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This used to be an interesting podcast with two erudite people debating a range of global issues. Now it’s just wall to wall commentary on Trump bashing. We get it, he’s crazy. Move on you’re boring.
When it comes to the Middle East, Rudyard and most of his guests are at best ignorant and irresponsible and at worst disingenuous racist propagandists masquerading as intellectuals. Not sure which is worse. Either way, if you are looking for genuine unbiased intellectual debate you will not find it here.
Took a point off for Rudyard, who is an obnoxious blowhard who does not debate, but drowns out the one voice I come here to listen to, which is the distinguished Dr Janice Stein. Rudyard must think we come to hear him. We do not. A debate allows for equal time. Janice is so valuable that she can carry this exercise in exasperation to a rating of four despite Rudyard’s abhorrent and juvenile approach.
The interviewer might as well interview himself as he doesn’t let people answer questions. Beyond which, his opinion on what he wants the answers to be are so obvious that this might as well be Israeli propaganda. If you want to just monologue about how Israel is righteous in every action, then do it already
Sometimes tolerable, sometimes not. Unfortunately Rudyard can be completely intolerable at times as he uses weak moralistic arguments or logical fallacies to hand-wave away solid lines of reasoning put forth by Janice.
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