Joe Rogan criticized MSNBC for “deceptively editing” a clip that made it appear that the popular podcaster was showering praise on Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris — when in fact he was lauding former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
The host of “The Joe Rogan Experience” began his show Tuesday by debunking a rumor circulating online that he was planning to file suit against the left-leaning cable news channel.
“I’m not suing MSNBC,” Rogan said, adding that his stepfather called him after seeing a headline about his apparent support for the vice president.
“But this is what MSNBC did: They took a clip of me talking about Tulsi Gabbard and they edited it up and made it look like I was saying great things about Kamala Harris.”
Rogan said MSNBC didn’t use artificial intelligence to make the video, but that the network “deceptively edited the things that I was saying” and “took it completely out of context.”
He said MSNBC did a mashup of two separate clips in which he is heard praising Gabbard and then noting that Harris could win the 2024 presidential election — making it appear as if he was only talking about the Democratic nominee.
Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party after serving as a lawmaker representing a district in Hawaii, has recently endorsed former President Donald Trump.
“I was talking about Tulsi Gabbard being a congresswoman for eight years and about how she served overseas [as part of] two deployments in medical service dealing with people who were blown up by the war,” Rogan said, adding: “That’s not something Kamala Harris did. That’s something Tulsi Gabbard did.”
MSNBC “put it out there as a clip of me praising Kamala Harris,” he added.
“But they don’t care about the truth,” Rogan said of MSNBC. “They just want a narrative to get out there amongst enough people because most people are just surface readers” who “read a headline” and say to themselves, “I got it now.”
The Post has sought comment from MSNBC.
The video Rogan was referring to has since been deleted by MSNBC, which added a disclaimer which read: “We have removed an earlier version of this post that incorrectly implied Joe Rogan was talking more about Vice President Kamala Harris. He was referring to Tulsi Gabbard.”
In an Aug. 2 post on the X social media platform, Gabbard slammed MSNBC, calling it “a propaganda machine for the Democrat Elite” which will “brazenly try to deceive the American people.”
