Cable news ratings; Bolling confronts Jones after nearly $1B judgement; Joe Rogan pushes debunked litter box claim

Newsmax host Eric Bolling confronted InfoWars founder Alex Jones for pushing conspiracy theories surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting soon after a jury hit him with a nearly billion-dollar verdict in favor of victims’ families.
Jones repeatedly pushed the conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was "staged" by the government, claiming the murdered children were “crisis actors.”
On Wednesday, a Connecticut jury ordered Jones to pay $965 million in damages to eight families of victims killed in the shooting.
Jones later joined Bolling to discuss the trial.
Introducing his interview with Jones on Thursday evening, Bolling referred to Jones’ comments as “inexcusable,” but added that he supports his free speech right to express such theories.
At one point during their exchange, Bolling highlighted his sympathy for the family members, sharing that he personally understands their grief, as he lost his own son in 2017.
Jones later claimed his defamation trial was not “fair” or “free,” prompting Bolling to jump in and directly ask if he is truly sorry for his past statements on the massacre.
Bolling went on to point to different versions of Jones, one of which he called a "bigger than life" media figure that, like Godzilla, is "sometimes trashing buildings by accident."
Jones offered a fresh apology to Bolling's audience, albeit while complaining that he had already said sorry "thousands of times.”
Props to Bolling, who not only landed an interview with Jones following the stunning trial, but also refused to conduct a soft interview despite his friendly relationship with the conspiracy theorist.

Joe Rogan is the latest public figure to push the debunked claim that litter boxes have been installed in schools for students that identify as cats or other animals.
In a new episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan told former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that a litter box was installed in a school where his friend’s wife works because a student there “identifies as an animal.”
The host went as far as to say that the student's mother “badgered” the school into putting a litter box in the public bathroom.
Rogan did not name the school or his friend, and nobody has been able to confirm the dubious anecdote, as there is no evidence that any school has deployed litter boxes for students.
In fact, every school district accused of having a litter box by a politician has issued statements insisting the claim is untrue. Regardless, a clip of the conversation naturally went viral on social media.
"You're a f*cking human being, and you prefer a litter box. You want to piss into a pile of sand rather than use a bathroom that you could flush the toilet, wipe yourself, like a normal person," Rogan bemoaned.
"Like, you're so crazy with what you think an animal is that not all of you said this, but you've conned the school into putting this f*cking litter box in a girl's room."
The claim that certain schools now have litter boxes in bathrooms has been thoroughly debunked, but that did not stop Rogan from pushing the hoax multiple times throughout the episode.
Not to mention that the claim has largely been pushed by anti-trans figures and advocates to fuel a narrative that harms the community and the institutions that support them.