Topic: Josh Marshall

Bill Kristol and Brian Stelter criticized Fox News management for allowing guests to use inflammatory rhetoric regarding George Soros. Kristol argued that the "Soros occupied" narrative is a trope that should have been corrected in real-time by the host. The controversy has led to calls for Fox investors and talent to distance themselves from the network's primetime programming.

Columnist Maureen Dowd is scrutinized for allegedly plagiarizing a paragraph from Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo blog in the New York Times. The hosts analyze the text, noting that only the pronoun "we" was changed to "the Bush crowd," likely by an editor. They highlight the irony of Dowd being the person who originally exposed Joe Biden's plagiarism in 1987.