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Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
Sat May 22, 2021, 12:59 AM May 2021

Caitlyn Jenner flakes out on popular conservative podcast, hosts ruthlessly mock her 'scam' campaign

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Caitlyn-Jenner-governor-recall-podcast-Newsom-Smug-16194166.php

California gubernatorial recall election candidate Caitlyn Jenner has made herself scarce to media outlets since declaring her candidacy, and apparently pulled a no-show on a popular conservative podcast.

The "Ruthless" podcast, hosted by former Mitch McConnell Chief of Staff Josh Holmes and Twitter troll extraordinaire Comfortably Smug, was launched in October 2020 and regularly features prominent Republican politicians. Ted Cruz, Kevin McCarthy, Chris Christie, Mike Lee and more have all appeared on the podcast.


Holmes opened the latest edition of the podcast by stating that Jenner's campaign reached out to the "Ruthless" team to schedule an appearance —only for Jenner to cancel last-minute. Podcast personality Amanda Henneberg, who goes by "Hollywood Henn," said she gave Jenner's team "several other options" for times to record, but Jenner's campaign still turned them down.

Holmes did not hold back.


"You don't reach out to a show that you ultimately don't go on," he said. "You don't unprofessionally let people know that you can't make it unless you are a completely unorganized s—tshow that is a scam campaign from the very beginning that is doing nothing but trying to draw attention away from legitimate candidates who have a capacity to try to unseat the most liberal, disingenuous piece of garbage governor in this country, maybe aside from Gov. Cuomo."


The hosts spent several minutes blasting Jenner for the no-show, especially since Jenner has done only two interviews (one with Fox News' Sean Hannity and the other with CNN's Dana Ba
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Caitlyn Jenner flakes out on popular conservative podcast, hosts ruthlessly mock her 'scam' campaign (Original Post) Demovictory9 May 2021 OP
Caitlin is one of 3 women so flakey they could be phyllo dough, against 3 old white men... Hekate May 2021 #1
She's Doing It To GRIFT Money SoCalDavidS May 2021 #2

Hekate

(90,707 posts)
1. Caitlin is one of 3 women so flakey they could be phyllo dough, against 3 old white men...
Sat May 22, 2021, 01:06 AM
May 2021

... so take your pick. I never, ever hear about anybody but Caitlin, so I had to finally look it up. God save us. This is a stupid way to run a government.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-04-26/whos-running-against-newsom-california-recall-election

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
2. She's Doing It To GRIFT Money
Sat May 22, 2021, 01:34 AM
May 2021

There is ZERO chance that she's going to even get 5% of the vote. Her only purpose is for PR and to raise campaign money.

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