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“Bought By Israel?” - Saagar Calls Out Bari Weiss For Asking For $250 Million To SELL Free Press

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Barry Weiss seeks $250M for The Free Press as media titans scramble to buy influence. PBD and the crew dissect the price tag, Zionist motivations, CBS strategy, and the podcaster boom shaking up legacy news. Plus, Patrick shares his sit-down with a major New York Times reporter.

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0:00.0

America's at a point right now where they're watching on podcast and shows and future media

0:07.1

companies. I cannot tell you how many people were approached by on different media companies.

0:11.9

Hey, we'd like to do this. We'd like to do that. We'd like to do this, right? Everybody is having

0:16.2

conversations right now in the media space. Rob, if you can go to the previous story, go back.

0:22.4

No, you're right there. No, no, go back where you write. Go back to one page, the stories. Go back one page, Rob. Yeah. So look at the top one that says, who thinks the free press is worth a quarter of a billion dollars. So Barry Weiss, okay, goes out there sitting down with David Ellison. in. Okay, click on the story, Rob, if you could.

0:19.7

CBS News. So who thinks the free press is worth a quarter of a billion dollars? Now, Barry Weiss has done some great interviews, and I think she was part of Twitter files, if I'm not mistaken. And then she did a bunch of different things, Speaker Johnson, interview a bunch of them. Rob, if you can go a little bit lower to read the story.

0:58.4

So they're at a point that they're saying, we think our company is worth a quarter of a billion dollars, right? And 1969 NBC canceled TV series Star Trek. 56 years later, the franchise,

1:05.1

13 movies, how is this going to the Barry White story? Go a little bit lower, Rob, to make sure,

1:09.7

okay, there it is. What shape or advisory role ultimately takes it still up for grabs,

1:14.6

but her reported asking price is a $250 payday for her new site, the free press,

1:22.6

which changed its name from common sense and which entirely bypassed a descriptive title like

1:28.3

no old rich white guy after further review.

1:31.2

It turns out you were right all along.

1:33.8

That's what she's asking for.

1:35.0

She can ask for that.

1:36.5

No problem, right?

1:38.7

Sager, Rob, if you can go to the clip that they have, and these guys have done a great job, the two of them, politically they disagree. I've been on their show before when we talked about Bernie Sanders six years ago. I think I was on there. One time we had a conversation about capitalism, and she was a Bernie supporter at the time. Here's what he has to say about the ask of a quarter of a billion dollars. Go for it. That's my point. The reason Tim Dillon's sketch hit so hard is because he's right.

2:05.1

The whole value comes from her willingness to put it in an intellectual sheen on absolute

2:11.1

monstrosities. Yeah. That's what it is.

2:13.0

It's in writing. The Dylan Byers, who's, again, I know this may seem tedious, but this is important

2:17.9

for all you guys to understand, that there are people like us, you know, they're all, listen, Tim Poole's not out there asking for a quarter billion dollars, all right, and he gets 15 times the number of views. He has more reviews than we do. PBD, any of these other folks, none of these folks are out there. You can think whatever you want about them, but, you know, they're running their own businesses and they're not out there trying to be bought for billions

2:37.7

and billions or whatever. And the point, though, in the Barry Weiss case, is that it is entirely

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