NomNomI listened to 170 hours of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Trust me, he hasn’t turned against Trump
circuitfarmerRogan is a great example of a few things:
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The Dunning-Kruger effect
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“I’m just asking questions” being used as an excuse to host an unbalanced number of individuals purporting one specific worldview
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Toxic masculinity posing as intellectualism
He is extremely popular with one particular demographic. That demographic tends to share the toxic masculinity and the Dunning-Kruger-fueled belief that they can be experts at everything from the armchair.
“I’m just asking questions”
Glenn Beck was (is?) big on that one too.
watsonI think he’s got a show in some obscure place, but I blissfully haven’t heard his voice in years.
But there’s always a new asshole coming along
Any example of a question?
Do you just mean hard questions, like a classic journalist?
It’s not the question asked. It’s the first. Like hell have rfk on to spout nonsense about vaccines (made up example) and say he’s just looking at all views, just asking questions.
Well, if you have questions, ask a scientist that has studied it, not someone with a brain worm that directly caused children’s deaths due to misleading campaigns against vaccines on the Pacific islands.
Asking a terf on to talk about gender identity. Climate change deniers to talk about climate change. Asking trump on to talk about anything. It’s a way to muddy the waters about who is an expert while also making it unclear as to what the evidence says.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞I have a little experience on Glenn Beck.
What sparked that was Glenn Beck asking the first sitting Muslim member of Congress, Keith Ellison: “Now, I wouldn’t say this, but some of my listeners might like to ask you: ‘Are you working for our enemies?’”.
Bear in mind that this was in a time when politicians were not openly working for Russia, so the idea of asking a sitting member of the House of Representatives if he was “working for our enemies” was galling. But it was Beck’s technique of “Oh, I’m not saying, this, rather, ‘it is being said by some unspecified people’” to weasel out of it being him saying it.
That said, I have avoided Rogan completely, so cannot speak directly to his particular brand of bullshit.
EtAl“Is it possible that Hillary Clinton actually was running a pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor basement? I mean, I’m just asking questions here.”
Yes, and Tucker Carlson. It’s kind of a thing.
The difference is that Beck and Carlson are actually more straightforward with regards to how they lean. Rogan always suggests he’s a centrist, sometimes even suggesting he is apolitical, which is patently false.
CharlesDarwinAlex Jones been doing that kind of thing since the 90s (at least).
Tucker Carlson. It’s kind of a thing.
What is that libtard saying? This makes no common sense?