Joe Rogan calls out U-turn on Ukraine coverage. The nation was perceived as the “most corrupt country in Europe” before Russia’s attack, the podcaster noted.
Maverick podcaster Joe Rogan has called out journalists in the US who are treating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a war hero since the Russian attack on the country. Previously, Ukraine was perceived in the West as a corrupt hellhole and its leader as a would-be authoritarian, so the U-turn is “confusing,” Rogan said on his show on Saturday.
“This is one of the things that is so weird is that they were very disparaging of Ukraine. They were talking about [the] massive corruption of Ukraine and how horrible it was over there. And now all of a sudden they are looking at it like they’re heroes,” he observed.
Rogan offered a collection of articles in the Western press explaining Ukraine’s corruption problems and the increasing slide towards authoritarianism under Zelensky as well as his alleged personal grift. “We are supposed to take a hard-right turn, a veer away, a hard angle away from the narrative that was being pushed just a couple of years ago. And we are supposed to just ignore all this stuff now,” he said, describing the situation as a “fog of information distribution.”
>Joe Rogan calls out U-turn on Ukraine coverage. >The nation was perceived as the “most corrupt country in Europe” before Russia’s attack, the podcaster noted.
I'll try to explain this in a way that even someone that gets hit in the head for a living can understand.
This is pretty much an extreme case of whataboutism...
1) Yes, political grift is bad, and something to look down at a country over 2) Bombing a country, especially civilians directly, killing them by the thousands, is also bad. 3) Comparatively, killing civilians by the thousands is worse than political grift, much worse. 4) The people trying to clean up a corrupt political system are heroes in their own way. 5) But the people actively shooting back against the people bombing their children and elderly are even larger heroes.
Holy shit, so complicated to understand, maybe I should be a permanent Joe Rogan commentator to help people navigate such complex geopolitical intrigue and nuance.
Yes, Ukrainians can be bad for soft supporting political grift, yet heroes for shooting back at Russians. There's nothing incongruous about these statements.
It's almost as if people aren't 1 dimensional anime characters.
Zachary Torres
Pretty much. Pretty amazing how easy the switch can be flipped.
Luis Anderson
proves just how much influence media has? normies gobble it up like there's no tomorrow.
Andrew Jones
You gotta go back, faggot.
Colton Thomas
It’s because he follows Candace Owens and yesterday she linked a bunch of NYT articles that basically said the same thing that RT and the Kremlin say. The catch was that they were from about 5 years ago when it was PC to be against Ukraine.
Chase Turner
This. No shit there's corruption in a post soviet country, yes, the Zelensky deification is cringe as fuck. They still are fighting for their freedom against the horde
Nathan Price
Also, that’s not to say I trust RT or the Kremlin. Russia has 100+ years of propaganda experience under their belt. They’re lies as well. This war is just literally not my problem and I refuse to root for either side.
Cooper Rodriguez
Political corruption stories don't get as many clicks as invasion and war hero stories.
Joseph James
President has no power There is no professional army All ukrie fighters are political militia without professionalism, doing war crimes like nothing Putin was right. Ukries had it coming since 7 years ago.
>Comparatively, killing civilians by the thousands is worse than political grift, much worse.
Russians had the same idea before invading ukraine
case can be made
ukries are keeping russian speakers of eastern ukraine as hostages in building while keeping tanks and troops in the same buildings
russia bombs ukri position, russian speakers die.. ukries cry on media how they are killing civvies
Henry Morris
Why does Joe act like the media isn't bought and paid for by the US.gov?
Carson Ramirez
Even Rogan is on our side Surrender, trannies
Aiden Sanders
>muh n-word man defends Russia I can’t believe Spotify kept this scumbag. This beef-head bought the shirtless, bear-wrestling Putin propaganda unsurprisingly.
Samuel Nelson
An interesting pint, why dont you tell your commanding officer it while in bootcamp because you are definitely getting drafted
He isn't defending Russia at all, just pointing out how Ukraine is a corrupt shithole full of scummy fuckers and now they are being hailed as heroes when six months ago they were vilified so he finds it odd.
Robert Fisher
>odd You mean like how Hollywood and DC loved Trump until he ran for office? Then he was suddenly a racist hater of women? It's not odd at all.
Grayson Roberts
>Joe Rogan recalls news media reports that should've been forgotten
What a bastard.
Julian Hall
>rt.com Ain't clicking that shit, nigger. And nice memeflag.
