Dave Smith VS Alan Dershowitz Debate Breakdown | Hn 273

Adam (0:07)

Hi Bob. Hey Adam.

So I was scrolling through the YouTube, as is my want, and I thought I was going to run across this interesting debate about the Iran War and its pros and its cons and where we are after six months in comparison to the stated aims. But I must have misclicked, because all I saw is a couple of Jews yelling at each other and one of them calling the other anti-Semite over another. It was really weird.

Bob Murphy (0:35)

Yeah. Yeah.

Adam (0:37)

You know what I'm talking about?

Bob Murphy (0:38)

David says, yes, I hate myself, but not because I'm Jewish. Yes, surely you referred to Alan Dershowitz versus Dave Smith and the zero hedge debate they had on the Iran War.

Adam (0:53)

It was going to be about that. It ended up morphing into...

It was one of the most entertaining debates I've ever seen, and it was also just one of the worst debates I've ever seen as far as discussing the actual issue and then it turning into a flame war. It was like a girl's locker room in high school.

Bob Murphy (1:11)

Including Dershowitz threatening, I'm going to walk out if he interrupts me one more time.

Adam (1:14)

If he interrupts me again after I've interrupted him 50 times, I'm going to hit the button. I'm hitting the button. You watch me, I'll hit the button. Yeah, it was bizarre.

Bob Murphy (1:23)

Yeah, I mean, you'd expect that from a New York City based stand up comedian, but a Harvard Law professor that, you know, is a household name that I've known about since I was a little kid. You wouldn't have thought such behavior would be warranted.

Adam (1:36)

Yeah, I didn't know to attribute that to a man who's 88 or just a man who's not familiar with a new media environment. Like you probably wouldn't do that on Fox News.

But like in this environment, he thinks that's OK to do. I don't know.

Bob Murphy (1:52)

So maybe so, folks, just so you know, we've got plenty of clips here. We promised ourselves beforehand that we weren't going to get bogged down in analyzing any one of them for too long. We're we're actually doing a service for future historians here by just documenting a lot of your welcome.

I guess before we start plowing through the clips here, you want to give your overall reactions and I'll give mine.

Adam (2:17)

Absolutely, we're going to play my first clip, which is Alan Dershowitz framing of this whole thing and it has to be seen to be believed.

He said, it's always 1935 in my eyes, therefore I need the US military to overthrow anybody I point to because they're always Hitler in my eyes. I'll play it for you and you'll see whether I'm being hyperbolic or not, not very much. And then Dave, I thought in his opening, he just smashed the objectives of the war, pointed out that Trump is lying us into this hostility, always has been, and says it's bad for us. And then the most bizarre thing happened, which is that Alan Dershowitz says, yeah, I don't want to debate that.

I just want to say we should overthrow this regime. Forget the particulars. It was the craziest thing I've ever heard. And then we had an hour and 10 minutes of Jew on Jew violence, I guess. It was it was petty. It was veiled racist threats. And it was it was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen.

Bob Murphy (3:22)

Yeah, OK, well, that's a good reaction. Yeah, let me just say in the YouTube comments, when I was looking through this, people were saying stuff like, you know, Dave's going to get arrested for elder abuse. And, you know, people were linking it to the things is saying, you know, is Dave, does he have, you know, post what's a postpartum depression because he just murdered someone, you know, stuff like that.

Adam (3:44)

Dave kept trying to pull it back. I think he felt bad because Alan's 88, but he was just kept being so nasty.

Bob Murphy (3:51)

Yeah, so I just jotted down a list here. I want to just say this quickly, because I know we got it in the clips here, folks. But I mean, Dave just destroyed him both, like in terms of having command. I mean, Dave was like giving orders to the moderator. So there is a bit of like, at almost the times, I felt a little bit like, I don't know, I just felt weird like that. Dave just so much took command of that thing that he's literally telling the moderator what to do.