Power Lines with Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino

Tucker Embraces White Supremacist, MSNBC Hosts Rip Comcast, and Mamdani’s Media Strategy


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On this week’s Power Lines Podcast:

Tucker Carlson has suddenly ended his feud and embraced Holocaust-denying white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Why is he leaning further into extremist voices?

Oliver and Jon break down the fallout from Comcast helping to fund the White House ballroom — and what that says about media power and influence.

Plus: what the Paramount layoffs reveal about Ellison’s plans for news personalities, CNN head Mark Thompson dodging Bari Weiss questions, Zohran winning over Andrew Schulz, and Elon Musk’s “Grokipedia” — a fact-twisting clone of Wikipedia built in bad faith and fueled by an alternate reality.

Have a Happy Halloween! We’ll see you next week.

00:00 Intro

03:15 Tucker Carlson Hosts Nick Fuentes
08:38 Mainstream Media's Challenge with Extremism
19:57 Comcast's Controversial Donation to Trump
29:46 Paramount Layoffs and CBS News Cuts
32:54 Oracle's AI Investments and Media Cuts
34:41 CBS News Restructuring and Political Shifts
37:44 CNN's New Streaming Service and Bari Weiss
46:29 New York Mayor's Race Media Strategy
56:10 Elon Musk's Wikipedia Alternative, Grokipedia

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