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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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?"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day 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/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

what a goddamn idiot

[–] [email protected] 302 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 168 points 2 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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[–] [email protected] 245 points 2 days ago (18 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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who financed Hamas to destabilize the PLO? Israel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Reminds me of when you guys invaded my country, murdered my people and fucked off home to call us names and racist sluts for decades. No apology. Now you guys want to moralize to the rest of the world while your hands drip with blood.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you know how little that narrows it down?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The exact quote that popped into my head.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Which country? You're gonna have to be a bit more specific.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weird I don't remember doing that

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 2 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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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 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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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 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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