Legendary podcast host Joe Rogan mocked former CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter this week for being involved with the World Economic Forum, saying he is “basically a prostitute.”

During “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Monday, Rogan interviewed the journalist that has been at the forefront of the Twitter Files series, Matt Taibbi.

As the topic of Stelter came up during their discussion, Rogan repeatedly used a mocking voice to slam Stelter, who was terminated by CNN last year.

“He’s with evil lizard people that are trying to control the world,” Rogan said. “That’s [sic] his bosses, he knows how to handle that kind of situation.”

“You know, and he’s not a guy that really is supposed to be in front of a camera, right? He’s supposed to be a journalist, but he’s not even good at that,” Rogan continued. “So he’s, what he’s doing now is holding water for the evil leaders of the world who want to institute hate speech policies nationwide, and, you know, centralized digital currency, and they want everybody to eat bugs, and you will own nothing and be happy. This is the f***ing people he’s working for now. He’s basically a prostitute. And, you know, they hired him to go over there and do that.”

WATCH (contains profanity):

Joe Rogan destroys Brian Stelter pic.twitter.com/mBvxEBwwy6

— Quoth the Raven (@QTRResearch) February 14, 2023

TRANSCRIPT:

Joe Rogan (Mocking voice): Brian Stelter is now at the World Economic Forum, what can we do about these problems?

Matt Taibbi: You look very comfortable there.

Rogan: Of course he does. He’s with evil lizard people that are trying to control the world. That’s his bosses, he knows how to handle that kind of situation.

Rogan (mocking voice): I’ve been around these evil lizard people.

Taibbi: He looked, he looked as happy as maybe he’s ever been.

Rogan: Well, he’s probably very excited just to be working again, in any way, shape, or form.

Taibbi: That’s true.

Rogan: You know, and he’s not a guy that really is supposed to be in front of a camera, right? He’s supposed to be a journalist, but he’s not even good at that. So he’s, what he’s doing now is holding water for the evil leaders of the world who want to institute hate speech policies nationwide, and, you know, centralized digital currency, and they want everybody to eat bugs, and you will own nothing and be happy. This is the f***ing people he’s working for now. He’s basically a prostitute. And, you know, they hired him to go over there and do that. And he’s like (mocking voice), ‘What can we do? What can we do better? What can we do different to get everybody to stand in line? What can we do?’

Taibbi: And for a journalist to sit there, there was that one moment where that woman Vera Yoruba, she’s an EU official, and she’s talking about hate speech laws, and then she touches the knee of somebody sitting next to her and saying, ‘you’re gonna have that in America soon’. Yeah. And Brian Stelter is sitting there, grinning–

Rogan: Yeah.

Taibbi: –you know, like, that’s not offensive to him? Like, you’re a European basically saying, ‘oh, yeah, you’re gonna have this too, soon.’ Like, even though it’s completely antithetical to everything that we believe in, in this country like–

Rogan: Well, I think when you working in a corporate news structure, and you can speak to this better than I can, obviously, but I think when you’re working in an environment where you have editors and people in your ear, and you have producers, and you have narratives that the company’s pushing, and then you have sponsorships that you’re beholden to, it’s very difficult to form any sort of problematic or controversial independent thought and then try to express it publicly. You’re not going to do it. It’s just too scary and sketchy. So when you’re trying to keep that job, and here’s a guy like Brian Stelter, who already lost one of the biggest gigs in all of broadcast news, he was on f***ing CNN. And then you know, here he’s standing there and they’re saying, ‘you you’re gonna have hate speech laws in America’. He’s like, ‘okay, everything’s running smooth.’

Related: Rogan Slams Stelter: ‘Motherf***er, You’re Supposed To Be A Journalist,’ ‘Your Show’s F***ing Terrible’

A top Democratic lawmaker in Michigan derided offering “thoughts and prayers” while pushing stricter gun regulations after a shooting at Michigan State University on Monday.

State Rep. Ranjeev Puri, the majority whip in Michigan’s Democrat-controlled House, issued a statement just after midnight on Tuesday after, according to police, a 43-year-old gunman killed three students and wounded five more. The suspected gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

“Today, we begin to collectively heal from the horrific events which transpired, tomorrow we work,” Puri said in his early morning post on social media. “My official statement regarding the Michigan State University shooting is below: F*** your thoughts and prayers.”

In a longer statement attached to the post, Puri called thoughts and prayers “meaningless” without “action and change” before calling for stricter restrictions on firearms.

“What happened in East Lansing is unfortunately far too common,” Puri said. “Going to school in America, whether it’s pre-school or college, means risking your life every day to the threat of a mass shooting. Yet all we have offered up are empty solutions – traumatizing active shooter drills and bulletproof backpacks.”

“We do not need to live like this. The United States is the only country where this happens,” he continued.

He went on to suggest “common sense gun reform” legislation could have prevented the Michigan State shooting.

“Thoughts and prayers with action and change are meaningless. Our office will continue to work tirelessly to pass common sense gun reform immediately. We will not stop until our students can attend school without fear, our communities can attend places of worship in peace, and our society is safe from senseless gun violence,” Puri said.

Today, we begin to collectively heal from the horrific events which transpired, tomorrow we work.

My official statement regarding the Michigan State University shooting is below:

Fuck your thoughts and prayers. pic.twitter.com/iHCOxOmDA3

— Rep. Ranjeev Puri (@RanjeevPuri) February 14, 2023

It is unclear how the suspected Michigan State shooter came to possess his firearm. Authorities have recovered a firearm at the scene but have not yet confirmed if it was the same firearm used in the shooting, according to CNN.

Michigan State University Interim President Teresa Woodruff said on Tuesday that all classes would be canceled until at least the next week.

The university would be in restricted operations for the next 48 hours, Woodruff said in a press conference on Tuesday morning, “then we’ll move into a period where classes will be canceled until Monday morning, but campus operations will resume.”

“We will provide the resources the students need for the time period they need,” she continued, thanking the federal government for its support.