Comedian Jon Stewart shut down liberal journalist David Remnick for accusing Joe Rogan of recklessly platforming “Nazi curious” guests.
In a sit-down interview, Stewart recounted his positive experiences appearing on Rogan’s show over the years. Remnick pushed back, criticizing Rogan’s massively popular podcast and protesting past guests who he claims cozy up to Nazis.
Stewart flipped the script on Remnick, telling him to “beat him at their own game” instead of just complaining.
“Then do it better. Beat them at their own game,” Stewart said.
“I enjoyed being on Rogan,” Stewart continued. “I think he’s an interesting interviewer. There are right-wing weaponized commentators whose sole purpose is to manipulate things to the benefit of the Bannon project or Project 2025. Rogan is not that guy. That guy is a curious comic who fell into this thing that got f***ing enormous.”
He added, “Maybe [Rogan] has opinions all over the political spectrum, but has tendencies that people on the left do not fit the aesthetic.”
Stewart also reflected on his interviews with other controversial figures. “I’ve interviewed Kissinger, and he was carpet-bomb curious,” he said. “I don’t know what to say. It’s very easy to castigate those where we are like, ‘But he had an opinion a few years back that’s corrosive.'”
However, Stewart’s point didn’t seem to resonate with Remnick, who responded by claiming Rogan is problematic because he hosts controversial guests on his show.
“The difference is when [Kissinger] was carpet-bomb curious, you didn’t say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s awesome,'” Remnick said. “And what happens with Rogan sometimes is that he’ll hear somebody that’s on the dangerous end of the spectrum, and he’ll just kind of soak it in.”
“Then get it,” Stewart retorted. “Then go on that show and do those things. It’s not acceptable to just say, ‘Well, I don’t like what he does.’ Then do it better. Beat them at their own game. It’s not enough to just complain that, ‘That guy got a platform,’ and, ‘Don’t platform that guy.’ There’s no one in this world that isn’t platformed. Get out there. Fight.”
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