There couldn’t be a more mismatched cage fight if Herve Villechaize went mano-a-mano with Andre the Giant. Imagine an uber-nerd public servant running a taxpayer-funded special school in Sydney trying to take on a former taekwondo champion turned the world’s biggest podcaster.
ABC boss Kim Williams needs to fleece a billion dollars a year off Australian taxpayers to draw even a fraction of the audience who freely choose to tune into Joe Rogan every month. It makes you wonder if his motive in attacking the podcast king was simply trying to draw attention to his own failing network.
Whatever the reason, Rogan responded with all the disdain Williams deserves. “LOL WUT”, indeed.
Kim Williams was speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday when he was asked about the “Rogan effect” and the podcaster’s stunning appeal to young men.
The ABC chairman answered with a tirade against Rogan, accusing him of exploiting “people's vulnerabilities”.
Stand by to get digital sand kicked in your face, nerd.
On Thursday Joe Rogan reposted a clip of the statements by the ABC chair on Twitter/X, with the comment “LOL WUT”. It has since been reposted 10 thousand times.
Among the reposts was X owner Elon Musk, who said the video clip was “From the head of Australian government-funded media, their Pravda”, a reference to the newspaper of the Russian Communist Party.
Indeed, Williams’ tirade is a classic case of left-wing projection.
“(But) I think that people like Mr Rogan prey on people’s vulnerabilities. They prey on fear.
“They prey on anxiety. They prey on all of the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society, and they entrepreneur fantasy outcomes and conspiracy outcomes as being a normal part of social narrative.”
This, from the taxpayer-funded propagandists who pump out non-stop hysteria about climate change, Covid and Donald Trump. Much of it proven to be egregiously false, yet which they’ve never apologised for or retracted.
The beam in your own watery, myopic eyes, Mr Williams.
Just pray that a future conservative government doesn’t follow the Donald’s lead and appoint a Department of Government Efficiency.
Otherwise, there’ll be some prime real estate in leafy Ultimo up for grabs, and a whole bunch of lefty shills looking for new jobs as baristas.
