Joe Rogan apologized, a little. But on the most important topic, free speech, he held firm. So did Spotify. Good for them both. Gregg Gutfeld clarifies.
Quit searching through Joe Rogan archives. Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book would be far more interesting.
— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) February 8, 2022
Gutfeld: Ever since this show began in the early 70s as a summer replacement for The Brady Bunch, we were on top of one trend: Cancel culture.
The idea being, if your past isn’t adaptable to current standards, you would lose your friends, social status, Netflix password and career. You’d be shunned from polite society.
Its kindred spirit was wokeism, political correctness on more steroids than Lance Armstrong, which allowed no forgiveness relating not just to your past actions, but to who you are.
Generally, it’s things that can’t be changed, like your race or Pete Davidson’s bedsheets. In the world of the woke, you’re either oppressed or the oppressor, and the offenses only flow in one direction.
Suddenly, we no longer measure anyone by achievement, but by victim status, which creates a new kind of segregation that’s now spreading like omicron in the Olympic Village.
I call it idea segregation, IN that we cannot share our knowledge, wisdom or ideas if we’re not of the same tribe. Now we see this with crime. This show has been blaring about rising crime, like the alarm at a broken Nordstrom’s window, but the people who need to hear it won’t listen because it’s coming from us. It’s the Fox crying wolf.
They’d rather drown in raw sewage than grab a life preserver from us meetings. And I get it. It affects all issues, from the border to crime to COVID. It’s a division of ideas, and none shall mix.
Now, imagine if this kind of thing existed before we had a chance to make things. The political is now personal. Sure, you’re having engine problems with your car, and your brother-in-law is a great mechanic, but he’s got a “Back the Blue” sticker on his truck. Screw it, you’ll just walk home…
So now to Joe Rogan, there’s likely no person on Earth who’s doing more to dismantle idea segregation than him. The roster of his guests are more diverse than the Olympic opening ceremonies, and they’re allowed to speak endlessly about whatever so the listener can decide.
It’s the antidote to cable TV, where shows rely on the same people who say the same things over and over again. I mean, look at this show. You get 42 minutes of content divided by five segments and five talking heads. No wonder I’m on drugs, and no wonder CNN hates Rogan.
He’s widening the universe as they shrink it. At first, the legacy media tried to take him down with his COVID content. He had doctors on who disagreed with Fauci, the left’s patron saint of masks, mandates and mind control. But the takedown didn’t take. So now some mysterious group released a supercut of Joe saying the N-word over a decade or so. Probably matching what previous Democrat senators and presidents would say in one afternoon.
The fact that the montage was released after Spotify stuck with Rogen tells you it’s less about the world and more about canning Joe.
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