Joe Rogan is finally speaking out about the left’s attempts to smear him regarding his decision to host allegedly “controversial” figures on his podcast.
In a ten minute video posted to his Instagram just ten hours after Spotify announced that it would modify its content policies in response to the controversy, Joe Rogan launched into a well-spoken explanation of his reasoning behind his guest choices, and a response to the controversy, reminding viewers why his podcast is so popular.
While Spotify has noted that Rogan did not violate their policies, the company has made the decision to add “content advisory” warning labels to podcasts that include controversial conversations regarding COVID. This prompted the left to take a victory lap, although they are still pushing for more censorship, especially of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Obviously, Rogan felt the need to respond.
“I wanted to make this video first of all because I think there’s a lot of people that have a distorted perception of what I do maybe based on soundbites or based on headlines of articles that are disparaging,” the podcast host said. “The podcast has been accused of spreading ‘dangerous misinformation,’ specifically about two episodes — a little bit about some other ones — but specifically about two: one with Dr. Peter McCollough and one with Dr. Robert Malone. Dr. Peter McCollough is a cardiologist and he is the most published physician in his field in history. Dr. Robert Malone owns nine patents on the creation of mRNA vaccine technology, and is at least partially responsible for the creation of the technology that led to mRNA vaccines.”
“Both these people are very highly credentialed, very intelligent, very accomplished people, and they have an opinion that’s different from the mainstream narrative. I wanted to hear what their opinion is. I had them on, and because of that, those episodes in particular — those episodes were labeled as being dangerous, they had ‘dangerous misinformation’ in them,” Rogan continued.
“The problem I have with the term misinformation, especially today, is that many of the things that we thought of as ‘misinformation’ just a short while ago are now accepted as fact. Like for instance, 8 months ago, if you said ‘if you get vaccinated you can still catch COVID and you can still spread COVID, you would be removed from social media, they would ban you from certain platforms. Now, that’s accepted as fact. If you said ‘I don’t think cloth masks work’ you would be banned from social media, now that’s openly and repeatedly stated on CNN. If you said ‘I think it’s possible COVID may have come from a lab’ you would be banned from many social media platforms – now that’s on the cover of Newsweek,” he added.
Throughout the rest of his video, Rogan maintained that he is not necessarily supporting or opposing the opinions of the guests he hosts on his show, but instead he just wants to examine a variety of perspectives to allow himself and his audience to reach their own conclusions.
“I do not know if they’re right,” Rogan said. “I don’t know, because I’m not a doctor, I’m not a scientist. I’m just a person who sits down and talks to people and has conversations with them. Do I get things wrong? Absolutely, I get things wrong, but I try to correct them. Whenever I get something wrong, I try to correct it because I’m interested in telling the truth, I’m interested in finding out what the truth is, and I’m interested in having interesting conversations with people that have differing opinions. I’m not interested in only talking to people that have one perspective.”
Rogan went on to mention that he also had individuals who espouse the mainstream narrative on, like CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of Joe Biden’s COVID advisory group.
In reference to the Neil Young controversy, Rogan joked that he’s “sure there are other things going on behind the scenes,” while noting that he is actually a fan of the musician.
Near the end of the video, Joe Rogan summed up his statements, saying:
“I’m not trying to promote misinformation, I’m not trying to be controversial, I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people, and have interesting conversations… My pledge to you is that I will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people’s perspectives so we can maybe find a better point of view. I don’t want to just show the contrary opinion to what the narrative is. I want to show all kinds of opinions so that we can all figure out what’s going on — and not just about COVID, about everything — about health, about fitness, wellness, the state of the world itself.”
WATCH:
