Joe Rogan gets CNN’s chief medical correspondent to admit CNN lied about ivermectin. By Becket Adams.
CNN claimed this year that talk show host Joe Rogan injected himself with horse dewormer after he contracted the coronavirus.
It was a lie. Not a misstatement or an exaggeration, but an outright lie. Rogan did no such thing. Rather, he took the human version of ivermectin, as prescribed by his doctor.
It’s a perfectly normal and safe drug taken by literally billions of people. Yet night after night, CNN told its viewers Rogan had swallowed livestock paste.
This week, Rogan had a chance to confront CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta over the cable network’s dishonest reporting. Gupta admitted eventually in the interview that, yeah, CNN clearly said things that were not true.
CNN’s Effort to Clean up the Gupta Train Wreck Interview Proves Joe Rogan’s Point. By Nick Arama.
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 just exposed how empty and false Gupta and CNN were with all this. But you wouldn’t know it, if you listened to the spin that CNN subsequently gave about the interview.:
CNN’s [DonLemon]: “It is not a lie to say that [Ivermectin] is used as a horse de-wormer. I think that’s important. And it is not approved for Covid.”
[Gupta]: “Correct … If you look at the data, there is no evidence that it really works [against Covid].”
That last is a lie too. No evidence? How do you think India beat covid? Ivermectin only works against the viral build-up, in the first of the three stages of covid. In the subsequent blood clotting and cytokine storm phases, ivermectin is much less effective.
The establishment purposely did a few trials using ivermectin on patients already past the viral replication stage and, sure enough, it had little effect. This is what they are quoting when they say ivermectin doesn’t work against covid.
In these corporate outlets — and I know, because I worked with several — they know their audience doesn’t mind lying if it’s aimed at their adversaries. They want that! CNN knows their audience doesn’t want a retraction.
This is not hyperbole: in the liberal sector of the corporate media — by far the largest and most dominant wing — lying and disinformation are not prohibited or even frowned up. It’s encouraged and rewarded, as long as it’s directed at the ideological enemies of their audience.
