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Ryan Girdusky clashed with British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan on Monday night.

CNN has banned a conservative commentator from appearing on the network again after he told a Muslim journalist "I hope your beeper doesn't go off," an apparent reference to the spate of exploding pagers in Lebanon that killed members of the Hezbollah militant group last month. 

Ryan Girdusky made the comment during a heated debate with Mehdi Hasan, a prominent British-American broadcaster and an outspoken critic of Israel's war in Gaza, on "CNN Newsnight" with host Abby Phillip. 

The guests were discussing the racist jokes made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, which overshadowed former President Donald Trump's rally at New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday and continue to make headlines two days later.

As the debate turned fractious, Girdusky and Hasan sparred over whether the latter had been labeled an anti-Semite. "I'm a supporter of the Palestinians, I'm used to it," Hasan said.

Girdusky replied: "Well I hope your beeper doesn't go off."

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they got so comfortable... they at least used to hide under their hoods before.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To think, all they had to do was appeal to the lurking bigotry within societies to bring them out and normalize that sort of language. They are sort of screwed if they think they aren't sliding into a world where the evangelicals being radicalized and increasingly in control of the nation financing and supplying it will come asking for their pound of flesh when the shift into a theocratically-narrative-driven oligarchy is established, and then take the whole body.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Literally an appeal to terrorism, it was the right move.

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Going on Twitter to complain that your bigotry wasn't well received and then suggesting that Qatar funding is partially to blame is peak irony

https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/11/12/qatars-backing-of-elon-musks-twitter-deal-raises-questions-ahead-of-the-fifa-world-cup/

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

In person was all back tracking, and regret. Gets online, and is now a big, strong, keyboard warrior.

[–] ConstableJelly@midwest.social 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Video clip of the comment and aftermath during discussion (via twitter): https://x.com/Acyn/status/1851085909435039789

"Are you a supporter of Hamas?"

"Are you a racist, violent person inciting violence against me?"

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 303 points 3 days ago (73 children)

I'm still flabbergasted that there hasn't been more of an international outrage concerning those pagers.

The use of mines as an indiscriminate weapon are already frowned upon,

And here they are using them, scattered throughout a civilian population with absolutely no regard to who could be standing next to their target.

Un-fucking believable.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 169 points 3 days ago (6 children)

They bombed dozens of hospitals and orphanages across two countries and also started a starvation siege since that time.

There is no outrage left

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[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Wait.. what?

I'm I reading that right?

12 people killed. 6 of which were 2 children and 4 healthcare workers.

But 2,800 wounded? So all of that wasn't even about neutralizing targets, but maiming?

How many were set off? I have a hard time believing a 12killed : 2800wounded ratio...

EDIT: Google says bout 5000 pagers

CNN: reports 37killked but 3,000 wounded.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago (8 children)

There hasn't been outrage because blowing up people with pagers is actually the most targeted thing Israel has done in the past year. Certainly a step up from killing hundreds of refugees to maybe take out one hamas guy.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 36 points 3 days ago

They killed children in that pager attack. Which I guess is part for the course, so ya, nevermind, you might be right.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It was a terrorist attack. We must condemn all terrorist attacks

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 245 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Girdusky appeared indignant on social media in the hours afterwards and said in a tweet "apparently you can't go on CNN if you make a joke."

"It was a prank, bro!"

The last refuge of the Trumpist shitheel.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 98 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Playing off hate as a joke, this is why it's okay to punch nazis

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[–] hourglass@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

from the liver to the knee my internal organs shall be free

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that be a slight death threat? Or no, because he said he hoped it didn't happen, ignoring the tone?

[–] Knightfox@lemmy.one 3 points 1 day ago

It's kinda hard to call that a threat. It's more accurate to say it's an accusation that the guy is a terrorist.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"it would be a shame if something happened to your family"

it's a pretty standard form of threat in my opinion.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

what a goddamn idiot

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 137 points 3 days ago (21 children)

Basically telling someone who's Arab, "I hope you die" in the most racist way possible.

This hate is brought to you by Israel.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Who financed Hamas to destabilize the PLO? Israel.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 62 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Israelis are now using the same arguments as they do in Israel on American TV.

Not even Western media can protect them from themselves anymore.

The absolute state of Hasbara.

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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Good that they banned him. Wishing someone that has a conversation with you but does not agree with you this kind of harm means you need to be excluded from the discourse.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 94 points 3 days ago

GOP: "stop canceling me!!! everyone should be able to say whatever they want!!!!"

also GOP: "stop kneeling for the anthemmmmm!!!!"

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