Jew Hating Influencers on the Right Do Not Help the GOP
Ian Carroll, who recently appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast, is given as an example here.
The Washington Examiner reports:
The rise of Jew-hating right-wing ‘influencers’ threatens the GOPIf you have little talent and few prospects, the quickest way to turn things around these days is to go on social media and accuse the Jews of starting the Vietnam War or blame them for replacing beef tallow with seed oil. Call yourself a “historian” or “researcher,” and wait. You’ll be a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast in no time.Indeed, in the past couple of weeks, two of the most unhinged antisemitic “influencers” have been guests on two of the most popular podcasts in the country.Joe Rogan has 14.5 million followers on Spotify. About 11 million people reportedly download each episode. To put that into context, Fox News, which dominates cable news, averaged about 2.38 million viewers during prime time in 2024. Rogan, as we witnessed during the 2024 presidential race, is now a media power broker.How does he normalize antisemites? On March 1, Rogan’s guest was the legendary comic actor Bill Murray. On March 4, he interviewed guitarist and lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan. Then, on March 5, he slipped in “independent researcher” Ian Carroll, an unhinged antisemitic activist, who went from obscurity to over 1 million followers on X in a short time.As bigoted cranks go, Carroll is extraordinarily boring. This isn’t Gore Vidal we’re dealing with. Carroll contends Israel was responsible for 9/11. He’s “researching” whether sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was working for Israeli intelligence to blackmail the entire U.S. government. He’s in on the Pizzagate conspiracy, which is too stupid to merit an explanation. In the days before social media Idiocracy, Carroll would be handing out xeroxed flowcharts of Jewish power for Lyndon Larouche at the regional airport.Rogan gravitates toward unconventional topics and hosts offbeat guests who are passionate about esoteric beliefs, some of them conspiracy theorists. And a free society should make room for people who push back against conventional wisdom. The problem is that no matter what bizarrely insane things his guests propose, Rogan is going to give them a hearing without real pushback — basically personifying Carl Sagan’s warning that you shouldn’t keep your mind so open that your brains fall out. And that’s fine, I guess, unless the person you’re interviewing is a wanna-be Julius Streicher.
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