Viral podcaster Joe Rogan dragged “The Office” star Rainn Wilson all over the place after he whined about Anthony Wilson’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” anthem.
The song is still at the top of the Billboard charts and has connected with millions of working Americans. Anthony has been slammed by the Left for a line in the blue-collar anthem that stated, “God, if you’re 5 foot 3 and you’re 300 pounds, taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds.”
“If I were writing a song about ‘rich men north of richmond’ I wouldn’t talk about obese people on welfare, I’d sing about CEOs who make 400 times their average workers salary (up from 50 times 30 years ago) & corps that pay zero taxes & offshore tax shelters for billionaires,” Wilson carped on X.
Rogan found it hilarious that a multi-millionaire would rip on billionaires that way. He evidently considers the privileged actor to be out of touch with the working man.
Joe Rogan MOCKS Rainn Wilson for his tone deaf criticism of Oliver Anthony. pic.twitter.com/uzX9he8eML
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) August 30, 2023
If I were writing a song about “rich men north of richmond” I wouldnt talk about obese people on welfare, I’d sing about CEOs who make 400 times their average workers salary (up from 50 times 30 years ago) & corps that pay zero taxes & offshore tax shelters for billionaires.
— RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) August 20, 2023
During Rogan’s recent sit-down with Anthony on the “The Joe Rogan Experience,” he spanked the actor over his elitist views.
“I mean, it’s a subject of discussion. So, like, everybody is getting involved and then somehow or another it became cultural,” Rogan commented concerning the song’s success.
“And then there was Dwight from ‘The Office.’ He chimed in that if he was going to write a cultural anthem, what did he say? Something like he wouldn’t write about overweight people on welfare. He would write about billionaires and their taxes,” Rogan laughed, having trouble containing himself.
He then advised Wilson to travel to West Virginia and see how bad it was there himself. He should experience the brutal poverty and the hopelessness that many of those who live there deal with day-to-day.
Incredibly based Oliver Anthony reads from Bible on Joe Rogan’s show – gives everyone the chills https://t.co/ftU4DojVHw via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) August 31, 2023
“There’s nothing funnier than millionaires talking sh*t about billionaires. There is nothing funnier about millionaires pretending these billionaires are out of touch. Take Dwight from ‘The Office’ down to West Virginia. Take him through those coal mining countries. Take him to those places in Appalachia where people have extreme poverty and pills have ravished those areas. Take him there,” Rogan suggested.
“And it’s everywhere. Yeah, the sad thing is it’s everywhere,” Anthony pointed out.
“But even throughout rural Virginia, that poverty is a big issue and drugs are a big issue. And I mean it’s not just even in the rural areas. You go into downtown Richmond or any downtown anywhere for that matter… It’s almost like these problems exist everywhere now. … That’s why the song resonated the way it did,” he noted.
Wilson was hammered by users on X and justifiably so:
Buddy you’re a multimillionaire.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 21, 2023
Do you think people in poor rural communities are thinking about CEOs? No. They are thinking abt how to pay their mortgage and afford gas and groceries. Once again you are out of touch with the rural communities which is why this song is so popular. They see our senile aged govt…
— Kino Queen’O (@KinoQueenO) August 21, 2023
The song you would write Rain may have resonance with a few college professors, but with working class folks? not so much
— Meredith Marshall (@MeredithMarsha1) August 22, 2023
Perhaps your $16 million net worth is clouding this, but when people like Oliver Anthony look to their left and right for neighbors to fight back against the system with & instead see are welfare-addicted gluttons who won’t fight against a system that is drugging them physically,…
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) August 21, 2023
Rainn you aren’t from Appalachia, because if you were you would understand why he wrote that…….
— Ashley (@ashleykaycromer) August 22, 2023
Is it right for hard working folks to bust their asses so some who don’t feel they need to do jack shit can live off the system and eat junk food all day? Welfare is for those who need a helping hand, not a Little Debbie on the couch watching “The View.”
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) August 21, 2023
That’s exactly why he has a #1 song that resonates with millions of everyday people and an overpaid, out of touch actor like you doesn’t
— Gina Bontempo (@FlorioGina) August 21, 2023
Well, you’re a rich man, so you wouldn’t get it.
— Abby Libby (@abbythelibb_) August 21, 2023
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