Podcasts
PBS Host's Podcast: Israel, Iran, US 'Extremists Play Off Each Other'
CNN/PBS host Christiane Amanpour and her ex-husband Jamie Rubin are among the top media personalities whose Israel-Iran hot takes look especially silly after President Trump announced a ceasefire on Monday. On their The Ex Files podcast recorded earlier that day, Rubin would claim “extremists” in the U.S. and Israel use Iran’s “death to America” sloganeering to justify a hard line…
Sunny Hostin: 'I Feel Terrible' About Taking Down Kamala’s Campaign
It’s been haunting her months. Just weeks before Election Day 2024, Kamala Harris fangirl and co-host of ABC’s The View, Sunny Hostin accidentally torpedoed the Democratic ticket with a simple question to distinguish herself from President Biden. During a live recording of their The View’s Behind the Table podcast on Wednesday, executive producer Brian Teta and rest…
'Makes No Sense': Stewart Wonders Why Israel Won't Accept Risk On Iran
As President Trump continues to consider his options on whether or not to join Israel’s campaign against Iran, Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart expressed confusion on Thursday on why Israel doesn’t just accept that we live in a world full of risk.
Couric Yawns As Crockett Calls Trump Supporters 'Sick,' Mentally Ill
Former NBC and CBS anchor Katie Couric welcomed Congresswoman and progressive hero Jasmine Crockett to her Thursday recording of the Next Question podcast. While podcasting may be growing in popularity as a way for people to get their news, the habit of anchors to sit back and do nothing as Democratic guests say outlandish things remains constant because Couric would simply sit there…
Jim Acosta’s Stupid Question For Trump: ‘Why Do You Hate Hispanics?’
Even by Jim Acosta standards, the former CNN correspondent’s tirade on The Contrarian podcast Monday was pretty terrible. Following the weekend’s No Kings protests, it should come as no surprise that Acosta had a lot of smoke to blow on the immigration issues in contention. Chatting with hosts Jen Rubin and April Ryan, Acosta was full of praise for the “peaceful, nonviolent protests”…
Stewart Calls ABC 'A F****** Joke' For Firing Terry Moran
Earlier this week, ABC News canned senior national correspondent Terry Moran for posting on social media that White House domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller is “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,” a “world-class hater,” and “You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.” This did not sit well with…
Jason Bateman: Trump Supporters ‘Need a Talking To’
Jason Bateman isn’t an official part of The Hollywood Resistance.
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 himself because on Tuesday’s episode of The Don Lemon Show podcast, he and actress Kathy Griffin went all in on…
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…
