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BOKHARI: Joe Rogan Apologized – and the Mob Pounced
breitbart ^
| 6 Feb 2022
| ALLUM BOKHARI
Posted on 02/06/2022 6:20:35 PM PST by MarvinStinson
The progressive establishment is determined to cancel Joe Rogan because he’s more popular than any other media figure in the U.S. who comments on current events, and he’s not on their team.
In response, Rogan is making a classic error — assuming the torrent of hate he’s facing comes from a place of good faith, and that he can make it go away by addressing the mob’s concerns, apologizing, and pledging to do better.
Rogan has released more than 1,700 episodes of his podcast, each one a live discussion usually running three hours or more, without editing or filtering.
It is almost certain that over the course of those episodes, adding up to over 5,000 hours of live, unfiltered footage, Rogan will have said things he regrets, or wishes he’d said better; things that he genuinely believes merit an apology.
But that’s not what the mob really cares about. Like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones and other people the mob has tried to cancel, Rogan is considered a threat to the progressive world order.
His podcast episodes draw an audience of roughly 11 million people, an audience four times the size of the most popular cable news host. That is his true crime, and that is why they want him gone.
It started with Rogan’s discussion with Dr. Robert Malone, who conducted early research on mRNA technology and opposes their use in coronavirus vaccines.
Rogan apologized for that episode, promising to do more research ahead of future controversial discussions, and to invite experts with competing opinions.
The mob didn’t care, because it was never about one episode, it was about the podcast’s influence over public opinion, an influence that lies beyond their control. The mob will not dissipate until Rogan is banished from every major platform.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bloggers; joerogan; rogan; spotify
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Apologies give momentum to the mob, convincing them they are making progress in their goal to cancel, censor and ban their target. It convinces them to stick around longer, and convinces more censorship-minded people that now is the moment to join the bandwagon.
To: MarvinStinson
As if to prove it was never really about the Malone episode, the mob has now cut together a clip of Joe Rogan saying the N-word in various episodes.
The people attacking Rogan don’t actually care about him using the N-word.
These are the same people who ignored the racist assault of Larry Elder, which included a white woman dressed in a gorilla mask, chasing the then-candidate for CA governor.
It’s the same people who defended Joe Biden for telling black voters “you ain’t black” if they didn’t vote for him.
These are the same people falsely accusing the Canadian Freedom Convoy of harboring racists and neo-confederates, while ignoring the extraordinary number of times Justin Trudeau has worn blackface.
They don’t care about clips of The Young Turks saying the same thing Rogan did, and they don’t care about Joe Biden saying it either.
To: MarvinStinson
So predictable.
Never apologize.
Always double-down.
It confuses them when you use their tactics.
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:26:10 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
To: MarvinStinson
If I accidentally step on your foot, I will apologize: “Sorry dude. Didn’t mean it. Nothing personal.”
But if I was talking? And you got “offended” by something I said? Screw you. Why should I apologize for anything I said? It’s on you. Deal with it. I would never apologize for anything I said under any circumstances.
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:27:15 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
("If you see something, say something"? I see people dying from vaccines.)
To: MarvinStinson
"Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness." -- John Wayne, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1949
To: MarvinStinson
How many R. Kelly songs has Spotify removed?
To: MarvinStinson
He can’t be that stupid. He has to know what he’s doing here. Or is he just afraid he’s got so much to lose that he stopped thinking?
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:35:20 PM PST
by
cuban leaf
(My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
To: MarvinStinson
Idiot! He should’ve known better. By apologizing To the devil and his hordes of demons his macho rambo image dissolved into the abyss. He is going to lose tons of followers. It’s a no win-win for him and a gigantic win for the left. Another notch for the vomit left!
To: MarvinStinson
Playing nice with the left doesn’t work. Get that through your head.
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:40:21 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
(Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
To: MarvinStinson
He was cooked after the hostage videos he made.
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:43:00 PM PST
by
Stentor
( )
To: MarvinStinson
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:45:16 PM PST
by
hoe_cake
To: Stentor
‘He was cooked after the hostage videos he made.’
Let us be hopeful for Rogan. He’s been great for our causes.
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:47:05 PM PST
by
hoe_cake
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Rogans conflict didn’t start with that interview.
It started when CNN medical analyst what’s his name went on and Rogan made him look like an idiot and admit CNN lied.
CNN is sponsored by pharma. CNN is partially owned by media companies like Sony/Viacom.
Sony was told to correct the issue so they threatened their musicians into pulling music off Spotify.
Joe wasn’t being attacked for anything to do with the wuflu or his interview. Pharma threatened to pull money.
As far as the apologies I’m reminded Alex Jones interview with piers Morgan. I CHEERED that interview because Alex knew he wasn’t called there for debate. Alex immediately attacked and knew he was in a trap.
Joe needs to understand that he’s in a trap.
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:49:07 PM PST
by
Celerity
To: ClearCase_guy; E. Pluribus Unum
Man, my wife and I just got into it over this tonight!!! I said, never apologize, no matter what... she said never apologize, unless you did something wrong.
I’m right of course. Compare Trump to Bush...
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:53:40 PM PST
by
Sarcazmo
To: MarvinStinson; E. Pluribus Unum; ClearCase_guy; Paal Gulli; canuck_conservative; cuban leaf; ...
The word on the Twittsewer is that it's a professional operation by a Democrat SuperPAC called MeidasTouch.
If they prove that they can cancel Rogan [who has been uncancellable so far], they will have almost unlimited power in The Online Cancel Culture space.
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:54:17 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: RoseofTexas
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posted on
02/06/2022 6:55:18 PM PST
by
Sarcazmo
To: hoe_cake
Our causes?
Yes Joe Rogan and his interview with Dr. Robert Malone was tremendous. Powerful.
And I’m sure there’s some other instances where Rogan was spot on, but let’s remember first and foremost he’s a liberal Bernie supporter.
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posted on
02/06/2022 7:01:31 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
To: MarvinStinson
Siwwy wabbit,
Apology only INSURES cancellation.
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posted on
02/06/2022 7:04:08 PM PST
by
A strike
(Public Health 21st century murder by government. DoktorFauxiMengeleGates to a TerreHaute gurney now)
To: cuban leaf
Heh... he LOOKS dumb. He says things that seem dumb. He has an underbite. He talks like he’s dumb. Then, he goes and asks a question that is incredibly apt.
Then he has people on that are interesting. He seems interested in the truth.
The dude is an enigma to me.
The resistance that is trying to take him down though... this is no joke. We’re going to have to deal with this folks.. steele yourselves.
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posted on
02/06/2022 7:04:51 PM PST
by
Sarcazmo
To: MarvinStinson
This never ends well.
Joe Rogan has self-flagellated while treading water in a pool of Alinsky piranhas.
This never ends well.
Apparently, the Lightbringer for all modern Alinsky tribal followers, Barack Obama, triggered the final thumbs down and threatened the financial mechanism that supported the embattled Mr. Rogan, Spotify Inc. {LINK}
With the twitch of his pinkie ring, Teh One, the bringer of all racial and progressive enlightenment, Barack Obama, forced the ashamed and humiliated Joe Rogan to kneel before the altar of wokeism and apologize for the mortal sin of using the “N” word.
Earlier on Saturday, Mr. Rogan assessed his bank account, glanced at the tin cup and used Woke-Insta to profess his sins and beg forgiveness from the leftist tribe. {View Here}
In an effort to avoid his cancellation, Joe Rogan denounced his skin color, renounced his former shameful conduct and announced his new enlightenment. Rogan predictably declared the oft familiar last ditch effort phrase, “this is a teachable moment.”
Quickly, Joe Rogan’s newly subscribed conservative audience was warm to appreciate his humility and offer their forgiveness. However, that tribe is not the Spotify audience who manage the coliseum of his indentured servitude. Despite their protestations to the contrary, the progressive and enlightened woke tribe never relent until they have achieved their goal – the removal of all Joe Rogan flesh and death by ten thousand screaming piranha bites.
For the professional and political left, apology is weakness. Weakness must be punished. The Alinsky clan bait their victims with the false promises of forgiveness; if you just cower strongly enough, bend meekly enough, apologize sincerely enough, it will be okay. But forgiveness is never provided, it is never okay.
The millions of dollars that Joe Rogan might be worth to the corporation known as Spotify are irrelevant to the swarm. Indeed, the mob view higher value as a challenge, a new height for the wokeness to achieve. Rogan just bled into the pool of that swarm. There is no exit now.
The professional political left does not control media in all forms as a business proposition, for them it is a weapon. Rogan’s financial value to Spotify means naught – his cancellation is only a matter of time and contractual exit.
He’s done; another sacrifice on the altar of Wokeism. Joe Rogan stuck the fork in himself – another irrelevant notch on the belt to be forgotten with hundreds, if not thousands, of previous notches. Everything now is simply a formality.
We’ve seen this cancellation show too many times to pretend we don’t know how it ends.
(The Hill) – Podcaster Joe Rogan apologized on Saturday for his repeated past use of racial slurs.
“There’s been a lot of shit from the old episodes of the podcast that I wish I hadn’t said, or had said differently. This is my take on the worst of it,” Rogan said in the caption of an almost five-minute video posted on Instagram.
Recently, Rogan has faced controversy as multiple musical artists have called on Spotify to stop streaming their songs over COVID-19 misinformation on his popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” to which the streaming service purchased exclusive rights.
One of the artists, India Arie, posted a compilation video showing Rogan using the n-word on his podcast. Video also showed the podcaster making a joke about the movie “Planet of the Apes” after he was dropped off in a Black neighborhood.
“There’s nothing I can do to take that back. I wish I could. Obviously, that’s not possible,” Rogan stated. “I certainly wasn’t trying to be racist, and I certainly would never want to offend someone for entertainment with something as stupid as racism.” (read more)
India Arie didn’t create that compilation video. She was just a vessel to deliver it. The bringer of all racial enlightenment, and organizer of all political leverage, created that ‘worst of Joe Rogan’ compilation video, with purpose.
My prediction on how this story likely ends….
For these characters it’s all about money. That is the rule. Everything is about money… everything. That is the currency of the leverage and ideology. For a small indulgency fee (paid by Spotify), Teh One will appear on Rogan’s podcast, and watch how quickly all things around Joe Rogan modify – including his voice.
Just a guess.
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posted on
02/06/2022 7:09:00 PM PST
by
Bratch
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