British Journalist MERCILESSLY Destroys Elon Musk | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.

“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”

The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on YouTube. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.

“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”

But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news — the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.

It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.

“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”

With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on YouTube, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do — even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.

While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.

But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks — who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago — the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.

Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king — the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.

I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”

And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”

Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”

It’s probably for the best — the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all — class issues,” he said on a recent episode.

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[ahlishaholloway]

His name is Ian Hislop. He's the editor n chief of Private Eye, a British magazine that does satire and investigative journalism. He's a national treasure as far as I'm concerned.

[AD]

Good to see you've discovered Ian Hislop. A British National Treasure.

[crynne]

Ian Hislop is a proper legend. He's been challenging right wing conservative (Tory) propaganda for decades and its a shame he's not more widely appreciated

[thefuturist]

The best thing about Hislop, and the magazine he edits, is that it’s common to see him go after *everyone*. The rightwing think he’s leftwing, and the leftwing think he’s rightwing; meanwhile he’s just going after the stupid and absurd people in power.

[JHjh]

Australian here, thank you for mentioning the cave rescue (that Elon tried to commandeer).A retired frog diver died during the rescue!My country quietly sent some of our top Search & Rescue staff.The Dr that Elon defamed risked his life to travel into the cave & sedate the children just enough to remain calm, but alert, while being led out a deadly flood swept cave!Elon's 'submarine' was a ridiculous ego trip.We were all supposed to stop the planned rescue because he assured ppl he'd 'tested it in a swimming pool' .😑

[Acidpunk]

Ian Hislop has a reputation as the "most sued man in Britain" because in the UK truth doesnt prevent you from being libellous, and his publication Private Eye revealed A LOT of scandals over here. And as a cherry on top, Private Eye is consistently funny about it, they don't care about upsetting the powerful and they've never been stopped yet.

Ian Hislop and Peter cook used to break into tabloid offices and call their bosses, from their own phone, while they wrecked the place up.

Total mad lads, nothing but respect 🙏

[melissah]

Ian is one of the few true investigative journalists left in the world. He is smart and funny and tells the truth.

[graemekritzinger]

Ian is an absolute legend and has been speaking truth to power for decades you will love his show

[bielefeldkim]

As a Brit, I’m so happy to have people like Ian Hislop in our country.

[ollielewis]

We have developed a nick name in the UK for Musk - he is now known as 'Space Karen'
We no longer take him seriously, we ridicule him and ridiucle everyone who supports him!

[WinterTor]

Ian roasted the shit out of Piers Morgan a while back and it was glorious

[clearskies]

Ian Hislop is the best. He spits facts

[Lollie]

Ian Hislop is editor of Private Eye & also is a team leader in our brilliant UK "news review" satire/humour/review "quiz". He is an absolutely brilliant political observer. He is awesome & thank you for highlighting his talent Kyle xxxx

[helgsy]

You can’t over-praise Ian Hislop, this is literally who he is and what he does. He is very sharp and has no issue raising these kinds of questions in direct conversation with whomever the discussion is about.i think he’s a great reminder of what true journalism used to be and what we need today more than possibly ever.

[anjou]

Hislop is sharp as a knife. But the guy who interviewed him is a hero too. Andrew Marr. He survived a seriouly debilitating brain tumour to come back fighting. An excellent editor, journalist, presenter, he can take the hard stuff full on. Very respected man. 👍✨☕

[wratched]

For any Americans watching, Ian Hislop is essentially the UK's Jon Stewart. Jon even interviewed him.

[Bill-Hicks-ashtray]

Im from the UK. IIan Hislop is a national treasure. He is chief editor o publication; 'Private Eye', which holds corruption to the light and is hilariously witty on a political comedy quiz show called 'Have i got news for you''. Hes a real one!

[GamerKru]

Ian Hislop is doing the work that American mainstream media never does.

[cassandrawinona]

Very nice to see Ian Hislop having a moment like this, I hope this gets shared far and wide, an actual smart person talking as opposed to clown musk.

[michaelkimber]

Ian is the editor in chief of Private Eye. As he said recently "we used to break stories, now we spend most of our time fact checking lies" . He is SO right about Musk.