Public Intellectual/Human Joke Claims Not Allowing Hamas to Kill Israelis is Offensive

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These days I’m convinced that Marc Lamont Hill (I’m sorry, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill) is a joke who  exists for no other reason than to give cable news talking heads someone to roll their eyes at.

Back in 2012, I wrote that

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a man whose website modestly describes him as a “Professor, Author, Speaker, Public Intellectual,”… attracts attention only as a specimen of the vapid core of what passes for African-American Studies.

Saying racist things didn’t get the “public intellectual enough attention so he moved on to bashing Israel. Why? Because news networks will put him on to do it. And Hill is a worthless media figure who stops existing once he’s no longer on CNN.

That’s the dirty little secret of Dr. Marc Lamont Hill. If there’s a flood tomorrow, he’ll figure out a way to insert himself into the story and be on CNN squawking about how floods are wrong even though he knows nothing about floods.

Speaking of that, here’s Dr. Marc Lamont Hill on Israel.

But what the Iron Dome does is it also takes away all of Hamas’s military leverage which is very different than say, 10 years ago or 15 years ago in other wars like Lebanon, et cetera. As a result, it not only serves a defensive purpose but de facto serves an offensive purpose. It allows Israel to essentially assault and siege Gaza without any retribution or response on the other side. So again, to some extent, they are not just funding defense, they are funding an offensive war and ultimately an occupation. That for me, is the problem.

The problem is that Iron Dome works which prevents Hamas from killing Israelis as effectively as it would otherwise. Which according to Hill, prevents Israel from being forced to lift its blockade of Gaza. But the blockade of Gaza only exists because Hamas keeps trying to kill Israelis.

Hill has its backward, but you can’t blame him for that because he has no idea what he’s talking about. Israel isn’t his department.

CNN is to blame for putting on a guy whose specialty is writing papers about social criticism in Hip-Hop to discuss a foreign war in a place he has probably never even been to.

Hill is a joke, but he’s an obvious joke. CNN is a less obvious, but equally ridiculous joke, for turning Hill into a debating partner on Israel’s war with Hamas. For that matter, why are Ross Douthat and Marc Lamont Hill even being called on to debate this on CNN?

Actually, why is there even a CNN? That might be the better question.

  • http://noahdavidsimon.blogspot.com/ Noah David Simon

    hey don’t give CNN any ideas. Next up an editorial by Puff Daddy on Gaza

  • Pete

    If Putin invades Ukraine in the next week all these liberals including Obama will have a bad day. Their pet project will be pushed off the front page and they dare not stand up to the bear.

  • iluvisrael

    a perfect example of why affirmative action should be abolished

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Abolish tenure for professors too.

      Why should a professor be exempt from review and market forces?

  • Tom

    This clown used to be O’Reilly’s favorite self punching bag….

    • DB1954

      O’Reilly is also a joke. He may not refer to himself as an “intellectual” (why would he?), but he pontificates regularly. Last night’s hilarity began with his “Talking Points” monologue, which was especially long and boring last night. Among other inanities, “Talking Points” believes that “the (political) right” says that Obama is anti-American.

      Like he’s not?

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        I also noticed that O’Reilly’s opening “talking points” were going on, and on and on.

  • Elizabeth capecod

    It’s no wonder higher education is pumping out liberal/progressive ideologues when you consider that someone like Hill is a professor at Columbia. And parents pay dearly for this indoctrination.

    • SoCalMike

      Indoctrination is pedophilia.

  • discocapper

    Wolf asks tough questions to the Israeli reps that appear on CNN. If he doesn’t get the answer he likes he repeats the question. But put on a Barghouti, a Homzan or a Saeb and Wolf just sits silently while 5 minutes of propaganda and lies are spit into the world’s living rooms.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Wolfie wants to stay on the CNN gravy train.

      So letting truth get in the way of propaganda can be costly.

      • BethesdaDog

        Wolf is my fraternity brother. He’s also a whore.

  • http://www.clarespark.com/ Clare Spark

    The black power movement produced such programs as black studies, and these were enabled by upper class white liberals. See http://clarespark.com/2010/07/18/white-elite-enabling-of-black-power/. “White elite enabling of black power.” These materials were not hard to find, but were unread and unopposed by most academics, who are wimps anyway.

    • DB1954

      Ha! So true. There were few, if any, I ever knew who would ever call a ‘spade a spade.’

  • Crassus

    My sister actually thinks this assclown is attractive (in the looks department).

    • Webb

      He is — compared to a carp.

    • DB1954

      I’d guess that your sister voted for Obama? For the same reason?

  • Prav Emet

    hey, somebody’s gotta take the place of those two ageless but aging anti semites and medium clowns JJackson & what’s that other one’s name … ah, Rev. Al …

  • JR Kipling

    Most of the other “public intellectuals” I meet go away when I give them a dollar at the stop light. What’s with this guy?

    • DB1954

      Anyone who refers to himself as an “intellectual,” (public or otherwise) probably isn’t.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        Lamont Hill is a Legend in his own mind.

        • IslamDownpressesHumanity

          That’s a vanishingly small compliment.

  • Reverend Rend

    Sharpton said it is wrong to call Hamas by its name because Mussies don’t eat pork.

  • liz

    I guess they don’t consider him embarrassing because they already are that.

  • SoCalMike

    I wonder if Marc Lamont Hill is merely ignorant or just evil.
    Either way, I don’t think it makes much difference.
    If you carry water for evil, you’re evil.

    • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

      The first (ignorant) are the useful idiots; the second (evil) are the Leftists who intend to form the new ruling class, and are in the process of doing so.

  • SCREW SOCIALISM

    Gaza has a brutal blockade, that is so onerous, Hamass can only get rockets and missiles and mortars and launchers into Gaza.

    Imagine that!

  • tariq razad

    Marc Lamont Hill spills his open hatred for jews on huffpost daily why is he there?

  • tariq razad

    Huff post is an embarrassment after Dershowitz took down hill on cnn he stared foaming about Israel on huffpo.

  • BMS

    I guess they’ll give any racist idiot a doctorate degree these days. Where did he get his doctorate Carvel College?

    • BethesdaDog

      C’mon. Get serious.

      It was the McDonald’s College of Hamburger Knowledge.

  • Habbgun

    Just because the whites you are sucking up to are Leftists doesn’t mean you aren’t an Uncle Tom.

  • BethesdaDog

    How does one become a public intellectual? Are thre public intellectual courses you take? Do you have to get a certification?

    I want to be one, too. Don’t want to be practising it withouta license, though.

  • Jerry G

    C.N.N. didn’t earn the name Crescent News Network for nothing.