Horse Worm Rogan Is Threatening To Sue CNN, I Read

THINKING ABOUT JOE ROGAN (not something one should expect will be hard to do) I wondered if maybe his ilk is a result of the "topical humor" of the Lenny Bruce period.  And that led me to think more about the dangerously important role that show biz plays in our politics.    The idea that big mouth idiots like Rogan know anything about anything is a remarkable consequence of mass media.  I didn't pay much attention to Rogan before, suspecting that people who knew what they were talking about knew more than someone whose big mouth and lower key shock jockery was his only means of achieving something like fame.   The guy is a fucking low grade entertainer whose big mouth is his one and only means of getting it, outrageous bull shit is his stock and trade, pandering to whatever idiotic "populist" line of Republican-fascist bull shit he figures will be popular with his audience is his MO.

The upper end of such "topical" entertainment, what Samantha Bee and Seth Myers and Stephen Colbert do is not the same thing though it may have had a similar origin.  Though I think they're more out of Jack Paar than the what shock jockery came from.   I think none of them would try to pass themselves off as someone you should believe on the basis of who they are, none of them would pass themselves off as the expert, something right-wing snake oil peddlers inevitably do.

I'm kind of hoping that the loud-mouth asshole, horse-wormer guzzler does sue CNN as he's threatening and that CNN's lawyers clean his clock.  I hope lots of people start calling him Horse Worm Rogan like the late and missed Bartcop - a real shocker who Rogan could never hope to match in ourageous cleverness and who had entirely more responsibility than the likes of Rogan - called the radio loud-mouth right-wing asshole the late and unlamented Paul Harvey "Horse fucker" when Harvey used the "people are saying" standard of late 20th century "journalism" to slander Democrats.   

The doctor who prescribed Ivermectin to him for Covid should be booted from the profession.  Just at a time when doctors and nurses, orderlies, paramedics, cleaners, have given us all reason to hold those professions in the highest esteem (and as so many media celebrities have given us every reason to despise them) such doctors as who hand out prescriptions for unsafe and unproven drugs for off-list uses on the basis of pandering to bull shit swallowers remind us that there are plenty of irresponsible assholes licensed to practice that profession.