Episode 127 -- Bari Weiss, Part 2
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In the second half of our two-part series on one of In Bed with the Right's bêtes noires, Adrian and Moira chart the resistible rise of Bari Weiss's from her time on the canceled-person circuit to the pinnacle of American news media. Topics covered: the rise of the Free Press and the decline of the free press; how a certain kind of Silicon Valley creep fell in love with what Bari was selling; how she rode the "vibe shift" among tech elites to maximum profit; and why the Trump-era may well prove her undoing.
Some of our sources for this episode:
On Bari's reign of terror at CBS: Clare Malone, "Inside Bari Weiss's Hostile Takeover of CBS"
Radley Balko's takedown of the Free Press piece about George Floyd: "The Retconning of George Floyd"
If you read German, and want to know more about the tech elite's "vibe shift" around 2020, you can check out Adrian's new book! (Or you can wait until September 10 to get the English version!)
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| 0:00.0 | So, Barry. |
| 0:03.1 | Bari. |
| 0:04.3 | Barry. |
| 0:04.8 | Barry. |
| 0:04.8 | Bary. |
| 0:05.8 | Bary. |
| 0:08.6 | You're getting it? |
| 0:09.5 | Barry Weiss. |
| 0:10.5 | My God, she's got it. |
| 0:11.7 | If we didn't hear you come in there, hello, my Adrian Dobb. |
| 0:16.2 | And I'm wherever Don again. |
| 0:18.3 | And whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:28.3 | So, Adrian, today we are back with part two. |
| 0:33.5 | It's Barry the sequel, Barry 2, a very wice assent. |
| 0:34.2 | Nice. |
| 0:39.2 | Now with 100% better pronunciation of the name of the person we're making fun of. |
| 0:51.7 | So when we left off last week, Barry had just quit her job as an opinion editor at the New York Times after making a career there as sort of like an itchy, woke provocateur. |
| 0:55.7 | And she publishes this open letter when she resigned saying that the times, and by implication, other ones of these like mainstream institutional news sources, were hostile |
| 1:03.6 | to conservatives in a way that distorts their depiction of the truth. Today, we're going to see |
| 1:09.6 | Barry launch her own independent publication, a newsletter. |
| 1:12.8 | She at first calls common sense, but then later rebrands as an opinion outlet called the free |
| 1:18.0 | press. She's going to ingratiate herself with the billionaire tech elite. She's going to get |
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