<p>Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan was slammed on Sunday for using the death of a former colleague of hers to call for censoring Joe Rogan on Spotify.</p>
<p>Sullivan <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/02/06/joe-rogan-spotify-covid-death/">claimed</a> that Rogan&#8217;s statement last week about interviewing individuals that have questioned mainstream narratives about the pandemic &#8220;made her furious&#8221; because she was &#8220;spending a lot of time this week thinking about Miguel Rodriguez [later referred to as &#8216;Miggy&#8217;], a former colleague of mine, who died of covid last week.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sullivan later added:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>He was overweight and asthmatic; in other words, very much at risk. And he was unvaccinated.</em></p>
<p><em>I don’t know for sure whether getting vaccination and booster shots would have saved Miggy’s life. And I have no idea whether he had ever listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast, or what his precise reasons were for not being vaccinated.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Sullivan said that Spotify needed to effectively recognize that it is a &#8220;publisher&#8221; so that it could &#8220;make decisions about what’s appropriate&#8221; to publish. Sullivan claimed without evidence that many of the 900,000 American deaths from COVID-19 could have been &#8220;prevented if it weren’t for the rampant misinformation that has discouraged so many from getting vaccines and taking other steps to protect themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sullivan was widely condemned online for seemingly using her former colleague&#8217;s death to push for censoring Rogan.</p>
<p>Notable responses included:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>John Nolte</strong>, Breitbart: &#8220;Margaret Sullivan is a typical condescending racist who doesn’t believe black people have minds of their own and are easily manipulated.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Bethany Mandel</strong>, political commentator: &#8220;There were no editors on duty?&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Dana Loesch</strong>, radio host: &#8220;Blaming your friend’s death on a podcast you admit he may not have listened to doesn’t sound like grief, it sounds like convenient exploitation.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Liz Wolfe</strong>, Reason: &#8220;It&#8217;s obviously incredibly disrespectful of Sullivan to trot out a colleague&#8217;s death like this, but that grossness aside&#8230;at what point do we say: People have made their choices. They&#8217;re not mindlessly manipulated by Rogan, they have access to ALL kinds of information out there.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Shant Mesrobian</strong>, political commentator: &#8220;Using the death of a colleague to write a completely unrelated and cynical hit piece on a media figure you don&#8217;t like is a pretty good way to understand how rotten the souls are of the people who work in failing legacy media.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Luke Thompson</strong>, political strategist: &#8220;A self-respecting profession would shun fellow journalists who attack the culture of tolerance necessary to sustain the First Amendment. Journalism is not such a profession.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Steve Krakauer</strong>, political commentator: &#8220;What a morally bankrupt column… co-opting the death of a &#8216;beloved&#8217; colleague to spread pro-censorship misinformation &#8211; because if he HAD listened to Joe Rogan, he’s have been urged to get vaccinated, as Rogan has said many times for someone who is &#8216;overweight and asthmatic.'&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Javier E. David</strong>, Yahoo News: &#8220;Imagine thinking this was a good way to honor a colleague. Shameful.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Jon Gabriel</strong>, Ricochet: &#8220;My friend died of cancer. I don’t know if he ever read Margaret Sullivan but&#8230;&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Dan Gainor</strong>, NewsBusters: &#8220;It’s shocking that a major news outlet ran this piece of crap. Losing people we love makes us want to lash out sometimes. But this is inexcusably bad.&#8221;</li>
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