Why the ABC is Afraid of Joe Rogan
Australian Broadcasting Corporation boss Kim Williams was asked yesterday what he thought about podcaster Joe Rogan.
For those who don’t know, Rogan is the world’s most popular podcaster.
His long-form interviews — typically three hours in length — are simple conversations with fascinating people.
He has interviewed everyone from Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson and Bernie Sanders.
Famously, he had Donald Trump on his program just before the November 6 election.
It was a brilliant podcast because none of it was scripted — it was just Joe and Donald chatting like normal people.
Joe Rogan doesn’t ask “gotcha questions”. He just converses with his guests and it’s anyone’s guess as to where the conversation ends up.
But, of course, a three-hour conversation means politicians can’t just hide behind their pre-prepared talking points.
It’s why Trump did so well. And it’s why Kamala Harris refused to go on the show.
You can’t say, “Well, I was raised in a middle-class family …” for three hours!
Panic Mode
But back to the ABC boss. What did he think of Joe Rogan’s huge popularity?
Kim Williams told journalists at the Canberra Press Club yesterday that he doesn’t listen to Joe Rogan.
And then he had this to say about Joe Rogan, which was quite remarkable for a man who has never listened to Joe Rogan:
“People like Mr. Rogan prey on people’s vulnerabilities. They prey on fear. They prey on anxiety.
“I personally find it deeply repulsive, and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at in disbelief
“I’m also absolutely in dismay that this can be a source of public entertainment when it’s really treating the public as plunder for purposes that are really quite malevolent.”
Was Kim Williams describing Joe Rogan? It sounded like he was describing the ABC!
Rogan is repulsive, preying on fear, and quite malevolent, according to the ABC boss.
I can picture Kim Williams hiding under his bed when he hears Joe Rogan’s voice!
As for the charge that Rogan is “treating the public as plunder”, um, isn’t it the ABC that sucks more than a billion dollars a year from the taxpayers’ teat?
But how did Kim Williams, who doesn’t listen to Joe Rogan, know all this about Joe Rogan?
Simple. He just watches the ABC and they tell him what to think. The same as he expects you to watch the ABC in order to know what you should think.
Williams and his ilk hate Rogan and people like him because they are in panic mode. They are desperately upset that they no longer get to dictate and control the cultural narratives.
Legacy media bosses hate the two-way conversations that Joe Rogan, and people like him, facilitate and then spread via social media.
For decades they’ve been dictating what beliefs and opinions people should have, in a top-down, one-way fashion. They can’t stand the fact that people are rejecting that now.
Freedom
Joe Rogan sits down with interesting people and conducts long-form conversations.
That people like Kim Williams react so violently to it is evident of just how afraid they are of free thought and expression. They’re control freaks who are losing control.
And the reason the legacy media is losing control is because they have manipulated all of us for far too long.
That should have been the lesson from the Trump interview.
The legacy media spent years promoting hatred of Trump to anyone who would listen.
And then, in three hours, Joe Rogan showed them all to be liars and propaganda merchants preying on people’s vulnerabilities, and fear, and anxiety.
(See what I did there?)
As the Good Lord said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
The Rogan interview was a big part of the reason Trump won on November 6. People were able to listen to him talk and realised he wasn’t Hitler after all.
One more comment…
How can a man like Kim Williams, with such one-sided and ill-informed views, be the right person to run our “unbiased” national broadcaster?
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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.
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James, you have done it again! Hit the nail on the head, thank you so much for your push back against the tide.
I laughed my way through this James. The irony is everywhere. Brilliant piece.
Another good one from James.
When you open the ABC News web site it tells you it’s the “Trusted Source of Latest News and Headlines”. Reminds me of a guy I knew who always said he was a humble man. If you have to keep telling people you’re humble, it’s because you’re not. The same seems to apply to ‘Trusted’.
Good article. I have never listened to Joe Rogan either but I would have thought that free ranging three hour interviews with prominent politicians of various ilk etc. is a useful way of helping people make up their minds. However, I have listed to the ABC over the last several decades in different states and have been struck with their both blatant and subtle left-wing biases and editing on many subjects that are of interest to me.
Mr Williams is a classic example of how pervasive received knowledge is. The ABC and others of the legacy media are classic examples of the providers of received knowledge.
Wisdom not on the radar.