Joe Rogan Takes Surprising Stance On Bud Light Controversy

Podcast giant Joe Rogan sided with Anheuser-Busch in an episode of his show this week as the company deals with the fallout of a paid marketing engagement with a highly controversial transgender influencer.

Speaking on Wednesday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” with comedian Sam Tallent, Rogan spoke about the controversy surrounding Bud Light’s engagement with Dylan Mulvaney.

Both men cracked open cans of Bud Light and began to drink the beer as they discussed the controversy.

“Like — what they’re doing is just spreading the brand to an extra group of people. Why — If something is good, do you give a f*** who’s got it?” Rogan said. “Like, would we do this with cheesecake? Like, you know what I’m saying? Like, if there was like a bomb-a** cheesecake and all of a sudden, you know, some radical group like Antifa really got into the cheesecake. We would be like, ‘F*** this.’ And if the Cheesecake Factory sent Antifa a cheesecake, you know, ‘for 10 more years of chaos,’ you know, like celebratory.”

However, Rogan noted that he liked a lot of the backlash to Bud Light, including Kid Rock shooting a bunch of Bud Light cans.

“But on the other hand I love Kid Rock’s video. Because I love that kind of thinking,” Rogan said. “Not even that I agree with it? I like wild people. I like a dude who takes a machine gun to a stack of Bud Lights and is like, ‘F*** Anheuser-Busch!’”

“But I mean, where’s he gonna go now? You gonna go to Coors?” he continued. “Don’t they all support like LBGTQ+AI, whatever the hell else they’re attaching to it, issues?”

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Rogan later added that he thought that it was “funny” that people were “super outraged” over the controversy.

“How is that the big deal?” Rogan said. “I think it’s goofy. Because I think that person’s goofy. But if you want to hire a goofy person, like, who gives a s***? It’s kind of hilarious. It was also just a can with that person’s face on it. That’s all it was. It wasn’t like something they were selling.”

PBS Joins NPR In Backing Away From Twitter

The Public Broadcasting Service became the second news organization to quit Twitter this week after National Public Radio quit using the platform after Twitter CEO Elon Musk had the organization listed as “US state-affiliated media” and later as “Government-funded Media” — a designation later applied to PBS.

“PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,” PBS spokesman Jason Phelps told Bloomberg News. “We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.”

Musk shared the company’s policy on labeling state-affiliated media when the decision was made to initially slap NPR with the label.

“State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution,” the Twitter policy says.

An NPR spokesperson lashed out over the designation in announcing that the company would no longer use the platform.

“NPR’s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,” the statement said. “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence.”

“We are turning away from Twitter but not from our audiences and communities,” the statement continued. “There are plenty of ways to stay connected and keep up with NPR’s news, music, and cultural content.”

NPR infamously refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election.

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“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor Terence Samuels said at the time in explaining why the publication would not cover the story.

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