Posted on 02/05/2022 4:28:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Could you imagine a scenario where aging rockers Neil Young and Joni Mitchell could team up and force Rush Limbaugh to make an apology, and possibly moderate his content going forward?
Yet, that’s exactly what happened last week when the two no longer relevant Boomer artists threatened to pull their music from Spotify to force the platform to seemingly pressure Joe Rogan to perform a public mea culpa for two recent episodes of his hugely successful “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.
It doesn’t matter that the vast majority of Spotify users had no idea who Neil Young or Joni Mitchell were before this past week, Spotify knew it did not want more musical artists to join the bandwagon, so the response to these “Boomers for censorship” has been to institute a content advisory for any material that features COVID-19 information. Since then, a smattering of equally unimpressive artists have shown support for Young and Mitchell.
For his part, Rogan posted an Instagram video where he apologized to Spotify and clarified his stance regarding those two episodes and the campaign to censor him. To be sure, his response didn’t even come close to a grovel. In fact, without being heavy-handed he presented a pretty solid and reasonable defense against the rather fluid nature of the attacks on his content. Still, it was obvious that he spoke to an audience of one, which was Spotify.
“I want to thank Spotify for being so supportive during this time and I’m verry sorry that this is happening to them and that they’re taking so much heat from it,” he said.
Spotify is the largest music streaming platform in the world. While it has made significant progress towards competing against Apple in the podcast space, music is still Spotify’s bread and butter.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Rogan lost me when he was bladdering on and on about what a fantastic pic Michelle Obama would be for president in 2024. lol
idiot
He is a moderate. Always has been.
Wonder if Rogan thought he could get some good PR out of this!!
I have never heard of Joe Rogan until Tucker Carlson talked to him, or about him on his show
When you compromise with evil , evil wins.
No matter how insignificant, the boycott undermines Spotify’s brand, which is that all notable music will be on it.
He’s no Rush, that’s for sure. It’s been almost a year. How I miss the man!
This whole podcast and Twitter business is way too numbers driven. As a result, you never know what the numbers really mean.
The same is true of advertising ‘clicks’ - ambiguous and often very misleading ‘clickbait’ causes millions of people to click on a link.
And people get paid for those ‘clicks’ by sponsors, regardless of how briefly the clicker stayed at the link, or of how fast they regretted clicking, and hit the back button.
Clickers may click for any of a thousand reasons. Subscribers may subscribe because they agree with the content, but they can also subscribe because they disagree and like to argue. Or, more likely because that podcast is “trending” and they are like lemmings running over a cliff - or flies on sh!t.
Yet, these numbers of clicks and subscribers are used to measure a podcaster’s supposed “following”.
I think the high ratings of a show like Rush Limbaugh’s three hour daily talk radio show are about a million times more meaningful than the number of followers on any podcast.
There’s just no comparison.
The difference is stark. Rush was a principled conservative.
as a man of principle, he would never apologize for telling the truth, and he never did.
Rogan is a squishy liberal. He just proved it.
Say what we will about Rogan, but he was reaching and red-pilling MILLIONS of people Rush or no other conservative could reach. Taking him down was critical for the Democrats.
The American Thinker is confused about who Rogan is, he doesn’t pass himself off as a conservative - much less a Limbaugh. Seems this is a reverse case to liberals who’ve never heard Rogan complaining about the podcast; being unfamiliar, the writer is complaining Rogan’s not being Limbaugh-like enough.
You hit the he nail on the head. Rogan needs to be introduced to the rules for Radicals. They are being g used on him
The American Thinker is NOT the author of the op-ed. The author is Tim O'Brien. The American Thinker is the publisher of op-eds send to it by different authors.
Always.
No one should ever apologize for telling the truth
Rogan is NOT a moderate.
Rogan supported the radical leftwing communist, Bernie Sanders, in 2020.
That said, Rogan is relatively honest - a rare attribute among today's leftists.
Can someone explain how people like Young can pull their music without breaching some sort of contract?
“I really believe that if Michelle Obama runs, she wins,” Rogan said on his podcast to comedian Tim Dilllon “She’s intelligent, she’s articulate, she’s the wife of the best president that we have had in our lifetime in terms of like a representative of intelligent, articulate people.”
The only thing that would stop her [Michelle Obama] is if she bought into some of these policies that are destroying businesses in America that make people scared,” he added.
In the interview, Rogan said that he predicts that Vice President Kamala Harris would be Obama’s running mate in a presidential election.
“They’re going to bring Harris. Michelle Obama and Harris. Harris comes back as the vice president. Michelle Obama’s the president. We get a double dose of diversity,” Rogan said.
“They’ll win,” Dillon said. “And who’s on the Republican side? DeSantis?”
“Trump and DeSantis,” Rogan responded. “They have to make a super team. It’s the only way they win.”
I'm not sure what you mean by "bladdering on" but the CLOSEST Rogan came to supporting Michelle was "intelligent." And even then all his doing is layout out the basis of his statement.
For what it's worth, his argument is compelling...if the Dems trot Michelle out there as a leading candidate (and she doesn't get primaried...) she'd be a lock in every state Hillary won. It would come down (again) to Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona.
THEN, we'd be talking about who the GOPe would run against her, AND have the fortitude to play to win. You know...the same GOP losers who were pushing Jeb!
A mind it a terrible thing to waste.
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