Joe Rogan knows a thing or two about Fake News.
The Spotify star contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and watched media outlets spread false information about his treatment regimen.
Some scribes dubbed Ivermectin “horse paste” even though it previously won a Nobel Prize for use on humans. CNN allegedly doctored footage of the ex-“Fear Factor” host to make him look more yellow and sickly.
Rogan even roasted CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta to his face on “The Joe Rogan Experience” for pushing the “horse paste” narrative.
Now, Rogan is setting the record straight on Kamala Harris’s failed attempt to join his podcast late in the presidential campaign. The comedian says he has the “receipts” to back it up.
🚨BREAKING: Joe Rogan confirms that the Kamala Harris campaign LIED about Joe “not making time for Kamala.” He says that they refused to commit to a time, lied that he was unavailable, pretended they sent someone to view his set, and this lie was Kamala’s team covering their ass. pic.twitter.com/P8K9yBL6H4
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The initial story came from “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House” authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. Allen is a Senior National Politics Reporter for NBC News and Parnes is a Hill senior political correspondent.
They allege, based on interviews with Harris campaign officials, that Rogan made it hard for the Vice President to appear on his show. the book suggests his camp misled her campaign.
The unspoken reason? Team Rogan wanted Trump to win.
Now, Rogan is fighting back. And he’s calling Harris’ representatives liars.
“I wanted to release both of [the interviews] on the same day. [That was] my goal. I even offered to do it late that [same] night. So the night that Trump came on, I’m like, ‘What if we do her when she’s done in [Houston], if she came here?’ But no one ever committed to doing it. This is really important, because they keep pretending that I lied.”
Harris’ handlers had all sorts of restrictions on any possible Rogan interview, Rogan says. The chat had to be roughly an hour long, even though his show often runs three hours in length. They demanded a stenographer be present during the recording as well as Harris staffers.
Plus, some insiders worried about the show’s lack of editing. All of the above made sure the proposed interview never happened.
Now, Rogan is disputing the account from “Fight.”
“We have all the receipts, by the way,” Rogan added. “Of course, I have a whole list of conversations that took place … I think it’s someone trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did it, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect. [If] we got along great, and [it improved the] ‘young male vote’ things could have been different.”
The most embarrassing part?
Rogan says the book’s authors never bothered to contact him to get his side of the story. Now, if a reporter is working on deadline that kind of miscue is more forgivable. Time matters, and getting important news to the public fast may mean every “T” can’t be crossed.
These authors had all the time a book project offers, and, according to Rogan, they didn’t reach out for his side of the story. Do they have proof that they reached out in the first place?
We’ll see.
“[The authors] supposedly talked to 150 different people [about] what happened with her coming on the show. They didn’t talk to us, and which is kind of crazy. They didn’t even ask. But they said things that just weren’t true.” Rogan said on his Jan. 4 episode.
The Rogan kerfuffle is one more reason Harris lost to Trump on Nov. 5. Even her team couldn’t land the one interview that might have changed the campaign’s momentum.
