The claim made in both the MoveOn petition as well as the medical experts’ open letter that Rogan spreads falsehoods about COVID stands on much firmer ground. The truth, as my late friend Michael Brooks and I noted two years ago, is that Rogan’s political views are messy and somewhat incoherent-like the views of many millions of Americans. Dan Crenshaw for opposing Medicare for All. Those who’d pigeonhole Rogan in such a fashion would also be remiss to not watch Rogan’s classic skewering of the right-wing YouTube commentator Dave Rubin for wanting to privatize the Post Office and end the regulatory state, or Rogan’s blistering rebuke of Republican Rep. Anyone who believes MoveOn’s depiction of Rogan as nothing but a right-wing propagandist-much less a “white supremacist”-would be surprised by the content of that interview, where Rogan and West vibed on subjects ranging from socialism to Chekhov to standup comedy to the origins of white supremacy in America. Describing West as “brilliant,” Rogan tweeted that it was one of his all-time favorite episodes of the podcast. The next year, Rogan interviewed the socialist academic Cornel West.

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