Coleman Hughes

It's a common talking point.

You heard this from Dave Smith when he got absolutely belted on this exact topic with Coleman Hughes.

The exact same thing happened.

In fact, everyone...

I was trying to fix it on mine if I could.

You can go back.

Okay, I'll just say, just real quick, everyone just go look up this date, okay? So he said, this is something we heard from Dave Smith when Coleman Hughes corrected him.

This is not just Ahmed or Dave Smith saying this.

This is an atheist thinking that there's nothing weird about that.

And frankly, Dave Smith humiliates that Zionist here, Coleman Hughes in this case, over the elephant in the room that he doesn't want to acknowledge because acknowledging it would concede the argument to Dave.

This one is crazy.

It's absurd, but let's break it down.

This is now again.

Yeah, I think Dave is right.

I mean, Coleman Hughes is so eager to downplay the influence of Netanyahu in the Israel lobby in launching this war.

Even though Israel has talked about launching this war for 30 years, Benjamin Netanyahu made a political career on it, and the neocons and Zionists within the United States that have held political power couldn't stop talking about it.

There are still diehard pro-Israel Zionists who still believe that Iran represented a nuclear threat, even if they're willing to admit that Iran didn't have a nuclear weapon.

Coleman Hughes is one of those people, and he goes against Dave Smith here, who frankly tears apart Coleman Hughes on the idea that Iran was on the cusp of acquiring a nuke, of detonating it within two weeks if the United States and Israel didn't strike Iran, and doubles down on defending the nuclear weapon propaganda that has been completely exposed as a lie.

Let's break down this fiery debate.

It gets pretty contentious here.

Now saying we have intelligence that says they're sprinting now, that's a lie.

Alright, so there's a lot wrong with this.

First of all, I'm sorry if Coleman Hughes is going to say that's not the biggest lie ever, that they were going to nuke the world within two weeks.

I'm sorry.

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

My guest today is Saritha Komatireddy.

Saritha is an attorney and former federal prosecutor who is currently running for New York Attorney General against Letitia James.

And I'm going to actually, you know...

If you people look at that debate, they see two candidates that offer very different visions for the future.

And, you know, that's one of the things I love about this process, Coleman.

It gives people a chance to actually know their candidates.

And, you know, it's interesting you call it a performance and that's a totally normal thing to call a debate.

And that's why anti-Zionism has sort of taken off.

Because, you know, as I think I mentioned to Arahorn earlier, she just said in a conversation with Coleman Hughes, no one knows what Zionism is.

She's

right.

And by the way, in this respect, I am kind of, I've said this for some time now, I'm kind of an accelerationist.

Sadly, you know, I was on Coleman Hughes' podcast earlier this week, and he asked me about He said, well, you know, how do you stop this sort of thing happening in Britain? And no one's asked me that question before.

So I had to think about it.

And I just sat and thought about it for a few seconds.

I wanna play this clip, Linda, and then I'll come to you.

Um, speaking of that kind of division, um, Coleman Hughes testified, uh, before the Judici- Judiciary Committee as well, and he talked about why he should not get reparations, but he's had some thoughts about who should.

If we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further, making it harder to build the political coalitions required to solve the problems facing Black people today.

Wow.

Right.

You know, are we owed from...

H- even Coleman Hughes says that we're owed for repa- or w- some of us are owed reparations for Jim Crow, which is post-slavery.

Well, I just, um, there are a few points here.

Uh, he was in fire but, uh, very, it was a very small-time thing.

Few people that I just said, "Oh, this person's going places," uh, Harry Enten, Coleman Hughes, and you were...

I remember meeting you and saying, "Oh, God.

[laughs] This guy is really effing smart," you know? And sure enough, now you are, you, you blew right through the letters editor, that's what you were, and now you are on the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

You know how from time to time, something ...

You're engaged in one thing in your life, and then something else happens in some sort of coincidence, and it's perfectly appropriate to whatever it is you're focused on at that moment.

I was in London this weekend, two chapters into your book, and on Coleman Hughes's recommendation, I went to visit the Churchill War Room.

And right when you get there, plastered in the Churchill War Room is one of Churchill's statements, and you tell me how it compares to the Israeli War Room.

It was a real disappointment.

Um, uh, Coleman, Coleman Hughes just really hasn't gotten much beyond...

He hasn't gotten much beyond the New Atheists.

Um, hasn't, hasn't really understood any Tom Holland, hasn't really got much [laughs] beyond the New Atheists, I'll just say it that way.

But, you know, you can see this as, on one hand, uh, being an indictment against sola Scriptura.

But on the other hand, you can also see it as the fact that right now in Internet stan, everyone's an autodidact, and everybody's sort of making things up.

I was really surprised when Coleman Hughes mentioned Bart Ehrman, and she's like, "Who?" And it shows you there's not sort of a common culture, and I would say that even church catechesis that in previous centuries sort of formed the epigenetic layer that helped people interpret the Bible.

I was thinking a lot about confessionalism, and this'll sort of, you know, get Luke's juices going.