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 Instances 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 okay? Have you ever not gotten sufficient credit score for breaking the information that Joe Biden is outdated?” Favreau requested Astead on Tuesday night.
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New York Instances 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 Instances reporter sparked the rebuke that afternoon by sharing an X publish from “Pod Save America” saying its newest episode, which featured friends 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 publish acknowledged, “NEW POD. @DanPfeiffer sits down with @jomalleydillon, @DavidPlouffe, @QuentinFulks, and @StefCutter to speak concerning the marketing campaign’s roadmap, the voters they most wanted to win over, why they fell brief ultimately, and what Democrats ought to do in another way subsequent time.”
Astead reshared the publish and supplied his personal caption, writing, “A great advert for the significance of impartial media.”
The reporter’s dig hit on the actuality that though Harris had loads of favorable press protection amongst legacy media retailers – 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 Expertise” and the favored “Flagrant” podcast. These interviews gained tens of millions of views and allowed Trump to attraction 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 retailers have been unwilling to interview. Cutter cited how the favored YouTube present “Scorching Ones” refused to interview Harris as a result of it didn’t need to get entangled with politics.
Favreau took offense at Astead’s dig and fired again along with his slam of the New York Instances, mocking it for publishing a number of reviews 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 vice chairman’s gorgeous loss. (X screenshot)
The New York Instances reporter replied, “You’d suppose you’d have extra disgrace, however I perceive this is rather like a sport of sims for you.”
Creator Hank Inexperienced responded to the thread, admonishing Favreau for squabbling with the journalist. He wrote, “I’ve heard lots of people say we have to keep out of this sort of non-constructive battle and I really feel like a type of individuals is you.”
The previous Obama staffer replied, “Honest! I’ll admit I used to be caught off guard by a NYT journalist I barely know attacking our media firm however I ought to’ve recognized to have interaction with him.”
Favreau and Inexperienced’s separate dialog continued, with the creator remarking, “What I’ll say is all the web libosphere has spent the previous few months blaming the New York Instances for each unhealthy factor that occurs as if the instances issues in any respect to the individuals who would possibly vote Trump. It’s nearly as in the event that they’ve by no means been to Donald Trump’s TikTok account.”
Favreau defended The Instances, replying, “Oh, I do know and suppose that model of criticism of the NYT is usually unwarranted and leveled towards an outlet whose viewers is like 90% Dem. I like numerous Astead’s reporting too, and his pod.”
“His QT [quotetweet] was about how the PSA [Pod Save America] interview with the Harris marketing campaign is an advert for impartial retailers just like the NYT as a result of it wasn’t to his liking, I assume,” the podcast host added.
The New York Instances and “Pod Save America’s” producer, CrookedMedia, didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s requests for remark.
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