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Originally Posted by ZDan
JEEEZUS!
That guy may be "right" occasionally, but he is a *major* regurgitator of wackass b.s. conspiracy nonsense. Feckin hell, man...
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Yeah, the guy knows how to capture an audience, placating or provoking his guests. He knows if he has a conspiracy theorist on who believes in ancient aliens or something that he will poke the bear to get them to say the most ostentatious things because it is good for ratings, and because he knows who is watching those episodes. This is more obvious when guests come back on who were "shredded in the comments" with facts, and who tone down their conviction and try to use more open language to say things are possible vs saying "this is overwhelming evidence for aliens or advanced ancient civilizations". He would egg them on with, "What is the most wild theory for these findings?"
He is a hunter, eats elk, etc. I don't own a gun, eat a plant-based diet. Seemingly, we couldn't be more different on a number of issues, but he is also a progressive on a number of issues, and he is socially liberal. My point isn't that we share a way of arriving to conclusions, just that we can't be put into a box on any extreme. Most people are in the middle or might be extreme on some issues, but moderate on others. He is just a good example of someone with an eclectic mix of ideas. Most people know of only a few clips that reach headlines, but if you have followed his comedy and show since Fear Factor, you get a deeper sense of what Joe is about. His thinking has been admittedly flawed in the past on issues like he was a moon landing conspiracy theorist until he got out of that, and he is a little wacky or naive on other things, if you take them at face value from what he said in his podcasts, but the point is he isn't a right wing extremist like the media would have you believe because he was anti vaccine mandates or because he went from pro-Bernie to pro-DeSantis.
For instance, the guy refuses to have Trump on, he went off on Candice Owens when she said she did a single night deep dive on climate change and thinks it is BS, he was ruthless against Matt Walsh on gay marriage and trans issues, embarrassing him pretty bad, he openly says he supports free college, and I could go on, yet the media paints him out to be right wing extremist inline with personalities on Breitbart, Newsmax, Epoch Times, Daily Wire, etc.