Posted on 01/16/2022 6:38:33 AM PST by DoodleBob
Late last year, popular podcast host Joe Rogan invited onto his show Dr. Robert Malone, a world-class Covid denier and medical quack, who told Rogan’s millions of listeners that public health experts advocating for vaccines today are akin to Nazi’s in the 1930s. Getting vaccinated against a deadly virus was a sign of “mass formation psychosis,” and Malone suggested Biden was leading a hypnotized cult. It was a misinformation-fest that Rogan said at the time he hoped would go viral.
It did. Then the whole thing got banned by YouTube, where the Joe Rogan Experience gets uploaded, for violating the platform’s rules about trafficking in pandemic lies. It was the latest, reckless example of a once-libertarian podcast host with an eclectic past (actor, comedian, “cage-fighting commentator”), hitching his wagon to conservative lies and distortion, as he whips up distrust of the government and science.
As Rogan takes a hard turn to the right, you get the feeling he wants to be the new Rush Limbaugh — the source of GOP misinformation and conspiracies. More than any other daytime talker, it’s Rogan who could fill Limbaugh’s shoes after the GOP host passed away last year.
Like Limbaugh, Rogan preaches to a mostly male audience of roughly 10 million that wallows in victimhood while the host lashes out at imaginary forces trying to keep the White Man down in America. (“Straight white men are not allowed to talk.”) Like Limbaugh, Rogan faces no consequences for peddling ceaseless lies. Spotify, which has exclusive rights to Rogan’s show, refuses to acknowledge the torrent of misinformation that flow from his show, while at the same time pretending Spotify podcast hosts must adhere to company guidelines.
And like Limbaugh who landed a $100 million contract for the endless litany of smears he trafficked in for decades, Rogan last year penned a nine-figure deal.
The podcast host made political headlines in the winter of 2020 when he said he would support Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the Democratic primary. Lots of progressives rushed to embrace the host, suggesting he reached an audience outside of the traditional Democratic base, even though Rogan appears to despise the Left.
Since then, Rogan has lurched to the far right, announcing last year he preferred Trump over Biden in the general election.
With the pandemic, the host has become aggressively and arrogantly dishonest. “I believe he’s become more emboldened to push baseless conspiracy theories and right-wing lies over the past year,” Media Matters researcher Alex Paterson recently told The Verge. “Just from listening to him every day, he’s by no means remitting conspiracy theories and false rhetoric on his show. If anything, he’s leaning into it more. He’s a darling of the conservative right in the United States. Joe Rogan has shown really clearly that he will use his podcast to spread conspiracy theories, right-wing lies, [and] racist rhetoric in order to sort of promote himself.”
Rogan gladly plays hosts to chronic GOP liars such as Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones, while remaining a huge supporter of Tucker Carlson.
There’s big money in right-wing hate and conspiracies, and Rogan’s leaning into all of it —“Nancy Pelosi is the head witch” of the Democratic Party — at the same time Limbaugh’s death created a hole in the far-right media landscape. When Rogan endorsed the baseless notion that the Clinton family was somehow connected to the 2016 murder of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staff member, he sounded just like the deceased AM talker. Same with Rogan’s regular anti-trans rhetoric.
The similarities don’t end there. Just as Limbaugh in 2020 claimed Covid was “no worse than the common cold,” Rogan today lies without pause about a public health crisis that has claimed the lives of nearly one million Americans, going as far as claiming “actual microchips” are “being injected into your arm to see if you have COVID-19.” The show has become a cesspool of unhinged anti-vaccine rhetoric.
He endorsed the nonsensical lie that the government was monitoring private citizens’ text messages for anti-vaccine content. He urged young people not to get vaccinated because “exercising” would protect them. He said use of Ivermectin would effectively treat COVID-19, claimed Biden didn’t actually get his vaccine shot live on TV because they’re too dangerous, warned vaccine passports would move the country towards a “dictatorship,” and insisted immigrants crossing the Mexican border were driving a Covid surge.
It’s all indistinguishable from the bile that Limbaugh made his career spreading and amplifying. We’ll never know how many of Limbaugh's loyal, elderly listeners died from the virus, in part because he assured them the infection was essentially harmless. And we’ll never know how many of Rogan’s (younger) listeners got sick or died from Covid because of the host’s nonstop propaganda campaign against a miraculously effective, and free, vaccine.
Rogan seems eager to carry on Limbaugh s toxic legacy.
As for Obama and Michelle, please read what Rogan actually said. Leftists let others think for themselves...it's such a poor quality.
100% guarantee this guy has never listened to a single Rush Limbaugh Show.
Even if he does not support Michelle and is just describing her possible success, this phrase describing her husband seals it for me:
“... the best president that we have had in our lifetime in terms of like a representative of intelligent, articulate people....”
It would be an interesting thing (if done well) to see Rogan do an “interview” with our dear Rush. He could listen to the highlights of Rush’s brilliance, and then design well-asked questions to match Rush’s pre-recorded responses.
Rush was actually the guest on his own show. It was Rush we tuned in to hear. In fact, I don’t think I ever heard a guest on Rush’s show (they were rare) who was anywhere near as interesting as Rush. Some of his callers were riveting, but mostly because of Rush’s response.
Rogan is no Rush Limbaugh. Agree 100%
Movement conservatism or Establishment conservatism isn’t what it used to be, so new media figures aren’t going to be like Rush was, and figures who are similar to Rush won’t have the kind of audience he did.
Never heard of him, but sounds like I need to check him out.
Do we actually trust the idiots who write this shit with sharp objects?
Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast , he surprised listeners by stating that he felt that if Michelle Obama were to choose to run in the 2024 presidential campaign, that she’d be successful. “She’s great, she’s articulate, she’s intelligent, she’s the wife of the best President that we have had in our lifetime … she can win,” he said. He also quipped that if she were to run with current Vice President Kamala Harris on the same ticket it would be a “double dose of diversity.”
Says it all!
“Getting vaccinated against a deadly virus was a sign of “mass formation psychosis,” and Malone suggested Biden was leading a hypnotized cult.”
Perhaps it’s Malone who is leading a hypnotized cult?
The shots don’t work.
Yeah, no.
I do want Rogan as a semi-permanent Presidential debate moderator because his track record shows he can be trusted to be fair and tough. His preparation for interviews is already legendary. I think he'll be outstanding as a Presidential debate moderator. Which means the Democratics will refuse to have anything to do with him.
Lurkinanloomin wrote: “The shots don’t work.”
And, you know that how?
Rogan is a good interviewer, but hes a lib to the core! Limbaugh was a good interviewer, but possessed a quality none of these idiots have, a love of radio and communication. Rush was always months and sometimes years ahead of the curve. Rogan is 5 to 8 months behind most people on this forum. You noticed that all these deep quotes are coming from Malone. I have yet to hear Rogan quoted for any indepth knowledge…..in between dropping F bombs in his literary Tennyson manner. Rush is gone and no one comes close to replacing him.
Almost everyone I know who got them got the virus.
Bannon drives me crazy with his hu, hu, hu, hu, hold on.
Yeah that rude porky pig interrupting so he can make an inane comment needs to go…… that and get rid of Boris and Naomi. Both are worthless media hacks. Boris is always coming hot on the Gettr and has accomplished nothing. And Naomi hates Trump and voted for Biden and is shocked that Biden is doing what he said he would do. Have no idea what Bannons hardon for Naomi is, but shes an idiot! More Pesobic and Beattie needed!
Lurkinanloomin wrote: “Almost everyone I know who got them got the virus.”
It’s looking more likely that everyone will get the virus sooner or later. That doesn’t mean you should avoid the vaccines since the vaccines do seem to protect against the most serious consequences of the virus.
The “Tulsi Gabbard” effect.
Rogan's epic "You lied!" takedown of CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta was a true work of art, better even than his torching of Don Lemon a little later. Crude, yes, words Limbaugh would never use on air, but fully justified? I'm leaning on the yes button on that one too. Nobody who listens to even a single podcast would ever mistake Rogan for a conservative. So what?
Already had the Fauci/China virus, don’t want the serious consequences of the shot.
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