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Podcaster Joe Rogan called The View a 'rabies infested henhouse' after one of its hosts called a black author a 'charlatan' and 'pawn of the right'.
Coleman Hughes was dressed down by Sunny Hostin when he appeared on the program last week to promote his new book.
The CNN analyst wrote in The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America that people shouldn't define themselves by their race.
But Hostin criticized the thesis of his book as 'fundamentally flawed' and 'something that the right has co-opted'.
'So many in the black community... believed that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you are charlatan of sorts,' she said.
Podcaster Joe Rogan called The View a 'rabies infested henhouse' after one of its hosts called a black author a 'charlatan' and 'pawn of the right'
Coleman Hughes looks bemused as he is dressed down by Sunny Hostin when he appeared on the program last week to promote his new book
Hughes, an independent who has voted for Democrats, defended himself and appeared to have the support of the studio audience, who cheered many of his answers.
He on Wednesday went on Rogan's podcast and spent part of the three-hour interview addressing the on-air clash with Hostin.
Rogan dismissed The View as a 'rabies-infested henhouse' that frequently went viral when its hosts said 'ridiculous things' that viewers 'love to hate'.
He added that Hostin appeared intelligent on the panel, but was 'ideologically captured' and part of a show that operates in a 'very specific ideological bubble'.
Hughes said he didn't really know who Hostin was before he went on the show and didn't expect his character to be attacked on-air.
'I wasn't expecting necessarily for her to kind of try to ambush me in that way and attack my character in that way,' he said.
'I responded to it in the moment as I do, and I didn't expect it to go as viral as it did, but I think it arguably went more viral than anything I've ever done.'
Hostin criticized the thesis of his book as 'fundamentally flawed' and 'something that the right has co-opted'.
Hostin also accused Hughes of being 'a conservative', claiming he self-identified as such in another interview and doubling down when he corrected her.
'I don't think there's any evidence I've been co-opted by anyone and I think that that's an ad hominem tactic that people use to not address really the important conversations we're having here,' he
