I watched some of that stream, rare L imo, I made it to one time where he literaly calls himself a “progressive zionist”(50:10), gets a chuckle from Hasan himself as he rolls eyes.

I want to be generous and say I wonder if he was truly not prepared for this guys takes or he just didn’t expect this guy to be so upfront about it, it was pretty embarassing and he knew immediately as the guest said it.

Hasan is well read so he knows all the anti-zionist talking points so he can push back, but when the guy starts doing literaly “but what about the communists, we should be honest about the communists, hey Hasan are you not a communist why don’t you condemn Hamas Stalin?” shit he should’ve have pressed that. What about it? What communists? What have they done? And depending on the response end the stream right there. Would have been far, far better for him, more views, engagement, drama etc than continue the interview.

But again I think he wasn’t prepared for this guy to be so openly apologetic, I doubt he ever considered the possibility of cutting off a guest early, someone vetted in advance and judged to be “ok”.

Its a rare L but a massive one too, he should own up to it. He knew it was bad, his reaction tells as much how uncomfortable it was right away. Buts its all meaningless if you’re deer in a headlight moment can’t go off script lets just “debate” liberal zionism again.