Kathy Griffin blasts Joe Rogan as ‘right-wing’ influencer who keeps fans from getting vaccinated

Anti-Trump comedian Kathy Griffin accused podcast giant Joe Rogan of being a "right-wing guy" who she claimed was convincing men not to get vaccinated.

While appearing on the "In Your Dreams With Owen Thiele" podcast Friday, Griffin recounted an interaction with a critic on the street who peppered her with what she called "Joe Rogan-talking points."

"He's trying to convince me of all of Joe's, like, conspiracy theories and all of his weird supplements and his popping veins," Griffin said.

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Griffin described knowing Rogan as a comic "back in the day" and claimed he has since turned into someone who "platforms right-wing people" and spreads conspiracies.

"I knew Joe back in the day when he had hair and was a comic and I liked him, and he was nice, but now he’s turned into this really powerful, very much — he doesn’t say it but — right-wing guy who platforms right-wing people, and bros really believe him," Griffin said. "The straight bros, they are not getting vaccinated because of Dr. Joe Rogan."

Fox News Digital reached out to Rogan's publicist for comment.

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While Griffin accused Rogan of being a "right-wing guy," the "Joe Rogan Experience" host has a mixed political history. Rogan previously endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2020 Democratic primary and has hosted a range of guests from across the political spectrum, including Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, whom he once encouraged to consider a presidential run.

However, he has pushed back on several liberal issues such as biological males competing in women's sports.

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Griffin's comments on Rogan came days after she encouraged her fans to identify their "MAGA" neighbors to know "who’s on our team."

"I live in Los Angeles. It’s happening at targeted places in Los Angeles," Griffin said on her show "Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin." "And I think it’s time to talk to the neighbors in real life. It’s time to talk to your neighbors, find out if they’re MAGA or not."

"Sorry, but we have to know who’s on our team and start to plan," Griffin said. "Is there a way we can do something as a community? When I hear from my followers in Minnesota, they describe a very sophisticated channel of a system of things that they do to help one another. And they use encrypted apps and, like I said, everyone has whistles and honks their horn, but they organize in small groups." 

Palantir's Shyam Sankar: US must use AI as 'slingshot' against China or face economic defeat

Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer and executive vice president of Palantir Technologies, told Fox News Digital in a new interview that the United States is in a competition with China when it comes to artificial intelligence and keeping American workers competitive.

"You see this, there's a wire manufacturer where you have a prior enlisted Navy man, no credentialed particular education, but he's the expert at running the factory," Sankar said.

"And AI has given them the ability to lever up their productivity," Sankar added. "They have improved yields 50%. They've reduced downtime on machines 20%. They're able to produce more. And if we think about the geopolitical context that we exist within, we're in a competition with China. We want to bring these jobs back to America. Giving the American worker the ability to be 50 times more productive, that superpower is how we're going to make it profitable and economical to bring back the work to America." 

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Sankar echoed that view in a Monday op-ed on Fox News Digital, where he wrote, "The job-loss narrative is a ploy to attract investors, drive media attention and consolidate political power. The real promise of AI in the enterprise is to make the American worker 50x more productive — to unleash his taste and agency."

Sankar told Fox News Digital he is concerned about a scenario in which the U.S. fails to harness AI and loses its competitive advantage.

"I don't even want to think about it," Sankar said of the scenario. "I mean, you know, it's like, if China's productivity is growing at 6%, if America's productivity's growing at roughly half a percent, this is our slingshot. This is our asymmetric advantage, you know. It is what is not in their long-range plan."

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Sankar said that AI could be similar to a wild card, something that China wasn’t anticipating, that, if harnessed well, could keep the U.S. ahead of the communist country. 

"China has been systematically over 50 years thinking about how to undermine American prosperity," Sankar said. "You know what wasn't in that plan? AI. Now, the challenge is up to us in terms of how do we use it? How do we use the twin strengths of America, which is the American worker, and AI to re-industrialize the country, to regain the advantage and productivity, to do that by giving the American worker superpowers and making it profitable to produce everything we need here in America." 

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