Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, author Ta-Nehisi Coates -- who became famous as a writer forThe Atlantic -- complained about the way Israelis treat Palestinians and compared it to Jim Crow, declaring that he wished people paid more attention to Gaza before the October 7 terrorist attack. As BBC's Katty Kay took part in asking questions to Coates as part of the show's panel, she brought up his history of criticizing Israel and his reaction to October 7: So, for this book, you also went to Israel, and you have been very critical of the Israeli -- Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Can you put it in the context -- I'm not sure whether you went for this trip for the reporting before or after October the 7th, but put it -- put what you found in the context of those attacks. He responded: Look, my politics are the politics of nonviolence. There is nothing within that politics that can watch 1,000 people be murdered -- be massacred and be okay with that and think that that is somehow justified. The only thing I would add to that which I think -- which I will insist on and think is very, very important. I wish that this country was more interested in Gaza before October 7th. Gaza was described to me while I was over there as the largest open air jail in the world. Like I said, I did not see it for myself. I wanted to -- I was not able to. But we're part of that. We're part of the maintenance of that. We're part of the maintenance of that. And evidence of that fact was everywhere around me during my trip. MSNBC's Symone Sanders-Townsend, who was also taking part in the Morning Joe panel, pushed back: You know, people will say -- I mean, the conversation around the -- just the region prior to October 7th is that it is complicated. People say, "Oh, it's not as black and white," as folks try to make it seem complicated. There's nuance there, but you write that what you saw reminded you of the Jim Crow South. There are people who would say this is not that. Coates responded by misleadingly referring to some roads in the West Bank that only Israeli citizens are allowed to use: I would tell them to go. I would tell them to go. I would tell them, "Drive down the roads in the West Bank where you are only allowed to go certain places if you're either Palestinian or you're an Israeli settler. I would tell them to go to Hebron and watch how people whose ancestors have lived there for generations cannot walk down certain streets.... I would ask them whether they think it's okay for a state to label itself as the only democracy in the Middle East and erects citizenship for one-half of its population and for the other half to erect a kind of citizenship or a residency or a stateless status that is somehow less.I don't know how that corresponds with our definitions of what a democracy is. It was immediately familiar to me as somebody who has been raised on the tales of Jim Crow and whose parents were born into Jim Crow. He did not mention that Palestinians who are Israeli citizens are allowed to use the roads or that restrictions were introduced because terrorists were using the roads to attack Israelis. Most Arabs who actually live within Israel are either Israeli citizens or are eligible to apply for citizenship but choose not to, Coat Most Palestinian Arabs who live in the West Bank or Gaza Strip are living in disputed territory that has never been annexed by Israel, so it would not make sense to grant a right to vote in Israeli elections. These are the areas that would already be part of an Arab state if the Palestinian leadership had not repeatedly rejected two-state solution proposals by past Israeli governments. Transcript follows: MSNBC's Morning Joe October 1, 2024 7:30 a.m. Eastern- KATTY KAY: So, for this book, you also went to Israel, and you have been very critical of the Israeli -- Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Can you put it in the context -- I'm not sure whether you went for this trip for the reporting before or after October the 7th, but put it -- put what you found in the context of those attacks. TA-NEHISI COATES: Yeah, I did. It was made 2023, and, like I said, I went to the West Bank -- I went to, you know, cities throughout Israel. I went to Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, South Hebron Hills, Ramallah. And the one thing that people told me the whole time I was there was, "You have to go to Gaza." That turned out to be a lot more difficult than I wanted. It was 10 days. And then, when I came back, I was trying to, you know, get back. I was supposed to go in October, and, you know, for obvious reasons, I, you know, I could not go. Look, my politics are the politics of nonviolence. There is nothing within that politics that can watch 1,000 people be murdered -- be massacred and be okay with that and think that that is somehow justified. The only thing I would add to that which I think -- which I will insist on and think is very, very important. I wish that this country was more interested in Gaza before October 7th. Gaza was described to me while I was over there as the largest open air jail in the world. Like I said, I did not see it for myself. I wanted to -- I was not able to. But we're part of that. We're part of the maintenance of that. We're part of the maintenance of that. And evidence of that fact was everywhere around me during my trip. SYMONE SANDERS-TOWNSEND: You know, people will say -- I mean, the conversation around the -- just the region prior to October 7th is that it is complicated. People say, "Oh, it's not as black and white," as folks try to make it seem complicated. There's nuance there, but you write that what you saw reminded you of the Jim Crow South. There are people who would say this is not that. COATES: I would tell them to go. I would tell them to go. I would tell them, "Drive down the roads in the West Bank where you are only allowed to go certain places if you're either Palestinian or you're an Israeli settler. I would tell them to go to Hebron and watch how people whose ancestors have lived there for generations cannot walk down certain streets. I would ask them to talk to Palestinians about a water system that sees Israelis with access to four times as much water as Palestinians. I would ask them whether they think it's okay for a state to label itself as the only democracy in the Middle East and erects citizenship for one-half of its population and for the other half to erect a kind of citizenship or a residency or a stateless status that is somehow less. I don't know how that corresponds with our definitions of what a democracy is. It was immediately familiar to me as somebody who has been raised on the tales of Jim Crow and whose parents were born into Jim Crow. JONATHAN LEMIRE: The complication, though -- and I'm curious to get your thoughts - of course Gaza run by Hamas, a terror group. COATES: Gaza, I would dispute the idea it is run by Hamas. [?] And the reason why I would dispute that is because there was a cordon around Gaza. You do not have freedom of movement in and out. You do not have an airport. You don't have the right to go out and fish and make a living. If your child, for instance, who needs cancer treatment, you need permits to get out to actually get that cancer treatment. They ran it within a certain context. And I need to be absolutely clear about this. This is in no way -- in no way to say Hamas is great or Hamas is good or to sympathize with Hamas, but I do think we need to be accurate about what the power dynamic is there and what the effects of that are. LEMIRE: And, again, your visit there May 2023 ahead of the October 7th attacks.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn prides himself on telling the truth. When it comes to January 6, though, he and the truth often appear to be at odds. That is the powerful contention in a new Blaze Media video production, “A Day in the Life of Harry Dunn: Part One — A Leisurely Pace,” streaming on BlazeTV and social media. The video chronicles some of the tales told by the most famous police officer on Jan. 6 — and then reveals what really happened. Steve Baker, a Blaze News investigative reporter who researched and narrated the production, said Dunn’s carefully crafted story — told before Congress, on network talk shows, and in his best-selling book — is nothing but fiction. “Everything he did to establish his fame was done deceptively,” Baker said, recalling Dunn’s dramatic retelling of a briefing he attended at the Capitol early on Jan. 6. It was a meeting that security video proves never took place. “When one opens their own narrative with so much detail about the time, the location, the content of the meeting that never happened,” Baker said in the film, “well, then everything else he says about January 6 must be called into question.” 'Harry rose to fame based on deception and lies.' Just as more doubts began to emerge about his truthfulness in 2024, Dunn retired from the Capitol Police. After a losing bid for the U.S. House of Representatives, Dunn joined the presidential campaigns of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. “I don’t think it’s a stretch of the imagination, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration, to say that we are one election away from the extinction of democracy as we know it,” Dunn told CBS News when he announced his bid for Congress. During a presidential election panel discussion in Michigan in August, Dunn said news accounts undersold the amount of violence he and other officers experienced on Jan. 6 at the hands of Trump supporters. “The violence that you saw was probably 10, 100 times worse than what the cameras portrayed it to be,” Dunn said in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn laughs with President Joe Biden before Dunn is awarded a Presidential Citizens Medal at the White House on Jan. 6, 2023.Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Dunn was not the target of violence on Jan. 6. The Blaze Media investigation showed how Dunn’s dramatic tales about his actions on Jan. 6 don’t match thousands of hours of Capitol Police security video that Baker reviewed. Security footage shows Dunn’s stories simply don’t match the evidence. Baker got the initial idea for the video while listening to Dunn testify for the prosecution in the first Oath Keepers trial in October 2022. The details Dunn shared not only didn’t add up, they were different from what he told the FBI in his first meeting with agents in 2021, Baker said. Baker discovered that Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus could not have witnessed an alleged confrontation Dunn had with the Oath Keepers. Dunn testified under oath that Lazarus was present near the Small House Rotunda with the Oath Keepers. But at the time Dunn claimed it took place, Lazarus was on the other side of the Capitol. As Baker dug into more of Dunn’s public statements and media appearances, other problems became apparent. Included among them was Dunn’s contention that he engaged in “hand-to-hand combat” with rioters and that fellow officers were carried away on stretchers during the worst violence of Jan. 6. Then there was Dunn’s most widely repeated story of a group of 50 white-supremacist Trump supporters chanting the N-word when he told them he voted for Biden in the 2020 presidential election. A review of hundreds of hours of footage from that day, tracking Dunn's whereabouts, did not uncover any evidence that any such "hand-to-hand combat" or racially charged interactions occurred. “The key to the story is that Harry rose to fame based on deception and lies,” Baker said. Dunn testified under oath before the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee. He made countless television appearances on CNN, MSNBC, and the ABC talk show “The View.” He received a Presidential Citizens Medal from Biden at the White House in 2023. Dunn’s 2023 memoir, “Standing My Ground,” received widespread media attention. Baker said the book, much like Dunn’s other public testimonies, is “a gold mine of lies.” Capitol Police and Dunn did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) definitively won Tuesday's vice presidential debate. Whereas a number of liberal pundits admitted as much, MSNBC talking head Joy Reid did her best to characterize Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's abysmal showing as a strategic victory. Midway through her latest mental gymnastic routine, Reid suggested that unlike the undecided voters Walz was supposedly trying to win over with words, the Democratic base is instead attracted to political violence, particularly toward President Donald Trump. "I don't think that this was a debate that was designed to move people off of their team if they were already on it," Reid told her fellow panelists. "There is a very small, narrow group of people who have not made up their minds about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris." According to Reid, Walz satisfactorily targeted that "small, narrow group of people" and gave them what they want and haven't alternatively been getting from Kamala Harris: policy details. Unlike undecided voters hungry for more information, Reid suggested that the base of the Democratic Party wanted to see a "fist fight." 'Democrats are still calling for violence.' "Democrats want to see someone get up there and give a knuckle sandwich to Donald Trump," continued Reid. "That's what they want, but that's not the group of people who need this debate. Those people are already voting, already know what they want." Reid's admission that the Democratic base wants Harris' opponent to be met with physical harm appears to support the finding in a recent poll concerning Democrats' bloodlust. Blaze News reported last month that nearly 3 in 10 Democrats polled by RMG Research for the Napolitan News Service following the second attempted assassination of President Donald Trump indicated they would have preferred for Trump to have been slaughtered at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The suspected would-be assassin who had waited for Trump at the golf course was himself a long-time Democratic donor. The would-be assassin who shot Trump in July was also an ActBlue donor. Responding to Reid's suggestion, conservative columnist Joe Concha wrote, "Joy Reid can say this stuff because as management showed with the Ronna McDaniel debacle, there is no accountability and the power is with the so-called on-air 'talent.'" Concha was referencing the vicious smear campaign waged earlier this year against Ronna McDaniel by Reid, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinksi, former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki, and Rachel Maddow and other talking heads at MSNBC after NBC News announced it was hiring the Republican. In response to Reid's comments about physically attacking Trump, Libs of TikTok tweeted, "2 ass*ss*nation attempts and Iran plotting to try to get Trump and Democrats are still calling for violence." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Sometimes, a game's title does most of the work toward grabbing an audience's attention. Yesterday, the launch of Kill Knight served as one example, while the past has given us striking one word titles like Doom, Ultrakill, and Bloodborne. The announcement of a new game called Psycho Dead, which, like Doom, really feels like it ought to be written out entirely in capital letters, is another entry to this pantheon of eye-catching names. Fortunately, its mix of Resident Evil 4, Dead Space, and Control's survival horror and telekinetic powers looks to provide gruesome action on a level to fit its title. Continue reading Psycho Dead is like Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space with psychic powers

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