Podcasts

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.”

For their Tuesday podcast, CNN/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour and ex-husband/former Clinton official Jamie Rubin warned that Trump’s budget cuts, both foreign and domestic, will get people killed.

The Nation justice correspondent and frequent MSNBC talking head Elie Mystal appears to be in a competition with himself to see just how outrageous he can be. On June 28, he joined The Joy Reid Show podcast to claim “our country needs to be sanctioned” because “we are the bad guys on the world stage” after President Trump ordered strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

During a Tuesday appearance on Monica Lewinsky’s (yes, the one you’re thinking of) podcast “Reclaiming,” NBC Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie pushed back on her critics with essentially the schoolyard ‘I’m rubber and you’re glue” defense. According to her, if someone thought that she had a political bias in her reporting, it was they who needed to check their bias at the door. Of…

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta’s Substack podcast motto is “Don't give into the lies. Don't give into fear. Hold on to the truth. And hope.” During a Tuesday interview with former Clinton strategist James Carville, Acosta was neither truthful nor hopeful, but he was very much afraid as he declared, “This is scary shit,” as he suggested President Trump may tamper with the 2026 midterm results,…

Former MSNBC host and inflammatory hot take peddler Joy Reid wasn’t very joyful on her Saturday podcast. As Reid tells it, the new ICE detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” will be a “concentration camp” for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to put unwanted “brown people” in because “This is like being in Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.”

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep joined Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast hosts Max Tani and Ben Smith last Friday to discuss the current battle over NPR’s public funding. There were several puzzling claims made throughout, including claims that Fox’s personnel decisions and Hunter Biden laptop coverage are analogous to NPR’s.

Andrew Schulz is disrupting the Legacy Media in real time. The rogue comic’s work, be it on stage or with his podcasts (“Flagrant,” “Brilliant Idiots”), undermines what biased reporters share.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show may have had the week off, but its podcast, The Weekly Show, did not. On Wednesday, Jon Stewart claimed that the Trump Administration reacted angrily to assessments that suggest the B-2 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities weren’t as successful as advertised not because they were wrong or had obvious problems, but because “they demand 100…

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…

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…

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.

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…