CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil was right to point out that the writings of far-left race baiter Ta-Nehisi Coates sounded like it belonged “in the backpack of an extremist.” In a recent appearance on comedian Trevor Noah’s podcast “What Now?,” Coates engaged in a “thought experiment” where he suggested that he wasn’t above taking part in an October 7-style terrorist attack that saw hundreds of innocent Jewish women, children, and elderly raped, murdered, and kidnapped back to Gaza.
Before getting to the point where Coates felt comfortable flaunting his extremism, he and Noah had a very disingenuous and, frankly, hypocritical, conversation about Dokoupil’s takedown of Coates:
DOKOUPIL: When I read the book? I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards and the acclaim, took the cover off the book, the publishing house goes away. The content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.
After playing that soundbite of Dokoupil, Noah ranted that, “Yes, but if you remove every context from everything, then everything could go anywhere.” He then proceeded to compare the October 7 slaughter of civilians to the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution.
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