Speaker
Rob Finnerty
Appearances over time
1 episodes
Episodes
1
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Rob Finnerty cited Lia Thomas's national swimming championship as proof that even a single transgender athlete can cause significant harm to women's sports competition.
In 2022, a female high school volleyball player suffered a traumatic brain injury after a biological male player spiked a ball into her face at close range.
Rob Finnerty's viral segment on Spanish name pronunciation nearly included a Chinese accent impression that his producer talked him out of doing live on air.
Jussie Smollett appeared at a Harlem Pride event dancing under the lyric 'I ain't hurt no more.' Finnerty and Kelly argue the episode confirms there is no real cancellation on the left — a race-hoaxer who humiliated Robin Roberts and avoided meaningful jail time can simply re-emerge when the moment suits him.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker called Trump cognitively unfit. Finnerty points out the obvious: the same Democratic media ecosystem that suppressed Biden's visible cognitive decline for years — including Jake Tapper, who later wrote a book about it — now diagnoses Trump from the armchair. The hypocrisy is undeniable.
A 29-year-old socialist just knocked out a 15-term Democratic incumbent in Denver, and the DSA's official platform calls for abolishing the Pentagon, the Senate, the presidency, and the federal judiciary. This isn't a coastal fringe movement anymore — it's a full-scale takeover of the Democratic primary system.
Taibbi draws a sharp line between Bernie Sanders's FDR-style populism and the new DSA wave. Having actually studied scientific communism at a Soviet university, he recognizes the ideological type — and says these candidates are a different and far more radical breed.
Poor neighborhoods are roughly split 60-40 in favor of having police — because they live with the consequences of crime. It's elite, wealthy white people insulated from those realities who vote for police and prison abolition. Taibbi has the receipts from two years of street-level research.
Sheridan Gorman's mother came to testify about her 18-year-old daughter, shot dead by an illegal alien in Chicago. Democrats Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin greeted her with condolences — then immediately pivoted to complaining it was their fourth sanctuary cities hearing. Her ad-libbed rebuttal was devastating: 'There is no but when your child is in the coffin.'
Rob Finnerty went viral for calling out news anchors who suddenly shapeshift into exaggerated Spanish accents when reading Hispanic names on air — but not for Chinese, Irish, or any other ethnicity. His producer had to talk him out of doing a Chinese accent demonstration live on air. He makes a compelling case that it's pure, performative pandering.
Nina Totenberg reported Justice Alito's retirement on NPR after mishearing the phrase 'retirement announcements' from an unidentified person in a courthouse hallway. No one said Alito's name. No source confirmed it. She went straight to her intern and NPR's executive editor, who published it on blind trust. It immediately blew up.
NPR's executive editor published the Alito story without any verification because Totenberg told him there had been a courtroom announcement. He called her the preeminent Supreme Court reporter and deferred completely. Taibbi compares it to the Rolling Stone UVA rape story disaster — a cautionary tale about placing too much stock in a single reporter.
Minneapolis is moving to repeal its ban on public bathhouses — originally closed in the 1980s due to the AIDS epidemic. A local lawmaker defended the move as preventing 'weaponization of hypersexualization.' Finnerty notes that these venues historically facilitated minor trafficking and sees no viable public health framework for regulating them today.
Serena Williams returned to Wimbledon at 44, lost in the first round to a 20-year-old ranked 78th in the world, gave a weak handshake, skipped the mandatory press conference, and reportedly complained that her five courtesy cars had been revoked. Finnerty says she handled it like a total loser — and that is a tragedy for a true GOAT.
Pride Month 2026 featured scenes from Washington Square Park of people twerking on poles and light fixtures while throwing bottles at police. Seattle Pride ended with Antifa-affiliated attendees arresting independent journalists who covered the event. Finnerty says these events have become increasingly violent and perverse since gay marriage was legalized in 2015.
CNN's chief legal analyst Laura Coates described the Supreme Court's trans-sports ruling as involving someone 'assigned the male gender at birth.' Craig Melvin delivered a trigger warning before reading language from the opinion. Taibbi traces this to activists learning they could police media language — starting with 'undocumented' replacing 'illegal.'
Analysis
What they talk about
- Sports 60%
- Arts 20%
- Society & Culture 20%
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