Protests in downtown Atlanta turned violent Saturday as members of Antifa torched a police cruiser. In its coverage of the event, journalist David Peisner told CNN the events were “mostly peaceful“, which caught the ire of podcaster Joe Rogan.
Rogan took extreme issue with the insinuation that the events were “mostly peaceful” calling the comments ridiculous.
“You’re willing to overlook some awful shit on your side and you’re willing to exaggerate some shit on the other side,” Rogan said. “But ‘everybody’s on the same team’, so you have to pretend that these f—ing people lighting churches aren’t f—ing assholes. These people are lighting schools on fire and lighting courthouses on fire.
“‘Mostly peaceful’. I f—ing saw someone say this again, with what happened in Atlanta. There’s literally a cop car on fire, and there’s someone calling it ‘mostly peaceful’,” Rogan continued.
The Joe Rogan Experience host added that the way media coverage is presented is important, and it isn’t the job of the press to “calm people down”.
“You’re not the f—ing propaganda department,” concluded Rogan. “You can’t define things in a way to calm people down. That’s now what you’re f—ing job is. You’re bullshitting people. You’re acting as a propagandist. It’s not ‘mostly peaceful’ when a car is on fire.”
