Of Course, the NY Times is Fawning Over Jennifer Welch

David wrote about Jennifer Welch last month and I think he really nailed it when he said, “Her brand…is being vile.” Here’s a recent clip in which she attacked Riley Gaines:

Who the heck is this Jennifer Welch person? What a nasty, foul human being.

She is the insufferable one! Insulting women, Christians, calling Riley a b!tch just for daring to stand up for women and girls.

How dare she call herself a feminist. Evil.
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— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) October 29, 2025

So it was inevitable that the NY Times was going to do a fawning profile of Welch, just as they’ve done of fellow leftist creep Hasan Piker. And given how vile, Welch routinely is toward the right, the thesis of this NY Times article is that she’s really tough on, you guessed it, Democrats. In fact, it’s titled “Is This Former Bravo Star Democrats’ Toughest Critic?”

Jennifer Welch, once a reality television star on Bravo, now a commentator on the political left, releases a podcast episode approximately once every seven hours.

She starts her day at 5 a.m., drinks four shots of espresso, reads the news on her laptop, absorbs more news from her muted television and walks her two French bulldogs to a doggy day care center across the street from her Manhattan apartment. By 9 a.m., she has connected over a webcam with her friend and co-host Angie (Pumps) Sullivan in Oklahoma City, where Ms. Welch lived for most of her life.

“Patriots, gaytriots, theytriots, Blacktriots and browntriots,” is how Ms. Welch greets the listeners of their primary podcast, “I’ve Had It.” Ms. Sullivan makes the sound of an American eagle squawking an expletive at the forces who oppress their fans. They might riff about the Epstein files or interview a congressperson. Then Ms. Welch begins her workday running Jennifer Welch Designs, where she styles residences with seven-figure budgets and offers her own line of performance fabrics.

She’s tough on Democrats in the sense that she is constantly urging them to abandon any sense of moderation and unleash their id on the right, just as she does.

She grilled Mr. Booker for 40 minutes about his vote to confirm Charles Kushner as ambassador to France, his recent photo opportunity with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his acceptance of donations from AIPAC, the hard-line pro-Israel lobbying organization. Throughout much of the exchange, Ms. Sullivan could be seen on a split-screen, watching in silent approval. When Mr. Booker appealed to Ms. Welch and her listeners to end the “circular firing squad” of Democrat-on-Democrat sniping, she reloaded.

“I don’t mind taking criticism from folks that don’t necessarily agree with my tactics,” Mr. Booker said. “But on this podcast right now, we share the same aim: cease-fire now, humanitarian aid now, return the hostages now. And — ”

“Do you think he’s a war criminal?” Ms. Welch cut in. “Benjamin Netanyahu. Do you think he’s a war criminal?”

That’s her approach. Demand everyone take the most extreme position and harangue them until they do.

When Ms. Welch tears into a political ally-slash-opponent, YouTube creators chop her hits into clips with titles like “Podcaster Drops a Nuclear Truth Bomb on Spineless Democrats.” In the vernacular of these heat-seeking videos, Ms. Welch “slams,” she “eviscerates,” she “barbecues,” she “destroys.” But Ms. Welch sees her confrontation of Democratic leadership as a service to the party.

“At this point, I feel like they need to learn how to go on podcasts,” she said. “In order for the Democrats to advance, we have to push them.”

There’s almost no mention of her rhetoric directed at the right beyond some offhand comments about Trump. And yet, on the same day the Times published its glowing profile, Welch was saying this about Charlie Kirk and his widow.

“This woman should be kicked to the curb,” Welch raged on her “I’ve Had It” podcast that aired Sunday.

“She is an absolute grifter — just like Donald Trump and just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband was.”…

“You are an opportunistic grifter who weaponizes your gender to demean women. You are a walking, talking, breathing example as to why nobody, number one, wants to be a Christian, and number two, wants to be a female hypocrite such as yourself,” she said.

She’s so repulsive that it’s hard to believe the Times missed this aspect of her output. It seems far more likely that this is precisely why they wanted to profile her. She’s saying the kind of things progressives all believe but rarely are willing to say out loud. She’s demanding other Democrats fall in line. Just like Hasan Piker, she’s being promoted by the NY Times because she’s extreme, not in spite of it.

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