Two outstanding 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 previous?” 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 current podcast interview that includes Harris marketing campaign workers 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 submit from “Pod Save America” saying its newest episode, which featured company 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 speak in regards to the marketing campaign’s roadmap, the voters they most wanted to win over, why they fell brief in the long run, and what Democrats ought to do in a different way subsequent time.”
Astead reshared the submit and offered his personal caption, writing, ” 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 broadly 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 thousands and thousands of views and allowed Trump to attraction to youthful demographics.
One of many complaints made by the Harris marketing campaign officers throughout their current interview was that podcasts and different non-traditional retailers have been unwilling to interview. Cutter cited how the favored YouTube present “Sizzling 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 couple of years on President Biden’s age being a significant 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 beautiful 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 kind of individuals is you.”
The previous Obama staffer replied, “Truthful! 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 identified to interact with him.”
Favreau and Inexperienced’s separate dialog continued, with the creator remarking, “What I’ll say is the complete web libosphere has spent the previous couple of months blaming the New York Instances for each unhealthy factor that occurs as if the occasions issues in any respect to the individuals who may 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 generally unwarranted and leveled towards an outlet whose viewers is like 90% Dem. I like quite 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 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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