Lets Talk About Joe Rogan........
Buckle up, let me take you through exactly what happened from the beginning......
I’m pretty sure I don’t need to introduce and explain the recent Joe Rogan — Spotify — Neil Young — Disinformation — Racism — Smear Campaign debacle. Its everywhere. Rogan was already the Worlds largest podcaster, but now even generations that have no idea what a podcast is, know Joe Rogans name.
But here lies the problem; they know his name and they know the stories being published in the mainstream news. They know what the likes of Neil Young have said and other sell out celebrities. They know exactly what the corporate blood sucking media want them to know, nothing more, nothing less.
So, buckle up, let me take you through exactly what happened from the beginning.
April 2021 - Fauci Remarks on Rogan Vaccine Statements
Joe Rogan made the following statement in a podcast in April of 2021:
“Are you a healthy person? Like, look, don't do anything stupid, but you should take care of yourself. You should – if you're a healthy person, and you're exercising all the time, and you're young, and you’re eating well, like, I don't think you need to worry about this.”
Common sense? Well, I’d say so, but that snivveling little weasel, Anthony Fauci disagrees. It seems Rogans comments were damaging enough to warrant Fauci’s opinion publically:
Dr. Fauci said:
“So if you want to only worry about yourself and not society, then that’s okay, but if you’re saying to yourself, even if I get infected, I could do damage to somebody else even if I have no symptoms at all, and that’s the reason why you’ve got to be careful and get vaccinated.”
Well, as it turns out getting vaccinated doesn’t protect others at all, so this already poor reasoning from Dr. Fauci is entirely invalid now. But, moving on…..
1st September 2021 - Rogan Contracts COVID
At the very beginning of september last year, Rogan announced on Instagram that he had contracted COVID-19. He talked about how it made him feel and how he was treating it.
From The Guardian:
On Instagram, the podcaster, who professes not to be “an authority on health” but has discouraged young people from getting the coronavirus vaccine, said that he had “immediately thrown the kitchen sink” at his infection. Among the many medications he used, he said, was ivermectin, a drug used against parasites in humans and livestock.
The Independent took their headline one step further with:
Joe Rogan has Covid and used ‘unsafe’ horse de-wormer drug ivermectin in treatment
‘Unsafe horse de-wormer’, really?
This is the first sign that someone was getting nervous about Rogan. First off, calling Ivermectin a horse de-wormer is like referring to apples as slug food. Indeed, Ivermectin is a commonly used horse de-wormer…….. as well as a commonly used anti-parasitical treatment in humans. The drug is extremely safe, with decades of safety studies and no major issues. The statement that he is taking ‘unsafe’ horse de-worming is an outright lie. The prescription of Ivermectin he had was specifically for humans, not horses, humans — but of course, The Independent didn’t mention this.
10th December 2021 - Interview with Dr. Peter A. McCullough
Now, this is where the beginnings of genuine panic set in for the establishment. In early December of last year, Joe Rogan sat down with Dr. Peter A. McCullough to talk about COVID-19 and the Pandemic.
Peter McCullough is a board certified cardiologist who has testified before committees of the US and Texas senate regarding the treatment of COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic protocols.
If you are under the impression, this is some unknown quack dealing in snake oil potions and health supplements. Think again. Here is a quick summary, a kind of simplified biography of McCullough’s experience in the field:
After receiving a bachelor's degree from Baylor University, Dr. McCullough completed his medical degree as an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He went on to complete his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, cardiology fellowship including service as Chief Fellow at William Beaumont Hospital, and master's degree in public health at the University of Michigan.
Dr. McCullough directs cardiovascular education and research for the Baylor Health Care System and is a Vice Chief of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX and is a Principal Faculty in internal medicine for the Texas A & M University Health Sciences Center. He is an internationally recognized authority on the role of chronic kidney disease as a cardiovascular risk state with over 1000 publications including the "Interface between Renal Disease and Cardiovascular Illness" in Braunwald's Heart Disease Textbook.
In 2013, he was honored with the International Vicenza Award for Critical Care Nephrology for his outstanding contribution and dedication to the emerging problem of cardiorenal syndromes. Dr. McCullough is the current Chair of the National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP), the nation's largest community screening effort for chronic diseases. His works have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and other top-tier journals worldwide. He is the co-editor of Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of multiple specialty journals. - Source
Up until recently, this was a well respected Doctor and teacher. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, clinical lipidology, and echocardiography with a practice dedicated to the prevention and treatment of common diseases including obesity, diabetes, kidney and heart disease.
Did McCullough wake up one morning and decide to throw his credibility away and play the loon, peddling misinformation and false narratives?
The interview was almost three hours long and received millions of views. The media went into panic mode and responded:
Controversial podcast host Joe Rogan has welcomed a doctor on his show who is known for pushing debunked and misleading claims about Covid-19 and the vaccine.
Dr Peter McCullough appeared on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, where he claimed that health officials withheld treatments for Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic in order to spread fear among the population and push the public to take a vaccine. - The Independent
Just so we are clear, when they say ‘debunked’ they actually mean, contradictory claims to the official narrative. Nothing he has stated has ever been debunked, disagreed with, maybe, debunked — absolutely no.
But the fun really began with his next interview on the last day of 2021.
31st December 2021 - Interview with Dr. Robert Malone
Robert Malone is the inventor of nine original mRNA vaccine patents which were originally filed in 1989. His work has contributed to the very existence of the COVID-19 vaccines being distributed across the World today.
Robert Malone has almost 100 peer-reviewed publications to his name and has been cited over 12,000 times.
Once again, this is no quack. This is a man with vast experience and once a leader in his field. But, in the post-pandemic world, his name has been tarnished and bashed for simply not nodding his head and keeping quiet about his concerns surrounding both the pandemic protocols and the roll out of mass vaccination.
But, once again the corporate media lashed out with their usual deluge of propaganda:
YouTube has removed a video of a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience in which the podcast host was talking to Dr Robert Malone – a physician with a history of controversial statements related to Covid-19. - The Independent
A Physician! That is what they are referencing as Malone’s credentials?
If you cannot see this for the intentional deception it is, then you are likely who this type of highly misleading propaganda is aimed at. Physician…… ffs.
Oh, and how can I forget, Hank Green, a board certified YouTuber and creator of VidCon said:
“His influence and income grow when his content is more contrarian, and so we need to stop being surprised when his content promotes perspectives and people that are really good at making people believe things that are definitely false,”
Definitely false….., how can Hank Green make such statements while holding a straight face?
What he really means is, “I disagree”, or maybe even “It’s in my own personal interest to , disagree”.
So — YouTube removed the interview. Twitter banned Malone. Rogan came under fire from all directions. Sell out celibritards began crawling out of the woodwork to condemn Rogan for interviewing Malone in the first place and Spotify for hosting the interview.
But it gets even more ridiculous. They had a special weapon it seems, and it came in the form of 76 year-old rock antique, Neil Young.
Singer-songwriter Neil Young published a letter on his website Jan. 24 asking that his musical catalog be deleted from Spotify. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation about them,” wrote Young. “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.”
Spotify refused to remove Rogan, and so a few days later Spotify removed the entirety of Neil Young’s music collection.
It wasn’t long before a stream of other antique musicians followed suite and asked for their music to also be removed from spotify — with the most publicized one being Joni Mitchell:
“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify, irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.” - The Verge
Mitchell seems to not understand science, but hey let that be her problem. I’m sure you’ll be greatly missed over on the platform…..
This madness continued for a few days, until the racism card was pulled.
February 2022 - Rogan accussed of ‘Racial Slurs’
Social media was all a flurry with outrage over Rogans use of racial slurs in previous shows.
Grammy-winning artist India Arie was so outraged she also has since removed her music from Spotify in a moment of defiant wokeness:
"He shouldn't even be uttering the word. Don't even say it, under any context. Don't say it. That's where I stand. I have always stood there,"
In reality, at no point was Rogan being racist in any of his comments made in previous shows. However, what he failed to do was cater for the very sensitive unthinking ‘woke’ community.
There is no context where it is ok to say the ‘N-word’, unless you are black of course. A white man, under no circumstances, in no context, can say the word - if they need to reference the word, they must refer to it as the ‘N-Word’.
I kid you not, this is apparently how it must be, and unless you want total character and career annihilation, you will adhere to this ridiculous rule!
Seriously, how pathetic have we got as a society?
If people are unable to understand what racism is, or understand how a conversation out of context can appear to mean something very different to what was actually meant, or how smear campaigns work and why they are done, then your opinion is invalid.
I hear people say, “When is there ever a context where the N word isn’t racist”. Really? You don’t know? Have you never listened to rap music?
Or are we saying a white man is different to a black man? Are we saying some language can only be spoken by some races? (Isn’t this racist in itself?)
People need to get over themselves. Racism comes in many forms and I find some of the ignorant nay sayers who jumped on the bash Rogan band wagon far more racist than anything he has ever said.
Tell me, where’s the uproar over decades of experimental testing on Africans of pharmaceuticals and vaccines, often without consent, often killing or injuring hundreds upon thousands of children all to check efficacy and safety before unleashing it on the west?
Our entire culture is built and maintained by the oppression and suffering of poorer nations, and no one bats an eyelid. The likes of Bill Gates & that little rat Fauci has literally been using little black children as lab rats for decades. Are we cancelling them?
Words alone are not racist, words are just words. It is how you place them and what actions you do that determine the morality of a person.
Joe Rogan has since put out various videos apologizing for his statements. I don’t think he has anything to apologize for but, that said, a rational response and apology is a wise move on his part nevertheless.
Here is his latest apology video concerning claims of racism made against him:
Cancel Culture Will Be The Death of Free Speech
For any society to prosper and evolve it is necessary for speech to be protected at all times, regardless of the speaker and what is being said.
Allowing controversial and contradictory discussion on current events and alleged historical fact is how we learn new things, it is how innovation and new discoveries are made. Whether or not we agree with what someone is saying, we should not become outraged, cover our ears and demand censorship.
I urge everyone to support any platform that stands on the side of free speech and condemn any platform that actively moves to censor voices.
As for Rogan, I’m pretty confident this recent debacle will only fuel is popularity and grow his podcast further.
It will be interesting to see if he continues to hold discussions with controversial voices, or will he play more careful in future - has this little debacle been taken as a warning by Joe, or will it fuel his determination to push even harder against the boundaries of accepted discussion?