Trevor Noah Calls Out “Clickbait” Coverage Of India Arie Interview: “She Also Said She Doesn’t Hate Joe Rogan”

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In an episode-long interview with The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah last night, singer India Arie addressed the recent Joe Rogan-Spotify controversy, mentioning – among other things – that she believes Rogan is “consciously racist.”But today Noah is calling out “clickbait” news accounts of the interview that he thinks ignore Arie’s full comments.“WTF???,” Noah tweeted, linking to a Mediaite article about the Arie interview. “She also said she doesn’t hate Joe Rogan, She also said we need a path to redemption, she also said it’s a complex issue.

Stop using clickbait to make people angrier and hate each other. Her comments have nuance and your tweet robs her of that!” (See the tweet below.)In the interview – watch it above – the Grammy-winning Arie, who last week posted on social media a compilation of Rogan’s on-air use of the N-word, said on The Daily Show that although she believes Rogan was being “consciously racist,” she also noted, “I think he was saying it because it got a rise out of people.

That’s why he would say it. He knew that it was inappropriate, and I think the fact that he did it repeatedly and was conscious and knew, I think that is being racist.”“It makes me wonder what he talks like behind closed doors,” she added at one point during the interview.Rogan, of course, came under fire a couple weeks ago when rocker Neil Young demanded that Spotify choose between Rogan’s podcast and Young’s catalog of music – Spotify chose Rogan – and Arie sided with Young while pointing out her dismay with Rogan’s “language around race.” (She told Noah that she is “still in a fight” with Universal Music Group over having her music removed from the streaming service).