Bowen Yang, Matt Rogers Walk Back Jasmine Crockett Comments
Podcast hosts apologized after urging listeners not to donate to Crockett’s Senate campaign.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYHip-Hop Wired provides an attributed byline and identifies other outlets as sources for parts of its reporting. The brief article includes direct social-media statements but offers limited original reporting or context.
- Source type — A digital news outlet; the article is a short entertainment and politics report.
- Author attribution — A named author is credited.
- Transparency — The article attributes material to USA Today and Entertainment Weekly and identifies the podcast and social-media source.
- Editorial standards — The article gives little information about its reporting or verification process.
The report includes direct statements from both hosts and attributes additional context to other outlets. It is brief and provides little independent verification, background, or response from Crockett.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article presents the hosts’ comments, the criticism they prompted, and the hosts’ responses, but offers limited independent context or perspective from Crockett.
- Counterarguments presented — The hosts’ explanations and apologies appear, but Crockett’s perspective is not included.
- Source diversity — The report quotes both hosts and refers to reporting by two other outlets.
- Omitted context — The brief account provides little background on the campaign or the full podcast discussion.
The article uses straightforward language, attributes the comments and apologies, and does not take an evident partisan position.
- Language tone — Mostly descriptive language; the account identifies the remarks and subsequent apology.
- Source selection — The report uses the hosts’ statements and attributes additional context to other outlets.
- Framing — The framing centers on the hosts walking back their comments without an evident partisan argument.
Podcast hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers apologized after urging listeners not to donate to Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign and drawing criticism for their comments.
On a January 7 episode of Las Culturistas, Rogers urged listeners to avoid donating to Representative Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign, and Yang agreed. After listeners criticized the comments, Rogers said he regretted that his words suggested a lack of respect for Crockett; Yang reshared the apology and said he should not have weighed in so casually.
Rogers later clarified his remarks by pointing to former congressman Beto O’Rourke, saying O’Rourke could not win the Senate seat despite his popularity and voting record.
Community verdict
VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Crockett in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Crockett’s record.
People in this story
SWIPE →Representative and Senate candidate whose campaign was the subject of the hosts’ comments
Former congressman cited by Rogers as a comparison
Part of a bigger story
13 OUTLETSPodcast hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang urged listeners not to donate to Jasmine Crockett’s Texas Senate campaign, with Rogers questioning her chances of winning. Left-leaning outlets emphasize backlash and apologies, and challenge the hosts’ assessment of Crockett’s prospects. Center outlets cover different aspects, including Rogers’s apology, Crockett’s campaign activity and scrutiny of her finances. Right-leaning outlets foreground the hosts’ prediction that Crockett is unlikely to win and their warning against donations; one article also links campaign funding to primary conflict.
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