{"id":200358,"date":"2021-05-01T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/01\/my-opinion-of-him-has-risen-it-could-not-have-fallen-more\/"},"modified":"2021-05-01T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T23:07:00","slug":"my-opinion-of-him-has-risen-it-could-not-have-fallen-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/01\/my-opinion-of-him-has-risen-it-could-not-have-fallen-more\/","title":{"rendered":"My Opinion of Him Has Risen (It Could Not Have Fallen More)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After putting his foot in his mouth, <\/p>\n

Joe Rogan offers a pithy and apparently sincere apology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said some tremendously stupid things about Covid Vaccines, and when called out, he replied as follows, “I’m not a doctor, I’m a f—ing moron<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

In a world of mealy mouthed apologies, it’s kind of refreshing, though Joe Rogan remains, and will probably be, a  f—ing moron:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Popular Spotify podcast host Joe Rogan on Thursday sought to clarify his recent controversial comments that young, healthy people don’t need a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n

During a conversation on his most recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the comedian made it clear that he wasn’t anti-vaccine, and people should not necessarily be looking to him for medical advice.<\/p>\n

“I’m not a doctor, I’m a f—ing moron, and I’m a cage fighting commentator … I’m not a respected source of information, even for me. But I at least try to be honest about what I’m saying,” Rogan said.<\/p>\n

Rogan’s initial comments drew backlash from multiple critics as harmful and irresponsible, including from many infectious disease experts and even Biden administration officials.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For someone who says outrageous crap for a living, it’s kind of refreshing when they quickly recognize that they f%$#ed up.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After putting his foot in his mouth, Joe Rogan offers a pithy and apparently sincere apology. He said some tremendously stupid things about Covid Vaccines, and when called out, he replied as follows, “I’m not a doctor, I’m a f—ing moron.” In a world of mealy mouthed apologies, it’s kind of refreshing, though Joe Rogan …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1064,1285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apology","category-media","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}