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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Huge Backlash Against Susie Wiles Over Blistering Vanity Fair Interview, But Trump Gives Her a Pass

MEDIA BUZZmeter

FOX News Podcasts

News, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Howie Kurtz on President Trump's controversial comments about the tragic death of Rob Reiner and his wife, the passing of Norman Podhoretz, a prominent neoconservative thinker and writer, and the FDA's expanded approval of a drug aimed at boosting female libido. Follow Howie on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HowardKurtz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

0:37.7

Damage control is deeply embedded here in Washington.

0:42.5

It's in the air.

0:44.4

It's in the water.

0:45.8

It's in the soil.

0:47.5

And every single day, there are politicians trying to backtrack, deflect, and all of that. A particularly weak version right now

0:57.2

involves the highest ranking official in the White House, Susie Wiles. Number one. Who I always thought

1:04.0

her superpower was that she didn't care about press coverage. She didn't care about getting

1:09.3

credit. She rarely spoke to journalists. And this

1:14.3

explosive, candid, stunning piece in Vanity Fair, and she is now criticizing, it's hard to make

1:23.5

that case when you give 11 on-the-record interviews to that very magazine. You can talk about

1:31.4

things being out of context. Sometimes stories are misleading because they're out of context. What you

1:38.2

don't hear is Susie Weil saying, well, I said that that was off the record and this guy, this is author Chris

1:45.8

Whipple, reported it anyway.

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