'Off-the-charts arrogance': Joe Rogan pummeled for Harris campaign comment
By: David Badash, The New Civil Rights (Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism)
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Before her 7:30 PM ET event, the Vice President will be giving five interviews, according to campaign spokesperson Ian Sams: "Battleground TV interviews in Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh + Spanish radio in Pennsylvania to reach Latinos, including Puerto Ricans."
Not included in her interviews Tuesday is podcaster Joe Rogan, with whom the campaign has been in talks.
Overnight, Rogan explained on social media that those talks are ongoing, despite there being just one week until Election Day.
Just before that, Rogan had posted his three-hour interview with Donald Trump, which aired Friday, to Elon Musk's social media site X. He then shared this statement:
"Also, for the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen."
Some political experts say an interview with Rogan, the nation's top podcaster whose largely male audience (he reportedly has 14 million followers on Spotify, and 18 million on YouTube), could help Harris, who is hoping to get more male voters to cast their ballot for her. But a former Harris campaign senior advisor offered this:
"Hot take—Rogan needs the Harris interview more than @KamalaHQ does. The exposure with a new audience who is deeply skeptical of him after years of out of context clips would be huge. He could pull in a lot of new people who have never listened to a full episode before, and even if he retained a fraction of that audience it would move him more into the mainstream."
Some critics are blasting Rogan.
"Is this a podcast host saying he's unwilling to travel to interview the sitting vice president for an hour?" asked Zeteo News media columnist Justin Baragona.
"I think Joe Rogan is afraid to interview Kamala Harris because that would require a great deal of research and preparation that he is not equipped to do," responded award-winning investigative journalist Lisa Guerrero.
"Come on @joerogan. It's the last week of the campaign! She's a little busier than you. Get on a (private) plane and do the interview, even if just for an hour. Americans want to hear it," exclaimed professor of political science and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.
"If I could have interviewed the a person who is potentially the future president, I would have canceled everything in my calendar. Unless you were burying a close friend or relative, you weren't committed to the interview," remarked professor of law Darren Hutchinson.
"Demanding a VP come to you in final week of campaign sort of says it all," commented The Lincoln Project's Stuart Stevens, a top Republican political strategist, appearing to suggest Rogan has a "feeling of self-importance and omnipotence."
"So the sitting Vice President and likely the next President of the United States should fly over to see you? Respect for the office of VP as well as the fact that she has a competitive race to run, suggests you get your ass on a plane and talk to her wherever [she] is," commented Alexander Vindman, the former Director for European Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council (NSC).
"Just off-the-charts arrogance," remarked investigative journalist and founder of Popular Information Judd Legum.
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Rogan has a big audience, most likely with a few million everyday. But it is not as big an audience as say David Muir . Can you imagine Muir or ABC News telling Harris, or for that matter Trump, "we'd like to interview you but only if you come to ABC studios in New York. "
No, ABC News would go where the candidate was.
Hot take—Rogan needs the Harris interview more than @KamalaHQ does.
that’s incredibly dumb.
After this election, Harris will probably be relegated to the halls of worst Vice President/presidential candidate in the history of this country, being nothing but an activist after she loses.
Rogan will still have millions of daily listeners.
"Also, for the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen."
An hour would just be more orange man bad sound bites. Since she could not do that for 3 hours she might actually have to answer questions and let everyone know she is just an empty shell. Good for Joe to not buy into her shit.
One hour would be more than enough. Trump needs three hours because 2/3 of what he says is incoherent.
An hour would just be more orange man bad sound bites. Since she could not do that for 3 hours she might actually have to answer questions and let everyone know she is just an empty shell.
No one in the history of presidential elections has done three hour interviews, until Trump went on Rogan.
And?
Here again, the absurd defense of Trump (pretending he is NOT bad for this nation) coupled with an irrational attack (empty shell) on Harris.
Yea yea yea. Once again attacking Trump with a vague BAD for the nation and defending Harris at all costs ignoring her reluctance/inability to talk about anything substantive. .
An hour would just be more orange man bad sound bites just like she has done before. Since she could not do that for 3 hours she might actually have to answer questions and let everyone know she is just an empty shell with no actual plans.
I absolutely am defending Harris! The amount of bullshit attacks against her is off the charts. I support her for the presidency because she has the qualities of a normal US president. Even though I will likely be against some of her policies, she is fit to serve whereas Trump is absolutely not fit.
You complain when I give a list of wrongdoings and negatives about Trump. You now complain when I am brief in my criticism. Looks like you just cannot stand for Trump to be criticized.
You deny being a Trump supporter whereas I have no qualm declaring I am supporting Harris.
most people do
Yes
That is funny
Americans want 3 hours, just like Trump did
No one cares what you would do.
Yes, he really doesn't care if she comes. The invite has been there for awhile.
Yes, If she wants to and thought she was capable
Yes, Harris thinks the world revolves around her.
She was just in Texas too.
Yep, and all the partisans are hiding behind "she is too busy' it is right before an election" .
Then why didnt Rogan go to where she was? The idea that a presidential candidate has to accommodate a podcaster is funny.
She would if there was a message besides Orange man bad she wanted a large number of voting Americans to hear