Podcasts

There’s nothing like a couple of washed up, former TV liberal pontificators bloviating about how conservative voices shouldn’t be allowed on TV news. That was one of the major topics disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon and former Washington Post columnist/MSNBC talking head Perry Bacon Jr. discussed on the former’s podcast on Thursday. According to them, having conservative voices…

Former Clinton strategist James Carville does a podcast with former Clinton cheerleading journalist Al Hunt, and on their Wednesday recording of Politicon's Politics War Room, they reacted to the redistricting battle currently going on in Texas. While Hunt claimed Republicans are “fighting dirty,” Carville gave the game away and claimed that in order “to save democracy,” Democrats…

Setting up camp in the uncanny valley, disgraced former CNN “journalist” Jim Acosta made headlines Monday night after he announced he had interviewed the A.I. facsimile of Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, a student killed in the Parkland School Shooting, on his eponymous podcast. If that wasn’t disturbing enough, a follow up interview with Manuel Oliver, Joaquin’s dad, revealed that his wife would “…

On July 24, 2025, Keith Olbermann demanded on his podcast, Countdown, that Barack Obama deliver a national address. He then proceeded to read this speech which he had written as Obama, which called for a government coup and that a $500 billion lawsuit be brought against President Trump. All while literally pretending to be Obama and voicing these lines as if he were the former…

We here at the Media Research Center have been counting the guests that appear on the late night comedy programs since September 2022, and The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is not a fan. On Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show Thursday podcast, Stewart went on an expletive-laden rant against Fox News for citing those studies, so we did the only natural thing we could think of in…

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Former anchor of NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, recorded his Monday podcast from Crazy Town as he alleged that the FCC’s role in the Paramount-Skydance merger now means CBS is “state TV” because one of the conditions was that the Paramount property would hire a bias monitor.

It has been a common retort among critics, especially in the aftermath of Stephen Colbert’s cancellation, that the late night comedy shows are just liberal group therapy sessions, but on Monday, NBC’s Seth Meyers decided to confirm these claims in an appearance on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast. According to Meyers, his goal for Late Night is to make a show that…

Talk about being the butt of the joke. HBO comedian Bill Maher actually conceded that his typical smart aleck prediction that President Donald Trump's tariffs would wreck the economy by this point was way off the mark. 

The Daily Show’s Michael Kosta proved two things on the Monday edition of his Tennis Anyone podcast, so named because in his previous life, Kosta was a professional tennis player. First, apparently everybody has a podcast, but more importantly, the late night shows have an oversized view of their own self-importance, as Kosta demanded CBS take a loss on Stephen Colbert’s show…

Bill Maher admits he didn’t do his homework in one area before interviewing John Leguizamo.

The media’s desire to make themselves the main character in the story reached the Platonic level on Wednesday as CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane joined former moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, on his appropriately named podcast: The Chuck Toddcast. According to MacFarlane, he was diagnosed with PTSD after the first assassination attempt against President Trump…

Former CNN host turned podcaster Jim Acosta appeared to suggest on Thursday that, because the president lives at the White House, he is in charge of its plumbing, as he blamed President Trump for the poor working conditions that he worked in when he was a White House correspondent during Trump’s first term.

Former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric went to bat for her former colleagues on a Wednesday Substack video interview with fellow Substacker Liz Plank. Couric claimed that “for everybody shitting on the mainstream,” they still rely on it for their news and that it is still needed to combat “the shit show that is the Trump administration.”