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Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Anti-Trump Podcaster Calls Joe Rogan ‘Jerk' Who ‘Spreads Lies'
Ben Meiselas flamed rival podcaster Joe Rogan during a discussion about whether Kamala Harris should have appeared on Rogan's show during the 2024 campaign. 'To me, Rogan's a jerk and he spreads lies,' Meiselas said on a new episode The People's Cabinet podcast, slamming the pro-MAGA podcaster. Meiselas co-hosts the left-leaning MeidasTouch podcast with his brothers Brett and Jordan. The show dethroned The Joe Rogan Experience in February to become the top podcast in the country—and has hovered near the top of the charts ever since. 'I don't think [Harris] should have went on Rogan or any of those right-wing shows,' Meiselas stated. 'The moment you go on a Rogan or a Charlie Kirk they are already going to be framing things in terms of issues that really aren't the issues that need to be discussed.' Meiselas, who also co-owns Los Angeles Magazine, pushed back on efforts to create a liberal counterpart to Rogan. 'We shouldn't be chasing 'Who could be the next left version of Joe Rogan,' he said, adding, 'Someone on the left shouldn't be like, 'Well I need to be a jerk and punch down.'' Instead, Meiselas—whose podcast racked up 125 million downloads and views in March, nearly double Rogan's 64 million downloads—called for building a 'healthy, vibrant, pro-democracy, pro-truth ecosystem.' Rogan has faced criticism for spreading COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation and hosting conspiracy theorists. On a recent episode of his podcast, British conservative columnist Douglas Murray confronted him for hosting Ian Carroll, a YouTuber known for pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories. 'If you throw a lot of s--t out there, there's some point at which [saying] 'I'm just raising questions' is not a valid thing,' Murray said. 'You're not raising questions. You're not asking questions. You're telling people something … I feel you've opened the door to quite a lot of people. You've now got a big platform and have been throwing out counter-historical stuff but a very dangerous kind.' Rogan invited both Donald Trump and Harris onto his show during the 2024 campaign. Only Trump made an appearance, after Rogan declined an invitation from the Harris team to travel to her for an hour-long interview, rather than sit for a three-hour interview in his Austin, Texas studio. He endorsed Trump on the eve of the election.
Axios
02-04-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Dan Koh launches "The People's Cabinet" to bolster Dems new media
Daniel Arrigg Koh, a former senior aide in the Biden White House, is launching a new media venture — starting with a podcast, "The People's Cabinet" — to help alleviate Democrats' shortfall in new media. Why it matters: Koh says the podcast is inspired by the "shadow cabinet" in the U.K. and other countries, to provide "an inspiring, alternative vision for our country's future, while giving listeners the tools to persuade the people Democrats need to win again." "The People's Cabinet" is the first venture of Koh's new company, Reverate Media, which is aimed at closing the Democratic disadvantage across new media ecosystems. The podcast will feature Democratic thinkers, officials and rising leaders who can articulate substantive policy alternatives to the Trump administration. What they're saying: "It's not just anti-Trump and anti-MAGA," Koh told Axios. In a YouTube trailer, Koh says: "I'm here to ask the tough questions to understand how government works, and how we can make it better. ... Because the world doesn't change when we don't show up." The backstory: Koh, 40, was the White House's deputy Cabinet secretary and an official in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Earlier, he was chief of staff at the Labor Department and chief of staff under Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. He also worked with Arianna Huffington as a media executive at Huffington Post during its peak traffic years, and was a venture-backed technology executive. Koh has an undergraduate degree and MBA from Harvard. He's a native of Andover, Massachusetts, and lives in D.C. He's a frequent CNN guest.
