Indian TV Host Melts Down at Entirely Wrong Guest in Bonkers Ukraine Debate
An Indian TV news debate on the Ukraine crisis went wildly off the rails this week when anchor Rahul Shivshankar yelled at a guest for nearly two minutes straight until discovering it was the wrong guy.
Shivshankar, the controversial moderator of India Upfront, a debate program on English-language news channel Times Now, brought on Bohdan Nahaylo of the Kyiv Post, a Ukrainian English-language newspaper, and Daniel McAdams, executive director of the paleo-libertarian Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
In the segment, which has since gone viral in a cropped clip on social media, Shivshankar apparently believed he was addressing McAdams about America’s lack of direct military involvement in Ukraine. The show’s production crew had placed the wrong on-air titles for the two guests, making it appear that Nahaylo was actually McAdams.