Who is this smarmy snarky Stephen Miller type (without the shouting & has hair) on Morning Joe?

[Pachamama]

I just turned on Morning Joe and I am listening to a discussion with someone named Noah Rothman about social injustice that is making me want to scream and throw up....

Why are they having this disgusting person on? Who is he?



On edit - to make matters worse - they have another man named Reihan (?) who is defending this Noah Rothman's book and suggesting that there are minorities in positions of privilege that falsely use social injustice to advance themselves.....

Is anyone watching this? I honestly cannot believe what I am hearing and that its being said with a straight face....

Joe, Mika and Tiffany Cross and Anand Giriharadas are at least properly questioning these two, but its really frightening to hear the positions of people like Noah Rothman that are driving and mirroring people like Stephen Miller and Trump and his supporters....

[Dennis Donovan]

1. He's an idiot...

...Libertarian, I believe.

[rusty quoin]

2. Joe talks like he is drinking. He has no filter. Mrs. let's him go with regret.

[lapfog_1]

3. pseudo intellectual

who loves to demonstrate that he has a large vocabulary... but with no understanding what the words actually mean.

Case in point... yesterday he went on and on about "thousands of years English Law" on which the US is based.

Thousands implies more than one... and 2,000 years ago there was no "English Law", there wasn't even Roman Law as Rome did not even begin to occupy England until AD 43. (some 24 years from now before it is two thousand years ago).

Modern English Law dates back to the Magna Carta in 1215... only 804 years ago... hardly "thousands".

Of course joe and minka let this blather (and all his other blather about how social justice has been "perverted" by the left to mean something other than what it used to mean) go without any challenge.

[malaise]

5. Great post

One more pretender

[PunkinPi]

4. This is the second day in a row they had him on to promote his book.

Thank goodness for Tiffany Cross and Anand Giridharadas being there to counter his nonsense.

[lillypaddle]

6. If anyone has a stick up their ass

it's Noah Rothman. What a jerk. He's on Joe regularly.

[tenderfoot]

7. Rothman whines more here:

Link to tweet

[SharonClark]

8. They let Rothman present his case and the other guests refuted him very well.

I thought it was good segment because they didn't let Rothman spout his nonsense without responding to him. They also made Rothman sound petty. That's more than they usually do, like the Schultz lovefest yesterday.