CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil displayed a lot of courage on Monday’s show when confronted race hustler and author Ta-Nehisi Coates for his new book The Message, where Coates took the side of anti-Semitic, genocidal terrorists in their fight to exterminate Israel. Dokoupil pointed out that Coates completely omitted Israel’s perspective in the conflict and suggested Coates essay read like the manifesto “in the backpack of an extremist.”
Coates responded by claiming he was morally superior because he’s black.
Dokoupil allowed to his co-anchor Nate Burleson to get a friendly question in before he took the gloves off. According to Dokoupil, if you stripped away all of Coates’s clout and notoriety, at the end of the day, what he had written was “extremist”:
Ta-Nehisi, I want to dive into the Israel-Palestine section of the book. It`s the largest section of the book. And I have to say, 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.
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