If you want an excellent description of Rogan, you'll do worse than this profile by Devin Gordon for The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/ Here's the money quote: "Joe likes Jack (Dorsey). He likes Milo Yiannopoulos. He likes Alex Jones. He wants you to know that he doesn’t agree with much of what they say, but he also wants you to know that off camera they’re the nicest guys. If we all have fatal flaws, this is Joe’s: his insistence on seeing value in people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it, even when the harm outweighs the good. It comes from a generous place, but it amounts to careless cruelty. He just won’t write people off, and then he compounds the sin by throwing them a lifeline at the moment when they least deserve it." This is where Rogan goes off the rails for me. I get that, as Steve notes, he frequently has smart people on his program who say smart things. But he also has fundamentally horrible people on his show just often enough that it resets the counter to zero. The name that oddly comes to mind is Pat Buchanan. I affectionately nicknamed him "Sixty-Second Pat" because whenever I'd stumble upon him when I was watching TV news, I could seemingly count on him for roughly 60 seconds of logical, thoughtful-though-conservative conversation. But almost on cue, when the 61st second came around, he'd say something out of right field that reminded me "Oh, yeah: he's an (expletive)." and I'd move on quickly. On Wed, May 20, 2020, 21:05 Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:39 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who would in any way utter a sentence >> to the effect that they enjoy anything having to do with Joe Rogan. >> > > Rogan has fought MMA (not as a professional) for more than 20 years in > addition to being a commentator. The MMA discussions can be pretty good, > especially since he gets top MMA fighters on there. When COVID-19 started > spreading, he had an excellent expert who cut through a lot of the BS and > gave a detailed description of the situation. That was definitely a > non-Trump moment. > >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yzcdc_9%3D-yCR_wV_fh%2BnLy4Wja9wjF12PC0DdSo7VHS9Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yzcdc_9%3D-yCR_wV_fh%2BnLy4Wja9wjF12PC0DdSo7VHS9Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2Bch8J_fC2_hO%3DcGQu8xyyYAKBV-vakaf2%3D%3Dd9fY_stR5g%40mail.gmail.com.
