARE
ALREADY CALLS FOR PROTESTS.
TED HART: "ITS HARD TO TELL HOW
MUCH INTEREST THERE REALLY IS ON
CAMPUS ABOUT BEN SHAPIRO'S VISIT
TOMORROW NIGHT. BUT WHEN THE 500
TICKETS FOIR THE EVENT WERE MADE
AVAILABLE ONLINE ABOUT TWO WEEKS
AGO - THEY WERE ALL GONE IN FOUR
MINUTES." HE IS THE DARLING OF
MILLENIAL CONSERVATIVES - A
POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND A
POLARIZING FIGURE FOR HIS
EXTREME VIEWS....
NAME: "WHAT EXACTLY IS THE
MEANING OF LIFE. WHAT IS THE
MEANING OF BEING A PERSON."
SHAPIRO'S ULTRA CONSERVATIVE
VIEWS ON GENDER IDENTITY
POLITICS HAVE PROMPTED PROTESTS
AT OTHER UNIVERSITY APPEARANCES
- INCLUDING THIS ONE AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY
LAST YEAR THAT RESULTED IN NINE
ARRESTS.
FLIERS POSTED ON HIGH STREET
REFER TO
SHAPIRO AS A RIGHT WING BIGOT
AND CALL FOR A
PROTEST OF HIS APPEARANCE.
JOHNNY AMUNDSON AND ANGELA
BREKALO OF THE
YOUNG DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST - SAY
THE
UNIVERSITY SHOULD HAVE REFUSED
TO PROVIDE A
ROOM FOR THE EVENT....
JOHNNY AMUNDSON, YOUNG
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS: "HE HAS
RACIST COMMENTS, RACIST PEOPLE
BELIEVE HE'S RACIST, HE'S
TRANSPHOBIC, HOMOPHOBIC, I THINK
JUST THINK THE UNIVERSITY
SHOULDN'T BE GIVING HIM A ROOM
TO SPEAK."
TED:
NAME: "THOSE ATTENDING THE
EVENT WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH
METAL DETECTORS. BEYOND THAT, A
UNIVERSITY SPOKESMAN SAID
SECURITY NEEDS WILL BE ADDRESSED
THROUGH REASONABLE MEASURES.
LOCAL FOR YOU, TED
HART NBC 4."
