that. that's a racist comparison. you can apologize to that. but we can't say that instance is not a racist instance. basically what he is doing is fanning flames of the cultural wars. fanning flames of political division appear fanning the flames of the kind of intolerance that now has a wide berth throughout american political culture. >> soon after the compilation of rogan saying the n word went viral he released a lengthy apology on his instagram. this is some of it. >> there is nothing i can do to take that back. i wish i could. obviously that's not possible. i do hope that if anything that this can be a teachable moment. because i never thought it would ever be taken out of context and put in a video like that. now that it is, holy. [ bleep ], it looks bad. >> he went on to say the clip that went viral was a hit job.