Two distinguished liberal media figures took swipes at one another on X within the aftermath of a bombshell podcast interview that includes Harris marketing campaign officers speaking about why they misplaced.
New York Occasions reporter Astead Herndon mocked the “Pod Save America” podcast on Tuesday following its interview with the Harris marketing campaign staffers, irking podcast co-host and Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who responded with a dig on the journalist.
“You ok? Have you not gotten enough credit for breaking the news that Joe Biden is old?” Favreau requested Astead on Tuesday night.
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New York Occasions reporter Astead Herndon and “Pod Save America” podcast co-host Jon Favreau launched barbs at one another on-line over a latest podcast interview that includes Harris marketing campaign employees revealing why they thought Vice President Kamala Harris misplaced. (Bennett Raglin / Stringer | Slaven Vlasic / Stringer)
The Occasions reporter sparked the rebuke that afternoon by sharing an X submit from “Pod Save America” saying its newest episode, which featured visitors from the Harris marketing campaign – marketing campaign senior advisor David Plouffe, marketing campaign aide, Stephanie Cutter, principal deputy marketing campaign supervisor Quentin Fulks, and marketing campaign supervisor Jen O’Malley Dillon – giving their postmortem on Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign.
The podcast’s X submit acknowledged, “NEW POD. @DanPfeiffer sits down with @jomalleydillon, @DavidPlouffe, @QuentinFulks, and @StefCutter to talk about the campaign’s roadmap, the voters they most needed to win over, why they fell short in the end, and what Democrats should do differently next time.”
Astead reshared the submit and offered his personal caption, writing, “A good ad for the importance of independent media.”
The reporter’s dig hit on the actuality that though Harris had loads of favorable press protection amongst legacy media shops – in comparison with President-elect Donald Trump – she nonetheless misplaced to him.
One of many extensively cited causes for Trump’s win was that the GOP candidate sat down for a number of main non-traditional media interviews, together with one with “The Joe Rogan Experience” and the favored “Flagrant” podcast. These interviews gained thousands and thousands of views and allowed Trump to enchantment to youthful demographics.
One of many complaints made by the Harris marketing campaign officers throughout their latest interview was that podcasts and different non-traditional shops have been unwilling to interview. Cutter cited how the favored YouTube present “Hot Ones” refused to interview Harris as a result of it didn’t need to become involved with politics.
Favreau took offense at Astead’s dig and fired again along with his slam of the New York Occasions, mocking it for publishing a number of studies in the previous few years on President Biden’s age being a serious concern for voters.
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Harris marketing campaign staffers appeared on “Pod Save America” this week to provide a postmortem on the vp’s gorgeous loss. (X screenshot)
The New York Occasions reporter replied, “You’d think you’d have more shame, but I understand this is just like a game of sims for you.”
Writer Hank Inexperienced responded to the thread, admonishing Favreau for squabbling with the journalist. He wrote, “I have heard a lot of people say we need to stay out of this kind of non-constructive conflict and I feel like one of those people is you.”
The former Obama staffer replied, “Fair! I’ll admit I was caught off guard by a NYT journalist I barely know attacking our media company but I should’ve known to engage with him.”
Favreau and Inexperienced’s separate dialog continued, with the writer remarking, “What I will say is the entire internet libosphere has spent the last few months blaming the New York Times for every bad thing that happens as if the times matters at all to the people who might vote Trump. It’s almost as if they’ve never been to Donald Trump’s TikTok account.”
Favreau defended The Occasions, replying, “Oh, I know and think that brand of criticism of the NYT is mostly unwarranted and leveled toward an outlet whose audience is like 90% Dem. I like a lot of Astead’s reporting too, and his pod.”
“His QT [quotetweet] was about how the PSA [Pod Save America] interview with the Harris campaign is an ad for independent outlets like the NYT because it wasn’t to his liking, I guess,” the podcast host added.
The New York Occasions and “Pod Save America’s” producer, CrookedMedia, didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s requests for remark.
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