Comments by "Rob McCune" (@robm6645) on ""Dave Rubin, a Political Chameleon"" video.

  1. Yeah, people don't notice it because he never lets left wing people on his show.
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  2. Well yes, Rubin isn't an investigative journalist because Rubin isn't a journalist, in the same way he can't be a station wagon because he is not a car. He's a political hack who is only interested in promoting the right. The fact you think anything but softball questions is "tricking the guest" or being an activist shows this isn't about journalism because it isn't about truth, it's about safe space for bad ideas where facts can't hurt your feelings. I hate to break it to you bud, but post-modernism is wrong. Truth is a real thing that we can get closer to, and by not challenging his guest, Rubin doesn't get anyone closer to the truth and in fact moves people backward by saying the truth doesn't matter, ideas matter regardless of the facts, or the evidence, or logic or the counter arguments, those are all things that stop a free exchange of ideas which means they are bad. According to Dave you can believe what ever you want to believe, unless you're on the left.
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  3. "There is no other program I could recommend more enthusiastically than his." So you only watch one program?
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  4. Alex Henley Journalists ask questions to get to the truth, you can't do that without challenging the person you are interviewing. Anyone can make their ideas sound good, but they need to check and criticisms of those ideas need to be addressed if they are really something worth while. Rubin is elevator music to make far right views seem more pleasant, his idiot audience sees his lack of pushback as a signal the views be expressed are O.K. He knows it, smart people know it, and the Koch brothers who pay him to be a hack know it.
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  5. Most of Rubin's guests have their own youtube channels, saying they are being censored for being on the right is part of Rubin being on the right. The idea that they don't have platform for their ideas is a lie he uses to excuse his political bias. The fact is Rubin is guilty of everything he complains about, creating safe spaces for the right(the fact you think basic critical thinking is a brutal blood sport is evidence of this), including the alt-right, postmodernism where nothing matters and everything is relative(the grounds you are defending him on), and valuing feelings of right wingers (that are victims of left wingers, women, minorities, immigrants, educators, scientists, etc.) over the reality that their ideology is in power, unpopular, or just empirically wrong. In fact you just unwittingly contradicted yourself by admitting that he and all his guests complain about that, because if all his guests complain about the same thing then his show is by definition pushing an agenda. If his show were about a free exchange of ideas he would actually have guests on who would not tow the line that the left is a bunch of evil safe space post-modernists, which is objectively factually wrong. So thank you for admitting all his guests promote a single thread of lies designed for a specific propagandistic purpose.
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  6. Rubin is against free speech, that is why he doesn't have left wingers on his show, it would interrupt the right wing victimization circle jerk.
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  7. They used to be friends then Pakman asked him to answer some simple questions about his politics and beliefs that any voting adult should be able to answer, and it all went down hill from there.
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  8. How is this infighting? Dave Rubin is a right winger.
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  9. Ironically during his interview with Richard Spencer.
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  10. Meanwhile the right is tough on facts because they have a well known liberal bias, and the right won't let them get away with it.
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  11. You don't hang out here much do you? Backlash at that empty suit has been going on for at least 2 years by this point.
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  12. Peter Mogenson Rubin interviewed Sam Harris in September 2015, so you're wrong there. I also overstated things a little, backlash against Rubin began building as the reality of Donald Trump began to sink in and it became undeniable he was nothing but a right wing shill, so it's been more like 18 months since I noticed the beginning of serious Rubin backlash. I will thank you for your compliment about having impressive foresight because it's true, I did predict Rubin would end up like he is now when he announced the relaunch of his show. He was never what you thought he was, he was always driven by resentment, Sam Harris and the "reasonable" liberal haters he brought on were designed to ease you into anti-left resentment politics.
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  13. I wasn't saying that it worked on you, I was saying that was the game Rubin was trying to play. I had to google who Alex Epstein was, and yes, that should have been the breaking point for any skeptic worth their salt if it hadn't happened already.
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  14. I have no idea, I got an add for special hipster water for brewing coffee.
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