Maureen Callahan

Callahan argues Weiss knows how to oppose and destroy institutions rather than build them.

“I actually think that what's going on here is that Barry doesn't know how to create. She knows how to destroy”

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Callahan predicts Bari Weiss will not last more than a year in her CBS News role.

“She's not going to last more than a year in this job”

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Callahan says she has heard from a source that Bari Weiss is a poor manager, including at The Free Press.

“Barry's terrible at managing people. Terrible. She was terrible at the free press”

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Callahan argues Weiss lacks investigative and television experience and suggests the Ellisons have buyer's remorse.

“I don't think Barry Weiss has ever, ever worked as an investigative reporter. I don't think she's ever done a door knock”

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Callahan argues Lively's conduct in the dispute explains why she has not been cast in a new role.

“It's no accident that Blake Lively has not booked another acting role”

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Callahan says Paramount dropped three Reynolds projects and predicts any divorce would be driven by his career concerns.

“if they do get divorced, trust me, it will be because Ryan is trying to salvage his career”

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Callahan argues Lively has damaged the credibility of other women with legitimate harassment claims.

“The incalculable damage that Blake Lively has done to every other woman, especially in her Hollywood sphere, who wants to come forward with legitimate claims”

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Callahan recommends Savannah Guthrie step away and later use her fame for good, like John Walsh.

“She should go like the John Walsh route. She should disappear for a while, metabolize this, come back, use her fame for good”

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Callahan says her reporting with former FBI agents showed the bureau is far more fallible than its popular image.

“I know from former FBI agents who I spoke to extensively for one of my books that it's simply not so”

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Callahan speculates that Swift and Kelce may already be secretly legally married.

“I think they might already be legally married, secretly legally married”

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Callahan argues that staging the wedding at Madison Square Garden shows Taylor Swift is a malignant narcissist.

“I think Taylor Swift is a malignant narcissist. Only a malignant narcissist mounts her wedding at MSG”

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Callahan rejects Burden's claim that she did not understand her finances, given her wealthy upbringing.

“A woman who comes from that level of wealth has had a team of accountants and lawyers and money managers since birth”

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Callahan argues that Burden wrote Strangers as revenge against her ex-husband.

“This is the sole reason this book exists. It is to punish the husband who had the temerity to leave her”

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Callahan argues Caitlin Clark is mistreated in the WNBA because she is white and straight.

“This is the conversation that, again, the mainstream media really won't have. She's white and she's straight. That's the problem”

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Callahan suggests Harry and Meghan's UK trip is aimed at producing more Netflix content.

“they are potentially coming with cameras for another Netflix”

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Callahan says people tend to stay attached to the music of their youth for neurological reasons.

“that's why generations sort of get stuck in their their the music of their youth”

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Callahan argues the 250th anniversary is underplayed by mainstream media because Donald Trump is president.

“I feel like it's not as celebrated in the mainstream media because the current occupant of the White House is the current occupant of the White House”

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Callahan argues the Kelce family's rise in media and culture is due to Taylor Swift.

“Like these people are infesting the culture and it's because of Taylor”

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Callahan, citing her own parents' illnesses, criticizes Jill Biden for bringing an ill Joe Biden to a book event.

“That is not a kind act that you do for the man you say you love more than anybody”

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Callahan argues workplace competition can intensify as one rises because there are fewer top positions.

“sometimes I think it can get more intense, you know, because now you're fighting for fewer positions in rarefied air”

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Callahan says publishers' legal reviews protect against lawsuits rather than fact-check, so prudent authors hire outside fact-checkers.

“As the author, it's prudent to spend your money to hire an outside fact checker to make sure that everything, you've got your eyes dotted”

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Callahan argues Maher's show has declined, relying on predictable guests and treating female guests differently.

“Now he kind of has just like this sort of rotating lazy Susan of predictable guests”

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Callahan argues compulsive womanizers do not truly love women and treat them as interchangeable.

“I truly believe that womanizers do not love women. They don't. Women are there to scratch and itch. They are interchangeable”

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