Co-Hosts Mock Lindsey Graham as Demonic War Hawk After Death on Ive Had It
Welch and Sullivan mocked Graham after his death and made claims about his private life.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYNewsBusters presents this as an opinion blog, and the article uses strongly evaluative language while primarily recounting selected remarks from the show. It attributes the remarks but offers little independent verification or broader editorial context.
- Editorial standards — The article includes direct quotations but also uses condemnatory descriptions and provides little independent verification.
- Source type — Recorded as opinion; the article is openly critical rather than a neutral news report.
- Author attribution — The page identifies an author, Curtis Houck.
The article supplies extensive attributed quotations from the show, but largely presents one side and does not independently substantiate the allegations it recounts or include a response from Graham or his representatives.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article presents the co-hosts’ remarks chiefly to criticize them, with no response from the hosts or meaningful alternative context. Its own language is openly evaluative.
- Source diversity — The piece quotes the show but offers no response from the co-hosts or other sources.
- Loaded language — The article uses repeated derogatory and judgmental descriptions.
- Opinion vs reporting — The piece is presented as opinion and includes the author's judgments alongside its account of the remarks.
The piece frames the co-hosts’ remarks in sharply condemnatory terms and emphasizes criticism of figures associated with the political left. Its language and selection of details produce a strong right-leaning presentation.
- Language tone — Uses highly charged descriptions of the co-hosts and their remarks.
- Framing — Centers the story on condemning the hosts’ treatment of Graham.
- Source selection — Relies on selected show excerpts without broader context or a response from the hosts.
NewsBusters reports that podcast co-hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan mocked Senator Lindsey Graham after his death, making sexualized jokes and calling him a war hawk. The article says Welch made unsubstantiated claims about Graham’s private life.
The article recounts Welch joking about a photograph of Graham holding a drone and making sexualized remarks about it. Welch and Sullivan also described him as hateful and a war hawk; the article says Welch alleged that sex workers had signed nondisclosure agreements and made other claims about his private life without evidence.
Community verdict
VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Graham in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Graham’s record.
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SWIPE →Subject of the co-hosts’ remarks after his death
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Part of a bigger story
26 OUTLETSOutlets agree that South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham died at 71 after a sudden illness, concluding decades of public service in Congress. Left-leaning outlets focus on criticism of Graham's record and condemn Democratic colleagues for offering warm tributes. Center outlets examine the circumstances of his death, Senate succession, and his bipartisan legislative efforts. Right-leaning outlets, like Fox News, highlight his foreign policy influence and defend his memory against attacks from critics.
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