A couple of weeks ago, Joe Rogan shared a story on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast regarding a school letting “furry” children use litter boxes, resulting in “The Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur calling the podcaster “gullible.”
Rogan walked back the claim on Wednesday’s edition of his podcast (h/t The Daily Beast).
“I don’t think they actually did it,” Rogan said. “I think there was discussions about doing it because there was one particularly wacky mother, but there is — it doesn’t seem that there’s any proof that they put a litter box in there.”
“I fed into that,” he said, remarking that he returned to the source of his original story but could not confirm that it was real. Although Rogan admits his mistake, it won’t stop the fabricated story from growing legs.
Republican Senate candidate Don Boluc of New Hampshire doubled down on the discredited claim frequently used by conservatives in the culture war over gender identities and school bathrooms.
