CNN’s Dana Bash Accuses Liberals Of ‘Intolerance’ For Trying to Make Joe Rogan Toxic

CNN anchor Dana Bash said liberal criticism of politicians who go on Joe Rogan’s show is a demonstration of the “intolerance” of Democrats who “claim to be” tolerant.

Expectations of a close presidential exploded on Election Night when outlets called the race for President-elect Donald Trump in a shock electoral landslide and a clear popular vote win. That shocking result — shaping up to be a shellacking on par with President Joe Biden’s margins in 2020 — has touched off spasms of soul-searching and recriminations among many Democrats — and a crushing media pile-on.

Rogan has become a major subplot of that pile-on by virtue of the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris did not go on his show, but Trump did.

On Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning, Bash commented on her interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over the weekend and the criticism he received for appearing on Rogan’s podcast. Rogan’s support for Sanders prompted backlash when videos of Rogan comparing a Black neighborhood to the “Planet of the Apes” and other clips resurfaced.

Bash cited that backlash as an example of “intolerance”:

DANA BASH: The question that I and I wanted to sort of illuminate this, shine a light on this with my interview with Senator Sanders was that to me is such a prime example of where Democrats have kind of lost those people now.

The point I was making with him is that there are a lot of things that Joe Rogan says and believes that a lot of Democrats just totally shun. He’s said not great things about some social issues that Democrats don’t agree with. He doesn’t support vaccines.

And so that is part of the reason why when Bernie Sanders went on the show, he got vilified.

But him getting vilified by a lot of people on the left is case in point of the intolerance among a lot of people in the Democratic Party who claim that their whole mission is to be tolerant.

KASIE HUNT: Well, and isn’t that kind of a central piece of the conversation Democrats are having now about why this happened?

DANA BASH: It is. It is. It is. And that’s precisely why. Now, Bernie. Bernie. It’s– (LAUGHTER) Senator Sanders.

I was on the road with. Everybody calls him Bernie. But I agree with you–.

(CROSSTALK).

DANA BASH: Sorry Senator! You know, his whole thing is we we we, our policies are not geared toward the working people. We went back and forth on that because President Biden’s policies were geared toward the working people and a lot of ways.

But it’s also about the culture, the messaging, the approach. And that is, I think the sort of Joe Rogan example is is a key one.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.