So, just the other day, I listened to the beginning of a debate between David Smith and Robert Spencer. Smith is a comedian and political pundit, who strongly opposes the United States going into war, and thinks that Israel in Gaza are bullies. He vehemently started his defense by immediately dismissing as nonsense Robert Spencer's claim that the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) said that Iran was close to making nuclear weapons. To Smith, the IAEA had said nothing of the sort and Spencer was lying and misrepresenting.[1]
Except the IAEA did. I brought
this out in a previous blog.[2]
Smith was, in a different debate, hauled over the coals by Douglas Murray for
his lack of ‘on the ground’ facts about Gaza.[3]
Whether Murray or Smith were correct on Gaza, it was apparent to me, then, that
Smith did not do his homework, not fully anyway. In this newest debate, he was
up against a titan of an Islamic scholar, Robert Spencer. There is arguably no
one on earth who is more knowledgeable about international Islamic terrorism
than Spencer. Smith, very unwisely, opened with disdain for Spencer’s account
of the IAEA. That was enough for me, so I closed down the debate.
Smith will do well to reassess
his approach. Just today, this article went out, “Iran accuses nuclear watchdog
chief of bias in formal complaint to UN”.[4]
Iran complained about the egregious bias in the IAEA’s report on Iran’s potential
for nuclear weapons.
Even if- for argument’s sake- Iran
is correct in its assessment of the IAEA, Smith was definitely wrong in his view
of the IAEA. This is a great concern, or ought to be, for those who are isolationists
or anti-war. For their position is not being advanced or capably defended and
promoted when its main popular advocates cannot even get basic information
correct! In fact, in listening to Carlson and Smith in their view of the IAEA,
what stands out is generalizations, emotion, and vehement denials. I get enough
of that from Antifa and the blue/pink-rinse mob!
[1] Former
Congressman Matt Gaetz, “The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz | U.S. Supporting
Israel Debate: Robert Spencer & Dave Smith”, YouTube, June 19, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp9l8fNr6lA&ab_channel=FormerCongressmanMattGaetz..
[2] “Netanyahu, Carlson, the IAEA, and Iran,” June 18, 2025, https://ridderbostimes.blogspot.com/2025/06/netanyahu-carlson-iaea-and-iran.html.
[3]
PowerfulJRE, “Joe Rogan Experience #2303 - Dave Smith & Douglas Murray,”
YouTube, April 10, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6kirkSwTg&ab_channel=PowerfulJRE.
[4] Roya
News, June 21, 2025, https://en.royanews.tv/news/60576.
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