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Podcast Wars: Election Meltdown Edition
Everyone blames everyone for the GOP’s crushing midterm losses
Written by Noah VanDowe & Ben Van Bloem
Published 11/06/26 1:23 PM EST
Welcome to Media Matters’ regular debrief on the Podcast Wars. This week, podcasters reeling from devastating Republican losses in the midterms looked to each other as scapegoats, blaming nearly every right-wing media figure besides themselves.
Here’s a look at some of the podcasters who received a flurry of blame for the GOP’s midterm losses:
The war hawks draw fire: Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and the other “idiots” that promoted the war with Iran
Former Fox host Tucker Carlson declared that Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro and Fox’s Mark Levin “destroyed not simply the Republican Party, but gravely damaged this country” with their support for the Iran war. After playing a clip of Shapiro and Levin downplaying the impact of the war on the midterm results, Carlson remarked, “People like that cannot make any decisions anymore, ever. They cannot participate meaningfully in the Republican Party ever again, and that's all of them. It's not just, like, the florid, obvious, grotesque ones with spittle on their ties on Fox News.”
Right-wing streamer Amrou Fudl, known online as Myron Gaines, placed the blame on “stupid right-wing political commentators that cheered this fucking war on,” naming “the Glenn Becks, the Bonginos, the Ben Shapiros.” Reacting to Beck’s live coverage of the elections, Fudl said, “And it's idiots like you that promoted the war as to why we're losing, by the way.”
Former Infowars owner Alex Jones went after Levin, saying, “We do blame you, asshole.” Jones’ co-host, Harrison Smith, agreed, “We’ve lost the House. We’ve lost the Senate. Texas is going blue. This is Mark Levin and Israel's fault. … It is the Mark Levins; it's the Ben Shapiros.”
Former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene listed Levin, Shapiro, and Laura Loomer as “the voices that we should absolutely ostracize, reject, kick out of our movement, and say, You have no place here.”
The America Firsters: Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Nick Fuentes blamed for “confusing” voters and breaking with Trump
On a live edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet suggested it was “confusing” for figures like Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Greene to break with Republicans. “We had infighting, we weren’t singing from the same song sheet, we were all over the place,” Kolvet lamented, calling it a “demoralization campaign.”
The next day, The Charlie Kirk Show producer Blake Neff complained that podcaster Dave Smith wants to “pal around” with Nick Fuentes. Neff continued, “Fuentes is going to come out and say, everyone vote for a Democrat because we want the party that supports amnesty to win. We want the party that's going to abolish America, trans your kids, nationwide abortion on demand. Maybe Dave Smith likes that. He's libertarian.”
Podcaster Jillian Michaels criticized the “I’m not voting protest no-vote people” for supporting Tucker Carlson: “The guy who said he was scratched by a demon and says we’re going to be in a nuclear war by Friday. That’s your guy?”
On his radio show, Mark Levin took aim at a variety of commentators, including Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Piers Morgan, Sean Davis, and Steven Nelson. Levin attacked Morgan as a “washed-up scumbag” and “whore for clicks” who has the “IQ of a cucumber,” suggested Fuentes and Carlson are “human lice,” and accused New York Post reporter Steven Nelson of “blood libels,” calling the paper the “New York Compost.”
“The Fox News era” is over
Former Fox host Tucker Carlson declared “the end, by the way, of the Fox News era.” He explained, “It's hard to imagine that we would have gone to war in Iran if Fox News hadn't broadcast specifically to the president, who they knew was watching specific shows, The Mark Levin Show. … The main lobby for this war was Fox News.”
Nick Fuentes likewise argued Fox’s programming “is for one person. It's for Trump,” adding that “Fox News and Trump and Netanyahu, all these people, they are all guilty. They all deserve what is happening to them right now.” Reacting to Fox host Sean Hannity’s post-election commentary, Fuentes ranted, “See, that’s just disgraceful. … These people are scum.”
Megyn Kelly, also a one-time Fox host, lashed out at network contributor Marc Thiessen as one of the “biggest neocons urging President Trump to launch this war against Iran.” After playing a clip of Thiessen criticizing Vice President JD Vance on Fox’s Special Report with Bret Baier, Kelly scoffed, “All I want to hear from those guys is an apology. That's it. Either nothing or an apology.”
Nick Fuentes turned back to his groypers, lashing out at everyone
Fuentes named Shapiro, Levin, and CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss among those who “serve Israel,” calling on Republicans to “remove this element from the party.” Complaining that “we have been berated and lectured and bullied by these people,” Fuentes continued, “Maybe the neocons and the Zionists, maybe the dual loyalty Jews in this circle really are the ones that need to be excluded in the future. That is the message.”
Responding to a super chatter who said other conservative personalities are “conforming” to his message, Fuentes cautioned, “You can’t trust these people. These people have gotten it wrong from the beginning.” He elaborated, “I saw Tucker is doing his postmortem. It's like, dude, why don't you put the giant foam MAGA hat back on, retard?” Fuentes then extended his ire to Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, saying, “Matt Walsh works for Ben Shapiro. Enough said. Matt Walsh said we went to war in Iran for no reason. Really? No reason? Ask your boss. He'll tell you why we did it.”
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