Jessica Tarlov, who co-hosts Fox News’s top-rated show The Five, jokingly took a swipe at cable news on the most recent episode of Raging Moderates – the podcast she co-hosts with Scott Galloway.

Tarlov ended the interview with guest Larry Sabato, a political scientist and veteran election forecaster, asking, “So we ask all our guests this: what’s one issue that makes you rage? And what’s one issue that you think we should all calm down about?”

“I rage about a lot of things, but mainly it’s my age. Probably because I watch more TV news than I ever have before,” replied Sabato as Tarlov quipped, “As someone who’s on cable news, I apologize to the entire world for what we export.”

“It’s okay. It’s really social media more than it is TV. TV funnels, what’s selling on social media, I think, more than the reverse,” Sabato replied, adding:

That makes me rage. There’s nothing we can do about social media. I wish we could.

I gave up on flying cars, but we were promised a time machine and we still don’t have one because I’d like to go back and make it impossible to create social media. I don’t know how I’d do it, but I would try to do that in addition to preventing assassinations and lots of other terrible things. We can’t survive for the long term the way we are now.

We really can’t. I wish people would focus on that. I know it’s hard, as Scott was saying earlier, it’s very difficult to get people to care about democracy enough to make it an issue or the issue in an election.

I completely agree that that is true for now. It ought not to be true after January 6th. Maybe the Democratic Party would do better just rerunning the films of January 6th instead of the crap they put out there on TV ads, the clever TV ads that pay the consultants enormous fees.
Just remind people what was at stake and what could have happened. We would not have had a democratic election in 2020 if Trump had had his way. And in the recesses of his mind, you’re not going to tell me that he isn’t thinking of ways to continue his regime either with him or with somebody that he trusts, a member of his family or maybe JD Vance, I don’t know, in four years. And I’m even worried about 2026.