The progressive establishment is determined to cancel Joe Rogan, for obvious reasons: because he’s popular, more popular than any other media figure in the U.S. who comments on current events, and he’s not on their team.
In response, Rogan is making a classic error — assuming the torrent of hate he’s facing comes from a place of good faith, and that he can make it go away by addressing the mob’s concerns, apologizing, and pledging to do better.
Rogan has released more than 1,700 episodes of his podcast over the years. Each one has been a live discussion, usually running three hours or more, without editing or filtering.
It is almost certain that over the course of those episodes, which add up to over 5,000 hours of live, unfiltered footage, Rogan will have said things that he regrets, or wishes he’d said better; things that he…