Podcasts

MSNBC’s Morning Joe’s favorite presidential historian, Jon Meacham, joined another H-less Jon on Thursday when he appeared on Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart podcast. Meacham told Stewart that the fact that Donald Trump will be president again shows that America is still having problems with complying with the Declaration of Independence.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai for allegedly corrupting his YouTube platform to censor former President Donald Trump’s Oct. 25 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.

While Kamala Harris continues to avoid any interview with The New York Times, J.D. Vance again entered hostile territory to be grilled on their podcast "The Interview" with NPR refugee Lourdes Garcia-Navarro. This woman is so far to the Left that she once said being kissed by one of Fidel Castro's brothers in Cuba was like being "getting the blessing of the Holy Trinity." 

Vice President Kamala Harris has done a lot of softball interviews recently, but her appearance on Alex Cooper’s Sunday Call Her Daddy podcast made those interviews look tough as Cooper took her usual non-political sex and relationship advice podcast and turned it into a giant promotional ad for abortion.

James Carville blasted the "professional center" in the news media and proclaimed "F**k objectivity" as this year's motto -- well, any year's motto since 2015. 

Former 60 Minutes anchor Katie Couric recently joined Bill Maher on his podcast Club Random. During a discussion on income inequality, Couric mused that those who support Donald Trump are motivated by anti-intellectualism and jealousy.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump traveled to Texas towns at the southern border to tout their immigration plans. But the networks and the New York Times podcasters touted Biden's ridiculous claims about being staunch on the border while feeling a need to 'fact check' Trump.

On Monday’s edition of Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) podcast The Verdict, Cruz and co-host Ben Ferguson had a lengthy segment praising the work of NewsBusters and associate editor Nick Fondacaro for exposing the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, NBC for using dubious footage from a known pro-Hamas crisis actor named Saleh Aljafarawi.

As the late night comedy shows remain on strike, former late night host Conan O’Brien joined Kara Swisher of New York Magazine on her podcast to discuss the future of the format. During their long discussion, O’Brien argued that Trump and the angry reaction to him from current comedy hosts “hurt comedy.”

The late night comedy shows may be on strike which means they’ve had to go four months without offering up their hot takes on the news which they sought the remedy on the Thursday’s edition of their Strike Force Five podcast. When asked which news story he regrets not being able to cover, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel naturally chose Donald Trump.

Institutional trust is built over the course of years. Decades. Centuries. Dishonesty takes just a moment to destroy institutional trust. This week, Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine, got into a spat with podcaster Joe Rogan and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hotez has a long-…

The Department of Homeland Security has been at the center of a firestorm with no end in sight. In an episode of his Verdict podcast, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and co-host Ben Ferguson torched the Department of Homeland Security for associating Christian, conservative and Republican entities with neo-Nazis, as exclusively unveiled by MRC Free Speech America in a bombshell report.

Former CNN producer Steve Krakauer wrote in his media newsletter that a New York Times podcast admitted the transgender wars began after gay advocacy groups won on gay marriage at the Supreme Court and needed a new crusade. But the Times had to frame it as "How the GOP Picked Trans Kids as a Rallying Cry."

It's not often you'll hear a lefty like Katie Couric express sadness for someone like Tucker Carlson and his "downfall," even as she suggested he can't be "rehabilitated" from his Fox News work.