Thread by @ggreenwald

Only the US corporate media could take the person in this video, Joe Rogan, and claim he's a far-right figure.

It happens in part because most of Rogan's critics never watch his show, but also because the media purposely lies and uses "far-right" to malign everyone they dislike.

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1491820389403697165

The media moronically calls Rogan "right-wing" because this is their only strategy for combatting the explosive growth of independent media taking their audience.

If they can convince people that everyone independent of them is "far-right," at least liberals will be captive.

In other words:

"Hey, all you guys who supported Bernie Sanders and have positions far to the left on key issues than we could dream of having: every time we use your name, we'll call you 'right-wing' because we have to make liberals stay loyal to us."

Love,
Corporate media

That became the strategy of failing corporate media when Trump came along. They branded themselves liberal #Resistance and became captive to the DNC. Now, they have independent and heterodox platforms thriving and taking their audience, and all they can do is yell: "far-right!"

Here's the life-long leftist Russell Brand similarly reacting to now being regularly branded "right-wing" by an embittered media all because he's a critic of corporate media and is thriving on independent platforms like Rumble and his own show.

rumble.com/vuf20y-so-im-r…

Reacting to why the media now brands him "right-wing" as his independent shows explode in growth, Russell Brand explains who really are the people who have abandoned corporate media and now rely on independent media. This is what scares the shit out of them and why they malign it

Rumble, Substack, Callin are all examples of thriving independent platforms that purposely set out to feature a wide range of heterodox and ideologically diverse voices: exactly what corporate media don't do. So they can't admit that's true, so call everyone on them "far right."

(By the way, the person who made that video compilation of Rogan is @0rf, who became known for amazing pro-Bernie videos in 2016. He is also now on Rumble, because of how often he was censored by Google's YouTube, so that of course makes him - say it with me! -- "right-wing.")