A TikTok video that seemed to mix up Joe Rogan’s compliments for Vice President Kamala Harris and former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was corrected by MSNBC.
MSNBC apologized after Gabbard and Rogan criticized the news organization for “deceptively editing” a video to make it appear as though host of “The Joe Rogan Experience” was praising Harris while he was discussing Gabbard.
An previous version of this piece was deleted because it was mistakenly indicated that Joe Rogan was discussing Vice President Kamala Harris more. In a disclaimer appended to the updated version of the video, the outlet said, “He was referring to Tulsi Gabbard.”
The August 2 MSNBC footage is the original.
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On Tuesday, Rogan clarified in a podcast session how MSNBC misinterpreted his comments about Gabbard and extended them to Harris.
He said, “But this is what MSNBC did: They took a clip of me talking about Tulsi Gabbard and they edited it up and made it look like I was saying great things about Kamala Harris.”
“I’m not suing MSNBC,” the host declared in response to reports that he was considering suing the network for the tape.
Specifically, Rogan said that the network “took it completely out of context” and “deceptively edited the things that I was saying.”
He said that the source had combined snippets from two different episodes of his podcast—one in which he predicted Harris would win in November and the other in which he praised Gabbard’s experience—to give the impression that he was backing Harris for the presidency.
He stated, “I was talking about Tulsi Gabbard’s eight years as a congresswoman and how she served overseas [during] two deployments in medical service, dealing with people who were blown up by the war,” pointing out that Kamala Harris had not done that. That’s what Tulsi Gabbard accomplished.”
CNN “put it out there as a clip of me praising Kamala Harris.”
In an X post earlier this month, Gabbard called attention to the disputed MSNBC tape, claiming the network “deceptively edited together this video of different Joe Rogan comments to make it appear that he was singing the praises of Kamala Harris.”
An claimed footage from the original TikTok, in which Rogan tells political pundit Michael Malice that he thinks Harris will win the president, was included in Gabbard’s tweet.
“She is a strong woman,” Rogan says in another footage that the TikTok instantly switches to. She is a lady who has twice been stationed in a medical unit overseas. She served eight years in Congress.”
According to Gabbard, in the latter footage, Rogan really complimented Gabbard on his political and military background in a different podcast episode. Like Rogan, she claimed that the host’s actual prediction that Harris “gonna win” was spliced into the video to give the impression that all of Harris’s remarks were directed at the vice president.
There is no longer access to the original deceptive TikTok.
“This is another example of how MSNBC is working hand in glove with the Democrat elite and the Kamala Harris campaign to try to spread lies, simply things that are not true,” Gabbard stated.
The disputed Gabbard excerpts are removed from MSNBC’s updated TikTok, which instead includes a lengthier clip from Rogan’s conversation with Malice, in which he asserts that Harris would prevail because people are being manipulated by the media into rejecting Trump.
