That is why he was so fond of Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard, and why Andrew Yang - whose signature issue was the universal basic income - was one of the few candidates he deemed worth talking to. What makes all of this more confounding is that Rogan is a fairly basic political liberal on almost every issue: He believes in the need for greater social spending for the nation’s poor and working class, opposes war and militarism, favors drug legalization, is adamantly pro-choice and pro-LGBT rights, and generally adheres to liberal orthodoxies on standard political debates. Bush and Dick Cheney, and who presided over and repeatedly defended the racially disparate “stop and frisk” police practice - endorsed Joe Biden for president, and Biden not only accepted but celebrated the endorsement, praising Bloomberg in the process: political and media orthodoxy, that makes Rogan so radioactive? In March, billionaire and former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg - who spoke at the 2004 GOP Convention in the middle of the Iraq War and war on terror to urge the reelection of George W. Prior to that, one of the few times Rogan was discussed in mainstream political circles was when outrage among establishment Democrats ensued after Sanders touted a quasi-endorsement from Rogan. The argument was that Rogan’s views are so repellent, bigoted, and anathema to liberalism that no Democratic candidate should be associated with him (this anger was shared by some of Sanders’ own supporters including, reportedly, Rep. The mere suggestion that someone like Rogan could host as prestigious and high-minded an event as a presidential debate prompted condescending scorn from establishment media precincts. Rogan was in the news this week after President Donald Trump favorably responded to a guest’s suggestion that Rogan host a four-hour, sit-down presidential debate between the two candidates. To put that in perspective: The top-rated cable news programs are the Fox News shows hosted by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and they average between 4 to 5 million viewers, or one-fourth the number of views Rogan’s discussion with Snowden generated. The first time Snowden appeared on his program was last October, and that episode, just on YouTube, has more than 16 million views.
The value of his program was quantified in May when the streaming service Spotify paid a reported $100 million for the exclusive rights to broadcast his podcast.Īs one illustrative example of his reach, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden appeared on Rogan’s program six days ago, and the episode has already been viewed more than 5 million times on YouTube alone. politics, if not the single most influential. Joe Rogan has amassed one of the largest and most influential media platforms in U.S.
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Today’s SYSTEM UPDATE examining this topic - with guest Shant Mesrobian, former Obama 2008 strategist and author of a recent viral thread on the liberal contempt for Rogan - can be viewed on The Intercept’s YouTube channel.
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