The strange thing about the news coverage of this is that whenever Joe said the N word on his podcast he was either discussing the word itself or talking about the use of the word by other people like Richard Pryor. Context clearly doesn't matter to them. With that particular thing the left is trying to do Rogan like they did Papa John.
John Schnatter—the founder, chairman and public face of pizza chain Papa John’s—used racially offensive language on a conference call in May, a source with knowledge of the event told Forbes.
www.forbes.com
NBC News never mentioned the actually racist thing Rogan once said on its national news broadcast tonight:
Podcast host says sorry for ‘most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about’ but says remarks were taken out of context
www.theguardian.com
"Rogan also addressed a clip that Arie shared of him telling an anecdote in which he appeared to compare being around black people with the film Planet of the Apes.
He said:
“I was telling a story in the podcast about how me and my friend Tommy and his girlfriend, we got really high, we’re in Philadelphia, and we went to go see Planet of the Apes.
“We didn’t know where we were going, we just got dropped off by a cab, and we got dropped off in this all-black neighbourhood."
“And I was trying to make the story entertaining and I said: ‘We got out, and it was like we were in Africa, like we were in Planet of the Apes.’