about host tiffany cross urging liberals to do this in the battle to, you know, save democracy. we have to keep our eye on the war, and everybody needs to ping a weapon and get pick up a weapon and get involved because this is for the safety and lasting of the country. howard: war? pick up a weapon? doesn t that sound disturbing? and media people say, oh, she s just speaking metaphorically should examine whether they re using a blatant double standard for left-wingers. if democrat lawmakers want to attack fox news, so be it. fox host griff jenkins was interviewing a new york police sergeant about a fright ifenning incident involving corey bush. when now we see corey bush from st. louis, missouri, saying on twitter that her car was hit with bullets, her car was shot. no one was in it, fortunately, but will these lawmakers change their tune? we need them to be victims,
them on. but i want to also point out what is much more important disinformation. this week bret baier had an a explosive report based on his reporting showing that dr. anthony fauci engaged in an attempt to coffer up discussion cover up discussion of the possible origins of the coronavirus from the wuhan institute of virology and whether gain of function research was involved and how people who sort of helped in that effort ended up getting these massive grants. at the end of that, it was a really interesting report. but you think back to how our government officials, including anthony fauci, the world health organization, really worked to suppress if key information that would have mattered and affected the lives of millions of people if he had better and more accurate information howard: i did, i did a follow-up on that. let me come back to spotify with our remaining second, leslie. neil young says 60% of his music streamed online is on spotify, so this would hurt him and the ot
information being shared and not censorship of your political opponents because you re scared that they re not towing the party line. howard: well, leslie, joe rogan has said i m no medical expert, at one point saying i m a blanking idiot, yet he does have guests saying things that appear to be false or misleading, yet he s the most popular broadcaster on the planet. why do some liberals in entertainment and elsewhere think censorship is the answer? oh, i don t think it s censorship, i think a few things. one, meehl young has the choice to have neil young has the choice to have whatever music he wants on the platform, and it s rumored foo fighters are next, and that really hurt spotify. i m a talk show host, so i can speak to this clearly. i also have have a mother who s in the hospital with covid knew mow ya, people including my mother who took ivermectin, and it actually made them sicker.
you can t have people giving out information that can harm other individuals, and that is the concern. whether it be left or right, whether people like joe rogan or not, it is that. they don t want that information. and spotify does agree with that part because they have removed, they ve removed numerous, dozens of episodes where joe rogan is providing and giving out misinformation. so i don t consider it censorship, i consider it choice. and if you want to talk censorship, read my twitter feed. every time i m on tv there are numerous people asking for me to be canceled and fired. howard: sorry to hear about your mom. spotify did say it removed over 20,000 podcast episodes since the start of the pandemic, so it does say we take out misinformation. but it s not applying that, by and large, to joe rogan. which is why it s interesting because, as you note, i ve been very bad on this throughout the last couple years caving to pressure to take things off because their friends don t want
speech that s kind of lack luster and turning around and not taking questions. americans want to know what their president is thinking, and it would help him because even if americans would say i don t agree with that, at least they would know where he s coming from. i think more opportunitieses would be good, but i think there s sometimes that the press office decides it s not good for him to be out because it might screw up their news cycle. if they could get any more screwed up. howard: right. if the exchanges were you even routine, i don t think there d be as much trauma about each one. i believe these insults make the president look petty, but if you were magically tomorrow white house press secretary again, what would you advise president biden to do even if the questions are, as is sometimes the case, unfair, obnoxious or, yes, grandstanding for the cameras? i think that he has to show a little bit more ability to be nimble in a a situation. and even if he didn t want to ask