During a discussion about Hughes's spat with Hostin, Rogan didn't mince words. He went all in, slamming the "The View" hosts and labeling the show a "rabies-infested hen house."
The root of the argument between Coleman and Sunny stems from Hostin's disapproval of Hughes's latest book, "End of Race Politics." In it, Hughes argues that Americans should move beyond race-based treatment and instead focus on socioeconomics. Hostin, on the other hand, vehemently disagrees, deeming Hughes's perspective "fundamentally flawed" and attributing his opinions to undue influence from far-right politics.
From OK! Magazine:
"Many in the black community, if I’m being honest with you, because I want to be, believe that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you’re charlatan of sorts," Hostin said at the time.
"I don’t think there’s any evidence I’ve been co-opted by anyone," Hughes replied. "I think that’s an ad-hominem tactic people use to not address, really, the important conversations we’re having here."
Rogan and Hughes blasted The View hosts in a follow-up interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience" on Wednesday, April 3.
"I wasn’t expecting necessarily for her to kind of try to ambush me in that way and attack my character in that way and I responded to it in the moment as I do," the writer explained. "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."
"It is the show that people love to hate," the former Fear Factor personality claimed. "They get so much hate watching and so much hate watching viral clips of them saying ridiculous things. I mean, it is a rabies-infested henhouse."
Rogan also opined that some of the panelists on the talk show were "just dull-minded," but noted "Sunny's not one of them."
"I think she’s smart, but captured," he added.
