{"id":1389615,"date":"2022-03-19T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389615"},"modified":"2022-03-19T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T14:44:53","slug":"mainstream-media-labels-comedian-russel-brand-the-joe-rogan-conspiracy-theorist-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mainstream-media-labels-comedian-russel-brand-the-joe-rogan-conspiracy-theorist-of-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media Labels Comedian Russel Brand the &#039;Joe Rogan&#039; Conspiracy Theorist of Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmainstream-media-labels-comedian-russel-brand-the-joe-rogan-conspiracy-theorist-of-britain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389615&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The mainstream media in Britain have attempted this week to turn Russell Brand into their very own Joe Rogan-style figure of controversy, labelling the self-avowed leftist English comedian as a peddler of \u201cmisinformation\u201d and the \u201cMad Hatter of conspiracy theories\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This week, two major British newspapers likened <em>Forgetting Sarah Marshall<\/em>\u00a0star and comedian turned YouTube commentator Russell Brand to American comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan, who prior to the war in Ukraine became a fixation of the establishment media for his refusal to follow the party-line on various issues, most notably around the Chinese coronavirus and vaccination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Like Rogan, Brand has become a vocal critic of the official narratives surrounding vaccinations, lockdowns, and other draconian measures put in place during the pandemic. In a rebuttal video to the latest MSM hit jobs on him, Brand welcomed the association with his American counterpart, saying: \u201cJoe Rogan is a triumphant voice in a difficult space, I love Joe Rogan, I won\u2019t deny that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both comedians have said they are on the political left, with each espousing some far-left positions on policies such as universal basic income \u2014 nevertheless, both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattsheffield\/status\/1490430220939120640\">Brand<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/joe-rogan-is-mainstreaming-right-wing-misinformation\">Rogan<\/a> have found themselves being characterised as \u201cright-wing\u201d by the press.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Commenting on the confounding situation, Brand said in a YouTube video on Thursday: \u201cI am labelled a conspiracy theorist, charged with being a right-wing person, I know some of you [viewers] are right-wing people and guess what, I don\u2019t mind what you believe in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure you believe stuff that I don\u2019t believe and you know stuff I don\u2019t know and perhaps together we will discover that we have more and more in common\u2026 and that our culture is operating to keep us separated from one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The English stand-up comedian surmised that the recent attacks against him in the mainstream media came as a result of his criticisms of the draconian crackdown against Canadian \u201cfreedom convoy\u201d protesters \u2014 and their financial supporters \u2014 by the supposedly liberal administration of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>Brand said that Trudeau\u2019s use of emergency powers \u2014 initially devised to be used in cases of terrorism \u2014 to target the bank accounts of the members of a \u201cpeaceful trucker protest smacks of the kind of authoritarianism that might diminish his right to overtly condemn anti-democratic actions elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to note that previous legacy media attacks have accused him of \u201cbeing anti-vax simply for saying unvaccinated people might have rights\u201d and for entertaining the possibility of the Wuhan lab leak theory being true.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never said that I\u2019m anti-vax,\u201d Brand said. \u201cWhat I\u2019ve said is that perhaps people that are reluctant to become vaccinated shouldn\u2019t be treated as criminals condemned and treated as social pariahs,\u201d he explained, noting that many unvaccinated people come from impoverished or ethnic minority backgrounds which could justify them being \u201ccynical\u201d and \u201cmistrustful\u201d about the government and big corporations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How has Russell Brand become the \u2018Mad Hatter of conspiracy theories\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>The mockney stand-up turned populist pundit has followed US podcaster Joe Rogan down the rabbit hole of online misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5siOCXmgyg\">https:\/\/t.co\/5siOCXmgyg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Telegraph (@Telegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Telegraph\/status\/1504555673656377348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>One MSM outlet to target the outspoken comedian was ex-newspaper\u00a0The Independent, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/features\/russell-brand-youtube-trudeau-b2035980.html\">chastised<\/a> Brand for peddling \u201cpoorly sourced controversy-mongering\u201d views on issues such as the war in Ukraine or the Canadian trucker movement in order to allegedly \u201cdrum up ticket sales\u201d and to boost his profile.<\/p>\n<p>The article went on to allege that \u201cLast year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/09\/26\/russell-brands-epiphany-trump-was-right-about-hillary-and-russia\/\">\u2018So\u2026Trump was RIGHT About Clinton &#038; Russia Collusion!!\u2019<\/a> featured some particularly egregious mistruths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, as Mr Brand pointed out in his rebuttal video, the article, like others, fails to specifically explain what \u201cmistruths\u201d were uttered.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brand went on to criticise the ex-paper, pointing out that The Independent as well as <em>The<\/em> <em>Evening Standard\u00a0<\/em>have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/jul\/23\/evening-standard-and-independent-unable-to-rebut-concerns-over-saudi-ownership\">accused<\/a> by the British government of being partially owned by the Saudi Arabian state after it was revealed that Sultan Mohamed Abuljadayel \u2014 who is believed to have close ties with the ruling Saudi royal family \u2014 bought large stakes in them.<\/p>\n<p>Both outlets have denied that financial backers have any role in editorial decisions, but Brand quipped: \u201cIf you\u2019re called The Independent and you\u2019re funded by the Saudi Arabian state, you ain\u2019t even got past the title without lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comedian has seen some rally to his support, with billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1504914440755494912\">replying<\/a> to The Independent on social media: \u201cWith so many mainstream media companies saying [Russell Brand] is crazy\/dangerous, I watched some of his videos. Ironically, he seemed more balanced &#038; insightful than those condemning him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe groupthink among major media companies is more troubling. There should be more dissent,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The supposedly right-leaning <em>Telegraph<\/em> newspaper, which has close ties to the Tory government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, also targetted Brand this week, characterising the often loquacious British funnyman as the \u201cMad Hatter of conspiracy theories\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mockney stand-up turned populist pundit has followed U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan down the rabbit hole of online misinformation,\u201d the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/03\/17\/russell-brand-became-mad-hatter-conspiracy-theories\/\">proclaimed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting back at the accusations, Brand said that \u201cfor a number of varying reasons \u2014 whether it\u2019s anti-fascist, or anti-this, or anti-that \u2014 conversation is being shut down, the ability to communicate is being shut down, the ability to criticize power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve made a lot of mistakes, I\u2019ve been wrong many times but I\u2019m beginning to think I\u2019m right about this: the mainstream media is not your friend, the culture is not your friend, the government is not your friend, big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately in unison to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them and disadvantage you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mainstream media in Britain have attempted this week to turn Russell Brand into their very own Joe Rogan-style figure of controversy, labelling the self-avowed leftist English comedian as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}