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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Monday, February 7th, 2022. I'm John

Budwars, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me is always executive editor Abe Greenwald.

Hi Abe. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen,

high Christine. Hi John. An associate editor and a harassment high Noah. Hi John.

So the controversy involving Joe Rogan's whatever the controversy of Joe Rogan is,

which was something about how he was peddling misinformation about COVID by not asking tough

enough questions of his guests who are on for three hours is now transmuted into

Joe Rogan using the N word and Joe Rogan apologizing for using the N word, having previously

apologized for not having been more thoughtful about controversial topics on his show so he's

made two apologies. Abe, you have some thoughts on I would say this Friday, I was listening to

the podcast we recorded on Friday just earlier today and Noah said, this is over, like the Joe Rogan

thing is over. Clearly it's not over Spotify has now put out a statement talking about the pain

and suffering that has been caused by Joe Rogan and the need for safe space or whatever blop blop

anyway. So Abe. Well yeah, I mean because this was always larger than the issue that Neil

Young brought up, which was the vaccine and misinformation, Rogan has long been a target of the

liberal establishment because A, he, as we've covered, doesn't tow the line and B, he's a commercial

threat to so many of the broadcasters. But what happened was the attempt to cancel him to take him

down because of the his stance and the stance of those he spoke with on vaccines, that sort of rolled

to a near stop. That was pretty much dead. So then they've had then had to drag out haul out

the race as a maccusation using old clips out of context and sure enough as it will do in this

day and age in this country, it sort of started up a whole new bigger conflagration. I think it

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