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Does John Kavanagh's correction reveal a deeper issue with media narratives and public perception?

Conor McGregor‘s coach, John Kavanagh, has jumped in to fact-check Joe Rogan. Rogan recently had conservative commentators Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster of the ‘Triggernometry’ YouTube channel on his podcast. During the podcast, Rogan and Kisin discussed the case of a former school teacher, Enoch Burke, who was suspended from the Wilson Hospital School for allegedly misgendering a trans student.

But despite this suspension, he continued to go to the school, despite court orders requiring that he doesn’t. Wilson was arrested for violating this court order. But Rogan and his guests mixed things up a bit and initially thought that the teacher was jailed for misgendering the student. But the SBG coach jumped in and corrected the record.

“Is this the most common myth to get out of Ireland? That’s not why he was jailed right? He got fired for that, which you could argue but he went to jail for trespassing? Kept going back to the school he’s no longer working for,” Kavanagh tweeted.

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The teacher, according to reports, Burke is a practicing Catholic and thus refused to call a student who was biologically male by their preferred pronouns of she/her and was suspended over it. However, Burke continued to go to the school, as a protest over his firing, which he felt was unjust. The school took prompt action and got the aforementioned court order against him.

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However, the teacher persisted and has reportedly been arrested thrice and spent 400 days in prison for disobeying the court order. While Rogan’s podcast with the ‘Triggernometry’ did good numbers, it couldn’t compare to the numbers his podcast episodes right before and right after it did.

Joe Rogan has Donald Trump and JD Vance on the podcast in the same week

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Does John Kavanagh's correction reveal a deeper issue with media narratives and public perception?

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Joe Rogan has had by far the two most consequential guests on his podcast within one week. After all, former President and 2024 Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared on episode #2219 of JRE, followed by the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, JD Vance on episode #2221 just six days later.

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Which is being hailed as a good move by the Trump-Vance campaign. After all, young men, who are the primary audience for Rogan’s podcast, are the demographic who are the strongest supporters of the Republican nominee. Going on Rogan would theoretically help Trump and Vance shore up their core constituency and enthuse them to turn out to vote.

Especially in an election that is as close as this one. Polls have consistently shown that the race is extremely close, with a point or two separating the Republican and Democratic candidates. This closeness is the case not only in the national race but also in the half-a-dozen swing states that are likely to determine the winner of the 2024 Presidential election. What do you think about Conor McGregor’s coach fact-checking Joe Rogan?

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