
American comedian Dave Smith and British cultural critic Douglas Murray recently joined Joe Rogan for a much-discussed episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Murray confronted Rogan and criticised him to his face for platforming non-experts to discuss...
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J.D. Vance
Foreign.
Jimmy Dore
Come see us in Los Angeles, Bakersfield, San Jose, Buffalo, New York, Toledo, Ohio, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Belfast, London, and a lot more. Go to jimmy dore.com for a link for the cheapest tickets. Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this?
J.D. Vance
Hey, man. This is J.D. vance.
Jimmy Dore
This is my favorite. This is my new favorite impression.
J.D. Vance
There's my. That's me.
Jimmy Dore
Hey, Mr. Vice President. How you doing?
J.D. Vance
Okay. For real? For real.
Kurt Metzger
For real.
J.D. Vance
Yeah, I'm doing pretty awesome, man.
Jimmy Dore
Well, that's nice to hear. What's put you in such a good mood?
J.D. Vance
Basically, I'm just doing a really good job at work, and I'm one of those guys that just, you know, that makes me feel good.
Jimmy Dore
I totally understand. Could. Could you. Could you elaborate?
J.D. Vance
Well, do you remember how the sort of main part of my job was just to say stuff that makes people mad?
Jimmy Dore
Yes, I do.
J.D. Vance
Well, obviously it stands to reason that the more people I make mad, the better I'm doing at my job. So if I can say. So if I can say one thing and make a vast multitude of people angry, then I'm improving workplace efficiency. Right?
Jimmy Dore
I suppose you're right.
J.D. Vance
Well, my dude, how's about 1 billion people?
Jimmy Dore
Wow.
J.D. Vance
That's right, Jimmy. I pissed off the entire nation of China.
Jimmy Dore
How? How so?
J.D. Vance
Well, in the course of explaining the President's approach to tariffs, I condescending referred to the, quote, chinese peasants. Oh, no, this is real, by the way. Who work in the factories over there. And their social media is going bananas or whatever. They cut up on their cereal over there. Mango.
Jimmy Dore
I don't know.
J.D. Vance
They get so mad, dude, they are so sensitive. Have you ever insulted a Chinese person?
Jimmy Dore
No, not never.
J.D. Vance
Yeah, sure. Well, all you have to do is just joke about them being, you know, bad drivers or something. Then they flip out like, you round eyes, we invented fireworks or whatever. They're very proud of their. So calling them a bunch of peasants is like deploying a nuclear weapon.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, I'd imagine.
J.D. Vance
So now they're insulting me back. Retaliatory insults, right? Bold move. So far, they've been pretty weak sauce, pointing out that I'm the peasant. I'm the peasant because I wrote a book called Hillbilly Elegy. Like, yeah, Yao Ming. I named the book that. What a burn. But if they do manage to land a zinger, I will have to counter retaliate with further insults. That's just how this is done.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, no, please don't, dude.
J.D. Vance
I'm being totally serious right now. I'm not playing.
Jimmy Dore
Well, what would You. What would you say?
J.D. Vance
Okay, you know those, like, famous terracotta warrior statues that were supposedly buried with the first Han emperor thousands of years ago? There's hundreds of these clay fuckers and they got found by an archaeologist in the 70s. You've seen them, right? Yeah, dude, everybody knows those are fake as shit, but nobody has the balls to say is so obvious. Dude, they don't even look old. Each one of those things looks like something you'd buy at home. Goods for 39.99 reduced from 59.99 because no one is buying them. Because they're dumb, they're cheap and fake, and the Chinese made them just to look cool to the world.
Jimmy Dore
That's quite an accusation.
J.D. Vance
Oh, come on, dude. I thought you of all people would be all over this. I'm sick of this. These lying ass Chinese people.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, come on now.
Kurt Metzger
What?
J.D. Vance
I didn't say a bad word. What? Ass? Sorry. Not sorry. I'll insult their statues. America is tired of this and we don't have to put up with it anymore.
Jimmy Dore
Did you hear that? Trump just put a 90 day pause on all these tariffs except China.
J.D. Vance
No, wait, are you serious?
Jimmy Dore
Yes, just earlier today.
J.D. Vance
God damn it. There's a specific dude whose job it is to come tell me this stuff. Maybe he got doached. Anyway, what that means on my end is that I have to pause insults on other countries like Denmark and Canada. But I have a green light to insult China still, which is good. Most of my roast jokes are about China anyway.
Jimmy Dore
Does the President really have any plan at all with these tariffs? This just sounds like chaos.
J.D. Vance
Between you and me, I'd say absolutely not. Like, no doubt, dude. Like. But publicly I'll say the president is playing 5D chess, that no one in the world is smart enough to detect just him.
Jimmy Dore
Honestly, Trump doesn't seem like a guy who'd even play regular chess.
J.D. Vance
Oh, no way. Supposedly someone tried to teach him one time and details are sketchy, but there was a lot of yelling, the board got ripped in half, and he had eaten at least one of the chess pieces.
Jimmy Dore
I see.
J.D. Vance
Yeah, dude, I'm staying out of it. Somebody basically gave a monkey a gun, and I'm just sticking to my assigned tasks of making people mad by saying.
Jimmy Dore
Things.
J.D. Vance
Which I'm very good at. And my target is now the Chinese. So that's like fish in a barrel. So I'm in my lane. I'm focused, unbothered, moisturized, ready for the task at hand.
Jimmy Dore
So you're just really thriving then, Jimmy, you know It.
J.D. Vance
It is an amazing time to be alive. You know, if you're not most people.
Jimmy Dore
Shouldn'T your administration be trying to improve people's lives instead of financially imperil them?
J.D. Vance
Well, now, that's so stupid. It sounds like something a Chinaman would say.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, God.
J.D. Vance
Boom. Roasted. That's from the office. I got you and China in one zinger. Am I the insult goat or what? Just earning my paycheck, doing the thing. Okay, well, I have to go. I'm going to get AI to make a fake commercial for a restaurant that serves dogs and cats. I'll let you know how it turns out later, Gator.
Jimmy Dore
Okay. Establishment media sucks. August light. And so good luck. We'll shoot the. I Can't Afford why he's fomenting this. Watch and see as his jack off the medium speeds and jumps the medium and hit some head on. It's the Chimney Door show. So Dave Smith went on Joe. Joe Rogan's show, and he debated this guy, Douglas Murray. Douglas Murray, number one best selling author of eight books, blah, blah. He writes for the Spectator, the New York Post, and he's a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Right. So that's just suspect. But Douglas Murray is not an expert on anything. He is a. He's. I think he has a bachelor's degree. And what is he. Can you see what. He has his bachelor's degree, and I want to say English, but I think that's wrong. But anyway. But the reason why I mentioned that is that he. His whole argument gets. Is. His whole argument is you're not an expert. Meanwhile, he's not an expert. What does that mean? You're an expert. Right. Dr. Fauci is an expert. Right. The people saying that we should. Should have gone into Iraq and Libya and Ukraine, they're experts. Degree in English. Degree in English. Is that what it's. Yeah. Douglas Murray. Yeah, yeah. It's a degree. He has an undergrad undergraduate degree. Right. Just a bachelor's in English looks. So. I mean, and if it wasn't for the people who. Anyway, let's. I'm going to play a little bit of this for you and Just to. Just to show you. By the way, Joe Rogan's audience completely revolted against Douglas Murray. Now, Douglas Murray, a lot of people liked him. I like the. When he. He argued against censorship, he argued against open borders in Europe. And so that's not to say that he's wrong about everything. I'm just to say that during this debate on Joe Rogan, he exposed himself for using the most moronic non. Arguments possible. And you're going to see it. I'll play this for you. This is like five minutes. I'm just going to. Let's just watch this.
Douglas Murray
I do also think that one of the big, kind of the bigger picture dynamics to all of this is that we have, at least since 9 11, been in a state of perpetual war. And all of these wars have been disasters. They have been so many lies involved in selling all of them.
Jimmy Dore
I mean, now just. I'll stop it quickly. Douglas Murray, very pro war. Keep that in mind. Okay. And so that's why he, he's not gonna, he doesn't like Dave saying this. And, and he's, you know, so again, wrong, tremendously wrong on him. Hugely important things. He's not an expert on war. He's not a general. He didn't go to war college. But he gets to opine on it. Everybody gets to opine on it. Okay, here we go.
Douglas Murray
The whole Iraq war, the whole war in Afghanistan, just lying the whole way through. I mean, I remember literally having conversations with green berets in the middle of the war in Afghanistan. And they're like, george W. Bush is telling you that the army we're building up there is really successful. This thing's gonna fall in a week without us. And then all through the Obama administration, it's just like lie after lie after lie with disastrous wars. And so this does create a fertile ground for people to say, I wonder if they were lying about all these wars.
Joe Rogan
Sure.
Douglas Murray
Again, I'm not really trying to argue about World War II. I'd rather argue about it.
Joe Rogan
I think the interesting question is whether you're busy watering it.
Dave Smith
Well, should you not talk about mistakes that were made? Overall?
Joe Rogan
Absolutely.
Dave Smith
Okay, you should.
Joe Rogan
Absolutely.
Jimmy Dore
So he's immediately contradicting himself. But Douglas Murray immediately says, you shouldn't say, you shouldn't talk about these things. And then Joe says, well, you're not supposed to talk about it. He goes, oh, no, you should talk about it. Okay. I mean, it's, it's like this for an hour.
Kurt Metzger
At least say what I want. That's what he means.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So Kurt is here. Hey, Kurt.
Kurt Metzger
Hey.
Jimmy Dore
So here we go, right?
Joe Rogan
All four going back and looking at mistakes.
Jimmy Dore
So what are you.
Dave Smith
What is your argument?
Jimmy Dore
So. So what is your argument? Well, here's. Let's hear what he's. Let's hear this secured his logic.
Joe Rogan
He uses very weird thing to go back, zone in on a man, say this one thing is a mistake, and should characterize him. And you ignore everything.
Dave Smith
You're taking him out of context when you're talking about Daryl, who's done. What was it, 30 plus hours.
Joe Rogan
So what? 30 plus hours of testing. You do that in a week. Yeah, it's a very.
Jimmy Dore
It's a very different.
Douglas Murray
Very different.
Dave Smith
He's not doing a podcast like Talking to People.
Kurt Metzger
Okay.
Joe Rogan
Nor is he doing scholarly work. Nor is he working in the archives, clearly. Come on. I mean, this is. He is not the historian of our era.
Dave Smith
He's not complaining.
Jimmy Dore
So nobody's allowed to give an opinion or to do 30 hours of a podcast on a subject if you clearly don't have a degree in it. He doesn't have a degree in.
Kurt Metzger
PhD from Tel Aviv or something?
Jimmy Dore
No, he has an undergraduate degree in English. Yeah.
Kurt Metzger
Wow. Well, he's got a PhD in SAS.
Joe Rogan
This is the thing. Joke. This is like punching jelly.
Jimmy Dore
No, but you don't. You don't consume his work.
Joe Rogan
I'm saying. Because I don't need to consume endless.
Jimmy Dore
Versions of a revisionist like punching jelly. Is that some kind of homophobic slur? Well, well, Mr. Murray. Jelly's right there. Start punching. Don't tell me about punching jelly. And don't punch the jelly. Great. Now I'm hungry and I have a boner. Okay. So my point is, he doesn't ever punch. He just makes these BS arguments that you're not an expert and you're focusing on the wrong. He doesn't ever make an actual argument about anything. This was a bad idea. So what I think, Douglas. So, first of all, Glenn Greenwald made this point that if someone has a British accent, most people ascribe about 20% higher IQ points than they should. And if someone has a Southern American accent, they go 20% lower. Lower than they should. But this is Sam Harris.
Kurt Metzger
For some reason, they give him, like, 40 points.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, because if you talk really softly, really softly, it makes you sound smarter.
Kurt Metzger
If more kids had died. Pandemic. And a lot more people would have been concerned about the dead kids.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah. If the. If something that didn't happen would have happened, then things would have been different. If. If the facts would have lined up differently. Believe me, things would have been different. If the facts were different. That's what. That's. That's Sam Harris's argument about COVID and now his. So anyway, so let's get back to this history.
Joe Rogan
I understand revisionist history.
Dave Smith
If you listen to his work, it's not revisionist history. He's basing it on historical.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, I know, but okay, so this is my point about jelly. It's a shape shifting thing. Comedian or historian.
Dave Smith
He's not a comedian.
Joe Rogan
Historian.
Jimmy Dore
So he's saying that you can't be a comedian and talk about history. You have to be a history expert, meaning you have to be degreed. I guess that's what he means. And if you're a comedian, you're not allowed to talk about anything which is just complete garbage. Say it.
Kurt Metzger
Dave Smith is the shape shifting jelly.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, that's what he's saying.
Kurt Metzger
Pick one. Comedian or historian?
Jimmy Dore
Well, what are you? What are you? Douglas Murray is. You're not a historian, you're not an expert. You're just a guy with an accent who's wrong about most things.
Kurt Metzger
Right about something sweet has bar a pay.
Jimmy Dore
Yes, right about some things, wrong about most things. And wrong in a glaring way.
Joe Rogan
Or podcast would be historian or actual historian. You say he doesn't claim to be a historian, but he's pumping out tens of hours of.
Dave Smith
Neither does Dan Carlin. He doesn't claim to be historian either.
Joe Rogan
You see my point about the move.
Jimmy Dore
So Dan Carlin. No, he doesn't criticize Dan Carlin because Dan Carlin agrees with him on Israel, Palestine and all the other garbage. So it's okay if a guy doesn't. Isn't a bonafide historian. Credentialed. And he opines. It's just what people that disagree with him. So this was the worst idea for Douglas Murray to do this. What I think Douglas Murray thought. I think he thought he was such an intellectual superior to Joe Rogan and Dave Smith that he was gonna just come in there and be able to just wipe the floor with them. And then of course, Dave Smith and Joe Rogan are much smarter than he thought they were. And just using basic logic and he gets exposed. This was such a bad idea for him to do this. Such a bad idea. He lost lots of fans. You know who didn't lose lots of fans? Joe Rogan and Dave Smith. They didn't lose one fan during this. This guy. Lots of people were like, you know what? I really liked him because of what he said around censorship or Covid or immigrant. Yeah, but this was just disgusting. Yes, it was. Okay, so I'll try to stop stopping it. But here we go.
Joe Rogan
It's like some weird jiu jitsu move where you say, hang on, you know all about this as well. You say, I'm not a historian, but I'm going to spend my time talking about history. I'm not a journalist. But I'm going to spend my time talking about this thing. I'm not an expert on this, but I'm going to spend my time talking about this thing. It's a weird move.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, yeah. By jujitsu move, you mean by destroying yourself with just logic? You mean that kind of jiu jitsu with just. By a guy using facts and logic and actual arguments to destroy your bullshit. That's the Jiu jitsu. Because he's also a comedian. Because someone also excels at an art, they're not also allowed to make great arguments about something else. This. This is what it was like for the whole fricking show.
Kurt Metzger
Well, he's missing. The main point is. Yeah, no, the. Here's the problem. The experts have cocked this up so bad.
Jimmy Dore
Yes.
Kurt Metzger
An idiot can now see the obvious, that all the wars were lies and a bad idea. You don't have to be bright. You had to have seen some TV and been outside once or twice.
Jimmy Dore
It's exactly right. Like.
Kurt Metzger
So the experts have screwed up to the point that they. It's not jujitsu. They did it to themselves.
Jimmy Dore
I guess it's a jujitsu. Is it a jujitsu move? Like, you know, when you're punching yourself in your own dick and shouting, shut up, you're not an expert. So here. Here we go.
Joe Rogan
No, you don't think.
Douglas Murray
No, I'm a free American. I can talk about what I like to notice.
Joe Rogan
You can, but.
Douglas Murray
So we all point.
Joe Rogan
The point is, what are you pushing? What are you watering?
Douglas Murray
What am I pushing?
Joe Rogan
Yes.
Douglas Murray
Liberty, free markets, peace, prosperity, not getting in another stupid catastrophic war which we're on the precipice of right now. That's what I'm pushing.
Joe Rogan
What are we on the precipice of?
Douglas Murray
Well, I think you were just talking about it the other day. Everyone I hear on the inside says so.
Jimmy Dore
A guy who comes on to say you guys aren't experts doesn't even know about the precipice of the war we're on right now. What?
Douglas Murray
Trespass, about to attack around. I think you just said something about that the other day. Am I wrong about that? I thought I saw in one of your interviews that you did.
Joe Rogan
No, that doesn't mean we are on the verge of a war. I mean, you keep referring to we being in wars. There's a very big difference between a country having a military that's engaged and.
Jimmy Dore
So this is the kind of arguments he does. He's saying we. Yes, that's what everyone uses, that term. Everyone uses that pronoun. When they talk about their country being in a war, they say we for. When the United States is in a war, they say this is the kind of. So he doesn't have an argument. And so they spend almost 90% of the time doing bullshit like this.
Kurt Metzger
You're talking in a circle.
Jimmy Dore
Talks in a circle. Of course you're allowed to talk about it, but you shouldn't talk about if you're not an expert. Well, you're not everybody's. It's amazing.
Kurt Metzger
I talked to Dave right after this in the green room. He was there, Joe were there. And Dave was like, I don't know, maybe I should have been more aggressive at him. Like, no, that's what I would have done. Which is a big mistake. Joe wanted him to be exactly. Was calm and let this idiot demonstrate what he's. What he brought to the table. I don't want to hear, hey, I know I'm not an expert. Hey, can you tell me why my thing's wrong? Yes, I'd like your expertise to tell me I'm wrong because I don't want to be right about this. By the way, Douglas, if, if, if.
Jimmy Dore
If Dave Smith is not an expert like you say, you should be able to wipe the floor with them. Then this non expert who doesn't know what he's talking about, why don't you go after Dave Smith's arguments and expose them for being wrong? Well, because they're right and he's the guy who doesn't know what he's talking about, which is why he talks about.
Kurt Metzger
Semantics and it's already settled. Consensus history stuff. That's what his first thing is like. I'm not going to go re examine things. I've already decided.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, here we go.
Joe Rogan
And a country being at war. This country has not been at war for 25 years. You have not been fighting for the American homeland for 25 years.
Douglas Murray
Yes, we haven't. That's true. We haven't had a war on our shores. We've been picking on third world countries.
Kurt Metzger
We were, they told us we fight them there so we don't fight them here.
Jimmy Dore
That's exactly right.
Kurt Metzger
Leader used in the Ukraine thing.
Jimmy Dore
That's exactly right.
Kurt Metzger
They said it was for our liberty.
Jimmy Dore
That's right.
Kurt Metzger
Preemptive.
Jimmy Dore
Right. So, okay, around the world.
Joe Rogan
Well, you haven't been randomly picking on them. I mean, Afghanistan, you went.
Douglas Murray
I didn't say it was random.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, right. Okay. It wasn't like you suddenly decided to bomb again Myanmar or something. We went for Afghanistan to Find bin Laden and take revenge for 911 and stop an attack like that happening again on the American homeland. That is very different from a country being at war.
Douglas Murray
Yeah, but that's a total mischaracterization of the war in Afghanistan. It's one thing to say that might be an accurate characterization of the special operations mission in late 2001. But then we thought, then we thought a 20 year regime change war against the Taliban.
Joe Rogan
Plus you got dragged into the quicksand of war.
Douglas Murray
Okay, fine, but I thought it wasn't a war. Like what I don't get.
Jimmy Dore
And he just said you, he just did the thing that he said Dave Smith shouldn't do. We, we. You ha. Then he said, well you got dragged into it. He just did the exact same thing. So it just shows you he's just grasping at straws, using bullshit argument after bullshit argument to try to back up his bullshit position, which is completely easily poked holes through. Which is what Dave Smith, you got.
Kurt Metzger
Dragged into the quicksand of war, which he just said we didn't have yet.
Jimmy Dore
We didn't have.
Kurt Metzger
And by the way, how is it different? Is there a certain number of people that have to die, A certain number of troops that have to go over a certain amount of money we spend? We've had a war since World War II. Apparently.
Jimmy Dore
Apparently officially it's your, it's your use.
Joe Rogan
Of we as if you're personally like suffering this war. Yeah, you're taxed.
Douglas Murray
When I say we're tax implied so.
Joe Rogan
We pay for it. Okay, fine.
Douglas Murray
Douglas, would you go if I went back and corrected you on everybody time you've used the term we to refer to your government or something like that? Like if I were to say, oh, we just imposed tariffs on China, would you point out that I didn't and it was the Trump administration.
Joe Rogan
I'm saying you take it obviously very personally and that's your right to do so.
Jimmy Dore
Of course.
Joe Rogan
I'm just trying to make sure we're accurate here.
Douglas Murray
What do you think I'm taking personally.
Joe Rogan
Such that the American wars, sure, yeah.
Douglas Murray
I think they've killed hundreds of thousands of people and cost my country $8 trillion and degraded my country very much.
Joe Rogan
And there's a very good argument to make on that. I'm still.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, so then, so then why don't you counter that argument then? But instead you're going to start talking instead, you're just going to talk about semantics instead?
Kurt Metzger
Well, there's a very good argument to be made for that. Yeah, I know, I just Made it.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, he just made it.
Kurt Metzger
I just made that very good argument in front of your dumb face. Was I jelly?
Joe Rogan
Bemused about this move from. I'm an expert on this and I have views.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, enough.
Joe Rogan
I'm a comedian.
Douglas Murray
I've never claimed to be an expert on anything.
Joe Rogan
This is the problem, Joe. I mean, if somebody says you have.
Dave Smith
To claim to be an expert on something to have an opinion on something.
Joe Rogan
You don't have to be. You don't have to be.
Jimmy Dore
Well, that's what you're saying.
Joe Rogan
I'm not a historian.
Jimmy Dore
That's exactly what he's saying. That's exactly what you're saying. So again, he's. He'll do anything except engage Dave Smith's actual arguments. This is circular logic. This is that. It's all semantical. None of it means anything. And by the way, Douglas Murray, not an expert on jack shit. Unless you want to talk about his English degree, which he got an undergraduate degree in.
Kurt Metzger
I thought he had some. At least a Bill Cosby doctorate. At least all these guys that go on to argue this stuff. Coleman Hughes, after I went on and asked Norman Finkelstein when he was talking to Destiny because Destiny threatened to sue about this. But Destiny, some group was paying Destiny and coached him.
Jimmy Dore
Yes.
Kurt Metzger
For a week before he got torn apart.
Jimmy Dore
That's right.
Kurt Metzger
I'll bet you this idiot got coaching before this. Yeah, and this is the result.
Jimmy Dore
And this is the result story.
Joe Rogan
But I'm pumping out history. I'm not an expert, but I'm talking all the time about this.
Dave Smith
But you're not even talking about specifically on what he just said.
Jimmy Dore
Yes.
Joe Rogan
No, I'm saying this is my point about this. You say I'm not an expert.
Dave Smith
So what's the solution? To not talk about it?
Joe Rogan
No, it's to have more experts around.
Douglas Murray
Expert class hasn't done a great job.
Jimmy Dore
I know.
Douglas Murray
This is follow the science.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, but you know what I just said to you? I agree.
Douglas Murray
But one of the problems during all of COVID I will put my track record against any of the expert class on Covid. I'm glad to do that. So should I have just shut up? Should I have shut up by opposing lockdowns and opposing vaccine mandates and talk.
Dave Smith
About that was the argument.
Douglas Murray
That's the entire argument that you're making. Let the experts handle this.
Jimmy Dore
So that's. So that's what this show was. If you want to see more of it, that's what. That's what it was like for three hours straight.
Kurt Metzger
Hey, Jimmy, you know, I'm no, I'm no Sir Michael Rappaport. You know, I'm not. Hey, Dave Rubin, that shape shifting jelly. Isn't he a comedian and a guy that. I don't. I've never saw him do comedy in New York, by the way. I've only seen him do one thing. But I know Douglas Murray don't have no problem with Dave Rubin.
Jimmy Dore
Of course not. And Douglas Murray should be. He's, he's more, he's, he's better suited to be a. Like one of those mean chefs yelling. Who shouts at you for not having a clean grill. That's, that's what he should be doing. Okay, so that's. So I wanted to show you this real quick. Here's, here's one more stupid thing he.
Joe Rogan
Did, was no deficit.
Jimmy Dore
Turn it up. Turning in.
Joe Rogan
I've been plenty of.
Douglas Murray
There's no deficit.
Jimmy Dore
No, there are plenty.
Joe Rogan
There are plenty. Have you been to the crossing points? No.
Jimmy Dore
So here he is trying to diminish Dave Smith's argument. Not by attacking his argument, by saying that you're not allowed to have an argument because you haven't physically been in Israel. That's like saying, I can't have an opinion on Vietnam because I haven't been to Vietnam. I can't have an opinion on the Iraq war, both of them, which we were lied into. I can't because I haven't been to Iraq. I can't have an opinion on liberty. Libya or Syria or. Which we were 100% right about, by the way. And Ukraine, I can't have because I haven't been there. So this is his argument. Now, again, it's not about the argument. It's about why you're not allowed to have an argument. And he is, because he has an accent. He doesn't have a degree in shit.
Kurt Metzger
Well, he's been to the crossing point, but he's been.
Jimmy Dore
He's been to Israel.
Kurt Metzger
Yeah, but why are there crossing points in these people's land where they're from?
Jimmy Dore
Well, he doesn't want to argue.
Kurt Metzger
Are there any crossing points? Why are there settlements? Have you been to a settlement? Why is that a thing? Why you have settlers, that right? It shows me you're trying to take all the land from those people, doesn't it?
Joe Rogan
When were you last there at all?
Douglas Murray
I've never been.
Joe Rogan
You've never been?
Douglas Murray
Well, am I not allowed to talk about it now? I've never been to. Have you ever been to Nazi Germany? Are you allowed to have feelings about them?
Joe Rogan
You can't Time travel.
Jimmy Dore
But you can't travel.
Kurt Metzger
Right.
Douglas Murray
Okay, but so what? So what's the point? Like.
Joe Rogan
No, I find that lots of people.
Douglas Murray
Have been there and agree with me. And lots of people have been there and agree with you.
Joe Rogan
But if you want to spend a year and a half talking about. About a place, you should at least do the courtesy of visiting it.
Douglas Murray
I just think this is a minority.
Kurt Metzger
That is Ukraine. Douglas Murray support that, supports that.
Jimmy Dore
That is a non argument. That's not an argument. You haven't been there. You should do the courtesy. The courtesy? Yeah. That's not an argument. I could have. I can have an opinion on Venezuela and the United States sanctions on it. I don't have to go to Venezuela to have that. I don't have to go to the border to opine about open borders. I don't. I don't have to. I don't. You don't have to do these things. I don't have to go to Florida to talk about how they handled Covid better than every other state. This is just. Again, this is. So this is what happened.
Kurt Metzger
Courtesy thing, Jimmy. He goes, how you should have the courtesy. Well, duly noted, Douglas. Next time, buddy. Next genocide, I'll do the courtesy of going to the checkpoints myself. But now that we're here, let's talk about the bullshit that they're doing.
Jimmy Dore
That's right.
Kurt Metzger
And answer my goddamn questions. You call other people jelly.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, that's exactly right. He. He did this disgusting thing where saying that. Well, I wanted to show you that his audience. The audience. So first of all, here he is. Douglas Murray touted his trips to Israel and the Gaza border as some sort of proof of his impartiality and expertise while in Israel last year, Murray received an award from the Israeli government for serving as their propagandist. Here it is. Douglas Murray has received an award from Israel President Itzhak Herzog for services rendered during the Gaza genocide. It's an extraordinary privilege for me to align with the state of Israel. Gush. The Israel asset Douglas Murray at the President's residence. What'd you say, Kurt?
Kurt Metzger
He won a zaggy this year.
Jimmy Dore
I guess so.
Kurt Metzger
For the Isaac Herzog Award.
Jimmy Dore
And Joe Rogan's audience saw right through him. Here's just. Here's one that got like. I don't know that 19,000 likes says 40 minutes in. Here's the summary, Douglas. People will claim to be an expert and then hide behind. I'm just a comedian when they're challenged. Dave says, I've never claimed to Be an expert, Douglas. You see, Joe, this is the problem when people who aren't experts talk about this stuff. Joe, aren't you saying. Are you saying only experts are allowed to talk about this stuff? Douglas? No, you don't need to be an expert to talk about this stuff. Well, he's just.
Kurt Metzger
When do we talk about the stuff? By the way, he didn't challenge any of Dave's arguments at all.
Jimmy Dore
None. None.
Kurt Metzger
You had. I would have stuck out. My God, Dave should have done his homework on that. Yeah, you actually went, oh, you're not the Dave. Lose before you even started. I missed it.
Jimmy Dore
So right at the end, it says, repeat these quotes about six to eight times. And you have basically listened to the first 40 minutes of the show that got 19,000 likes. So Joe Rogan's audience, seeing right through him. Here's another one. Douglas Murray, MD, DDS, PhD, MSE. Oh, AIP. APAC. That's his. That's his real expertise. Today I learned that arguing for censorship while affecting not to be arguing for censorship will have you running around in circles. As someone who was constantly looking for new ways to gaslight my friends in political chats, I have learned so much from Douglas in this podcast. 4,000 likes. So that's all Douglas Murray was doing, was gaslighting and fighting straw men and fighting over semantics. That was all he was doing.
Kurt Metzger
I didn't even see him get to the fight. I just saw him. Yeah, who's an expert?
Jimmy Dore
Patience, thy name is Joe Rogan. Here's one more. We'll read this one. Murray saying Dave shouldn't take US wars personally. Made my jaw drop. Yes, we Americans are responsible for what our government does and who they kill. It's our tax money they're using to do it. We vote for the representatives. This is the government, supposedly of the people, by the people, and for the people. We are responsible. Yeah, 4,000 likes.
Kurt Metzger
You think the fentanyl problem was not from our Afghanistan adventures into pocby land? You think that really?
Jimmy Dore
Here's another one. I finished this episode and can now officially claim to have more patience than John the Baptist. I'm not an expert, but I'm going to act like I know everything about you from the Internet. Douglas Murray. Not even five minutes in. I've never turned off a Rogan show, but I cannot listen to this guy's stupidity for another minute. So Joe Rogan's entire audience saw through this guy. This was his. This was. This guy's a big, big mistake because the guy had a lot of fans Fans who agree with him on other things. He's. But he shows himself to be wildly inconsistent. Yes, we should all speak up against Covid, even if you're not a virologist. Yes, we should all speak up against Open Borders even though we're not some kind of policy expert. It's just amazing.
Kurt Metzger
Well, let's get to the topic though. They. Here's what I don't get. We still. It's like talking about Kamala or something. The Israel has a Kamala level campaign on their behalf.
Jimmy Dore
Yes, it sucks.
Kurt Metzger
Everyone's robbing them. No one's answering a question. And only idiots think that they're doing a good job selling this to people. They got to sell this to people because we're going to Iran. So they need to sell this. The way I felt on 911 where they were like, we're going to Iraq. And I said, okay, sounds good to me. Because 911 happened October 7th, didn't happen to me. And I don't have the same feelings about 911 I had 20 years ago. I kind of feel like I got had a little bit. So to expect that all these people are going to now feel this for Israel to the point where they'd send their kids to go die, I think. I think you're asking for a lot, you know?
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, a heck of a lot. Okay, so now we have to bring on our gift so that. So here's how I summed it up. Douglas Murray is so easily exposed as another guy on the wrong side of history who doesn't have an argument that stands up to the slightest scrutiny from a comedian. So he screams, you're not an expert. Instead of making an argument. Dave Smith for the win easily. If Murray had a shred of capacity for normal shame, he would feel humiliated and wouldn't show his face in public for at least a year or two. But of course he doesn't. He's a one of these narcissistic maniacs who thinks because he has an accent that's going to impart some kind of expertise, which he doesn't have.
Kurt Metzger
It's the only way he can come, actually.
Jimmy Dore
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Jimmy Dore
We showed you that video that looked like it was made by Michael Mann of them taking those 250 people and sending them to a dungeon to be tortured in El Salvador. And, well, it turns out now 90% of them don't even have a criminal record that's in the United States or out of the United States. But even a bigger story. Oh my God.
Kurt Metzger
The ones with a criminal record, did they get any of them?
Jimmy Dore
It sounds like 10% of them, Kurt. Nice.
Kurt Metzger
Are Afghan numbers.
Jimmy Dore
Yep. So. But here's an even bigger story. Trump administration facilitate Must facilitate return of man erroneously deported to El Salvador. Who said that? The right wing Republican conservative Supreme Court just crossed Donald Trump. So I love how they all people always say how Trump's going to be a dictator. They would go, oh, he controls the Supreme Court. Well, they just crossed him.
Kurt Metzger
They made it. Sounds like the right decision on this one.
Jimmy Dore
Sounds like they made the right decision. Well, let's the Supreme Court is requiring that Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador due to what officials described as an administrative error. The justices turned down the administration's request to set aside a judge's order that the United States officials seek Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release and return to the US after he was flown to El Salvador despite an immigration court order that he not be sent there due to the threat of persecution by a local gang.
Kurt Metzger
Is he not a gang member?
Jimmy Dore
The judge order properly requires the government to facilitate Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. That's what the Supreme Court said. That's the right wing Republican GOP conservative Supreme Court, the one that Trump is supposed to be able to control. The high court's ruling doesn't explicitly mention bringing Garcia back to the United States, but it leaves in place the bulk of US District Court Judge Paula Xenis order that specifically required his return to the United States. Just hours after the justices ruled, Zinnis ordered the Trump administration to take all available steps to facilitate the return of Garcia to the United States as soon as possible. The judge also demanded details from the administration about Garcia's current location and status and what steps the officials are taking to facilitate his return. The Supreme Court's decision is a significant rejection of the Trump administration's claim that it lacked any power and therefore could not be compelled to attempt to remedy its admitted error. It also comes just days after the justice is ruled that the administration must provide due process to other foreign nationals that President Trump has sought to quickly deport using rarely invoked war power. So the supreme court is going 100% against Donald Trump's deportation of those people to El Salvador. That's what's that?
Kurt Metzger
Are those war powers that rarely invoked? Really? I don't think they are.
Jimmy Dore
Thursday's ruling could have consequences that are beyond Garcia's case. The Salvadorian citizen was deported aboard a controversial series of flights last month that also included about 130 Venezuelan men who were expelled from the US after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies act of 1798 against alleged members of the Trend Gang.
Kurt Metzger
I think if you're in that gang, I probably don't like you, but at least make sure they're in the gang. You're not doing that much.
Jimmy Dore
They're not even doing that. I think. I think 158 of them were imprisoned for misgendering waitstaff at a vegan steakhouse. The new decision explicitly declares that individuals who contend they were illegally deported from the US can continue to seek remedies from the United States courts. That could open the door to challenges from those deported to El Salvador under the wartime statute who are now locked up in an anti terrorism prison known for its harsh conditions. On Monday, the justices similarly ruled that future efforts by the administration to summarily deport the Venezuelan nationals must include a chance for them to challenge the allegations that they are members of a gang. But that ruling did not reference the fate of roughly 130 men who were already transferred to El Salvador without due process. So apparently this going forward, Trump can't do this anymore. In the two Page decision. The justices also said Trump's administration must be prepared to share more details about its handling of Garcia and efforts it may have made or will in the future to secure his return. However, the High Court did instruct Zinnis, that's the other judge, to show due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs, as she clarifies a provision in her order that required the United States government to have effectuate Garcia's release.
Kurt Metzger
Was that.
Jimmy Dore
I mean, I. It so effectuate. Let's ask, let's ask, Siri, what effect you. If. I mean, to me, it's. To me it means you have to go do this. You have to make sure this happens. What's the definition of effectuate? Put into force or operation? So they need to make sure.
Kurt Metzger
There's some argument about the wording of they said effectuate and something else are not the same. They're arguing about what that word means. I know that. I saw that part of it. It's real annoying. But I just don't understand what the difference is.
Jimmy Dore
The judge. Zinnis ruled Friday that Garcia's deportation was illegal and that the Trump administration needed to arrange to bring him back by the United States by midnight Monday. Justice Department officials argued that it was impossible for them to comply with the order. Can you believe that? In part because Garcia, who was born in El Salvador, is now in the custody of that country. They also argued that Zinna's directive violated the Constitution by intruding on the president's powers over foreign relations and national security. The Trump administration's handling of the case prompted outrage among immigration advocates, who argued that officials unwillingness to take any steps to arrange Garcia's return indicate foreigners and even Americans could be subject to erroneous deportation with no legal recourse. So here it is. Here's the next part of this story. 90% of those people they sent had no criminal record. Yes, they said they were sending the worst of the worst, suggesting they were sending gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping. The reality is that of the 238 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, that were the officials accused of belonging to the Trend Gang and expelled to the Central American country in mid March, just a small fraction had ever been charged with serious crimes in the United States. Hundreds of pages of US Legal records and American government statements reviewed by Bloomberg News found five men charged with or convicted of felony assault or fire. So just five of them. Three men were charged with misdemeanors, including harassment and petty theft. Two others were charged with human smuggling. For the rest of the men, there was no available information showing they committed any crime other than traffic or immigration violations in the United States. The findings.
Kurt Metzger
Guess what? If you came illegally, I say get the hell out. It's a crime. But are they sending him to another country that's not their country?
Jimmy Dore
Yes, yes.
Kurt Metzger
People with no criminal record are going to spare Guantanamo. That's crazy to me.
Jimmy Dore
So what they're do. So what? There's another name for this. And because we're paying El Salvador to jail these people. So El Salvador says they're making money off this. So if we're taking people that are from Venezuela who are in the United States without a trial, that the Supreme Court just said that they have a right to, and we're sending them to another country for money, I'm pretty sure that's the definition of human trafficking. Just so you know, the findings raise questions about how the Trump administration determined that the migrants sent to El Salvador were violent criminals. The US Maintains that all of the Venezuelans on the flights had committed a crime because they were in the country illegally. That's what. Okay, the.
Kurt Metzger
That is a crime.
Jimmy Dore
That is a crime.
Kurt Metzger
Send them home. But did you send them to.
Jimmy Dore
You're supposed, you're supposed to send them back to their country, which Venezuela said they would take them.
Kurt Metzger
Yeah, that's weird. Like I said, I don't care. They did commit a crime. But you're sending them to another Guantanamo in a different country they're not from. That seems off.
Jimmy Dore
The official said many of the men who lacked US Records were nonetheless terrorists, human rights abusers or gangsters. Well, prove it. Why not give them a court date that the Supreme Court, the right wing GOP, Republican controlled conservative Supreme Court just said that they have a right to. That's not me saying it. That's not Nancy Pelosi. That's the right wing Republican controlled Supreme Court saying that.
Kurt Metzger
How about a corrupt FISA court even? Did they even do that?
Jimmy Dore
No. Many of the men allegedly associated with Trey de Argua are deported under the. Okay. A U.S. judge ordered the administration to stop. But on Monday, the Supreme Court said the administration can seek to resume deportations under the act if migrants are given notice and a chance to make their case to a judge. Well, that's totally different. Yeah, they can do so. So what the Supreme Court is saying, no, you can't keep doing this unless you give them a chance to a date. Their court date. You have to give them a court date so they can't keep doing it the way they've been doing it. Okay, That's a weird way to phrase it. Sure, you can keep doing it, but you have to. You can't keep doing it. Media reports in the Washington Post and elsewhere have cast doubt on the White House's portrayals of the men as criminals. And lawyers have said that some individuals were identified as gang members based on the types of clothing they were wearing or the tattoos that they had. Really?
Kurt Metzger
Look, if you came here illegally, that's criminal. I don't really care about the gang thing. I don't understand why you're using gang justification to send people to, like, crazy terrorist prison. It's really strange.
Jimmy Dore
A CBS News Investigation found that 3/4 of the men sent to El Salvador could not be connected with a U.S. or international criminal record. Three fourths? That's. That's like eight out of ten. Seven out of ten. Now, Bloomberg's review of U.S. court cases and government statements show there's very little publicly available documentation to support the notion that only violent offenders were sent away. The administration has acknowledged in court that not all the men have criminal records, but say it's only further evidence of the threat that they pose. You got to be sure.
Kurt Metzger
Look, if you came here illegally, that's the crime. That's good enough for me. I don't understand why you have to do it the wrong way.
Jimmy Dore
It demonstrates. Here's the quote from the official. It demonstrates that they are terrorists with regard to whom we lack a complete profile.
Kurt Metzger
Oh, my God.
Jimmy Dore
So, yeah, it's bad that, that. That. It's bad if you have a criminal record. But you know what's worse? If you don't have a criminal record, that's proof that you're a terrorist.
Kurt Metzger
That's awful. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Remember that Rumsfeld.
Jimmy Dore
Yes, that's right.
Kurt Metzger
Yeah.
Jimmy Dore
It's amazing. Bloomberg obtained a list of the passengers and examined their criminal histories by reviewing U.S. federal court records, media reports, and public statements by government officials. The search also included state court dockets, though not all local courts make records available Online. There were 13 court cases involving people with names that were similar to a deportee, though not an exact match. Those weren't included in the final tally because the connection couldn't be confirmed. Wow. Well, hey, it's America. You're lucky we checked for your name at all. I guess when we just didn't go off your skin color or a tattoo.
Kurt Metzger
That was a little bit tenuous. Yeah, like a crown tattoo, which literally every Latino in a hood has. That's really like.
Jimmy Dore
So it just. It does. It's amazing how they can. They can f up this deportation thing like this and such unbelievable, unconstitutional ways to where the Republican Supreme Court has to lay down the law and say, hey, you can't keep doing it like that. Really. You have to. You have to break the Constitution to enforce the Constitution. That's.
Kurt Metzger
You can't send them to their own.
Jimmy Dore
Country and just send them back to their own country. Just send them back to their own.
Kurt Metzger
Goddamn country, lie that they're terrorists to send them to Weird Guantanamo 2 in El Salvador. That's really bad.
Jimmy Dore
RFK Jr says he's going to find out the cause of autism by September. So isn't that nice to know that by September that he's going to know what millions of Americans already know. Yeah, but that's how we do things. I'm sure none of the documents are going to be blacked out and that we're going to get the complete story and. Right. That's how they do things anyway. I mean, here's. Here's what he had to say. Let's listen.
Marco Rubio
We have now the autism rates have gone from now most recent numbers we think are going to be about one in 31. I'm one in 12. So they're going up again.
Jimmy Dore
Wow. One in 31 kids are autistic. Those are horrible numbers. And thanks to RFK Jr. Now we know why. Anti Semitism.
Kurt Metzger
You know what, Jimmy? I didn't put it together. Anti Semitism has been rising. And autism.
Jimmy Dore
And autism.
Kurt Metzger
Pretty clear. Pretty clear connection.
Jimmy Dore
I mean, I'm kidding, but I'm pretty sure he's going to say that next. I'm pretty sure he already did say it several times. One in 31 kids. One in 31 kids are autistic. How the hell are we going to fight Iran in a video game tournament? Come on. Are you kidding me? Here we go. Listen to what he has to say.
Marco Rubio
We have now the autism rates have gone from now most recent numbers we think are going to be about 1 in 30 from 1 in 12. So they're going up again from 1 in 10,000 when I was a kid. And we are going at your direction. We are going to know by September. We've launched a massive testing and research effort that's going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world. By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.
Margaret
Think of that. So it was 1 in 10,000 children had autism and now it's 1 in 31. Not 31,000. 31. That is a. That's a horrible statistic, isn't it? And there's got to be something artificial out there that's doing it.
J.D. Vance
This.
Margaret
So you think you're going to have a pretty good idea.
Marco Rubio
We will not. By September, there will be no bigger.
Margaret
News conference than that. So that's. That's it. If you can come up with that answer where you stop taking something, you stop eating something, or maybe it's a shot, but something's causing it. It can't be. It can't be from 10,000 to. Can you imagine that, Margaret? That's a big. That's a big number.
Jimmy Dore
That.
Margaret
Thank you very much. You're doing great. Thank you, Bobby.
Jimmy Dore
Well, it's funny. He turns to little Marco Rubio and says, that's a big number. That's big. Do you believe that? Marco? Marco. I mean, if we're playing Tic Tac DOA and the sky's above, I mean, what could be causing it? I don't know. Maybe that we're being dusted with aluminum and barium into our soil and water and our cloud seeding. And maybe we're eating vax fruits and vegetables from supposed health food stores. The last thing I need to do is catch Vegeta B at the salad bar. Am I right? Come on.
Kurt Metzger
Yeah. Well, my question is, why would it be this high if it's not on purpose? Because autistic people are the perfect. Like, they all love stupid, like, MCU crap, but they're good at computers. It's almost like you're creating the ideal employees of tomorrow.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Kurt Metzger
People that compartmentalize easily get on board with masking. They love every stupid new Disney thing, even if they're 40. You know, that's just my. My silly goose.
Jimmy Dore
I. Yeah. And I think it is a combination of a thought of things like Trump just said shots. I think also all the poisons we're putting in our air, all the poisons we're putting in our food, all the hormones we're putting in our food. I started crying the other day when I was eating some chicken piccata and I spilled it all over my tits. I'm not saying. I'm not saying there's a lot of hormones in our food, but I've got a nice rack now.
Kurt Metzger
I got my period for the third time today after I had this chicken burrito.
Jimmy Dore
So I just thought, I do find it curious that he can pinpoint a month. Like we're Going to figure this out in, let me see, it's April, May, June, July, August, September. Did he say September? Yes. So in five months, really they can figure out exactly where they already know.
Kurt Metzger
And they're going to release it?
Jimmy Dore
Sounds like. Sounds like.
Kurt Metzger
Are they going to track down the guy that's got the redactions on the thing where you could just read what the deal is that they've known for a long time like every single thing in history.
Jimmy Dore
Well, he talks about that. What was that Simpson woods conference back in the late 90s? RFK talks about the Simpson woods where they all got together over the rise in autism and their fear that it was connected to. It was connected to vaccines. That was, that was what he said Simpson woods was all about. Remember that? They held the meeting at some kind of, some, some kind of. It wasn't in any government building. It was in some other state at some kind of retreat. So you couldn't launch a FOIA because it wasn't at a government building. It wasn't an official government thing.
Kurt Metzger
Chatham House rules.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, the Chatham House rule, you know.
Kurt Metzger
We said Chatham House.
Jimmy Dore
So yeah. Anyway, there it is. RFK Jr says we're going to know the cause of autism by September. Holy shit. I got to tell you what, Take your. I would take your money out of Pfizer stock right now. That's all I'm saying.
Kurt Metzger
I think they knew the cause autism by 20 years ago September and they're just saying now we're going to drop that bomb. I think it is anti Semitism.
Jimmy Dore
Damn you, antisemitism, you antisemitism.
Kurt Metzger
Perhaps a greater Israel is the only cure for my crippling autism.
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Joe Rogan
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Podcast Summary: The Jimmy Dore Show
Episode: Dave Smith & Joe Rogan HUMILIATE Douglas Murray Over Israel!
Release Date: April 14, 2025
Host: Jimmy Dore
In this episode of The Jimmy Dore Show, host Jimmy Dore delves deep into a recent debate that unfolded on Joe Rogan's podcast. The focal point of the discussion is Douglas Murray, a prominent author and commentator, who faced substantial criticism from Dave Smith and Joe Rogan himself during his appearance. Jimmy Dore, alongside his co-host Kurt Metzger and guest J.D. Vance, dissect Murray's arguments, highlighting perceived flaws and questioning his expertise on critical issues related to Israel and broader geopolitical matters.
Jimmy Dore opens the episode by referencing Douglas Murray's participation in Joe Rogan's podcast, where Murray engaged in a debate with Dave Smith. Dore criticizes Murray's qualifications, pointing out that despite his recognition as a bestselling author and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Murray lacks formal expertise in the subjects he discusses, particularly regarding military and foreign policy.
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Dore and his team argue that Murray's approach during the debate was more about discrediting Smith and Rogan by attacking Murray's lack of credentials rather than presenting substantive arguments. They accuse Murray of using logical fallacies, such as attacking the person's expertise instead of addressing the argument's merit.
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The conversation shifts to the broader topic of who gets to be considered an "expert" in public discourse. Dore and his co-hosts challenge the notion that formal credentials are the sole determinant of credibility, especially when individuals like Murray, despite lacking specialized degrees, hold significant influence in media and political discussions.
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A significant portion of the discussion centers around Murray's views on Israel and U.S. foreign policy. Dore and his guests critique Murray's perspectives, suggesting that his opinions are not only misinformed but also potentially harmful, especially regarding sensitive topics like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. military interventions.
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Jimmy Dore highlights the reaction from Joe Rogan's audience during Murray's appearance, emphasizing that Murray's arguments did not resonate well. The audience reportedly saw through what Dore describes as Murray's lack of substantive arguments, leading to a negative reception and loss of credibility for Murray.
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Beyond the central debate, the episode touches upon various other subjects, including:
Immigration and Deportation Policies: Dore discusses recent Supreme Court rulings on deportations facilitated by the Trump administration, criticizing the administration's handling and the Supreme Court's opposition.
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RFK Jr.'s Claims on Autism Rates: The show briefly critiques RFK Jr.'s statements regarding the rise in autism rates, questioning the credibility and motivations behind such claims.
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In this episode, Jimmy Dore and his team provide a scathing critique of Douglas Murray's participation in Joe Rogan's show. By dissecting Murray's arguments and questioning his expertise, Dore emphasizes the importance of substantive discourse over rhetorical attacks. The episode serves as a commentary on the dynamics of public debates, the role of expertise, and the impact of influential commentators on public opinion.
The Jimmy Dore Show episode titled "Dave Smith & Joe Rogan HUMILIATE Douglas Murray Over Israel!" offers a critical examination of Douglas Murray's arguments and positions. Through lively debate and incisive commentary, Jimmy Dore underscores the significance of informed discourse and the pitfalls of engaging with commentators who may lack the necessary expertise on complex geopolitical issues.