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,
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
...Oh Okay.
They want Joe to keep groveling until he is forced to resign.
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30/21113427/joe-rogan-bernie-sanders-trans
What about Howard Stern?
Maybe I could be in Rogan’s corner if he didn’t hate Trump so much. Oh well.
An educated woman blames her 47 years old friend’s death on Rogan and not on Fauci funding Gain of Function research in Wuhan with Ralph Baric’s transgenic mice.
The long con is still working, over 2 years in.
Non-sequiturs R Us
Yeah but someone mentioned he voted for him in 2020 because he hated Brandon more. Lots of dissonance going on these days.
Millions of US Medicos continue to be wrong.
Lock them ALL up.
Joe Rogan submitted. He apologized.
Now they will tear him to pieces.
The 270 medical professionals were made up of only a few doctors, most were non doctors, like nurses, administrative personal and I’m sure few janitors, cafeteria cooks, and hall monitors...But there were also over 10,000 real doctors who signed a letter saying that the treatments are much better and safer than the jab...
So the media goes after Rogan because he said the “N” word but not in a derogatory way. He was merely stated what someone else said. Good Grief.
This is why our side has learned to never retreat one inch. He blinked, and:
- Spotify will give $100M to ‘marginalized creators’ (aka BLM commies)
- Spotify deletes ‘over 100’ episodes
- The left howls ever more loudly for his cancellation
- We get nothing for the mewling apology.
They were not 270 medical professionals.
Something like 50 had anything to do with anything REMOTELY related to medicine. And that is including the head cases. I mean, head doctors.
Speaking of spreading misinformation, here's just one example of Margaret Sullivan spreading misinformation about Russian collusion in the aftermath of the Mueller report and President Trump's reaction to it in her March 25, 2019 column, Serious journalists should be proud of — not bullied over — their Russia reporting
There are calls for a “reckoning” on news coverage.Almost two years later, still spewing misinformation unabated on a regular basis across many topics, Sullivan now tries to tie Rogan to her friend's death at 47.All right, then. Here goes.
I reckon that American citizens would have been far worse off if skilled reporters hadn’t dug into the connections between Trump’s associates — up to and including his son Don Jr. — and Russians. That reporting has not been invalidated.
I reckon that the felonious lying to the public about a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow remains a scandal — and that we know about this in large part because journalists were doing their jobs aggressively.
I reckon that the hard-nosed reporting about former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn — roundly denied, you might recall, before it was proved — was an early sign of the venality that was to follow.
I reckon that reporting by The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, CNN, Bloomberg News, the Daily Beast, Mother Jones, ProPublica and others drove forward a national conversation that needed to happen. As Americans saw with their own eyes Trump’s bizarre efforts to ingratiate himself with Russian President Vladimir Putin, that reporting mattered and provided context.
And that shouldn’t be forgotten or swept aside now.
He was overweight and asthmatic; in other words, very much at risk. And he was unvaccinated.So her friend had co-morbidities, but pay no attention to that because he was also unvaccinated and that makes her mad at Joe Rogan. Not this man who didn't take care of himself physically. Not herself who didn't do anything to talk to her dear friend about taking better care of himself. No, only at Joe Rogan who interviewed Dr. Robert Malone on his podcast on December 30. That's either the same time as her friend took ill or shortly after, but why let the truth matter at all?I don’t know for sure whether getting vaccination and booster shots would have saved Miggy’s life. And I have no idea whether he had ever listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast, or what his precise reasons were for not being vaccinated.
But I have talked to many of his co-workers and friends over the past week, briefly to his mother, and, at some length, to his father. What I’ve gleaned is that friends had been pushing him to get vaccinated for months but that he and his family hadn’t been convinced that it was wise or necessary.
“We were skeptical about the vaccine because it was so new,” his father, John Davidson, told me. Now, given all that has happened and particularly because of his son’s preexisting conditions, he believes that was wrong. Miguel had been thinking seriously about getting an initial shot when he got sick in late December, his father said.
The leftwing media are really what George Lucas had in mind when he wrote in Star Wars: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." The sanctimonious Margaret Sullivan is right at home in that hive.
Panic Porn from a Partisan POS Media Shill and Stooge alert.
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