The View’s Joy Behar accused podcaster Joe Rogan of representing a downturn in media trustworthiness, then claiming Rogan “believes in dragons.”
On Thursday’s The View, Behar praised her own show as one people can trust because they are “checked by ABC News.” She then argued media has disintegrated from a once-respected institution to a field covered by social media and influencers.
During a discussion about the direction of media and “echo chambers,” co-host Sara Haines argued people should “triple check” things they see on social media that “really piss them off” because it could be deliberate misinformation.
“That’s why people like our show because they know we are checked by ABC News,” Behar said.
“Checked by everybody,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg added.
“And if we’re wrong, we have the legal note here,” Behar said, pointing to co-host Sunny Hostin, who takes up the duty of reading legal notes, mainly about people like President-elect Donald Trump and others denying various allegations against them. “We went from Walter Cronkite basically to this guy Joe Rogan who believes in dragons! I checked it!”
“He believes in dragons?” Hostin asked.
“He believes in dragons!” Behar said, doubling down.
“Did you triple source that?” Haines asked.
“Yes, I did and he also thinks that dragons — I guess like dinosaur-type animals — would roam the Earth when people did,” Behar said. “So this is the type of really, really bad information that’s going out there.”
Behar’s dragon claim stems from a topic Rogan has brought up on his podcast before. Rogan’s The Joe Rogan Experience is known for debate on some fairly wild conspiracy theories, everything from flat earth to the moon landing though Rogan himself has not pushed all of these as true.
In a 2020 episode of the podcast with wildlife biologist Forrest Galante, Rogan was presented by his guest with an “out there idea” that he said some “groups” believe, which is that dragons — or a form of dragons — existed at one point along with humans. Galante said these groups argue that depictions of dragon-like creatures exist in images across multiple cultures and “porous” bones could keep what would have been a small group from fossilizing.
Rogan has brought up the theory in the years since, but has not endorsed the idea of Game of Thrones-style dragons on Earth.
“There was probably more than one kind of really dangerous reptile that they called dragons. Like Komodo dragons—giant lizards—they call it a dragon, right? Crocodile – dragons,” he told comedian Adrienne Lapalucci. “The question is whether or not one of them actually flew, ’cause we know that pterodactyls were a real thing. I think it’s probably something like that, you know, some kind of enormous bird-type creature.”
Rogan responded to a clip of Behar’s comments on X on Thursday.
“That’s my new official X description,” the comedian said about being accused of believing in dragons.
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