The Gerry Callahan Show

A longtime Newsmax contributor, #1 rated morning radio host for over 20 years, and throat-cancer survivor, Gerry Callahan calls it like he sees it and offers sharp commentary on the news of the day. With an emphasis on politics, Gerry also brings his unique takes on major sports stories and cultural issues. He has covered The Olympics for Sports Illustrated, numerous World Series and Super Bowls and he offers conservative political opinions from Boston, the belly of the liberal beast.

News Commentary
Politics
1
The Left Keeps Proving It Can’t Be Normal
- A CIA whistleblower blows open the COVID origin cover-up, with Fauci cast as the central liar who buries the lab story to protect himself and everyone tied to it. - The media is accused of choosing trivia over scandal, obsessing over a White House ballroom while downplaying fraud, FBI wins, and the deeper COVID reckoning. - Kash Patel turns a Senate hearing into a counterattack, brushing off drinking smears and hitting back at Chris Van Hollen with his own taxpayer-funded bar tab and El Salvador stunt. - Los Angeles becomes the live test case for Democratic decay, with Spencer Pratt framed as the outsider exposing Karen Bass as incompetent, rattled, and politically hollow. - The broader thesis is relentless: from judges to late-night hosts to big-city politicians, the left no longer persuades, governs, or even hides its dysfunction — it just keeps performing collapse in public.
56 min
2
Fauci Skates, Crime Explodes, and the Left Stil...
- Fauci slips past the most obvious perjury deadline, turning one of the biggest COVID lies into yet another escape from accountability. - A gunman who once shot at police ends up back on a Cambridge street firing wildly again, with the episode pinning the blame on a judge who never should have let him out. - New York’s crime machine looks even darker when a career criminal murders a 76-year-old after a prior victim refuses to cooperate because she does not want to send “another black man” to jail. - Anti-Jewish intimidation in Brooklyn is framed as open-air terror, with masked mobs marching through Jewish neighborhoods while political and media elites keep normalizing it. - The 2028 contrast sharpens fast: Rubio surges on the right while AOC climbs on the left, setting up the possibility of a showdown between fluency and total delusion.
56 min
3
No More Apologies: The Culture War Just Entered...
- The episode frames the moment as a turning point: people stop being afraid of being called racist, transphobic, or worse, and start openly rejecting the identity rules that shaped politics for years. - Tennessee and Virginia become proof of that shift, with race-based districting taking direct hits and Democrats left arguing that replacing entrenched power with a black Republican is somehow oppression. - Justin Pearson is cast as pure performance, a privilege-soaked activist playing revolutionary while melting down over a map that destroys his path to Congress. - Spencer Pratt keeps gaining traction in Los Angeles by doing the one thing career politicians refuse to do: speak bluntly about fire failures, homeless chaos, union power, and civic collapse. - The broader message is ruthless and simple: the old intimidation tactics are losing their grip, and once the fear breaks, the whole political script starts falling apart.
54 min
4
An LA Outsider Destroys the Script as Democrats...
- Tennessee’s redistricting fight blows up the Democratic racial narrative, with the old map scrapped, Steve Cohen on the way out, and a black Republican woman now positioned to take the seat. - Justin Pearson turns the Statehouse into political theater, screaming about oppression while acting out a race-first script the episode treats as pure fraud. - Meghan Kelly and Tucker Carlson are hammered again for suggesting concern about radical Islam is somehow driven by Israel, while the episode insists the threat is domestic, immediate, and undeniable. - Spencer Pratt keeps emerging as the raw anti-establishment force in Los Angeles, landing direct hits on Karen Bass over the fires, the cover-ups, and the city’s collapse. - Kamala Harris is cast as the perfect Democratic symbol: rich, insulated, and wildly out of touch, declaring the American dream dead while living a life that proves the exact opposite.
54 min
5
Four Days Left: Will Fauci Finally Face the Rec...
- The episode opens with a full-throttle demand to charge Anthony Fauci before the deadline expires, framing him as the central architect of the COVID lies, lockdown damage, and public distrust that still lingers. - Fauci’s wet-market story gets ripped apart again, with the Wuhan lab, gain-of-function funding, and years of evasive testimony treated as an obvious scandal hiding in plain sight. - A new split inside the right takes center stage as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly are accused of drifting into soft-focus defenses of Islam while downplaying the scale and pattern of Islamist violence. - Barack Obama’s media reemergence is cast as pure hypocrisy, with his complaints about weaponized government and presidential overreach treated as laughable given what was done to Trump. - Spencer Pratt becomes the surprise chaos candidate in Los Angeles, hammering homelessness, illegal voting, and Democratic failure with a bluntness the rest of the field cannot match.
56 min
6
Trump’s Revenge Tour Just Sent a Shockwave Thro...
- Indiana turns into a political execution scene as Trump-backed challengers crush Republican holdouts who refused to redraw congressional maps. - The White House edges closer to a deal with Iran, with the war framed as already won and the only remaining job being to lock in terms and get out. - Marco Rubio emerges as the clearest messenger of the week, making the case that a nuclear Iran would hold the region and the global economy hostage. - California Democrats keep sprinting left, with open support for taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants and a field defined by chaos, vanity, and ideological rot. - The show closes on raw moral contrast: a child killer gets death in Texas while anti-Israel mobs in New York turn open intimidation of Jews into just another night on the street.
53 min
7
A Judge Apologizes to a Would-Be Trump Assassin...
- A new poll becomes the thesis of the episode: Democrats are portrayed as seeing America not as flawed, but as fundamentally evil, which is framed as the real engine behind their politics. - A massive Medicaid fraud scheme in Ohio is exposed as another branch of a nationwide grift, with foreign-run home-health outfits accused of siphoning millions through fake care and paper-thin companies. - The murder of two women by an illegal migrant in New York is used to hammer Democrats for protecting criminal aliens while the media allegedly buries the human cost. - A federal judge apologizes to the alleged White House gunman over jail conditions, and the courtroom outrage is framed as proof that political violence against Trump gets treated with absurd sympathy. - The back half widens into a brutal indictment of institutional decay, from Eric Swalwell’s implosion to Chicago blaming Walgreens instead of thieves to Republicans refusing even modest welfare reform.
57 min
8
Elizabeth Warren Helped Kill an Airline — Then ...
- An illegal migrant allegedly murders two women on Long Island, and the episode hammers the media and Democratic politicians for treating the story like it barely exists. - Elizabeth Warren is cast as a central villain in Spirit Airlines’ collapse, with the blocked JetBlue merger framed as a fake-populist move that helps kill thousands of jobs and cheap flights. - Graham Plattner is portrayed as a radical fraud wrapped in working-class theater, with fresh scrutiny on his Nazi tattoo, communist self-branding, Hamas sympathy, and elite donor backing. - Tucker Carlson takes a beating for drifting so far into obsession and provocation that even the New York Times catches him flatly denying his own words. - Antifa is treated as a protected domestic terror force, roaming Portland in plain sight, attacking a journalist, and exposing how little blue-city authorities are willing to do when the violence comes from the left.
52 min
9
A Communist and a Nazi Walk Into Maine — and th...
58 min
10
One Supreme Court Ruling Just Blew Up the Democ...
- Maine Democrats elevate a Senate nominee buried under explosive baggage, turning the race into a test of how far the party now bends for radicals. - The Supreme Court blocks race-driven district engineering in Louisiana, and the ruling is framed as a direct hit on a decades-long Democratic power strategy. - Hakeem Jeffries and Barack Obama react as if the sky is falling, while the episode argues the ruling simply strips race-first politics out of mapmaking. - Pete Hegseth unloads on Democrats for calling a two-month Iran fight a quagmire, accusing them of feeding defeatism while the mission is still landing blows. - Anthony Fauci is cast as the next big target, with fresh legal pressure on his orbit fueling the belief that the COVID-era cover-up is finally closing in on him.
56 min
11
One Indictment, 22 Raids, and a Political Class...
- James Comey gets indicted over the “86 47” threat, turning one of the most infamous anti-Trump operators into the hunted instead of the hunter. - Todd Blanche is framed as quietly turning the Justice Department into a wrecking ball, stacking raids, indictments, and investigations into the Democratic power structure at high speed. - The Minnesota Somali fraud network gets hit with sweeping raids, and Tim Walz is portrayed as a desperate bystander trying to steal credit for a crackdown he never wanted. - Jake Tapper and Jimmy Kimmel are cast as two faces of the same media rot: one hides behind journalism, the other behind comedy, while both push anti-Trump poison and then play victim. - The show closes on a brutal premise: nearly half of Democrats now believe Butler was staged, proving the problem is no longer spin or partisanship but full-scale political insanity.
52 min
12
The Raids Begin: One Cover-Up, One Welfare Empi...
- A former Fauci adviser is indicted over alleged COVID-origin cover-up activity, and the segment frames it as the first real crack in the wall around Fauci himself. - Federal agents raid more than 20 sites in Minneapolis in a sweeping fraud probe, with the crackdown cast as long-overdue exposure of a taxpayer-funded Somali grift machine. - Ilhan Omar is ridiculed as both corrupt and unserious, with old footage resurfacing to portray her as a symbol of the political decay protecting the Minneapolis fraud culture. - The latest Trump assassination attempt is used to argue that Democrats are not just fueling political hatred but mass-producing unstable believers who act on the party’s rhetoric. - Jimmy Kimmel, Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, and Ted Lieu are all cast as parts of the same machine: media and political figures who inflame, deflect, and then pretend they had nothing to do with the consequences.
55 min
13
One Failed Assassin, One Sick Manifesto, and a ...
- The latest would-be Trump assassin is framed not as a fringe outlier but as a fully mainstream Democrat, soaked in the same rhetoric, lies, and resentments pushed daily by the left.  - His manifesto is treated as a direct copy of Democratic talking points, branding Trump a pedophile, rapist, and traitor in language the episode says is lifted almost word for word from media and party figures.  - The reaction from liberal commentators, activists, and online Democrats is cast as morally depraved, with many portrayed as disappointed the assassination attempt failed rather than horrified it happened. - Trump’s response after the attack is presented as calm, disciplined, and presidential, especially in contrast to the media’s effort to blur the motive and downplay the obvious ideological source of the violence. - The show widens into a broader warning that left-wing violence is now normalized, from public threats and political bloodlust to cultural rot that excuses brutal street attacks and then blames the victim.
54 min
14
The Patriots Scandal Just Turned Into a Full-Bl...
- The Mike Vrabel–Diana Russini scandal explodes into a national obsession, overtaking war, politics, and the NFL Draft with a mix of sex, secrecy, and public humiliation.  - New photos and an older timeline turn the story from rumor into a years-long affair narrative, with her son’s name adding an even more toxic layer to the fallout. - Vrabel is portrayed as publicly broken but professionally safe, with the view that the scandal destroys reputations and marriages without necessarily costing him his coaching job. - The Iran conflict is framed as effectively won already, with the blockade presented as a low-risk pressure campaign that hurts Tehran far more than it hurts the United States. - The back half widens into a broader indictment of American rot, from congressional insider trading and the normalization of Hasan Piker to brutal street violence in New York that gets ignored because it breaks the preferred narrative.
61 min
15
Trump Saves Eight Women as the Left Stays Silent
- The SPLC indictment is framed as proof that the anti-Trump hate narrative is not just dishonest but potentially criminal, with paid agitators allegedly fueling the very extremism they claimed to fight. - Charlottesville is recast as the centerpiece of a manufactured political hoax, with Biden, the media, and Democratic operatives accused of knowingly building years of propaganda on a lie. - Trump is credited with saving eight Iranian women from execution, while feminist voices and major liberal figures are mocked for saying nothing because the rescue does not fit their politics. - Ilhan Omar is portrayed as cornered by financial scrutiny, with the collapse of her supposed winery and mounting questions around fraud treated as signs that legal trouble is closing in. - The episode closes by tying border chaos, welfare abuse, and media stupidity into one warning: the same people who opened the country and lied about everything are still demanding more power.
55 min
16
Charlottesville Was a Setup? Kash Patel Just Bl...
- The DOJ indicts the Southern Poverty Law Center, accusing it of paying extremist groups it claimed to be fighting and turning the anti-Trump “hate” narrative into a fraud operation. - Charlottesville is recast as a staged political weapon, with new allegations that paid agitators helped create the spectacle later used to brand Trump and the right as racist.  - Kash Patel sues The Atlantic after its hit piece falls apart, then follows it with the SPLC indictment, turning a media attack into a counterpunch. - Democrats keep rooting for U.S. failure in Iran, with Seth Moulton declaring America has already lost even as the regime bleeds money and leverage. - The episode closes on two home-front warnings: Democrats seize more structural power in Virginia while Ilhan Omar’s finances and even MAGA influencer culture get framed as scams hiding in plain sight.
54 min
17
Chris Murphy Gets Caught Rooting for America to...
- Chris Murphy openly celebrates false Iranian propaganda about ships breaking the blockade, then scrambles to call it “sarcasm” after getting torched.  - The episode frames Murphy and the Democratic left as openly rooting for U.S. failure in Iran because a Trump win is politically intolerable to them. - Trump warns that the ceasefire is hanging by a thread, and the tone shifts from hopeful dealmaking to the real possibility that bombing resumes fast. - Virginia becomes the domestic warning sign, with Democrats using ruthless redistricting to choke off Republican seats while GOP leadership barely fights back. - The 2028 Democratic bench is mocked as a circus of radicals, grifters, and media creatures, from Kamala Harris’s incoherence to Don Lemon floating a presidential run. 
54 min
18
A Nazi Salute, a Hamas Fanboy, and the Left’s N...
- Trump escalates hard in the Strait of Hormuz, warning Iran that bridges and power plants are next if the talks in Pakistan fail.  - A U.S. destroyer stops an Iranian-linked cargo ship with surgical disabling fire, then sends in Marines to seize it and enforce the blockade in dramatic fashion. - Chris Murphy and Tim Walz are blasted for going overseas to attack the United States while the country is in the middle of a live military showdown. - Maine’s Senate race becomes a warning flare, with Democrat Graham Platner portrayed as a far-left extremist carrying Hamas baggage, Nazi imagery, and real momentum.  - The immigration fight turns uglier at home as Republicans who back protections for Haitians are accused of betraying voters, while Democrats keep defending mass migration with claims that collapse under scrutiny.
50 min
19
Trump Reopens the Strait — and the Panic Mercha...
- The Strait reopens, oil drops hard, and the blockade is framed as a clean strategic win that forces Iran to fold without a broader naval clash. - Trump moves to shut down further Israeli strikes in Lebanon, undercutting the claim that he is simply being dragged around by foreign interests.  - The focus snaps back home fast, where Republicans are blasted for helping extend protections for Haitian migrants despite voter anger over crime, welfare dependence, and open-border fallout. - The House is portrayed as squandering a rare window of unified Republican power, failing to deliver on election security, deportation priorities, and the basic promises that drove the last win. - Another far-left Democrat rises in New Jersey, while figures like Ilhan Omar and other urban progressives are used to argue that the radical wing is gaining ground just as the right starts sleepwalking toward the midterms. 
59 min
20
Massages, Sex Changes, and Welfare Fraud — Paid...
- Tax Day is framed as proof that working Americans are getting fleeced while the biggest earners already carry nearly the entire federal tax burden.  - California is accused of peak government depravity after public funds allegedly go to transgender surgeries for illegal migrants housed in homeless shelters. - Boston gets blasted for giving city-funded wellness checks to LGBTQ migrants for massages, yoga, acupuncture, salon visits, and gym memberships while the city faces deep budget pressure. - House Republicans are hammered for joining Democrats to protect Haitian migrants from removal, even after violent crimes and welfare abuse are used as examples of the cost.  - Eric Swalwell’s downfall escalates again as a fifth accuser describes rape, choking, and drugging, while allies, media figures, and political friends are accused of covering for him until the scandal becomes impossible to hide.
58 min
21
Swalwell Finally Crashes — And the Cover-Up Fal...
- Eric Swalwell’s collapse is framed as long overdue, with sexual-assault allegations, explicit behavior, and years of protected misconduct finally detonating his career.  - Democrats and media figures are accused of knowingly shielding Swalwell for years, only turning on him once he becomes too toxic to survive statewide.  - Trump’s clash with Pope Leo is cast as a deeper fight over borders, crime, and immigration, with church leadership portrayed as openly aligned against enforcement. - Democrats are shown trying to rehabilitate Hasan Piker, only for him to double down on extremist rhetoric and expose just how radical the coalition has become. - California moves to protect the fraud machine instead of stopping it, with lawmakers pushing a bill meant to punish the kind of reporting that exposes Medicaid and hospice scams. 
52 min
22
Eric Swalwell Implodes — And Democrats Finally ...
- Trump launches a blockade on Iranian shipping, escalating pressure fast after failed red-line talks and turning the Strait of Hormuz into the next major battlefield.  - Eric Swalwell’s political career detonates after sexual-assault allegations, explicit behavior, and past hypocrisy collide all at once, forcing him out of the California governor’s race.  - Democrats are accused of knowing for years that Swalwell was reckless and predatory, only abandoning him once he becomes too toxic to win statewide. - Kamala Harris all but signals another presidential run, while Mark Kelly leans into race-conscious DEI rhetoric so hard it sounds like parody. - New York’s slide under Zohran Mamdani gets darker as a cop is sent to prison for trying to stop a fleeing drug dealer, reinforcing the sense that criminals get mercy while police get crushed.
52 min
23
Trump’s Civil War Inside MAGA Just Went Nuclear
- The split inside MAGA is framed as real, ugly, and healthy, with public infighting presented as proof the right still debates ideas instead of marching in lockstep. - Trump unloads on Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, casting their Iran criticism as opportunism, disloyalty, and low-IQ grandstanding.  - Democrats are accused of embracing outright extremism after a Michigan Senate candidate appears with Hasan Piker, who is described as anti-American, pro-Hamas, and openly violent.  - Nick Shirley’s California reporting is treated as real journalism, exposing staggering Medicaid and hospice fraud while Gavin Newsom’s machine is accused of knowing all along.  - The episode closes by hammering Republicans pushing immigration amnesty, portraying the Dignidad Act as a direct betrayal of the deportation mandate voters thought they were electing.
52 min
24
Ceasefire Abroad, Amnesty at Home — and the Rig...
- The Iran campaign is framed as a clean military success, with Tehran losing leadership, naval power, air capacity, and leverage before a fragile ceasefire even begins.  - Media critics are accused of twisting themselves into knots, calling Trump both a reckless warmonger and a puppet at the same time while ignoring the operation’s actual results.  - A White House reporter gets torched for questioning America’s “moral high ground,” with the response centering on Iran’s terrorism, executions, and decades of anti-American violence. - MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is mocked for obsessing over inclusive language in a rescue mission, turning a high-risk military recovery into another culture-war meltdown.  - The focus then snaps back home, where Republican support for the “Dignidad Act” is treated as a full betrayal of the deportation mandate voters thought they were electing.
57 min
25
Trump Forces a Ceasefire — Then the Media Prete...
- Trump’s ceasefire is framed as a hard-won pressure play, not a surrender, with Iran pushed to the table only after overwhelming military losses and credible U.S. threats. - Media outlets and Democrats are accused of instantly rewriting the outcome, shifting from “Trump is a madman” to “Trump chickened out” the moment bombing pauses.  - Tehran’s demands are portrayed as fantasy, with sanctions relief, proxy protection, and control of the Strait of Hormuz presented as proof the real fight is far from settled.  - A Haitian migrant in Florida allegedly murders store clerk Nilafar Yasmin with a hammer after being allowed to stay in the country, turning the segment into a furious indictment of Biden-era immigration policy. - Gavin Newsom’s wife and a Patriots resort scandal round out the episode, both used as examples of elite dysfunction, bad judgment, and total moral unseriousness. 
55 min