About this episode

Erin explores the controversial career and influence of Bari Weiss, focusing on her role at CBS News and her advocacy for Zionism.

In our 40th episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin dives deep into the origins of anti-woke crusader turned CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. From her origins as an antagonizing student at Columbia University to a career of ill-researched op-eds and launching her own media company, to running CBS News and her relentless campaign to promote Zionism, this may be our most manipulative guy yet! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date. Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web ( NYT ) Give 'em hell ( X ) Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News ( The New Yorker ) Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like ( Bluesky ) Bari Weiss ‘Meddles’ With ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ Story on Palestine ( Zeteo ) Inside Bari Weiss’ shaky, arms-length relationship with the president of CBS News as ratings hit all-time low ( NY Post ) ‘CBS Evening News’ Ratings Disaster: Tony Dokoupil Hits Rock Bottom ( TV Insider ) I’m Glad the Dyke March Banned Jewish Stars ( NYT ) Jewish marchers…

People in this episode

Host: Erin

Guest: Bari Weiss

Topics covered

• Bari Weiss
• anti-woke
• media
• Zionism
• CBS News
• op-eds

Keywords

• Bari Weiss
• CBS News
• anti-woke
• Zionism
• media career
• op-eds
• Columbia University

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CBS News, Columbia University, The New Yorker, NYT, Washington Post, TV Insider, Zeteo, Bluesky, Crooked Media

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