What's really going on with the recent Joe Rogan controversy?

From what I remember, he'd been taking an anti-anxiety medication for a few years, but his wife was diagnosed with cancer and he ended up becoming addicted to the pills he was on. Ended up having to go to Russia to a treatment facility, was in intensive care for a few weeks, and in recovery for several months. He was also following and promoting his daughter's "meat and salt" diet. A diet Joe Rogan later did for a few weeks, which gave him explosive diarrhea.

Easy to see why the mainstream media fears these titans of the Intellectual Dark Web.

Bill Burr used to call Steve Jobs Nerd Jesus. I think Rogan is Bro Jesus. To a certain group of people he's more infallible than the pope.

I think when you've invested so much into the message that people should get their house in order before they criticise others, you can't really make a living criticising others when it turns out you're addicted to benzos. Jordan Peterson undermined his own message.

That's a strawman to suggest Rogan is branded as right wing. I'm not suggesting that there aren't some who see him as such but it is no way a significant number of people.

I don't see him as such, I see him as someone who likes to talk with authority about topics irrespective of whether is an authority on that topic or not. I think he likes the sound of his own voice and how his fans revere him, but so what, he's not the only person who is guilty of that. I didn't get too concerned about him over the last few years, as I amn't really now because I just avoided him.

But I did see a number of discussions he held on the topic of Covid because I am interested in how that conversation is happening at a societal level and felt it was not ideal to have someone with the audience he has to speak as he was doing. I don't care if you list 100 things that he said he was on any more that I care about what Trump said his process was to recover from Covid, we aren't ever going to really know and I don't put it past either of them to claim what their treatment process was so it backs a position that had/have rather than whatever the reality was. They both have no problem accessing the top levels of care, we know that for sure.

There is no smear campaign against him, his own words are being analysed and people are drawing conclusions from those. He, or you, can't argue about that when he specifically sought out a career where people listen to what he has to say.

Speaking of Jimmy Dore, what is going on with him? Used to follow him but he's really lost it. He's clearly found a market in making false videos about Covid. He's like an American George Galloway. Funny that he interviewed him on his radio show.