meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Federalist Radio Hour

’You're Wrong' With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 180: The Grinch

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Join Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway and her husband, Federalist Book Editor Mark Hemingway, as they summarize the latest Bari Weiss and 60 Minutes brouhaha, discuss news that Fulton County Georgia illegally certified hundreds of thousands of votes in the 2020 election, and analyze a bombshell Compact Magazine article detailing how millennial white men were systematically shut out of opportunities due to racism. Mollie and Mark also review Late Night and argue about the aesthetics and message of Chuck Jones' 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The Federalist is a nonprofit, and we depend entirely on our listeners and readers — not corporations. If you value fearless, independent journalism, please consider a tax-deductible gift today at TheFederalist.com/donate. Your support keeps us going.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Welcome to the latest episode of Your Wrong.

0:18.6

Normally with David Harsani and Molly Hemingway, but this week

0:23.0

it's a special episode. So you're here with Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief at the Federalist,

0:29.5

and my amazing husband, Mark Hemingway, books editor at the Federalist. And the person who gets to

0:37.4

deal with me day in and day out in life. How are you doing,

0:42.8

Mark? I'm glad to be here in my own home with my own wife. So David Harsani is taking the week

0:51.2

off as Jews normally do during Christmas, you know, so that's good.

0:57.1

I think it's technically Hanukkah right now, although to be honest, that's not one of the bigger

1:01.1

holidays for the Jews.

1:02.2

Yeah, although for David, it really is a big holiday.

1:04.8

He's always been a big fan of Hanukkah.

1:07.3

But we're here, and we're just going to do a quick episode on some of the biggest news of the week.

1:14.9

Just a quick episode.

1:16.6

Anything we say something like that, it then becomes a three-hour episode too.

1:23.2

But just wanted to go over a couple stories and we'll start with the 60 Minutes Bruhaha,

1:31.3

which is a really big story in Washington, D.C., probably less of a story in most of the country.

1:38.3

But it's an interesting one that relates to our current media landscape.

1:42.3

And so I think it's worth going through.

1:46.4

So CBS News has, you know, what it frequently has called its flagship product, 60 Minutes,

1:54.2

which has had a very troubled past, which I'm sure we'll get into.

1:57.9

And the media outlet has had a bunch of bumps in recent years, and new owners

2:04.1

placed Barry Weiss, the editor-in-chief of the free press, in as the head of the organization,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Radio America, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Radio America and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.