This follows an attack from “The View,” in which Joy Behar labeled Joe Rogan a “dragon believer” while criticizing non-traditional media sources that are increasingly undermining the influence of the legacy media. However, Rogan responded to Behar’s comments hilariously, claiming that “dragon believer” would not be his official social media bio.
During the recent segment of “The View,” Behar said, “We went from Walter Cronkite, basically, to this guy, Joe Rogan, who believes in dragons. I checked it. He believes in dragons. He believes in dragons …. And he also thinks that dragons, like, I guess, dinosaur type of animals roamed the earth when people did.” Behar then discredited Rogan’s influence on the basis of his alleged belief in dragons. “So this is the type of really, really bad information that’s going out.”
Responding to the attack from Behar, Rogan said, “That’s my new official X description,” he wrote, before officially changing his bio on the platform to say, “Dragon Believer.” The comments Behar was ostensibly referring to came from a discussion Rogan had with Forrest Galante, titled, “Were Dragons Real Animals?” In it Rogan said, “It’s so possible that something that flew like a pterodactyl, like we think of pterodactyls as being like bat wings, maybe they had feathers, maybe that a gigantic predatory bird and maybe some of those things looked like dragons.”
Continuing to speculate on the prevalence of cultural myths surrounding dragons, Rogan said, “Think of all these different cultures, ancient, medieval Europe, China, Japan, all of them had dragons, there’s so many dragons, it might have been a real thing, and I think most of them didn’t have dragons that could spit fire either, I think that was like a Hollywood movie, Godzilla-type deal.”
“The View” made other critical comments about social media’s influence on public opinion, where co-host Sarah Haines opined, “People want us divided, and they aren’t just here in this country. They’re foreign, foreign adversaries who are infiltrating our social media, because it is prudent for us to stay that way. When you see something that really pisses you off, you should triple-check that one.”
However, Alyssa Farah Griffin offered some silver lining, stating, “Here are some really good news kind of influencer types. And I think it’s great that they’re getting information about global and current events in front of younger people who maybe don’t tune into traditional media. But to Sarah’s point, there has to be some fact checking and actually verification of the things that are shared, because I spent a lot of time on Instagram reels, and I’m served up things that I get outraged about.”
She added, “And then I realize, Oh, that’s not even true, but I have the sense to go and look it up. But what I do worry about with this, like the blue sky versus x, because a lot of people I follow on X Twitter have now left to go to blue sky. I worry we’re all going into our own echo chamber. So we had this, you know, this election that was tense, Donald Trump won in the right is going to stay on X, and then the left is all going to be on Blue Sky. How do we try to talk to each other?”
Watch the segment below:
NEW: The View’s Joy Behar says people like their show because they tell the truth, unlike “dragon believer” Joe Rogan.
Lmao.
Whoopi Goldberg later chimed in & claimed conservatives on X are bullying people off the platform and that Elon Musk is the real Vice President.
Behar:… pic.twitter.com/fXtkMIvw6L
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 21, 2024
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