Dave Smith

So Piers Morgan, you guys all know the Piers Morgan show.

They had on that guy who calls himself comic Dave Smith.

I guess he's a comedian.

Now he's like a political pundit.

But everything, I listened to like half this clip and I think it was spot on.

And he kind of says what I said at the beginning.

Let's listen to Dave Smith on Piers Morgan.

An enormous night for America, for American politics.

I got to say, like the the the idea of the Holocaust was not like fully formed in people's minds at this time.

Like remember in the episode we did about Gene Epstein and even he admits in that episode with Dave Smith.

That it didn't the idea of the Holocaust wasn't really fully formed in the American mind until the Anne Frank play.

That was pretty big, which is the 60s, 60s and 70s.

I almost said Dave Rubin.

Dave Smith to have a debate on Israel live on stage at AmFest.

Right.

He was listening to a lot of the very dissonant right, the very anti-Zionist right.

so that clip was super interesting because we actually didn't have that planned as a question, and Joe just threw that out there, and I'm so glad he did because that actually became the most interesting part of the entire interview because so shortly after that interview, I got a message from Massey over Twitter, and he did say that I could share this, otherwise I wouldn't be divulging it.

And he also said that I could share – this screenshot, where he says, he's listening to our podcast with Dave Smith.

And in that episode with Dave Smith, obviously, we had talked about this, this idea of potentially having Massey run as a Republican And then take over the Libertarian Party to essentially have this vehicle as a plan B to say, we endorse Massey.

We hope the Republicans nominate Massey in the primary.

But if but if it's looking like they're not going to, then Massey could then drop out and join the third party.

It's easier to make a change.

It really does resonate because as I had said in our episode with Dave, like, like membership at the last, uh, embarrassing convention, just terrible convention and, and how it, uh, turned out, um, it was at 9,000 members, which is like abysmal.

And, and, uh, The membership when Dave Smith took over the party in 2022 was significantly higher and his audience was significantly smaller than it is now.

That June, July is when he does the Student Action Summit.

That's Josh Hammer and Dave Smith.

And that's Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly.

That's when he sits down with those chapter leaders.

Tucker was this other symptom about the big issue.

It's about Israel.

Because Dave Smith destroying Josh Hammer has nothing to do about Tucker.

It has to do about Israel.

The war has also fueled disagreements.

Among conservative commentators, comedian Dave Smith argued that critics of the Iran war, including Tucker Carlson, Representative Thomas Massey, Joe Kent, and Megyn Kelly, were right to oppose it.

Quote, Smith wrote, Right-wing activist Laura Loomer pushed back, accusing Smith and others of supporting democratic victories and downplaying what she described as the threat of communism and Islam in America.

She called for those who opposed the war to be, quote, ostracized and protested publicly every time they leave their home, unquote, labeling them traitors to America.

And even though I've never been real part of that, you know, because I'm on the West Coast.

Luis Gomez, Big J, Dave Smith, who's no longer there, but they were always very kind to me.

So when he called me, I was excited to produce a special, have a special made that wasn't produced.

Someone else wanted to make it.