Episode 273: Chris Rufo, Offense Archeologist (with Brad Polumbo)
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Brad Polumbo to discuss Chris Rufo’s campaign against New Yorker critic Doreen St. Felix over offensive tweets. Plus, conservative snowflakes and the Venn diagram of maskers and queers.
Why are so many of the young people I still see wearing masks queer? : r/NoStupidQuestions
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https://x.com/KaivanShroff/status/1953586970598240441
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Blockin Reported. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Katie Herzog and joining me today while Jesse is in our 25 of a mediation session |
| 0:15.4 | with Taylor Lorenz, we have Brad Palumbo. |
| 0:18.8 | Brad is a returning guest on this show. |
| 0:20.7 | He's also the host of Brad versus everyone. And what else are you doing these days, Brad? Well, I still dabble in actual journalism a little bit. Occasionally, I go on CNN and get yelled at for being a white man. I don't know if you saw that clip. I did see that. I did see that. But other than that... We should, we should talk about for that for a moment. So explain, |
| 0:38.3 | explain to people what happened. So I was on that, that extremely chaotic CNN show that they do |
| 0:44.6 | the panel show with Scott Jennings. It's hosted by Abby Phillip. I actually appreciate it. |
| 0:49.3 | I really respect it because they are doing an actual debate and difference of opinions, but it does get |
| 0:53.9 | a little |
| 0:54.1 | Jerry Springer. And Anna Navarro, who is one of the hosts of the view and a CNN contributor, |
| 1:00.2 | and she used to actually be a Republican strategist, but now she's kind of a Democratic talking head. |
| 1:05.1 | She was making some very hyperbolic statements about Trump's immigration policies. And I actually have critiqued Trump |
| 1:14.8 | on immigration a lot, but I said something she said was hyperbolic. And she said to me, well, |
| 1:19.8 | maybe it's hyperbolic to you as a white man. And then I responded and said, like, that's not |
| 1:25.3 | an argument. You're dismissing my opinion for just being |
| 1:27.8 | white. And then I said, that's racist. And then she crashed out. And the whole panel exploded. |
| 1:33.4 | And that clip got clipped up by right wing media. CNN guest destroys Anna Navarro. So. |
| 1:41.7 | You should have taken the opportunity to come out as non-binary and that would |
| 1:44.9 | I really got it. I'm not a man. I said you just misgendered me actually. But so other than |
| 1:51.6 | the occasional foray into mainstream media, which I do enjoy, but is no longer my life's work. |
| 1:57.0 | It's mostly the YouTube and podcasting game for me these days. So you mentioned my podcast, |
| 2:02.2 | Brad versus Everyone. I cover media and internet bullshit, especially political stuff. A lot of |
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