Rupert Murdoch's Shameful Legacy + A Conversation with Reed Galen

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

News, Politics

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and a veteran public affairs and political commentator with more than 20 years of experience, Reed has been involved in politics, government, and business at the highest levels. Galen has spent more than a decade advising Fortune 50, 100, and 1000 companies needing high-level counsel in strategic communications, procurement, and legislation. In addition to his private sector work, Reed has managed several high-profile ballot measure campaigns in California, Texas, and Colorado – Before moving to the private sector, Reed served as Deputy Campaign Manager for John McCain’s presidential campaign and Deputy Campaign Manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful 2006 re-election campaign. Galen also worked on both of President George W. Bush's campaigns and served the Bush Administration at both the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security. As founder of the Lincoln Project, Galen has led the groups vision and created some of its most memorable attacks against Donald Trump. He is now focused on ridding the nation of Trump and attempting to purge the GOP of its love affair with MAGA ideology. He joins us today to discuss the changing of the media guard as Rupert Murdoch rides off into the right-wing sunset. So, let’s go now to that conversation.

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0:00.0	This is my mea-a-la-a-a-a-cobo.
0:06.0	This is my Mayo Copa.
0:09.0	Oh, baby, don't lie for me.
0:11.0	If I tell you my story, don't cry for me.
0:15.0	I take my time that's fun by me.
0:17.0	This is my mea-a-co-bo.
0:20.0	This is Michael Mayor Copa.
0:26.6	This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Culper podcast. We interrupt our coverage of the Trump Show, and it's assorted outrages to bring you the news of Rupert Murdoch stepping down as head of Fox News.
0:36.6	The 96-year-old media magnet made the announcement yesterday,
0:41.0	handing the reins to his eldest son, Lackland. That's a move that media watchers have been talking
0:47.0	about for almost a decade, but finally happened as Rupert chose his eldest son Lackland to run his media empire.
0:56.8	Murdoch's exit comes amid a rotten year for Fox News.
1:00.9	Remember, in April, Fox News paid $787.5 million in a record defamation settlement for its
1:10.4	hosts peddling conspiracy theories about
1:13.5	Dominion voting systems, claiming its voting machines were rigged in favor of Joe Biden and, of course,
1:20.8	against Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
1:26.2	Now, it's still facing similar allegations in another $2.7 billion lawsuit from the voting
1:34.1	machine company Smartmatic.
1:37.1	Fox is also reeling from the ratings crash following the ouster of crazy Tucker Carlson
1:43.5	after settling charges of an abusive workplace for
1:47.3	$12 million with a former Carlson producer. Now with all this swirling in the background,
1:54.2	some would think that change was in order, that Lackland might be the Murdoch to pull Fox away from
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