By: Paul Flax-Mills
“More can be done about this misinformation. Not every woman’s reproductive area looks like lamb flashcooked by a frag grenade.”
WASHINGTON D.C. - (CBE) Operation Iron Beef Curtain
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki applauded Spotify Tuesday for adding disclaimers to podcast episodes that discuss Covid-19(84) — before adding “there’s more to be done.”
During her regular press briefing, Psaki responded to a reporter's question, “This disclaimer is a positive step, but we want every platform to continue doing more to call out what we, the government deem as mis- and disinformation while also uplifting what we, the government, deem to be accurate information. It is a positive step, yes, but there’s more that can be done.”
Psaki took it one more step further.
“It’s not just Covid discussions that we think should come with disclaimers, we think any misinformation should have a warning. For instance, there are two Joe Rogan episodes with Amy Schumer where she describes her vagina as a slimy crease that smells like a swine barn. This is graphic misinformation. Not all women’s reproductive areas look like a lamb flashcooked by a frag grenade. Mine doesn’t look anything like that. I have an angry, unkempt red bush. I call her Angry Adams. Rarrrr! (cat noise) ” Psaki said as she made a cat’s claw with one hand.
The new Spotify warnings will link to a virus information page about vaccines and treatment options. All of this comes in response to a campaign aiming to boot Rogan from the platform by notable musicians like Jason Mraz, Ashlee Simpson, and the creature from those Chocolate Rain videos.
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are dangerous to the public. My vagina doesn’t look anything like Amy’s,” Jason Mraz said on Twitter requesting they remove his entire song from their catalog.
Ashlee Simpson was more direct, saying: They can have Ashlee Simpson, in the broom closet, for twenty bucks, or Joe Rogan. Not both!” A representative from her camp has also requested that all three minutes of her song be removed from the platform.
“Chocolate rain! Some stay dry, and others feel the pain!” the thing from the Chocolate Rain video growled.
Rogan’s podcast is the most popular podcast in the world, with hundreds of millions of downloads every month. A 2018 episode with Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk clocked in at 50 million downloads alone.
Rogan, a comedian, and commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship defended his remarks about the pandemic late Sunday evening.
“The problem I have with the term “misinformation”, especially today is that many of the things we thought of as misinformation a short while ago are now accepted as fact,” Rogan said in an Instagram video.
“For instance, eight months ago if you said, ‘If you get vaccinated you can still catch and spread covid’, you’d be removed from social media–they would ban you from certain platforms,” he went on. “Now, that is accepted as fact. If you said, ‘cloth masks don’t work, you would be banned from social media. Now that’s on the cover of Newsweek.”
However, Rogan, like Psaki, said he welcomed the disclaimers and said he is very happy with the platform’s decision to add them. “I’m happy with that. I think it is important.”
In conclusion, Psaki said, “Look we all want good information to trump bad information. Just because some people have had adverse effects from the vaccine, or one woman’s yoga pants looks like an Elephant cleared its sinuses into it after walking up a flight of stairs doesn’t mean these are universal truths. I think the American people and the people of the world deserve to be warned beforehand that this information might be anecdotal, and might not tell the whole story.”
Casino Boogie will continue to follow any new developments on this front.
Paul Flax-Mills
Casino Boogie Entertainment
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