Canceling Rogan

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Joni Mitchell, celebrity purveyor of medical misinformation


Can’t make it up:





Yep, it’s Morgellons disease, a cousin of “delusional parasitosis” (a nasty psychosis that heavy cocaine users frequently suffer, in which they believe bugs are in or under their skin):

 

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Daily Beast Delivers a Kill Shot to Neil Young


Activists insisted it was vital information for consumers to make informed choices, despite wide scientific agreement that they’re safe for consumption. In fact, not only were GMOs not a threat to human health, they’ve been a boon to it, much like the insulin that has kept Neil Young alive for most of his life. Vitamin A-enriched golden rice, for example, could have saved millions of lives and help prevent child blindness, were it not stymied by anti-GMO activists.

The new Vermont law threatened to be a pointless and impractical nightmare for food manufacturers, so trade groups sued the state. But with Big Business fighting the mandate, its repeal was easily framed by the anti-GMO movement as an affront to consumer safety and democracy. This framing was eagerly adopted by progressive politicians and amplified by the mainstream media.

As the case garnered coverage, the anti-GMO crowd was re-energized once more. And Neil Young seized the moment, releasing The Monsanto Years and embarking on a tour of the same name. At one pre-show press conference, accompanied by Vermont’s then-Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, Young pledged $100,000 to the legal case defending the GMO labeling law.

Another guest at the conference was Shiva Ayyadurai, a technologist who’d published dubious research showing GMOs were dangerous. Ayyadurai would in 2018 run as a Republican (and later, as an independent), against Elizabeth Warren for a Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat. (Warren opposed an overly strict federal GMO labeling bill.) Ayyadurai has since pivoted to spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation—it was his tweet that started the #firefauci hashtag, when then-President Donald Trump retweeted it.

Young’s Monsanto album release and media tour doubled as activism—amplifying misinformation about GMOs to large mainstream audiences. He released a short anti-GMO documentary aptly named Seeding Fear. Most notably, and ridiculously, was an appearance on The Late Show with Steven Colbert.

Colbert asked Young about the scientific evidence showing GMOs were safe. But Young dismissed it out of hand, retorting: “That must be a Monsanto study that didn’t notice the terrible diseases and all of the things that are happening.” Then he pivoted to citing overzealous anti-GMO regulations in the EU as if it was scientific proof of anything.

 

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‘You See A Fot Behind The Fin’ Cash Register…’: Neil Young’s 1985 Comments On Homosexuals And AIDS Resurface After Joe Rogan Ultimatum Controversy


“In an interview with Melody Maker in 1985, Neil Young backed Reagan’s gun control policies and said of AIDS, ‘You go to a supermarket and you see a ****** behind the f***in’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes,” Young said, Rolling Stone reported in 2013.


“Needless to say, Young almost certainly regrets that horrific statement and quickly moved away from right-wing politics,” Rolling Stone added. “He wrote the furious anti-George H.W. Bush screed ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ in 1989 and was one of George W. Bush’s most vocal critics in the 2000s.”

 

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Marianne Williamson Backs Joe Rogan, Compares Deplatforming Someone to "Book Burning"


“I’m triple vaxxed, but (unless they’re standing for hate or calling for violence) banning someone’s podcast is too much like burning a book to me,” she tweeted Sunday evening. “Joe Rogan should talk on his podcast about whatever he damn well pleases.”

Williamson hit the nail on the head. The beauty of free speech, whether it’s in the private or public sector, is that someone does not have to agree with what the other person is saying. Hyperbolic leftists may make the argument that because Rogan is not in lockstep with the wishy-washy messaging from Dr. Anthony Fauci and the CDC, he is a public health threat.

Spotify said that they will keep Rogan on board, but they changed their policy platform-wide to include advisories on any podcast that discusses the pandemic.

“We are working to add a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19. This advisory will direct listeners to our dedicated COVID-19 Hub, a resource that provides easy access to data-driven facts, up-to-date information as shared by scientists, physicians, academics and public health authorities around the world, as well as links to trusted sources,” the Spotify website states.

 

[Merlin99]

What's fun is that Rogan sings "Rockin' in the Free World", which is a hate-America screed, similar to "Born in the USA".

All these 60s era hippies have always been anti-America and hated this country. Neil Young has been on the wrong side of patriotism his whole adult life, according to the music he sings and the political opinions he spews. He has never ever released a song that lauds our freedoms here, or our generosity, or our prosperity. He released "Southern Man" denigrating the South more than 100 years AFTER slavery was abolished in this country.

I hope Neil Young will remember a Southern Man don't need him around anyhow....

I’m still going to like Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Young was always a poor addition.

 

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[spr1975wshs]

Cast Of 'The View' Threatens To Quit If Rogan Isn't Removed From Spotify

Cast Of 'The View' Threatens To Quit If Rogan Isn't Removed From Spotify

NEW YORK, NY—The entire cast of The View has threatened to go on strike and resign in protest should Joe Rogan not be removed from Spotify. The bold gesture came as more and more high-profile musicians and celebrities piled on Neil Young's move to remove his music from the service due to medical...

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Please do, twits.

 

[spr1975wshs]

I’m still going to like Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Young was always a poor addition.

I like going back to Buffalo Springfield.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Please do, twits.

I think you have a spelling error.

 

[BOP]

I think you have a spelling error.

Yeah, it's spelled h-o-b-a-g-s.

 

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Joe Rogan Apologized and Now He'll Have Hell to Pay


Because the Left refuses to debate and prefers to censor (seen Fauci debate anyone since the inception of the pandemic?), they claimed Malone and McCullough spread “dangerous misinformation,” as if they were telling people to drink out of dirty toilets. But, dangerous misinformation compared to what? The canned press releases from Dr. Fauci as parroted by Sanjay Gupta? Rogan’s show had the CNN doctor on, too.

“The problem I have with the term misinformation, especially today,” Rogan said in his statement, “is that many of the things we thought of as misinformation just a short while ago are now accepted as fact.” And then he listed a number of them, such as “eight months ago if you said ‘if you get vaccinated you could still get COVID and you could still spread COVID,’ you’d be removed from social media; they would ban you from certain platforms.” He continued, “Now, that’s accepted as fact.” Cloth mask efficacy and the lab leak theory were two other pieces of “dangerous misinformation” for which you could get banned but are now accepted wisdom, Rogan said.

He was right. And then he made a very wrong turn.

Rogan, hewing to his liberal-to-Left roots, said it was perfectly fine to put a disclaimer on podcasts and that he would “try harder to get people with differing opinions on right afterwards — I do think that that’s important.”

 

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‘CBS Mornings’ says Joe Rogan doesn’t have a First Amendment right to a platform as big as Spotify

There have been a lot of takes from the mainstream media on the Joe Rogan “controversy,” which have been inspired by Neil Young (and Joni Mitchell) pulling their music from the streaming site. Of course, everyone believes in the First Amendment right to free speech; the hosts of “CBS Mornings” make that clear. What Rogan does not have is a First Amendment right to a platform as big as Spotify — maybe if he were on a street corner handing out leaflets or something, that would be OK. But this is about life and death, which makes this a special case.

 

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‘Life Or Death Issue’: CBS Suggests Joe Rogan Is Killing People

CBS “This Morning” co-hosts on Monday suggested podcast host Joe Rogan is responsible for deaths because he has on supposed “fringe” guests who talk about the pandemic, including vaccines and COVID-19 treatment.

The segment concerning Rogan’s “right” to the “First Amendment” opened with statistics on the death rate for vaccinated and boostered adults against those who are unvaccinated and closed with host Tony Dokoupil emphasizing that Rogan’s COVID-19 content is a “special category” because it’s a “life or death issue.”

“You have a First Amendment right to say what you want. You don’t have a First Amendment right to appear on a platform as large as Spotify. That’s the issue,” Dokoupil said. “Joe Rogan is correct that the medical world gets stuff wrong, but there’s a process by which the medical world corrects itself, and that process is not interviewing guys on the fringe of the medical world on your massive platform. That’s called irresponsible. It’s not censorship.”

“Editors are not censors, they’re ensuring quality,” Dokoupil offered.

Fellow host Gayle King said it was not enough for people to simply choose what they listen to and “turn off” Rogan, suggesting the solution be censorship of some kind. “The thing is, a lot of people do listen to it, and they’re getting false, incorrect information and that’s why it seems so dangerous,” she said.

 

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Fellow host Gayle King said it was not enough for people to simply choose what they listen to and “turn off” Rogan, suggesting the solution be censorship of some kind. “The thing is, a lot of people do listen to it, and they’re getting false, incorrect information and that’s why it seems so dangerous,” she said.

I'm so glad Gayle King is my new mommy.

 

[Sneakers]

I'm so glad Gayle King is my new mommy.

I used to like her, but when they had that re-alignment and she stepped up to lead in the morning, she reports on nothing but black issues and is so completely and obviously biased it's sickening. On-camera, she speaks like any other reporter or anchor. Off-camera, her voice, demeanor and dialect become what she really is. Her on-camera persona is a total act.

 

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‘Life Or Death Issue’: CBS Suggests Joe Rogan Is Killing People

CBS “This Morning” co-hosts on Monday suggested podcast host Joe Rogan is responsible for deaths because he has on supposed “fringe” guests who talk about the pandemic, including vaccines and COVID-19 treatment.

The segment concerning Rogan’s “right” to the “First Amendment” opened with statistics on the death rate for vaccinated and boostered adults against those who are unvaccinated and closed with host Tony Dokoupil emphasizing that Rogan’s COVID-19 content is a “special category” because it’s a “life or death issue.”

“You have a First Amendment right to say what you want. You don’t have a First Amendment right to appear on a platform as large as Spotify. That’s the issue,” Dokoupil said. “Joe Rogan is correct that the medical world gets stuff wrong, but there’s a process by which the medical world corrects itself, and that process is not interviewing guys on the fringe of the medical world on your massive platform. That’s called irresponsible. It’s not censorship.”

“Editors are not censors, they’re ensuring quality,” Dokoupil offered.

Fellow host Gayle King said it was not enough for people to simply choose what they listen to and “turn off” Rogan, suggesting the solution be censorship of some kind. “The thing is, a lot of people do listen to it, and they’re getting false, incorrect information and that’s why it seems so dangerous,” she said.

"'So what happened back in 2018 that started this trend of banning [people],' you ask. Alex Jones happened. Comments on Sandy Hook started a trash fire across the Internet, like nothing we'd seen before. And as was said at the time 'Sure freedom of speech is important, and banning people is wrong, but Alex Jones is different. We can make an exception this one time. He's dangerous, after all.' But it's never just one time, is it? Instead, it became 'other extremists.' And then 'racists.' Then people who promoted intolerance; then hate, and so on and so forth. That one-time exception eventually even reached the President of the United States." - What's Her Face

 

[SamSpade]

You know - in nations like China and Russia - when I was there - they do claim they ARE for freedom of speech. Totally.

But they DO think that some speech is dangerous, and shouldn't be allowed.

THAT is how it starts.

 

[Miker/t]

 

[CRHS89]

So basically when they are saying he doesn't have a right to a platform like Spotify, what they are saying is he has the freedom of speech to say what he wants as long as no one is listening.