Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan blasted MSNBC for deceptively editing video of him to make it appear that he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election.
In the most recent episode of his eponymous podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the comedian slammed the liberal network for posting a video that made it look like he was praising Harris when he was actually referring to former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
During the July 30 episode of his show, Rogan forecasted that Harris would win the upcoming election over former President Donald Trump due to mainstream media’s unrelenting support.
“She’s gonna win,” Rogan said at the time. “I’m saying it because she could. I’m not saying it because I think she’s going to, and I’m not saying it because I want her to.”
Joe Rogan calls out MSNBC for takings words he said about Tulsi Gabbard and acting like it was about Kamala Harris:
“I'm not suing MSNBC but this is what MSNBC did. They took a clip of me talking about Tulsi Gabbard and they edited it up and made it look like I was saying great… pic.twitter.com/ZyyVimkXWG
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Rogan also criticized the liberal media’s rapid shift in support for Harris after President Joe Biden dropped of the race and subsequently endorsed her.
“Everybody forever was like Kamala Harris is the worst Vice President,” he noted.
“She’s the least popular vice president of all time and then in a moment, a moment in time, all of a sudden, she’s our solution.”
During the same episode, Rogan took aim at the Democratic Party for rejecting Gabbard as a presidential candidate, despite significantly outperforming Harris in the 2020 Democratic primary.
“Well, it just shows you that what they’re looking for is not what they say they’re looking for,” Rogan sniped.
“Because she [Gabbard] is a strong woman. She is a person who served overseas twice in a medical unit,” he noted.
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Rogan pointed to the media's PR work for Harris and argued that their strategy is working.
"She’s gonna win," Rogan said to Michael Malice who disagreed.
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“So she got to see people blown up by the war. She was a congresswoman for eight years.”
MSNBC’s TikTok account remixed Rogan’s remarks to make it appear that he was speaking about Harris rather than Gabbard.
“I’m not suing MSNBC but this is what MSNBC did,” he said commenting on the video.
“They took a clip of me talking about Tulsi Gabbard and they edited it up and made it look like I was saying great things about Kamala Harris,” Rogan continued.
He explained that the network “deceptively edited” his comments and deliberately took them “completely out of context.”
“First of all, I was talking about Tulsi Gabbard, and then I was talking about the media behind Kamala Harris, all this surge and all these people deciding that she can win,” he explained.
“They put the two of those together and made it seem like I was praising Kamala Harris.”
Rogan noted that MSNBC clearly edited out the part where he spoke about Gabbard’s military career, which he pointed out was “not something Kamala Harris did.”
He stated that MSNBC doesn’t actually care about reporting “the truth.”
“They just want a narrative to get out there amongst enough people because most people are just surface readers,” Rogan added.
He said that the “gross” lies MSNBC told were “dangerous” during this “very weird time” in the media.
“I think truth is super important,” he detailed. “I think someone that’s willing to do something like that — that’s a real offense.”
“It’s a real offense,” Rogan said about the manipulation tactic. “It’s not a small thing. It’s a real lie, and it’s a lie that changes other people’s opinions.”
MSNBC is again EXPOSED as a propaganda machine for the Democrat Elite, and how they will brazenly try to deceive the American people.
One part of the video @joerogan was talking about Kamala; on another part of the video, he was talking about me. MSNBC combined it together to… pic.twitter.com/E8701iZ8dh
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) August 2, 2024
Gabbard also torched the liberal network and the Harris campaign for trying to trick voters, saying it was a violation of a Federal Election Committee law.
“MSNBC is again EXPOSED as a propaganda machine for the Democrat Elite, and how they will brazenly try to deceive the American people,” she tweeted on August 2.
“One part of the video @joerogan was talking about Kamala; on another part of the video, he was talking about me,” she added.
“MSNBC combined it together to make it look like everything said was about Kamala and that he was endorsing her. Of course this is completely false.”
“Furthermore, it’s another violation of the FEC law by failing to report their propaganda as a contribution to Kamala’s campaign,” Gabbard concluded.
According to the New York Post, MSNBC added a disclaimer to the offending post that read: “We have removed an earlier version of this post that incorrectly implied Joe Rogan was talking more about Vice President Kamala Harris. He was referring to Tulsi Gabbard.”
The network has since deleted the video.