Midterm Preview, Media Lies, and Summer of Sydney

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

First, Ben dives into the early midterm battlegrounds — as Marsha Blackburn, Nancy Mace, and Roy Cooper jump into key races — and explains why Republicans cannot afford to coast despite a favorable Senate map. Then, Brit Hume joins to dissect the media’s Russiagate failures, the ethics disaster of Jim Acosta’s AI “interview,” and the corrosive role of anonymous sources in Washington journalism. Finally, culture writer Kat Rosenfield discusses everything from the internet’s public shaming culture to whether romance can survive in the age of apps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.9	All right, boys and girls, welcome back to another edition of the big ben show i'm your host ben
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0:56.6	Everyone's out, you know, they're out of town.
0:58.9	They're taking their summer vacations, hopefully.
1:01.3	Hopefully you're all doing well and you and yours are spending some time at the beach.
1:05.2	We're thinking about anything other than politics.
1:07.7	But the people who are thinking about politics are the politicians for whom the
1:12.3	next elections are starting right now. Trump is back. America is blessed and Tennessee better
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