Pakman I may have misremembered, but we'll see if Rubin actually has Pakman on his show. Likewise, Kyle Kulinski gave Dave a large interview after his falling out with TYT, and I seem to remember Kyle asking to come onto Rubin show's, which has not happened. But in either case, the statistics of who is on his show is plain as day, and the case of Sam Seder and Michael Brooks is the most well documented.
1.) David Pakman who was brought on to bash Reza Aslan. 2.) Varafoukis, who if memory serves was brought on to bash Hillary. 3.) Jimmy to do the same.
Who am I missing? Admittedly I haven't watched in a few months. Has he had on anyone left of center-right recently?
He's a part of the alt-Right not because he's personally an alt-Righter, but because he seems to have an obsession with giving them a platform in exchange for money.
My response here has to be somewhat nuanced.
1.) Reza Aslan's attacks on Sam Harris were dishonest, and I would agree with Sam that Glenn Greenwald's article on hate speech was wrong (Not totally, mind you, but I was not willing to declare Charlie Hebdo racist).
2.) Cenk Uygur (I can't account for his Twitter statements, but on his TYT program and during his interview with Sam Harris) gave completely valid critiques of Sam Harris. Glenn Greenwald's later article on
anti-Muslim animus in New Atheism was completely fair and totally valid criticism. Kyle Kulinski's critiques (although more mild) were also 100% spot on. Noam Chomsky's attack of Sam Harris' worldview on foreign policy as being hopelessly childish and 1-dimensional is the most honest critique of Sam Harris to date.
Sam Harris is best against religious doctrine, because it's where his intellectual capacity and his personal interests mesh the best. When he tries to do philosophy or foreign policy, his complete lack of interest (and thus lack of understanding) in the underlying subject matter comes out. Him persistently claiming that everyone in the world is misrepresenting his views does not help his credibility on these matters.
I mean, Dave Rubin does not pull punches on the Left, he referred to many Leftists as "fundamentally dishonest," "liars" and so forth, while he plays footsie with Milo Yiannopolous who was the most lying, disingenuous public speaker until Trump. I think there's also a sense that since Rubin has let his ship be boarded by the alt-Right, there's no reason to give his show any further legitimacy by putting themselves on as guests. I'm not sure that I agree with this assessment, but I do understand their point.