Journalist and author Douglas Murray appeared opposite Cenk Uygur of the ‘Young Turks’ on the Piers Morgan program this week to talk about the Israel/Hamas conflict. Uygur is a progressive and holds pretty much every left wing view on the topic one could imagine. Murray’s view is more in line with conservatives.
Unfortunately for Uygur, this was not even close to a fair fight. Murray made Uygur look like the president of the high school Democrats debating a renowned expert.
Spencer Brown writes at Townhall:
WATCH: Three Straight Minutes of Douglas Murray Absolutely Destroying Cenk Uygur on Israel and HamasToo often, since October 7, the anti-Israel Hamas-sympathizing figures in the media have had their lies and propaganda go unchecked. But on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” this week, Cenk Uygur was roundly put in his place by bestselling author and columnist Douglas Murray in a righteously indignant takedown.Poking holes all through Uygur’s arguments — and therefore also the smears being lobbed by his ilk — Murray demonstrated how vapid the catchphrase-y calls from those who seem enthused by the prospect of Hamas living to fight another day truly are.After Uygur retreated to the usual talking points about needing a “two-state solution” and called Israel’s supporters — including Murray — a “monster” supporting “genocide” and not caring about civilian deaths in Gaza, Murray let him have it after correctly pointing out Uygur is “just a very low-rent racist.””Yes, I do care — I care very deeply about it,” Murray said in response to Uygur’s claim that he didn’t care about the death of Gazan children. “But I also know that the responsibility for their deaths lies on Hamas which has misgoverned their society for the last 16 years and now has been leading the country into being in a war with Israel. Yes, it’s on Hamas, this.”…”As far as I can see, you’re very ill-traveled as well as rather ill-lettered and ill-spoken, and I mentioned that I cover wars and go to wars because I happen to think myself that it’s worth seeing things with your own eyes including things that you don’t particularly like but you report the truth,” Murray explained. “I don’t know if you ever even leave your own bedroom.”
Murray goes on to cite numerous other conflicts involving Muslims and points out that Uygur never talks about those situations because Jews are not involved.
Here’s the short version:
Here’s the full segment, if you’d like to watch it:
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Last word goes to Douglas Murray.
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