Joe Rogan sounds like the new Rush Limbaugh (over target hurl alert)

Press Run ^ | January 7, 2022 | Eric Boehlert

[DoodleBob]

Rogan's received a lot of attention lately, chiefly for his interview with Dr. Malone and the attempt by about 270 no-names to get him fired from Spotify.

Contrary to the triggered article author, Rogan is not Limbaugh - he's a libertarian in favor of drug decriminilization, and his comments about Michelle Obama running for President may be a combination of like and analysis. His utterances are more nuanced in some cases and require thought. Some FReepers, candidly, will also join the left in canceling him because he's not 100% red meat.

That said, he is red-pilling millions of Millenials and GenZers, more so than any other person today. AND he's annoying the left at the same time..it's popcorn time.

He lets his guests speak freely and at length (Hannity could take a lesson from him) and let's his listeners make up their mind. He's going to Make Thinking Great Again.

If you want to understand why the left is working overtime to cancel Rogan, here's a small piece of evidence:

[Tea Party Terrorist]

LOL he endorsed Bernie Sanders for Prez

[dpetty121263]

Joe Rogan is no Rush Limbaugh, not even close.

[KC_Conspirator]

Author is a flat our left wing liar and a clown that really has not done much of anything for a better society.

[wny]

I stopped reading after the first sentence

[srmanuel]

I agree with your post almost completely, regarding Hannity, I can’t watch him, he constantly is talking over guests and sets up his question by giving a dissertation before asking it, then talks over the response. My advice to him would be to cut back 50% on him talking and allow his guests to talk 50% more.

The other host that does that a lot is Steve Bannon on the War Room, he constantly interrupts and talks over his guests.

[dfwgator]

He thinks Big Mike is the Bees Knees.

[Pollard]

Bannon drives me crazy with his hu, hu, hu, hu, hold on.

[Spok]

I confess that I didn’t read the whole article, but it seemed like it was either saying hateful things or quoting others saying hateful things, and was extremely lacking in facts. And Dr. Robert Malone’s professional credentials are beyond question. “Covid denier” and “medical quack” accusations make the author look like a fraud.

[Pollard]

a miraculously effective, and free, vaccine

a miraculously useless and taxpayer funded vaxx

[woweeitsme]

Did Malone say that Covid doesn’t exist? That would be the definition of a “covid denier”, right?

His concerns are the long-term effects of the Covid vaccines. It’s a fair concern. Questioning his credentials is insanity.

[Manic_Episode]

Joe's semi okay for a godless pothead.

His standup is lame but his UFC commentary is second to none. All other commenters pale in comparison and events without Joe may as well have the sound off.

[dowcaet]

Rogan is no Rush Limbaugh nor even remotely conservative in his politics, but he’s steering millions of younger people away from the Democrat Party, and probably turning many of them into independent voters. This guy is a threat to the Democrats so expect an all out assault from them to get him off the air!

[Flick Lives]

Joe Rogan is no Rush Limbaugh, not even close.

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Nor is he trying to be. His show format is totally his own. Rogan is not imitating anyone else. It is a unique, and really simple, show format.
* Bring on interesting people.
* Interview them for 3-hours with minimal interruption.
* Engage with the person being interviewed and ask questions.

[DoodleBob]

This writer believes Rogan WAS one of "theirs" before he flipped the script for $100MM to scoop up Limbaugh's listeners and become a hater.

A problem with that bad analysis, is that Limbaugh's listeners were chiefly aging Americans who listened in via 650 AM channels. Based on this pre-pandemic analysis

According to our survey respondent demos, Joe’s listenership is 71% male and evenly split between high school and post-secondary graduates. Fifty seven percent of his audience reports earning over $50k per year, with 19% making over $100k. The average age of his listeners was 24.

Further, many of Rush's fans will be repelled by Rogan's decriminalization and other positions.

Personally, I understood Limbaugh's appeal and he was good at times. Others were much better than him (Andrew Wikow and the late Irv Homer in Philadelphia come to mind) and Limbaugh wasn't on board with Trump early on (he joined the train when he realized he'd become like Levin and lose a bigly part of his audience by being a NeverTrumper).

And this is Rush.

[Sirius Lee]

Malone suggested Biden was leading a hypnotized cult. It was a misinformation-fest that Rogan said at the time he hoped would go viral.

Whenever the shrill volume is turned up to '11' as demonstrated by this author then you can bet that it's because the left is realizing that it was just nuked by a 20 megaton truth-bomb.

“mass formation psychosis"

This term really has the left spooked because it horrifically apropos to describing the current situation, and they do not want the curious to look it up and perhaps questioning the poopy pants pied piper's motives.

[BobL]

“Limbaugh wasn’t on board with Trump early on (he joined the train when he realized he’d become like Levin and lose a bigly part of his audience by being a NeverTrumper).”

That is true. He called us “Trumpists” early on. Like most here, Rush started with Cruz and then drifted to Trump. Rush was on the back-end of that movement, but did get there in time to prevent serious damage to his reputation, as he understood that to weaken Trump was to strengthen Hillary, something Cruz (and Levin), our two great ‘Constitutional Scholars’ really struggled to figure out.

[CIB-173RDABN]

What did the left expect when they shut down any views but their own. Rush Limbaugh became popular because he was the only alternative voice available for most Americans.

The left seems to believe that only they have the right to speak and anyone else is to be given a label as an extremist as they attempt to shut them down.

The communist in the Soviet Union could not silence opposition to their one party rule and the left in this nation will not be able to do it either.

[No Party Affiliation]

Agreed, that is like comparing the IQ of a 6th grade science student to Albert Einstein.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Joe Rogan is a foul-mouthed Howard Stern wannabee.