‘What The F*ck?’: Joe Rogan And Bret Weinstein Unload On NYT Article About Danger Of Constitution

Popular podcast host Joe Rogan and biologist Bret Weinstein on Wednesday criticized The New York Times for a piece about the threats posed by the U.S. Constitution.

The NYT’s non-fiction book critic Jennifer Szalai published an article on Saturday titled, “The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?” featuring a subheading that reads, “One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.” Rogan, on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” said the article is “so crazy” and Weinstein characterized it as stemming from an “authoritarian force.”

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“I want Brett to see this so he knows this is real. This isn’t the Babylon Bee; this is an actual New York Times article … This is so crazy,” Rogan said. “It’s really hard to believe that someone would print this, and that The New York Times would say, ‘Yeah, we like it, put it out there.’”

Rogan then read the headline and subheading, asking, “What the fuck are you talking about? One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be one of the greatest documents that any country was ever founded on — if not the greatest ever. That could be a threat to America’s politics? What politics are we talking about? Like, how could you possibly gaslight me enough to go along with you on this?”

Szalai’s article was a review of a University of California law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s “No Democracy Lasts Forever,” which was published Aug. 20 and argues that the United States Constitution