We reported that Joe Rogan caused Dr. Sanjay Gupta to squirm when he called out CNN’s spin on COVID and what they had said about Rogan in particular.
Rogan pressed Gupta on why CNN lied about him taking a “horse dewormer,” and Gupta couldn’t provide any real answer. That’s because he couldn’t say the honest fact: It serves our political narrative that we were pushing. Gupta said he didn’t know why the network did it, and didn’t bother to question that. Rogan stated that he was given ivermectin as a prescription by his doctor. It has been widely used in a number of ways. While there’s a veterinary version of the drug, that’s not what Rogan took and ivermectin is a drug people use.
Rogan exposed the lies and insincerity of Gupta’s and CNN’s involvement with this.
But you wouldn’t know it, if you listened to the spin that CNN subsequently gave about the interview.
CNN’s Don Lemon tried to smooth things over for Gupta and justify the lies that CNN had told about Rogan.
CNN’s @DonLemon: “It is not a lie to say that [Ivermectin]It is also used to deworm horses. I think that’s important. It isn’t approved for Covid.”@drsanjaygupta: “Correct … If you look at the data, there is no evidence that it really works [against Covid]” pic.twitter.com/eDpJUxrsqY
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 14, 2021
Townhall
“Listen, I think it’s also very important, I know it’s in large part a tongue-in-cheek interview because it’s Joe Rogan and there’s lots — you’re jockeying back and forth. But he did say something about Ivermectin that I think wasn’t actually correct about CNN and lying. Ok? Ivermectin, a common horse de-wormer drug, is also available. It is true that Ivermectin is used to deworm horses. I think that’s important. It isn’t approved for COVID. Correct?” Lemon asked.
“That’s right. That’s correct,” Gupta replied. “It is not approved for COVID. And you’re right, I mean, the FDA even put out a statement, saying, you know, basically reminding people — it was a strange sort of message from the FDA, but that said, ‘You’re not a horse, you’re not a cow, stop taking this stuff,’ is essentially what they said, referring to Ivermectin.”
“When Joe got sick, he took Ivermectin. Monoclonal antibodies is also an injection of these antibodies. He took them both. It’s very likely it was the monoclonal antibodies that made him feel better so quickly,” Gupta added.
The problem with this effort at spin, they said that Rogan took the horse dewormer, which is demonstrably false and they leave out that yes, it’s a “people drug” that has been used by billions and even won a Nobel Prize for the guy who discovered it for the benefit to human medicine. It’s been used all over the world.
Here’s a sample where not only does CNN’s Jim Acosta lie about what Joe Rogan said, but the chyron lies as well, saying that Rogan said he took the “horse dewormer.”
This is Jim Acosta’s clip that Joe Rogan used to refer to Gupta.
This was pic.twitter.com/MYph1HbtP9 https://t.co/Pv675VitGj— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 14, 2021
Talk about “disinformation.”
Yes, it’s true that ivermectin has not been approved by the FDA for COVID, but it’s been approved for other uses. It’s common for doctors to prescribe medicines for off-label use, which is how some doctors are prescribing it for COVID.
Lemon also painted a very different picture of the interview than what actually happened, telling Gupta “you held your own, though. It was very good” — when the interview was demonstrably awful for Gupta’s reputation and CNN.
But that’s the problem with CNN in a nutshell, and it’s the point that Rogan was making. They don’t care about the truth; it’s all about narrative. Rogan speculated previously on whether Rogan would need to sue them for truth. I wonder what he’s going to think about this spin, especially after he so eviscerated Gupta. You might have invited this action.
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