Andrew Schulz defends Joe Rogan amid racism drama: \u201cThis is a hit job\u201d YouTube: Flagrant 2 \/ PowerfulJREInstagram comedian Andrew Schulz claims that Joe Rogan\u2019s racism drama is a \u201chit job.\u201d The Flagrant 2 Podcast host argued that people are just trying to \u201csilence\u201d the UFC commentator. After being accused of spreading misinformation by Neil Young in January, Joe Rogan became further embroiled in controversy in February when footage resurfaced of him using racial slurs in older episodes of the JRE podcast. Stand-up comic Andrew Schulz came to the defense of him in a string of social media posts following the backlash and claimed that the entire controversy was manufactured. Andrew Schulz calls Joe Rogan racism scandal \u201ca hit job\u201d Joe Rogan addressed the controversy in an Instagram video on February 5 where he apologized for his \u201cshameful\u201d behavior. Despite his response, the popular podcast star continued to trend on social media due to growing backlash. Responding to the anger, fellow comedian Andrew Schulz defended the JRE host on Twitter. \u201cRogan hit job started with misinformation. That didn\u2019t stick so now it\u2019s racism. Next, it will be misogyny,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cThey are trying to make him radioactive [because] they fear his influence.\u201d The Instagram personality then claimed that the entire controversy was being pushed by those who want to see Rogan\u2019s career end because they can\u2019t control him. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about hate. It\u2019s about silencing a powerful man THEY can\u2019t control,\u201d he said. Rogan hit job started with misinformation. That didn\u2019t stick so now it\u2019s racism. Next it will be misogyny. After that transphobia. They are trying to make him radioactive bc they fear his influence. This isn\u2019t about hate. It\u2019s about silencing a powerful man THEY can\u2019t control. \u2014 Andrew Schulz \ud83d\udc51HEZI (@andrewschulz) February 6, 2022 Schulz followed up his argument in a separate Instagram post where he again claimed that it was a hit job. \u201cPlease believe the people behind this don\u2019t care about a single thing Rogan said. They know you do though. And their goal is to manipulate you into silencing Rogan so they don\u2019t have to deal with him,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut make no mistake about it, this is a hit job.\u201d The Flagrant 2 podcast host further clarified that he believed Rogan was a target due to being more popular than the mainstream media and not being tied to an institution. \u201cIt\u2019s the same playbook used when a movement or person of influence can\u2019t be controlled. Any human in history with power that wasn\u2019t tied to an institution gets put through it to varying degrees,\u201d he said. View this post on Instagram Andrew Schulz ended his rant by calling out Joe Rogan\u2019s friends who were staying \u201csilent\u201d during this time: \u201cRogan has made a lot of people millionaires. Imagine being one of those people and staying silent right now? Cause this will blow over in a month but that silence will never be forgotten.\u201d Only time will tell whether the UFC commentator will be able to weather the storm of this latest controversy. At the time of writing, Spotify has removed over 70 episodes of the JRE podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Andrew Schulz defends Joe Rogan amid racism drama: \u201cThis is a hit job\u201d YouTube: Flagrant 2 \/ PowerfulJREInstagram comedian Andrew Schulz claims that Joe Rogan\u2019s racism drama is a \u201chit job.\u201d The Flagrant 2 Podcast host argued that people are just trying to \u201csilence\u201d the UFC commentator. After being accused of spreading misinformation by Neil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}