Posted on 02/07/2022 6:50:28 PM PST by Ennis85
Under fire for spreading covid misinformation on his hugely popular podcast, Joe Rogan recently offered something that’s being described, in some quarters, as an apology.
In a 10-minute Instagram video, the erstwhile TV comic turned professional provocateur told his employers at Spotify that he was sorry for causing them trouble. Rogan also assured Neil Young that he was still a fan, even after the rock legend yanked his music off the streaming service in protest, leading a number of other musicians to do the same. And Rogan acknowledged that he gets stuff wrong sometimes and will try to provide more balance in the future.
But to everyone else, he offered the worst kind of non-apology: “If I pissed you off, I’m sorry.”
What I didn’t hear from Rogan was any remorse that he might have done harm when he held forth about his own bogus belief that healthy young people don’t need to get vaccinated, or when he failed to challenge a guest who promised that the drug ivermectin would extinguish the virus altogether or when he allowed another guest to spout theories about how Americans are essentially being hypnotized about covid by the media, and comparing the situation to Nazi Germany.
He didn’t address the 270 medical professionals whose powerful open letter warned, about one of Rogan’s episodes, that “mass-misinformation events of this scale have extraordinarily dangerous ramifications.”
Worse, I heard no apologies to the people who took to heart what they heard, endangering themselves or their loved ones.
To my ears, Rogan sounded glib, narcissistic and clueless. And Spotify — the platform that enables him by insisting it would be wrong to restrain what he does on his podcast — is even worse. Its failure to take any meaningful responsibility, other than adding a few disclaimers,
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W post, what an excuse for a news organizer.
Don’t believe anything you read in the left wing democrat media.
ANYTHING !!!
I’m disgusted by Pharma Fascism’s war against free speech.
Hey Margaret, how about going after Biden so saying the same “N” word.
He was overweight and asthmatic; in other words, very much at risk. And he was unvaccinated.
I don’t know for sure whether getting vaccination and booster shots would have saved Miggy’s life.
So thats why Rogan doesn’t know what he’s talking about…….cuz vaccines may or may not have worked. This ditz sucks as a reporter.
Medical professionals. I noticed they’re not referring to them as Doctors anymore . . .
Poor Marge. She knows a person that had a statistical fluke death; now Rogan Bad!
Because talking to people is bad! Spreading knowledge and peaking curiosity is bad!
To pique: To excite (interest, curiosity, etc.): Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.
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Regards,
I lost an immediate family member to COVID and I blame China and Fauci. Margaret Sullivan can f off.
Many of the 270 medical “professionals” were veterinarians,
etc. NOT MDs. Typical leftist deceptive practices. What really amazes me is this-—wasn’t she Jane to Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan? Who cares what a senile old demented crone like that thinks??? And how come she’s still alive? Pact with the Devil, I’ll bet!
Huh! She was so ashamed with her lies that she changed her name! Typical leftist lib, except for the shame part ‘cause we all know they ain’t got any!
There are 60 thousand MDs in the US.
Did he try ivermectin? Or did he believe his vaxxed status would save him? Or did he think he’d not be so sick because he got the vax?
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