The Bulwark Podcast

Podbit · The Bulwark Podcast

Jane Coaston: POTUS's Racism Notches Another Win

Explore episode Jun 26, 2026

Where this was said

Megyn Kelly Tells Haitians to Go Home

At 9:51 · chapter starts 8:50

Tim Miller plays audio of Megyn Kelly telling Haitian immigrants that Americans 'filled this country with our work ethic and our culture and our values' and that the immigrants' presence 'only dilutes it.' Kelly's rant includes the claim that Springfield, Ohio residents are being killed by drunk-driving Haitians — a community she has never visited and whose information she receives only from already-outraged listeners of her own show. Jane Coaston introduces the concept of 'vice signaling': the performative display of cruelty to signal authenticity to an audience that wants to hear it, a financially rational act for Kelly regardless of its accuracy. Coaston notes Kelly was a radically different, softer on-air personality when working for NBC — evidence the persona is strategic. Tim Miller goes further, arguing Kelly has built nothing culturally and has only worked to tear the country apart. He counters the 'we built this' claim by pointing to New Orleans Creole culture as proof of deep Haitian contribution to America, invoking Bess Scott, Blake Griffin, and Pierre Toussaint. The hosts land on 'stolen white people valor' as the defining concept for this kind of identity inflation.

Similar podbits

News
The ActBlue-Funded Campaign to Pin Charlie Kirk's Death on TPUSA

#2535 - Andrew Wilson · Aug 5, 2026 News

A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.

News
Why the Israel-Killed-Kirk Theory Doesn't Hold Up

#2535 - Andrew Wilson · Aug 5, 2026 News

The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.

News
The Erika Kirk Situation: Grief Under an Impossible Public Microscope

#2535 - Andrew Wilson · Aug 5, 2026 News

Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.

News
The Corey Ruiz Shooting: Hot Takes vs. Waiting for Facts

#2535 - Andrew Wilson · Aug 5, 2026 News

Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.