On Friday, May 22, 2020 at 11:12:43 PM UTC-4, Joe Hass wrote: > > If you want an excellent description of Rogan, you'll do worse than this > profile by Devin Gordon for The Atlantic. > > > https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/ > > Here's the money quote: > > "Joe likes Jack (Dorsey). He likes Milo Yiannopoulos. He likes Alex Jones. > He wants you to know that he doesn’t agree with much of what they say, but > he also wants you to know that off camera they’re the nicest guys. If we > all have fatal flaws, this is Joe’s: his insistence on seeing value in > people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it, > even when the harm outweighs the good. It comes from a generous place, but > it amounts to careless cruelty. He just won’t write people off, and then he > compounds the sin by throwing them a lifeline at the moment when they least > deserve it." > > This is where Rogan goes off the rails for me. I get that, as Steve notes, > he frequently has smart people on his program who say smart things. But he > also has fundamentally horrible people on his show just often enough that > it resets the counter to zero. >
Anybody who sees value in what an idiot like Jack Dorsey has to say should not be taken seriously by anybody. Greg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/84d786c0-7c7e-4b23-af1c-909498e1a2fe%40googlegroups.com.
