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The Independent
20-06-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Kara Swisher reveals ‘rage machine' Kelly begged her for podcast advice: ‘Remember, Megyn, I did help you!'
Another front opened up in the deepening personal rift between Kara Swisher and Megyn Kelly this week as Swisher revealed that Kelly had pleaded for the tech podcaster's advice after the former Fox News host decided to go the independent route herself. During Thursday's broadcast of On with Kara Swisher, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and Swisher talked about Kelly's 'confounding' pivot to 'really angry' MAGA pundit in recent years, lamenting that she had once been 'one of the best to ever do' cable news. 'I don't watch her anymore, but I thought her observations about where the industry was heading were right,' Wallace, who previously served as George W. Bush's communications director, said about Kelly's time as a primetime Fox News anchor. At the same time, they brought up Kelly's recent interview with The New York Times in which she said that 'the future involves direct relationships between individual journalists and their audience, or personalities.' Kelly also insisted that the current mode of cable news and broadcast journalism 'is dying, if not dead.' 'I think she's right,' Wallace reacted, prompting Swisher to recount the time that Kelly sought her guidance following Kelly's unceremonious exit from NBC News in 2019. 'Just so you know, Megyn Kelly doesn't like Kara Swisher, but at the time that happened, she called me and we had drinks and I talked to her about this and how to do it,' Swisher noted. 'Just remember, Megyn, I did help you!' Both Wallace and Swisher would criticize Kelly for the 'confounding choice' she has since made in becoming a rabid pro-Trump commentator who devotes an outsized portion of her programming to right-wing culture wars and picking fights with other media personalities and celebrities. 'I think it's just terrible and angry, really angry, at especially women,' Swisher sighed, prompting Wallace to add: 'Yes! She hates us more!' In the end, Swisher figured that their observations would only serve as more ragebait for Kelly, who now ranks as the third-most popular conservative podcaster in America. 'She'll have a show on this soon. So, good, great to give you content, Megyn,' Swisher snarked. The Independent has reached out to Kelly's representatives for comment. Swisher's latest broadside against Kelly comes months after Kelly blew up when the tech insider called her a 'rage machine' who 'screams at women' while she does her 'little act.' During the podcast she co-hosts with Scott Galloway, Swisher asked about Kelly in March: 'What is wrong with her?' Kelly, meanwhile, responded on her SiriusXM show by describing Swisher as 'a very tough, ballsy, openly lesbian woman' who is 'literally known' for 'walking away with people's balls.' Accusing Swisher of being 'nasty,' Kelly also recounted Swisher's reaction after finding out that Kelly's sister had passed away from a heart attack. According to Kelly, she canceled a planned appearance on Swisher's show because of her sister's death, leading Swisher to joke to Kelly's assistant: 'Oh, that sounds like a good idea and I certainly hope she'll stay off X in the meantime.' While Swisher would respond that she 'was only joking' after Kelly's assistant clarified the cancellation was due to a death in the family, Kelly said this was proof of Swisher's awful personal character. 'She tries to cover her own ass because she knows she's now made herself look terrible,' Kelly said, adding that the relationship between the pair had fallen apart afterwards. 'From that point forward, all she's done is rip on me, and frankly, vice versa. I mean, I just see her very differently now. I think she's a bad person.'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kara Swisher: "Lesbians should do all the parenting"
Kara Swisher joins Nicolle Wallace on 'The Best People' podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about politics, technology and parenting. You can watch the full episode on YouTube.
BBC News
06-06-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Will Musk's explosive row with Trump help or harm his businesses?
When Elon Musk recently announced that he was stepping back from politics, investors hoped that would mean he would step up his involvement in the many tech firms he explosive row with President Donald Trump - and the very public airing of his dirty White House laundry - suggests Musk's changing priorities might not quite be the salve they had been hoping of Musk retreating somewhat from the public eye and focusing on boosting the fortunes of Tesla and his other enterprises, he now finds himself being threatened with a boycott from one of his main customers - Trump's federal government. Tesla shares were sent into freefall on Thursday - falling 14% - as he sounded off about President Donald Trump on social rebounded a little on Friday following some indications tempers were so, for the investors and analysts who, for months, had made clear they wanted Musk off his phone and back at work, the situation is far from ideal. 'They're way behind' Some though argue the problems for Musk's businesses run much deeper than this spat - and the controversial role in the Trump administration it has brought a spectacular end veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher, that is especially so for Tesla."Tesla's finished," she told the BBC on the sidelines of the San Francisco Media Summit early this week. "It was a great car company. They could compete in the autonomous taxi space but they're way behind." Tesla has long attempted to play catch-up against rival Waymo, owned by Google-parent Alphabet, whose driverless taxis have traversed the streets of San Francisco for years - and now operate in several more month, Musk is supposed to be overseeing Tesla's launch of a batch of autonomous robo-taxis in Austin, posted to X last week that the electric vehicle maker had been testing the Model Y with no drivers on board."I believe 90% of the future value of Tesla is going to be autonomous and robotics," Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives told the BBC this week, adding that the Austin launch would be "a watershed moment"."The first task at hand is ensuring the autonomous vision gets off to a phenomenal start," Ives is Elon Musk?How the Trump-Musk feud eruptedBut with Musk's attention divided, the project's odds of success would appear to have there's something else to factor in too: Musk's own talk in Silicon Valley lately centres less on whether Musk can turn things around and more on whether he even cares."He's a really powerful person when he's focused on something," said Ross Gerber, President and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management."Before, it was about proving to the world that he would make EVs - the tech that nobody else could do. It was about proving he could make rockets. He had a lot to prove."A longtime Tesla investor, Gerber has soured on the stock, and has been pairing back his holdings since Musk's foray into right-wing politics. He called Thursday an "extremely painful day.""It's the dumbest thing you could possibly do to think that you have more power than the president of the United States," Gerber said, referring to Musk's social media tirade against BBC reached out to X, Tesla, and SpaceX seeking comment from Mr Musk but did not receive a response. The Tesla takedown A particular problem for Musk is that, before he seemingly created an enemy in Donald Trump, he already had one in the grassroots social media campaign against his dubbed #TeslaTakedown, have played out across the country every weekend since Trump took April, Tesla reported a 20% drop in car sales for the first three months of the year. Profits plunged more than 70%, and the share price went down with it."He should not be deciding the fate of our democracy by disassembling our government piece by piece. It's not right," protestor Linda Koistinen told me at a demonstration outside a Berkeley, California Tesla dealership in said she wanted to make a "visible stand" against Musk personally."Ultimately it's not about the tech or the Tesla corporation," said Joan Donovan, a prominent disinformation researcher who co-organized the #TeslaTakedown protests on social media."It's about the way in which the stock of Tesla has been able to be weaponized against the people and it has put Musk in such a position to have an incredible amount of power with no transparency," Donovan aspect of Musk's empire that has raised the ire of his detractors is X, the social media platform once known as Twitter."He bought Twitter so that he had clout and would be able to - at the drop of a hat - reach hundreds of millions of people," Donovan said. The personal brand There is another possibility here Musk's high-profile falling out with Trump help rehabilitate him in the eyes of people who turned against him because of his previous closeness to the president?Patrick Moorhead, chief analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, thinks it could."We're a very forgiving country," Moorhead says in a telephone interview."These things take time," he acknowledges, but "it's not unprecedented".Swisher likened Musk's personal brand to that of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates more than two decades said Gates was once regarded as "the Darth Vader of Silicon Valley" because of his "arrogant and rude" despite his flaws, Gates has largely rehabilitated his image."He learned. He grew up. People can change," Swisher told me, even though Musk is "clearly troubled." Space exit The problem for Musk is the future for him and his companies is not just about what he does - but what Trump decides while Trump needed Musk in the past, not least to help fund his presidential race, it's not so clear he does Smith, writer of the Noahpinion Substack, said Trump's highly lucrative foray into cryptocurrencies - as unseemly as it has been - may have freed him from depending on Musk to carry out his will."My guess is that this was so he could get out from under Elon," Smith Trump's most menacing comment of the day, he suggested cutting Musk's government contracts, which have an estimated value of $38 billion.A significant chunk of that goes to Musk's rocket company SpaceX - seemingly threatening its despite the bluster, Trump's warning may be a little more hollow than it because SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft ferries people and cargo to the International Space Station where three NASA astronauts are currently demonstrates that SpaceX has so entrenched itself in the US space and national security apparatus, that Trump's threat could be difficult to carry could make a similar argument about Musk's internet satellite company, Starlink. Finding an alternative could be easier said than if there are limits on what Trump can do, the same is also true of the middle of his row with Trump, he threatened to decommission the Dragon - but it wasn't long before he was rowing to an X user's suggestion he that he "cool down" he wrote, "Good advice. Ok, we won't decommission Dragon."It's clear Musk and Trump's friendship is over. It's less certain their reliance on each other the future for Musk's businesses is then, it seems Trump - and his administration's actions - will continue to have a big say in them. Sign up for our Tech Decoded newsletter to follow the world's top tech stories and trends. Outside the UK? Sign up here.
CNN
06-06-2025
- Business
- CNN
Kara Swisher: Trump and Musk behaving like a pair of ‘toddlers'
Tech Journalist and Podcast host Kara Swisher weighs in on the breakup between President Trump and Elon Musk and tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown what the feud could mean for the future of Musk's companies.
CNN
06-06-2025
- Business
- CNN
Bromance Over: Musk-Trump Feud Explodes Into Personal Attacks - Anderson Cooper 360 - Podcast on CNN Audio
Bromance Over: Musk-Trump Feud Explodes Into Personal Attacks Anderson Cooper 360 47 mins Elon Musk and Donald Trump's very public breakup has gotten loud and full of threats and allegations. How it happened, and what the fallout could be. Few journalists have as much insight into Musk as CNN Contributor Kara Swisher, who predicted that the Trump-Musk alliance would not end well. Swisher shares her reaction to today's drama. Plus, a live report on what could be Russia's answer to Ukraine's drone strikes over the weekend.
