Posted on 02/12/2022 4:11:44 AM PST by Kaslin
“Podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized to Spotify. While also addressing the controversy around his podcast. “I want to thank Spotify for being so supportive during this time and I’m very sorry that this is happening to them and that they’re taking so much heat from it, “I’m not trying to promote misinformation, I’m not trying to be controversial,” Rogan added. “I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than to just talk to people…“I do all the scheduling myself, and I don’t always get it right.”
He certainly didn’t get it right when he scheduled author T.J. English, a notorious propagandist for the Stalinist, terror-sponsoring Castro regime, whose historic obsession is the destruction of the country that made Joe Rogan a multi-millionaire.
Astoundingly, Rogan did not even attempt any rebuttals against T.J. English’s allegations about pre-Castro Cuba, Cuban-Americans and the CIA. In case Rogan invites him again, I offer the following (free of charge) to correct English’s Castro regime-concocted allegations:
First off: much of English’s book Havana Nocturne was written in Cuba with the full collaboration of the Castro regime’s propaganda ministry. In fact, the primary source for English’s book, cited no fewer than 72 times in quotes and footnotes, is a propaganda apparatchik of Castro’s totalitarian regime named Enrique Cirules. (Who recently perished.)
The late Castro regime propaganda apparatchik Enrique Cirules, worked at the Castro-regime’s propaganda bureau known as “Casa de las Americas,” which essentially publishes and promotes the Castro regime’s propaganda in books and articles under the guise of “art.”
In 1983, a high-ranking Cuban intelligence officer named Jesus Perez Mendez defected to the U.S. and spilled his guts to the FBI. Among his spillings we encounter the following: “The Cuban DGI (Directorio General de Inteligencia, Castro’s KGB-trained Secret service) controls Casa de las Americas.”
Worse still, shortly before his death, Communist propaganda apparatchik Enrique Cirules accused TJ English of plagiarizing his propaganda screeds word for word! You know it’s bad when an official communist propagandist, whose very job it is to get “mainstream” authors and reporters to parrot his propaganda, gets ticked because one such author didn’t even bother to paraphrase or occasionally quote. Instead he lifted Cirules’ communist propaganda screed word for word! To wit:
“I have no intention of talking to Mr. T.J. English,” harrumphed Casa de Las Americas official Enrique Cirules. “Instead, I’m offering figures, data and clear evidence of his plagiarism. In his book Havana Nocturne (2008) T.J. English did not quote my work; instead, 72 times he mentioned the name of Cirules in an attempt to justify plagiarizing more than 260 pages from the novels El Imperio de La Habana and La vida Secreta de Meyer Lansky.”
Among the Cuban propaganda ministry memes parroted by TJ English in his book Havana Nocturne; "How the Mob Owned Cuba, and Lost it to the Revolution,”:
"The financial largesse that flooded Cuba (in the 1950's) could have been used to address the country's social problems" continues the bestselling author who (lest he disappoint his Cuban regime sources) proceeds to list them:
"High infant mortality"--(in fact, Cuba's infant mortality in 1958 was the 13 lowest--not in Latin America, not in the Hemisphere--but in the WORLD.)
"Subhuman housing" -- (in fact, Cuba's per capita income in 1958 was higher than half of Europe's.)
"Dispossession of small farmers"-- (in fact, Cuba's agricultural wages in 1958 were higher than half of Europe's. And--far from huge latifundia hogging the Cuban countryside-- the average Cuban farm in 1958 was SMALLER than the average in the U.S.)
'Illiteracy"-- (In fact, in a mere 50 years since a war of independence that cost Cuba almost a fifth of her population, Cuba managed 80 per cent literacy and budgeted the most( 23 % of national expenses) for public education of any Latin American countr. Better still, Cubans were not just literate but also educated, allowed to read George Orwell and Thomas Jefferson and not just the arresting wisdom and sparkling prose of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
Unsurprisingly, English's sources (like Jon Lee Anderson's sources for "Che, A Revolutionary Life”) are primarily officials of Cuba's Stalinist regime which English visited often. Indeed, as mentioned, English dedicates his book to one such official, Enrique Cirules, who he calls a "Cuban author." Fine, I'll call Julius Streicher "a German author."
Several underlying facts get in the way of the books title and thesis. To wit: Cuba's Gross Domestic product in 1957 was $2.7 billion. Cuba's foreign receipts in 1957 were about $750 million--of which tourism made up only $60 million. Gambling was a small fraction of this $60 million. How could the beneficiaries of that tiny fraction of Cuba's income "own" the entire country, and "infiltrate its levers of power from top to bottom," as the book asserts?
Well, we have it on the good authority of Castro regime officials, primary sources for this book, which neglects to mention how "the Revolution" has made multiple times that few million in cahoots with Colombia's cocaine cowboys.
"We lived like kings in Cuba," revealed Medellin Cartel bosses Carlos Lehder and Alejandro Bernal during their trials. "Fidel made sure nobody bothered us." The Cocaine cartel's deal with Castro made Meyer Lansky's with Batista look like a nickel and dime gratuity.
“I’m trying not to be controversial”. Never found him to be that entertaining,
Hes a sellout and a wuss just like I thought him to be. Ive listened to less than one full broadcast ( bob lazers) and heard snips and pieces of others. Wussy, wuss wuss. If you weren’t controversial you wouldn’t be on the radio you dumb schmuck..
That’s about how I see him as well, if you are talking Mr. Rogan.
The word they are trying to cancel Joe Rogan over will be Celebrated in tomorrow’s all Rap Superbowl halftime show.
Don’t apologize!
The first one I listened to was an interview with a scientist regarding geology and ancient climate. I thought the guest was good but Joe sounded fairly ignorant and bland. He just sort of came across that way.
The second was with a MMA woman. That was a boring subject for me so I turned it off.
The third was with Jordan Peterson. That one was fascinating, not because of Joe, but because of Jordan. But I noticed Joe pushing back on a few solid points Jordan was mentioning. Not with the same gusto as the typical leftists, but it was there, almost as if a veil had been partly lifted.
His strength is the guests he’s able to get and how much opening up they do. And that is what an interviewer is supposed to do. That’s the problem I had with Don Lemon. He debates with and talks over his guests as if he is their intellectual peer and appears the fool.
The 12/31/21 interview with Dr. Robert Malone is worth listening to / watching.
https://odysee.com/@altmedia96:2/dr-robert-malone-joe-rogan-experience-1093:e
If he’s “trying not be controversial” then he’s not worth listening to. Compelling, edgy, opinionated is what talk show hosts need to be for success. Otherwise, they may as well replace him with a cooking show.
I have watched a lot of Joe Rogan most Of the podcasts are decent as he simply talks to his guests. Sometimes they are drinking or even smokin’ a left hander . I think the format is refreshing as opposed to 2-4 minute blurbs on ANY of the national Television or radio {which ROGAN is not on!.} I am to the point that once someone is chastised for a word said years ago is B__sh_t. Pretty harsh reviews here , I think hes just a dude that started what HE wanted to do and it caught on obviously as he is now targeted by those that send daily talking points to the corrupt media.
“High infant mortality”—(in fact, Cuba’s infant mortality in 1958 was the 13 lowest—not in Latin America, not in the Hemisphere—but in the WORLD.)
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This infant mortality screed gets claimed frequently by Cuba and other communist countries. It’s a bold-faced lie. The opposite is true. Communist countries don’t revive premature infants at all, and they don’t count infants as living people until after they have survived most of the original traumas which kill infants most. The free United States system attempts to save all even-partially viable babies. We lead the world in research into successful methods for saving infants.
When a baby dies we count it as a death. Cuba does not. Neither does Venezuela.
Interesting.
If anything, he should apologize for being a Bernie supporter!
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