Podcasts
Don Lemon and Kathy Griffin Go Full Election Denier
In June 2023, recently fired CNN host Don Lemon claimed, “I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots, insurrectionists and election deniers, and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth.” If Lemon really believes that, he should deplatform…
Acosta Displays Amazing Hypocrisy On Election Conspiracy Theories
Even by his own standards, former CNN anchor turned Substack podcaster Jim Acosta displayed a stunning amount of hypocrisy on Tuesday when it comes to conspiracy theories about the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. On 2020, Acosta let former CNN colleague Michael Fanone go on a profanity-laden rant against Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republicans while he labeled actress Rosie O’Donnell…
Senator Kennedy Schools ABC Legal Analyst on SCOTUS Rhetoric
On Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) schooled ABC News legal analyst Kate Shaw during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that included a brief spotlight on Shaw's previous remarks about Supreme Court Justices – calling some of the colleagues of Justice Elena Kagan “evil”. Shaw, also a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and wife of MSNBC host Chris Hayes, was invited by Senate…
Keith Olbermann’s CRAZY Claim: Boulder’s Blood is on Trump's Hands
Former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann opened his Countdown podcast Tuesday with a segment which could only be described as the ravings of a lunatic. The topic of his ten-minute tirade: “the blood of Boulder, Colorado, is on the hands of Donald Trump.” If that relatively unsupported claim didn’t seem extreme enough, Olbermann doubled down, describing Trump’s “ethnic cleansing” policy,…
PBS Host: I Prepared For US Visit 'As If I Was Going to North Korea'
CNN/PBS anchor and self-styled journalist Christiane Amanpour recently gave a wild, anti-Trump commencement speech at Harvard where she invoked everything from 1984 to Benito Mussolini, but that may not have been the wildest part of her recent trip to America. On her Tuesday podcast installment of The Ex Files—so named because she co-hosts it with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin—…
Psaki Allows Comey to Compare Right-Wing Podcasts to Islam Extremists
Last Friday, Democratic press secretary turned MSNBC host, Jen Psaki had on former FBI director James Comey to talk about his new book, a fictional story that centered on a right-wing influencer who directed his followers to commit violence. Psaki used biased questions and responses to validate Comey’s outrageous claims that right-wing podcasters were like Islam extremists and were “white…
PBS Chief Paula Kerger: Bias on PBS? Give Me Examples! (But We Have!)
On her Next Question podcast, Katie Couric, the former anchor of NBC's Today and CBS Evening News, mostly commiserated with PBS chief executive Paula Kerger, whose network is under fire for is undeniable liberal bias that’s caused an existential crisis under the Trump administration which is aiming to cut its taxpayer funding. Yet Kerger refused to even consider the…
Days Before Changing Tune, Scarborough Defended ‘Best Biden Ever’ Line
In Tuesday’s episode of MK Media’s Next Up, 2WayApp founder and longtime political journalist Mark Halperin pressed friend and former colleague, MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough, on the latter’s infamous March 6, 2024 comments declaring the then-current version of President Joe Biden was the “best Biden ever” and “f-you if you can’t handle the truth.” NewsBusters…
Rogan, Rodgers Cite MRC Study Finding 96% Negative Coverage for Musk
On the most recent episode of the world’s most popular podcast, a moment made possible by the Media Research Center: Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers discuss the negative coverage drawn by the DOGEfather, Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
ESPN Analyst Cites RGIII's White Wife to Attack His Caitlin Clark Take
One sports rivalry that has managed to spill out into the broader political culture war is the one between the WNBA’s Caitlin Clark and Angela Reese. On a Monday episode of The Pivot podcast, ESPN talking head and former NFL safety Ryan Clark brought racial politics into the controversy by saying former colleague, NFL quarterback, and current Fox Sports analyst Robert Griffin…
Megyn Kelly Rips Tapper a New One for His Biden Cover-Up Complicity
CNN’s adjudicated malicious defamer, Jake Tapper had discovered a new buzzword during his media blitz alongside Axios’s Alex Thompson to hawk their new book about the cover-up of President Biden’s cognitive decline: “humility.” But SirusXM radio host Megyn Kelly was the first interviewer to hold Tapper’s feet to the fire and grill him on his blatant complicity in helping to mislead and lie to…
Couric Claims People Allege Media Bias Because They Hate Facts
Former anchor of NBC's Today and CBS Evening News Katie Couric alleged on her Thursday Next Question podcast that people, presumably conservatives, who complain about media bias are just lamenting the existence of facts. However, Couric’s example was not anything factual but a lamentation that she could not openly support things like abortion during her previous…
Kinzinger Warns Trump May Target Him, Defends Arrested Judge
Former Republican congressman-turned-Democrat-endorsing CNN talking head Adam Kinzinger joined former Today co-host and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on her Next Question podcast to discuss President Donald Trump. During their interview, Kinzinger would lob off Nazi comparisons, bizarre hypotheticals, and long for a version of the pre-Trump good old days that…
Chuck Todd: Media ‘Are Not Elites at All,’ Press Criticism Is ‘Biased’
Along with his viral comments on Chris Cillizza’s podcast defending the liberal media’s cover-up of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, former Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd used the Monday episode of his own podcast to claim “most people in the press are not elites at all” and deride press criticism as “insult[ing]” and “biased” in and of itself that should be dismissed.
