Rogan shreds supporters of Lindsay Clancy, says they wouldn't rally if a father were on trial for same crime
Podcaster Joe Rogan scorched the supporters of Lindsay Clancy, who is on trial for murdering her three children, on the "Joe Rogan Experience" Tuesday.
Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial for killing her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — at the family's home Jan. 24, 2023.
She faces three counts of first-degree murder. Clancy does not dispute that she killed her children but argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time and is not criminally responsible.
One of the most salient aspects of the trial is how many women have rallied on social media and formed groups to gather and share support for Clancy or suggest conspiracy theories about her case.
Rogan responded, "This lady killed her kids and everyone's like, ‘Oh my God, she needed help.’ Imagine if a single father killed his kids. Do you think there'd be any dads out there? ‘We get it. We understand. I also get sad!’"
He also blasted Clancy’s supporters, saying, "If those ladies could see the crime scene and see those dead kids with their f---ing vacant eyes staring up because their mother took their life, the last f---ing thing that they saw was their mother standing over them, choking them to death, I don't think they would feel so bad."
Rogan lamented the state of modern politics and the world in general, saying this controversy and the social media phenomenon around it is yet another news story that is absurd beyond belief.
"People are out of their f---ing mind right now. She's out of her f---ing mind. The world is out of its f---ing mind. It's like more of these things come up where you're like, ‘This can't be real. This can't be real.’ And it is real," he said.
"More of these things where, like, people are showing up in support of a woman who killed her children. I don't care how rough it was. The ability to kill your children is crazy."
Rogan contrasted this sentiment from Clancy's supporters to the common understanding that parents would do anything to protect their children from harm.
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Later on in the podcast, Rogan argued there is a growing radicalization of people, particularly among childless liberal women, that cannot be ignored.
"I don't want to generalize, but it seems like it's Republicans too, but it's a lot of liberal women," Rogan said. "Liberal women with no children want to turn the world into their children. They want to, like, scold the world like they're doing the wrong thing, and they're worried about the environment.
"And they're worried about the future. And they're worried about voting. And they're worried about rights. And they're worried about immigrants. They're worried about this, and they're worried about that. They're taking care of the world like it's the child that they don't have."
Fox News Digital spoke to various experts about Rogan’s comments.
Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring, a board-certified psychiatrist and CEO and medical director of TaperClinic, warned that social media popularity indeed has added a grim spectacle to this case.
"Rogan is right about one thing: People can turn cases like this into teams. That is not healthy. Lindsay Clancy should not be treated like a hero or celebrity. Three children died. And some of the TikTok commentary around this case is just dumb. People are defending her for reasons that have nothing to do with the evidence or acting as if her husband must somehow be the real villain," Witt-Doerring said.
"That is ignorant and deplorable. It reminds me of the Luigi Mangione case, where people rushed to turn someone into a symbol before they even understood the facts. If you are going to defend Lindsay, defend her based on the actual medical and legal evidence, not because of some viral narrative.
"I think this is where a lot of people misunderstand what the support for Lindsay actually represents. They see a few extreme voices online and assume that is what everyone supporting her believes. Most women supporting Lindsay are not saying, 'It’s OK that she killed her children.' They are saying the postpartum period can be extremely hard, and many women understand the anxiety, lack of sleep, financial stress and pressure to return to work.
"They are also angry at a mental health system that often seems to rely too much on medication. Lindsay was prescribed 13 different psychiatric drugs in the months before the deaths, and there is evidence that those medications may have played a role in making her worse. Would a father get the same sympathy?
"Probably less. But if a father came home from war, became depressed, trusted his doctors, was put on drugs that pushed him into psychosis and killed someone while unable to understand what he was doing, I would make the same argument for him.
"I also think it is wrong to say that if Lindsay is found NGRI [not guilty by reason of insanity] then anyone with mental illness can commit a crime and avoid prison. That is not how it works," he said, adding that cases like Clancy's are "rare, extreme cases."
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Mary Marslender, a former GOP consultant, agreed with Rogan that there is a clear double standard regarding how a man would be treated in a similar case.
"Joe Rogan is spot on. Would there be a supporter rally for a father who committed the same act? Of course not. If a man mapped how long his wife would be gone, sent her out for takeout and then violently strangled his three children in the basement, no one would be posting 'I am him,'" Marslender said.
"There would be no GoFundMe campaign framed as solidarity. He would be labeled a monster, and these same women in pink would be the first to condemn him. The double standard is not a surprise; it is the hypocrisy of feminism."
Marslender concluded, "It is possible to acknowledge that Clancy was ill and that our psychiatric system is deeply flawed, while also refusing to idolize someone who brutally killed her own children. This is not a story of misplaced compassion; it’s one of deep moral confusion.
"These children were not merely statistics or a talking point; they were a 5-year-old, a 3-year-old and a baby. A movement that needs to be reminded of these children’s humanity clearly is not to society’s benefit."