Said the UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya at the UFC 271 pre-fight news conference, when the promotion president Dana White was asked about Rogan (including that montage of Rogan saying the "n-word" over the years).
Adesanya is quoted in "Israel Adesanya gives fired-up defense of Joe Rogan: 'F*ck the noise. You know what they're trying to do'" (UFC)
Meanwhile, the NY Post reports, "Joe Rogan won’t be on UFC 271 broadcast as controversy lingers."
Here's the Adesanya video, unbleeped:
Israel Adesanya vehemently defends @JoeRogan amid his latest controversy.
— MMA Junkie (@MMAjunkie) February 10, 2022
"Joe Rogan is one of the nicest, coolest, humble motherf*ckers I've had the pleasure of working with."#UFC271 | Full video: https://t.co/ArYOi51nJ6 pic.twitter.com/QKAVi2L4ux
By the way, Joe's lineup of guests on his podcast this week has been fantastic. Last week was an uncharacteristic drought, and I'd gotten the idea that Rogan was putting himself on suspension. There were 6 days between January 27 and February 3 when no podcasts went up, but look what happened next:
You can see that I've listened to them all. They are bold and, I think, a deliberately strong move against his critics. Look at the variety. Look at the subjects. You have to listen to see how much he is doing with these episodes. The one with the comedian Akaash Singh is notable for how many other comedians they talk about and how vigorously — yet casually and naturally — he is promoting other performers. The one with the comedian Dave Smith — who used to appear regularly on CNN — is full of critique of mainstream media.
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Koonin, you magnificent bastard! I read your your book!
I've gotten to like to listening to Rogan's podcasts. He's like an everyman, a regular Joe on the street talking with a range of mostly very bright people about a range of topics. Much more daring and brave than most of what is out there. And yeah, he gets many things wrong because he's like that everyday Joe. He's learning as he goes. Just like we do.
He does not consider himself an expert on all things, but on some things you know he's far more advanced than most (MMA fighting for one, working out, for another). I rarely make it through an entire podcast, as they are long and I have other things to do, but it's good stuff.
And, the 'n-word' mash-ups were supported and amplified by a lifelong Hillary fan. Not that that's a surprise. This is how these things tend to go. Not much is organic anymore. Hillary fanboy behind Joe Rogan clips
It has become an event in our house when Joe posts a new interesting expert guest. We stay up late to watch.
The wife wondered why we love listening and the answer is that Joe comes from the Octagon fight world that is REAL fighting.
The other media are all in the fake wrestling entertainment area which is play acting and not a real fight.
In play acted fake wrestling the actors take turns standing there with no response while the other actor does an attack move like two tumblers dancing. The audience has to be dumb as rocks to imagine they are seeing a fight.
Rogan’s guests do the real thing. Last night a real scientist and truth teller about the Faked Global Warming Scam came on and exposed the fakes with simple truth. That’s exciting entertainment.
The Koonin interview is another slap in the face to those who believe in The Science instead of science. Outstanding stuff and a perfect example of why I love Rogan.
Joe is now an honorary black person, and is given retroactive license to use the n-word.
When will Ann Althouse be a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast?
Rush was a regular reader of the Althouse blog. Rogan needs to do the same if he wants to LEARN something.
I can't think of a more perfect rallying cry these days than "Fuck the noise....you know what they're trying to do."
The British sense of cunt - any unpleasant or unreliable person.
The American use of cunt is a woman exclusively concerned with womanish things of no interest to anybody. It may or may not be tolerated in light of her having a cunt. Mixed feeling may be present.
Isn’t it odd that this distraction is still being flogged? The shit that drives some people would be amusing if it wasn’t completely and utterly idiotic.
For a self deprecated "meathead" who claims he isn't that smart, he does pretty well, doesn't he? More like a smart, clever man who isn't as educated as he might have been, making up for lost time while doing it in front of an audience. An audience who can see he's really decent and caring and honestly a sponge for knowledge.
And a guy who seems to really believe it's better to talk things through and focus on bringing people together rather than dividing them is quite a treasure.
"Joe Rogan won’t be on UFC 271 broadcast as controversy lingers."
They cancel Joe, I cancel them. No UFC 271 watching for me. The boycott's on.
Althouse should do a post on the use of "controversy," typically meaning stuff progs don't like. Tag: controversy BS.
As here: there's "controversy" about Rogan, therefore he sits out. Which is controversy BS for: progs stage a witch hunt, therefore corporate cowards cave.
I stand with Israel. This dude, I mean.
That’s my ***** Joe Rogan. F*ck the noise....
So you have this easily identifiable profanity, the F word and C word. Possibly the two worst words. What could have been so bad to have to ***** it out completely?
Joe Rogan is a national treasure.
His talk with Macaulay Culkin was fascinating. Other interviewers have leaden talks with fascinating people, but Rogan regularly spins gold from people like Macaulay Culkin.
Iman- I have a different take. In a world of 10second sound bites- they’re taking Rogan the full 3-5 rounds(had to look that up) and Rogan is flogging them. He took his time, he gathered his thoughts- got trusted advice- and he came back strong, as this post content shows.
Yay, Truth.
It's the street, and for now, it's Joe Rogan's.
In the US - circa Biden/ Pelosi/Clinton crook years - "speaking your mind" is almost illegal. ala Castro's Cuba.
Obey the left. Only parrot the left's talking points - or you will be silenced and canceled.
What is wrong with the Dems? They don't even know when they are winning. Joe Rogan is a liberal. Him having such a huge platform is winning for the liberals. But suddenly, he's an apostate who must be burned at the stake. Which, of course, just goes to show, for the millionth time, the people who have taken over the Dem Party aren't liberals.
They aren't offended by what Joe says, they're terrified of it. They're scared of exposure and accountability. The people trying to take out Rogan are bad people acting in bad faith backed by a chorus of stupid.
The most revealing part of this whole debacle is the sheer number of people who (1) have no idea what Rogan does but at the same time are (2) comfortable publicly smearing him as a racist knuckle-dragging liar.
Nice job, everyone.
He’s just a guy asking questions, and everyone who accuses him of “spreading misinformation” by asking questions is unintentionally revealing to us just how authoritarian they really are. Good to know.
Something else worth noting is that the guests themselves are not intimidated. The more well-respected people appear on his show, the more it demonstrates that the cancel campaign isn't working. Anyone who appears on his show is going to get some blowback. Good for them to not give in to the pressure.
“The wife wondered why we love listening and the answer is that Joe comes from the Octagon fight world that is REAL fighting.”
I think that I mentioned that I was the UFC’s patent attorney before I retired (I think that was during UFC 100, and a year or two after that). We’d had the Fertitta brothers as clients, with their Station casino/hotels, and picked up the UFC when they bought it (UFC headquarters was a couple blocks west of their Palace Station casino/hotel). For the firm, and esp our IP practice group, it was great fun, until it wasn’t. The guys representing the UFC formed a nascent Entertainment Practice Group, that hadn’t quite been spun out of the IP group I belonged to. And then they jumped, to form their own firm (happens all the time in larger firms). Whoops, the UFC had some patent applications, and they didn’t have a patent attorney, so the break wasn’t as clean as they would have liked, with my continuing to represent them. But the fun, the electricity, the ringside seats, were gone.
BTW the “Octagon” was a trademark and trade dress owned by the UFC, which were licensed to other MMA organizations.
In any case, where I am going with this, is one day I went down a rabbit hole, in regards to the UFC. Turns out that for the fights in NV, the fighters had to be registered with the NV fighting commission (or some such). They regulate professional fighting in NV, and that means boxing and MMA. To fight, fighters are given a physical before and after fights, and their NV fight licenses are suspended when they are too injured to fight, and remain so until they recover sufficiently. And looking through the UFC fights, I saw that almost every UFC fight had at least one fighter suspended for medical reasons. Sometimes two. Never none, at least over the couple years I reviewed the records for. Average suspension appeared to be 2-3 months. I saw a couple go to 6 months.
So, yes, the blood is real. Fighters routinely are injured sufficiently that they have their NV fight license suspended while they recuperate.
Rogan has a lot of power - probably more then Limbaugh. Why? Because limbaugh was always beholden to the sponsers who could basically fire him from his radio gig. Rogan can do a podcast anywhere. No one listens to it because its on Spotify, they listen to Spotify because of Rogan.
Of course, like everyone Rogan can be cancelled by Big Tech. What if set up his own website? Google, Apple, and Amazon with their servers could take him off the net, just like they did with Parlour when it tried to give Trump a platform.
But as long as he doesn't cross them, he's untouchable.
Althouse on Rogan. Now that would cause me to listen.
Legion of skanks podcast? USA land of diversity.
Good lineup.
I often listen to npr while driving. I always groan to myself that their interview lineups are boring and narrow.
I should switch to Rogan.
You can see that I've listened to them all. They are bold and, I think, a deliberately strong move against his critics. Look at the variety. Look at the subjects. You have to listen to see how much he is doing with these episodes.
Now do The View.
rcocean said...
Rogan has a lot of power - probably more then Limbaugh. Why? Because limbaugh was always beholden to the sponsers who could basically fire him from his radio gig.
You obviously never listened to Limbaugh. He knew that was a possibility that's why most of his ad time was sold via the local stations to local businesses. The only time anything ever happened with him and a sponsor was Carbonite and and dropping his show hurt them more than it ever hurt Limbaugh.
I love Joe Rogan.
I also observe that the word "cunt" is literally being used here to defend him for the congenial use of the "n" word with black guests who used it themselves on his shows.
I warned everyone starting in 1998 that what we are witnessing now would be the end game of imposing politics on the law using the apparatus of hate crime laws, and that doing so would lead to all-out war between the races and sexes and the collapse of the criminal justice system.
I was called things even I had to look up. Now a quarter-century later, every single one of my predictions has come true. Next, law enforcement gets entirely de-balled, pardon the phrase, and turned against the public, which happened earliest in Britain, then Canada, sorta skipping France, which surprised me, and hitting New Zealand and Australia especially hard. And still, nobody dares to discuss the origins of this iteration of fascism. I'm not enjoying the schadenfreude.
Electing that lovable meathead Rogan as president might be the only we can avoid a future of Idiocracy.
Obviously from the Zulu, perhaps Kenyan deplorable, people of color bloc.
Rogan has strong ties to the fight world.
'When he was 19, he won the US Open Championship taekwondo tournament as a lightweight. He was a Massachusetts full-contact state champion for four consecutive years and became a Taekwondo instructor...' --Wikipedia
It's good to see someone stand up for him.
Too bad many of his 'friends' threw him under the bus...
Peterson stood up for him.
Joe Rogan conducts interviews that can go over 3 hours. There’s nowhere to hide. Idiots like Stelter, Cooper or Cuomo would demolish themselves inside of 20 minutes. Rogan is curious, and that’s almost nonexistent in media today. He is also a fighter, which means he has an eye for exploiting weakness. That’s why mainstream media morons would never go on Rogan’s show. They call him a “meathead” because they cannot see they’re trapped in a high school SportsCenter mentality.
Joe Rogan and Rush Limbaugh are not comparable. Limbaugh was provocateur, Rogan is an interviewer.
Limbaugh was a singular, irreplaceable talent — his savage satire and wit were unmatched during his era. He positioned himself as a purely ideological conservative, and was his own man. He would talk for 3 hours a day with no guests, and did so for 30+ years. I thought he was absolutely hilarious — every single day. That’s why I listened. Rush was fun.
Rogan is altogether different. Genuinely curious (non-ideological), he brings an everyman approach to topics. Rogan also has a large audience of young men, a demographic that is largely adrift right now. Rogan shows those young men a different approach to life that is authentically masculine. It’s refreshing, and people can learn from his success with reaching this demographic before it’s too late.
To my mind, Rogan is providing a public service and opening minds, while Limbaugh gave voice to a huge ideological demographic that was being deliberately ignored and marginalized by the late 1980s, when he emerged. Rush did it with humor and an old-fashioned American “by-your-bootstraps” message every day. Totally different.
The two men are not comparable, save that they both represent a powerfully American mindset, speak into a michrophone, reach millions of listeners, and make enormous amounts of money doing so.
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