‘Pod Save America’ host and NY Times reporter trade barbs in online spat over Harris campaign interview

Two salient wide media figures took swipes astatine each different connected X successful the aftermath of a bombshell podcast interview featuring Harris run officials talking astir wherefore they lost.

New York Times newsman Astead Herndon mocked the "Pod Save America" podcast connected Tuesday pursuing its interview with the Harris run staffers, irking podcast co-host and Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who responded with a excavation astatine the journalist.

"You ok? Have you not gotten capable recognition for breaking the quality that Joe Biden is old?" Favreau asked Astead connected Tuesday evening.

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New York Times newsman Astead Herndon and "Pod Save America" podcast co-host Jon Favreau launched barbs astatine each different online implicit a caller podcast interrogation featuring Harris run unit revealing wherefore they thought Vice President Kamala Harris lost. (Bennett Raglin / Stringer | Slaven Vlasic / Stringer)

The Times newsman sparked the rebuke that day by sharing an X station from "Pod Save America" announcing its latest episode, which featured guests from the Harris run – campaign elder advisor David Plouffe, run aide, Stephanie Cutter, main lawman run manager Quentin Fulks, and run manager Jen O’Malley Dillon – giving their postmortem connected Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign.

The podcast’s X station stated, "NEW POD. @DanPfeiffer sits down with @jomalleydillon, @DavidPlouffe, @QuentinFulks, and @StefCutter to speech astir the campaign’s roadmap, the voters they astir needed to triumph over, wherefore they fell abbreviated successful the end, and what Democrats should bash otherwise adjacent time."

Astead reshared the station and provided his ain caption, writing, "A bully advertisement for the value of autarkic media."

The reporter’s excavation deed astatine the world that though Harris had plentifulness of favorable property sum among bequest media outlets – compared to President-elect Donald Trump – she inactive mislaid to him. 

One of the wide cited reasons for Trump’s triumph was that the GOP campaigner sat down for aggregate large non-traditional media interviews, including 1 with "The Joe Rogan Experience" and the fashionable "Flagrant" podcast. These interviews gained millions of views and allowed Trump to entreaty to younger demographics.

One of the complaints made by the Harris run officials during their caller interrogation was that podcasts and different non-traditional outlets were unwilling to interview. Cutter cited however the fashionable YouTube amusement "Hot Ones" refused to interrogation Harris due to the fact that it did not privation to get progressive with politics.

Favreau took discourtesy astatine Astead’s excavation and fired backmost with his slam of the New York Times, mocking it for publishing aggregate reports successful the past fewer years connected President Biden’s age being a large concern for voters. 

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Harris run staffers appeared connected "Pod Save America" this week to springiness a postmortem connected the vice president's stunning loss. (X screenshot)

The New York Times newsman replied, "You’d deliberation you’d person much shame, but I recognize this is conscionable similar a crippled of sims for you."

Author Hank Green responded to the thread, admonishing Favreau for squabbling with the journalist. He wrote, "I person heard a batch of radical accidental we request to enactment retired of this benignant of non-constructive struggle and I consciousness similar 1 of those radical is you."

The former Obama staffer replied, "Fair! I’ll admit I was caught disconnected defender by a NYT writer I hardly cognize attacking our media institution but I should’ve known to prosecute with him."

Favreau and Green’s abstracted speech continued, with the writer remarking, "What I volition accidental is the full net libosphere has spent the past fewer months blaming the New York Times for each atrocious happening that happens arsenic if the times matters astatine each to the radical who mightiness ballot Trump. It’s astir arsenic if they’ve ne'er been to Donald Trump’s TikTok account."

Favreau defended The Times, replying, "Oh, I cognize and deliberation that marque of disapproval of the NYT is mostly unwarranted and leveled toward an outlet whose assemblage is similar 90% Dem. I similar a batch of Astead's reporting too, and his pod." 

"His QT [quotetweet] was astir however the PSA [Pod Save America] interrogation with the Harris run is an advertisement for autarkic outlets similar the NYT due to the fact that it wasn't to his liking, I guess," the podcast big added.

The New York Times and "Pod Save America's" producer, CrookedMedia, did not instantly reply to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. 

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