Joe Rogan Goes to Town on Brian Stelter and the Demise of CNN+ – Opinion

CNN has been struggling. New ownership has forced them to restructure. This will likely bring down people such as Brian Stelter who rely heavily on Fox News and attacks on the left. As we wrote, there are reports that he’s on the chopping block. CNN+, however, has been cut after CNN spent $300 million on the project.

Joe Rogan — who has been a focus of CNN’s political targeting — had a few things to say about them on his Friday podcast. He seemed to be having fun with them as he spoke out about them. Stelter was also mentioned.

WOW. Joe Rogan just utterly destroys Brian Stelter, a fake news potato. He also talks about the predicted demise CNN+

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“If Jon Stewart thinks you’re a piece of sh**, I’m going to listen, you know,” Rogan said. “But if Brian Stelter doesn’t like you, that doesn’t mean anything to me.”

Douglas Murray (author) was his guest. He said that he has a rule in which he doesn’t judge people based on their looks. “But a friend of mine said to me the other day, do you know how old Brian Stelter is?” Murray speculated that Stelter was 56. The friend said he was “like 34”; he’s 36. Murray claimed that everything was odd about him.

Rogan, a former comedian, began mocking Stelter.

Rogan attacked his “pattern of communication” which he said was “so strange,” “It’s like, do you listen to other people? They talk very differently than you.” He pointed out how Krystal Ball mocked Stelter’s way of sitting. Rogan said one of his favorite moments was Stelter took that posture with journalist Bari Weiss where he asked her, “How has the world gone crazy?” But then Weiss just dropped all the instances, one after another. “When you say silence is violence, when actual violence is violence, the world has gone crazy. The world’s gone mad. And she just rattled all these off,” Rogan said.

Rogan, who had spent so much on CNN+, bragged about its failure and laughed at their presumptuousness. “Imagine the hubris of thinking that something that people don’t want for free, that you’re gonna charge money for it.”

Stelter spun even though they had gotten rid of it. He didn’t mention that the subscriptions for the service were slow and had less than 10,000 daily users. Instead, he claimed that CNN+ was “doomed” because “of the timing of a merger and clashing streaming strategies.”

But even as CNN’s ratings are nosediving and they’re axing CNN+, Joe Rogan had the last laugh on them. His subscriptions increased by a lot as CNN and other liberal media chased him. He said, “It’s interesting, my subscriptions went up massively — that’s what’s crazy. During the height of it all, I gained 2 million subscribers.” Rogan gets an average of 11 million viewers an episode, something of which CNN could only dream for any of its shows.