Spectacular Media Fails of 2025

Ruthless Podcast

News, Politics

4.7 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

🎙️ We review the year that was 2025, counting down the greatest media failures of last year. To top the list, Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad. A basic pun about “genes” turns into a prime-time lecture about eugenics and white supremacy, and watching a major network try to make that argument out loud is the kind of thing you still can’t believe is real. Then over to CBS, where John Dickerson tries to compare modern immigration enforcement to Irish discrimination and deportation crackdowns in the 1800s. 📺 Other favorites included in our countdown: Jim Acosta interviewing AI, Taylor Lorenz romanticizing Luigi and Jim Cramer dropping a giant F-bomb on live TV. Plus Olivia Nuzzi’s chaos, Bill Belichick’s off-camera relationship, and Anderson Cooper snaps at Chris Sununu. 🐘 We recap our favorite moments from just a few of our best interviews, like, JD Vance, Karoline Leavitt, Senator Kennedy, Majority Leader Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson. Looking forward to a great 2026 on The Progrum! 00:00 — 2025 media fails 01:11 — Sydney Sweeney “great genes” becomes a national freakout 06:09 — CBS Saint Patrick’s Day: Irish deportations vs ICE 11:15 — Jim Acosta interviews an AI recreation of a murdered child 13:05 — Taylor Lorenz praises an alleged assassin as “morally good” 15:44 — CNN and the defense-fund moment 19:26 — Jim Cramer drops an F-bomb 20:30 — Olivia Nuzzi interview spiral and her accountability problem 25:24 — Bill Belichick + Jordan Hudson shuts down a standard question 27:56 — Anderson Cooper snaps at Chris Sununu on-air Our Sponsors: ➢Go to https://zbiotics.com/RUTHLESS and use RUTHLESS at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. ➢Unleash American energy to be bigger and better than ever before, because when America builds, America wins. https://permittingreformnow.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the crown.
0:03.0	This is like the degenerate left of media fails.
0:07.0	That is top.
0:08.0	I mean, like we went through some dark days in 2025.
0:10.0	It does actually encapsulate a whole bunch of what's wrong with media and what's wrong with the modern left.
0:16.0	No serious person believes this.
0:19.0	For years and for way too long, this whole like America is just covered in white supremacy and it's a danger. It's the greatest threat that we have.
0:28.5	Like you forget all this stuff because we went through a lot in 2025, but like there was a period of time where you had half of the media apparatus. Like, maybe they make good points. Maybe the
0:41.7	assassin makes good points.
0:46.1	America's demand for energy is rising rapidly and at a time when American families can least
0:52.0	afford an energy shortage. But for decades, critical energy projects have been blocked, limiting our access to reliable,
1:00.0	affordable American energy, and putting America's energy dominance at risk.
1:05.0	The solution is obvious.
1:07.0	Overhaul the broken energy permitting process, make it faster and simpler.
1:12.0	Innovation, a strong workforce, abundant oil and gas.
1:16.2	We have it all right here in the USA.
1:19.2	Let's put America first and political agendas last.
1:23.1	We can power our own country, create thousands of good-paying American jobs, and unleash American
1:29.5	energy to be bigger and better than ever before. Because when America builds, America wins.
1:36.8	Read API's plan to secure America's future at permitting reform now.org. Paid for by the American Petroleum Institute.
1:48.0	Ladies and gentlemen, your attention, please.
1:52.7	Keep the faith, hold the line, and own the lives.
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