'Do you think that that's a problem that your news network lies?' Rogan asked the CNN correspondent.Joe Rogan confronted CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta over his network's claims that the podcast host took "horse dewormer" as a COVID treatment.
On Wednesday's installment of "The Joe Rogan Experience," Rogan grilled the doctor on why someone like him who already had COVID and has antibodies should get vaccinated.
"By the way, I'm glad you're better," Gupta said.
"Thank you," Rogan responded. "You're probably the only one at CNN who's glad
The rest of them are all lying about me taking horse medication."
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"That bothered you," Gupta grinned.
"It should bother you too," Rogan shot back. "They're lying at your network about people taking human drugs versus drugs for veterinary."
"Calling it a horse dewormer is not the most flattering thing, I get that," Gupta conceded.
"It's a lie," Rogan pushed back. "It's a lie on a news network
and it's a lie that they're conscious of. It's not a mistake. They're unfavorably framing it as veterinary medicine."
Gupta pointed to the "snarky" statement released by the FDA saying "You are not a horse. You are not a cow," in order to encourage people to not take ivermectin, but Rogan remained persistent on calling out CNN's coverage of a drug that's been "given out to billions and billions of people" and resulted in a Nobel Prize.
"Why would they lie and say that's horse dewormer?" Rogan asked. "I can afford people medicine motherf---er. It's ridiculous! It's just a lie! Don't you think that a lie like that is dangerous on a news network when you know that they know they're lying?
Do you think that that's a problem that your news network lies?"
"What did they say?" Gupta asked.
The podcast host first told Gupta that his ivermectin was "prescribed to me by a doctor," forcing the CNN correspondent to say the drug "shouldn't be called" horse dewormer.
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"Does it bother you that the network you work for out and out lied, just outright lied about me taking horse dewormer," Rogan grilled Gupta.
"They shouldn't have said that," Gupta admitted.
"Why did they do that?" Rogan asked.
"I don't know," Gupta responded.
"You didn't ask? You're the medical guy over there!" Rogan exclaimed.
"I didn't ask," Gupta said. "I should've asked before coming on this podcast."