Joe Rogan Completely Nukes Polls Right Before Midterms: Only ‘F*ckin’ Stupid’ People Participate
It sounds like you can count Joe Rogan among those Americans who do not trust the polls.
Rogan skewered the entire polling industry on the Saturday episode of his podcast, saying only “f*ckin’ stupid” people who have no lives will actually take the time to participate. He said he was not one of them — he said he was part of the “intelligent group” who would rather do anything else than waste a few minutes talking to a pollster.
Here was his feisty two cents on the topic:
That was my take on polls, always. I was like, “Here’s the problem with polls: most people don’t answer polls.”
If somebody calls you up and says, “I’d like a few moments of your time to ask you a few questions” — f*ck you! Anybody with a life, anybody that has like a family and stuff to do, hobbies they enjoy, friends they want to hang out with, they don’t sit around answering some f*ckin’ poll. So you’re literally getting the opinion [of] people so f*ckin’ stupid they answer polls.
Rogan’s guests, podcasters Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, got a kick out of his poll-bashing and seemed to agree.
Of course, his take is a timely one, with media outlets routinely pointing to polls heading into next week’s midterm elections. But some pundits have questioned whether that’s a shrewd move.
MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough on Friday referenced a Washington Post poll that showed Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton had a 52-43 lad on incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in the Kansas Senate race, saying it was a great example of why “no one should put much faith in polls.”
He continued, “Democrats want to answer pollsters. Republicans don’t. Inconsistencies abound. For now we see through a glass darkly.”
President Donald Trump has consistently called out the polling industry as well, including during a Friday rally where he said most are “fake.” Trump also riffed about the recently revealed phony pollster Wedgewood polling, which he called “Ridgewood” polls.
“Ridgewood Polls, and they have a little cabin right on top, a little beautiful, like a little home, so nice. Total fake. And they admit it. I don’t know why they did it,” Trump said.
He continued, “They must have been in trouble with the law. They said, “I’ll give you the times if you just let me go.’ But they… They didn’t do polling. They just made up numbers. They were all made up. So they’d say, ‘Yeah, Trump is polling at 42 percent. He’s at an all-time low for him.’ And I said, ‘Where the hell did this poll come from?'”
Watch above via The Joe Rogan Experience.
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