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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Pulp Fiction? Trump, Pope Leo Escalate Battle As Latest Fake Jesus Image Fuels Media Debate

MEDIA BUZZmeter

FOX News Podcasts

News, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Howie Kurtz on the escalating war of words between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV over the Iran War, California Governor Gavin Newsom's PAC spending over half a million dollars to inflate his own book sales, and the resignation of Rep. Eric Swalwell following a wave of sexual assault allegations that have triggered a Justice Department investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

0:07.0

This has got to be the quote of the year.

0:12.0

Congresswoman Lauren Bobert from Colorado was talking about Eric Swalwell and also Tony Gonzalez,

0:20.0

two former members who resigned their seats because of

0:25.1

accusations of sexual assault. And she's going on about how terrible this is, understandably.

0:32.4

And what advice would you give them? Yeah, go to church, find Jesus. Like, I mean, why is everybody so

0:39.4

horny here? Okay, I'm going to pause a beat for a fact and then say, I'll be generous. Maybe she's

0:46.5

an imperfect messenger on this particular subject. Because about two and a half years ago, she apologized after she was kicked out of a

0:58.6

theater in Denver. The movie was Beetlejuice in case you were wondering for causing a disturbance

1:04.1

and there was footage, I guess, cell phone, whatever, showing that she and her date were groping

1:10.6

each other.

1:11.6

She said at that time, the past few days have been difficult and humiliating.

1:14.6

I'm truly sorry for the unwanted attention.

1:17.6

My Sunday evening in Denver has brought to the community.

1:21.6

Okay, but it's just something about, you know, why is everybody so horny?

1:26.6

It's just not the kind of thing that's usually said in Washington.

1:30.8

Usually it's put in more decorous terms.

1:33.1

Well, I guess this is sort of the embarrassment portion of the podcast as we head into the weekend.

1:38.5

Because here we have the disclosure that Gavin Newsom's PAC,

1:43.0

and a lot of people consider the California governor

1:45.8

to be, you know, at this early stage, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in

1:50.9

2008, spent over half a million bucks buying thousands of copies of his book. So the Newsom pack, let's see here, actually spent $1.5 million to purchase and deliver

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