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Episode 540 - How Tony Dokoupil Made The Cut & Dropped the Ball (w/ Daniel Maté & Matt Lieb)

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Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

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The team from the hilarious and incisive Bad Hasbara podcast, Daniel Maté & Matt Lieb, take a break from calling out Zionist lies to weigh in on how adult circumcision recipient and Bari Weiss' new pick to anchor CBS Evening News Tony Dokoupil embarrassed himself right out of the gate both substantively and aesthetically. We also talk the Venezuela-Israel connection, and whether the left must hand it to the "antiwar" right now that so many of them have decided that capturing Greenland/Venezuela is putting America first. And we accidentally spend a solid chunk of the back half of this episode dating the politics of Apple TV's Plur1bus. Consider it a break from this punishing news cycle.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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I'm We were just covering some of the push, you know, some of the predictable.

0:42.2

I mean, it's becoming a kind of predictable segment on our show.

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Zoran did a thing.

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Zionists freaked out.

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We report on it.

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That's what we do.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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He revoked those executive orders.

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So I was like, this is a good opportunity to really tell our listeners about what the

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IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, working definition of anti-Semitism actually is and why people

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are acting like it's a big deal that he revoked it.

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The idea that it is this definition of anti-Semitism that's always been there is just not the case. And so I was like, this is an opportunity, this is a perfect thing for our podcast to discuss. Somehow that got, that was us glazing. I was like, we're not glazing. I did no glaze. I had glazed. The closest you got to glazing was when we read out the rest of the things he revoked. And it included, like, he unbanned carriage horses at Central Park. And you're like, that's probably a good thing. The horses probably like it. And Kristen Lange were like, actually, there's a massive, like, animal rights ethical conundrum in New York City on the truth. I spent the whole time going, nah, the horses love it. That was a joke.

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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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Okay, so this is fascinating to me because I feel the, like, kind of opposite.

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