The Pentagon’s Press Purge

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Comedy, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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As the Pentagon implements sweeping new restrictions on press access, Jon is joined by Atlantic staff writer Nancy Youssef, War Horse founder Thomas Brennan, and former Pentagon spokesperson and retired Marine Corps Colonel David Lapan. Together, they examine why many journalists vacated the Pentagon and refused to sign on to these rules, explore the realities of military reporting from inside and outside the Pentagon, and discuss what’s at stake when a trillion-dollar institution responsible for millions of American lives becomes even more opaque and unaccountable. This podcast episode is brought to you by: INCOGNI - Use code stewart at https://incogni.com/stewart to get an exclusive 60% off. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast> TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:05.0	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:08.0	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:13.0	They looked good.
0:15.0	Really, really good.
0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
0:24.5	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:28.0	Thanks, Canva.
0:42.1	Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another weekly show podcast.
0:43.1	My name is John Stewart.
0:44.4	It is Wednesday.
0:45.6	What are there?
0:46.4	October 22nd.
0:46.8	There we got.
0:48.5	The show's going to come out tomorrow.
0:56.9	I am still in the afterglow of all that happened this past weekend with millions and millions of people coming out into the streets in the president of the United States showing a video of him
1:03.8	as a king in an airplane dropping what can only be described as diarrhea.
1:16.8	And really more than you would think that plane was capable of carrying.
1:25.4	It was a lot of diarrhea that the president dumped on the No King's protesters in the video that he did.
1:31.2	And I just want to point out just very quickly that that's the president of the United States of America, long lineage of great men from Lincoln to Washington,
1:36.8	Roosevelt, Jefferson, even the shitty ones.
1:41.1	You know what I mean? Hoover, Garfield, you know, that kind of shit.
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