This F*cking Guy: Bari Weiss
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4.7 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In our 40th episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin dives deep into the origins of anti-woke crusader turned CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. From her origins as an antagonizing student at Columbia University to a career of ill-researched op-eds and launching her own media company, to running CBS News and her relentless campaign to promote Zionism, this may be our most manipulative guy yet!
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Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web (NYT)
Give 'em hell (X)
Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News (The New Yorker)
Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like (Bluesky)
Bari Weiss ‘Meddles’ With ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ Story on Palestine (Zeteo)
Inside Bari Weiss’ shaky, arms-length relationship with the president of CBS News as ratings hit all-time low (NY Post)
‘CBS Evening News’ Ratings Disaster: Tony Dokoupil Hits Rock Bottom (TV Insider)
I’m Glad the Dyke March Banned Jewish Stars (NYT)
Jewish marchers say they were kicked out of a rally for inclusiveness because of their beliefs (Washington Post)
The Limits of ‘Believe All Women’ (NYT)
The Summer Bucket List of a 35-Year-Old Woman (NYT)
Imagining Comey’s Texts to His Wife (NYT)
CBS News staffers rip ‘shallow’ Bari Weiss for moderating ‘absurd’ network town hall with Erika Kirk (Independent)
We’re All Fascists Now (NYT)
The Free Press' Passage Into the Dark Side (The Unpopulist)
Despite political differences, Jewish values unite Squirrel Hill couple (Jewish Chronicle)
Columbia Unbecoming (2004) (YouTube)
Sam Harris X Eric Weinstein: Israel-Palestine (The Portal)
I Used to Hate Trump. Now I’m a MAGA Lefty. (The Free Press)
Mad About Bari Weiss: The New York Times Provocateur the Left Loves to Hate (Hive)
Ad Hoc Grievance Committee Report (Brooklyn College)
Procedures Clarified and Enhanced Following Release of Ad Hoc Committee Report (Columbia Magazine)
Bari Weiss Has Thrown the CBS News Killswitch (TNR)
Megan Greenwell Tweet (X)
Bari Weiss Tweet (X)
Bari Weiss’s Unasked Questions (Jewish Currents)
Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation (NYT)
Tim Dillon mocks Bari Weiss for interviewing Mossad boss (Reddit)
Bari Weiss Suuuuuuucks (SF Gate)
The merit-first fantasy of Bari Weiss’ “anti woke” university https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-merit-first-fantasy-of-bari-weiss-anti-woke-university
The “Merit-First” Fantasy of Bari Weiss’ Anti-Woke University (Current Affairs)
The Petition (The New Yorker)
Columbia’s Own Middle East War (New York Magazine)
NYT’s Bari Weiss Falsely Denies Her Years of Attacks on the Academic Freedom of Arab Scholars Who Criticize Israel (The Intercept)
Unbecoming Returns', Spurs Continued Debate (Campus Watch)
AZM: Israel in the Write Light - Bari Weiss (YouTube)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of This Fucking Guy, the series where we spotlight one fucking guy |
| 0:05.0 | making America worse and explain why they suck. I'm Aaron Ryan, host of Crooked Media's |
| 0:10.0 | Hysteria podcast, and on this, the 40th episode of This Fucking Guy, happy 40th to us, we're |
| 0:15.5 | discussing one of today's most successful professional victims. Anti-Woke Crusader turned |
| 0:20.7 | CBS News editor-in-chief, Barry Weiss. |
| 0:23.3 | Barry is a pioneer in the same way that actual pioneers were pioneers. That's to say that, |
| 0:28.1 | ideologically speaking, she shows up in places where people have been living for thousands of years |
| 0:32.5 | and acts like she discovered this cool new thing called being a center-right conservative with |
| 0:36.8 | a Zionist streak. |
| 0:38.2 | Weiss was born on March 25, 1984, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her parents, Lou and Amy, |
| 0:43.7 | owned companies called Weiss House and Weiss Lines, which sell interior design notions and flooring, |
| 0:49.1 | respectively. Wice and her three younger sisters were raised in the historically Jewish neighborhood |
| 0:53.9 | of Squirrel Hill, and she had her bat mitzvah at the Tree of Life Synagogue. |
| 0:57.7 | She was the student council president in high school and a self-described nerd. |
| 1:01.2 | Picture Lisa Simpson, but a yinzer. |
| 1:03.8 | She claims that her parents differed politically. |
| 1:05.6 | Her dad was the conservative and her mom was the liberal, but in an interview with a local newspaper, they'd both claim that the |
| 1:11.3 | most important issue to both of them was what was good for Israel. Writer Glenn Greenwald would later |
| 1:16.5 | claim that Zionism has always been Barry's North Star. For our purposes, we're using the definition |
| 1:21.2 | of Zionism contained in Encyclopedia Britannica, which is, to paraphrase here, a Jewish nationalist |
| 1:27.2 | movement that originated in the |
| 1:28.9 | later half of the 19th century with the goal of establishing a Jewish national state in Palestine. |
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