Celebrities continue sparring over COVID-19
by Yudi Sherman
A leaked message from legendary rock star Neil Young to his record label and management team revealed an ultimatum: “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continued. “They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.”
Joe Rogan is host of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the biggest podcast in the world. Spotify signed a deal with Rogan in 2020 to buy the exclusive rights to the podcast for $100 million. Rogan is estimated to have about 11 million listeners per episode and has famously challenged the vaccine narrative pushed by the mainstream media and medical establishment.
In December 2021, Rogan hosted Dr. Robert Malone on his podcast, which quickly upset many vaccine loyalists. Dr. Malone, a contributor to the mRNA technology that the vaccine uses, publicly exposed the government initiatives which power many COVID-19 decisions in hospitals.
“The numbers are quite large,” Malone said on the Joe Rogan Experience. “There’s something like a $3,000 basically death benefit to a hospital if it can be claimed to be COVID. There’s a financial incentive to call somebody COVID positive.”
“They also receive a bonus – I think the total is something like $30,000 in incentive—if somebody gets put on the vent,” Malone added. “Then they get a bonus, if somebody is declared dead with COVID.”
Many devotees to the vaccine and the COVID-19 narrative were expectedly angered by this, with Twitter going so far as to ban Malone from its platform.
Evidently, three-time Grammy winner Neil Young agrees with their camp.
“With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence,” Young said in the letter. “Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy.”
“Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule,” Young added.
Earlier this week, The View hostess Whoopi Goldberg took issue with Bill Maher, who recently slammed the COVID-19 narrative and said he won’t be getting a booster shot.
“This is not something we’re doing because it’s sexually gratifying,” Goldberg said with righteous indignation. “This is what we’re doing to protect our families. And you don’t have to do it, but stay away from everybody...I think he’s forgetting people are still at risk who cannot get vaccinated, little kids under the age of five or people with health conditions. How dare you be so flippant, man?”
Goldberg then continued the moral posturing, saying that she is forever devoted to the narrative: “I may never ride a subway again without a mask. I may never go indoors to big crowds and ever feel comfortable without a mask. And that’s up to me to do that.”
Last week, rock star Eric Clapton, who has pledged not to perform in any venue that requires vaccine passports, suggested that vaccine loyalists may be victims of mass formation hypnosis. The award-winning musician has also teamed up with rock legend Van Morrisson to produce anti-mandate music.
