Joe Rogan criticized MSNBC for “deceptively editing” a clip that made it appear that the popular podcaster was showering praise on Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris — when in fact he was lauding former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
The host of “The Joe Rogan Experience” began his show on Tuesday by debunking a rumor circulating online that he was planning to file suit against the left-leaning cable news channel.
“I’m not suing MSNBC,” Rogan said, adding that his stepfather called him after seeing a headline about his apparent support for the vice president.
“But this is what MSNBC did: they took a clip of me talking about Tulsi Gabbard and they edited it up and made it look like I was saying great things about Kamala Harris.”
Rogan said that MSNBC didn’t use artificial intelligence to make the video, but that the network “deceptively edited the things that I was saying” and “took it completely out of context.”
He said MSNBC did a mashup of two separate clips in which he is heard praising Gabbard and then noting that Harris could win the 2024 presidential election — making it appear as if he was only talking about the Democratic nominee.
Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party after serving as a lawmaker representing a district in Hawaii, has recently endorsed former President Donald Trump.
“I was talking about Tulsi Gabbard being a congresswoman for eight years and about how she served overseas [as part of] two deployments in medical service dealing with people who were blown up by the war,” Rogan said, adding: “That’s not something Kamala Harris did. That’s something Tulsi Gabbard did.”
MSNBC “put it out there as a clip of me praising Kamala Harris,” he added.
“But they don’t care about the truth,” Rogan said of MSNBC. “They just want a narrative to get out there amongst enough people because most people are just surface readers” who “read a headline” and say to themselves “I got it now.”
The Post has sought comment from MSNBC.
The video Rogan was referring to has since been deleted by MSNBC, which added a disclaimer which read: “We have removed an earlier version of this post that incorrectly implied Joe Rogan was talking more about Vice President Kamala Harris. He was referring to Tulsi Gabbard.”
In an Aug. 2 post on the X social media platform, Gabbard hit out at MSNBC, calling it “a propaganda machine for the Democrat Elite” which will “brazenly try to deceive the American people.”
Rogan has declined to endorse Trump, and had praised Robert F. Kennedy’s independent bid for the White House, prompted the former president’s supporters to criticize Rogan.
Kennedy endorsed Trump after dropping out of the presidential race last week.
