In what could generously be described as a trainwreck, a debate on Piers Morgan Uncensored between progressive commentator Cenk Uygur and historian Allan Lichtman turned into a spectacle of juvenile insults and theatrical outrage on Tuesday. Lichtman, a self-proclaimed authority on election predictions, accused Uygur of committing “blasphemy” against him—because, apparently, that’s a thing now.
The chaos kicked off when Uygur criticized Lichtman’s failed prediction for the 2024 election, which Lichtman naturally blamed on voters being duped by “disinformation” from Fox News and Elon Musk. Uygur wasted no time pouncing on the excuse: “Don’t blame the voters. Look, I told you before, your theories about ‘The Keys’ were absurd. I was right, you were wrong. I said you’d lose your keys.”
That was all it took to send Lichtman into a tailspin. “No, you were not right, and I was not wrong,” snapped the historian, indignantly. “That’s a cheap shot, and I won’t stand for it!”
What followed was an embarrassing verbal brawl that veered between high school drama and an ego contest. “You live in a total world of denial!” Uygur shouted while making a hand gesture to suggest Lichtman had lost his mind.
“I read your own followers’ comments, and they all trashed you!” retorted Lichtman, seemingly unaware of how weak a flex that was.
The zingers kept flying. Lichtman decided to lean on his academic credentials, proclaiming, “I’ve only been a professor for 51 years, published 13 books. How many books have you published?”
“You got it wrong! You were preposterously, stupidly wrong,” Uygur shot back, clearly unimpressed.
“Don’t call me stupid!” Lichtman yelled, clutching what remained of his dignity. “I admitted I was wrong. I don’t need you to call me stupid.”
As the debate spiraled even further into absurdity, Uygur delivered the pièce de résistance: “Hey Allan, shhh! Hey Allan, you deserve a tall glass of shut-up juice, so can you just shut up for a second and let someone who knows what they’re doing talk?”
What was meant to be a substantive debate on election integrity devolved into a spectacle of thinly veiled arrogance and unhinged bickering, leaving viewers wondering if this was an actual discussion or an elaborate audition for a reality show no one asked for.
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9 Responses
Cenk also predicted that Kamala would win. What a hypocrite!
I kept saying this guy is wrong
The Left eating itself is always good.
You Lichtman forgot your very own rule:- People who do well in primaries do well in elections whereas people who do poorly in primaries do poorly in elections.
Well how did you Lichtman forget that מכשפה who has never even won a single candidate in a primary was bound to be an election failure & disaster, whereas President Elect Donald Trump שליט”א who has won 3 primaries was bound to be an election success story?
Are you Lichtman maybe suffering from שנאה מקלקלת את השורה syndrome?
“HEARTWARMING??” C’mon guys, let’s not gloat too much
you figure a professor could afford a better toupee
They blame everyone else and not their policies and not their track record. Delusional narcissists tend to do that sort of thing.
Every Pierce Morgan show is a dumpster fire, nothing to see here.
And Uygur attracts more flies than than a mass grave in Gaza.
Blaspheme also refers to general abuse… check the dictionary