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.

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Democrats’ New Favorite Candidate Is a Walking ...
- The Texas runoff is framed as another purge of the old GOP guard, with John Cornyn cast as the next Trump-era casualty and Ken Paxton positioned as the movement’s chosen enforcer. - Maine’s Senate race is portrayed as the real political freak show, with Graham Plattner depicted not as flawed but as openly unfit, radical, and impossible for national Democrats to defend much longer. - Jeff Bezos and the billionaire class become the latest punching bag, with the episode mocking the idea that anti-capitalist rage is a serious answer to fraud, waste, or working-class decline. - Memorial Day gets recast as another cultural split-screen, with Democrats accused of honoring George Floyd while ignoring both fallen service members and the daily bloodshed destroying black communities in cities like Chicago. - The broader theme is blunt: media, activists, and party elites keep mistaking performance for power, while voters are increasingly drawn to people who fight harder, speak plainer, and stop pretending the dysfunction is normal.
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The Mental Breakdown of the Modern Left Is No L...
- Tom Shattuck of The Maine Wire fills in for Gerry! - Maine’s Senate race becomes a live spectacle of Democratic collapse, with more grotesque material surfacing around Graham Plattner and the party still unable to walk away from him. - The Democratic postmortem on Kamala Harris is treated as proof the party still does not understand why it loses, because it keeps mistaking condescension, identity politics, and staged competence for real leadership. - Stephen Colbert’s exit is framed not as the end of a comedy institution but as the overdue collapse of a joyless political therapy session nobody actually wanted to watch. - The broader message is that ordinary Americans are done being told obvious dysfunction is normal, whether it is elite media self-delusion, radical gender politics, or public officials treating law-abiding citizens like the problem.
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The Climate Scam, the Race Hustle, and the Cand...
- The episode opens by treating Stephen Colbert’s final show as the deserved collapse of a late-night empire that stops trying to entertain and turns itself into a nightly anti-Trump sermon. - Thomas Massie’s defeat is framed as a political execution of a once-useful maverick who drifts into anti-Israel obsession, anti-Trump alignment, and open contempt for the voters who once loved him. - Maine’s Democratic nominee is portrayed as an outright political disaster, with more disturbing material surfacing and forcing the party to defend a candidate cast as twisted, unfit, and morally grotesque. - Two major progressive grifts are described as breaking down in real time: race-based districting takes a legal hit, and climate alarmism takes a credibility hit as old apocalyptic claims keep collapsing. - The show closes on a broader contrast: while establishment Democrats keep excusing extremism and rewarding unserious people, outsider campaigns like Spencer Pratt’s gain traction by mocking the machine and speaking more plainly than the people in charge.
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The Anti-Israel Obsession, the Candidate Chaos,...
- Thomas Massie gets routed in Kentucky after drifting from reliable conservative votes into anti-Israel fixation, Democrat-aligned outrage, and open conflict with Trump. - Maine’s Democratic nominee becomes an even bigger liability as new posts surface, deepening the case that the party is stuck defending a candidate who looks wildly unfit for office. - John Cornyn’s Senate hopes take a direct hit as Trump backs Ken Paxton, turning the Texas race into another purge of old-guard Republicans who broke with the movement. - Cambridge manages to turn gunshot detection into a racism debate, voting to ban ShotSpotter just days after a random gunman terrorizes the city in broad daylight. - The broader theme is that the left keeps normalizing extremes — from anti-Zionist prison fantasies to media excuses for cultural collapse — while voters keep rewarding the side that looks tougher and more coherent.
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The Democrats’ Maine Problem Just Got Darker — ...
- The episode unloads on Maine’s Senate race, casting the Democratic nominee as deeply disturbed and politically radioactive as more old posts surface and force the party to defend the indefensible. - Luigi Mangione’s courthouse fandom becomes a symbol of cultural rot, with women openly cheering a murder suspect and treating an executed CEO-style killing like righteous politics. - Thomas Massie is portrayed as politically finished, with Trump’s backing of his challenger framed as the latest proof that crossing the movement now comes with a real cost. - Washington, D.C. street chaos is held up as another example of collapsing order, with promises to target parents after teen violence treated as tough rhetoric that likely never gets enforced. - The broader theme is blunt: from New York court steps to Maine campaign signs to Hollywood influencers, the left keeps normalizing extremism, excusing violence, and pretending obvious dysfunction is just politics.
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Trump Never Forgets — and Another Republican Ju...
- Trump’s China trip is framed as visually dominant but substantively unresolved, with the episode praising the spectacle while questioning what Beijing actually gives up. - Bill Cassidy gets politically executed in Louisiana, turning his old impeachment vote into a live warning that crossing Trump still carries a price years later. - Thomas Massie is cast as the next target, accused of drifting into the Epstein frenzy and helping Democrats weaponize a scandal to smear Trump by association. - The Virginia hearing over Stephanie Minter’s murder becomes a direct indictment of open-border prosecutors, with the argument that illegal offenders keep getting protected until Americans end up dead. - The broader case is ruthless and simple: Democrats still defend fraud, race hustling, and criminal leniency, while Republicans are told they must stop playing weak before the next election is rigged out from under them.
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The New York Times Crosses a Line So Ugly Even ...
- The episode hammers the New York Times for running what it portrays as a grotesque anti-Israel fabrication, arguing the paper is no longer biased but openly willing to invent horror to serve a political cause. - Trump’s China trip is treated as visually strong but strategically unresolved, with praise for the spectacle and deal-making style mixed with deep skepticism about what Beijing actually concedes. - Fauci is dragged back into the spotlight as a CIA whistleblower reinforces the lab-leak cover-up story, with Rand Paul again cast as one of the few people still trying to force accountability. - Maine becomes a case study in organized fraud, where Somali-linked welfare and healthcare scams are framed not as isolated theft but as a political racket tolerated by Democrats and minimized by local media. - The emotional core lands in Virginia, where Stephanie Minter’s murder is used to indict open-border prosecutors and politicians who repeatedly protect violent illegal offenders until an American ends up dead.
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The Wuhan Lie Won’t Die — and Neither Will the ...
- Trump’s China trip is framed as a high-stakes power play, with the argument that only a dealmaker can walk into Beijing, bring business heavyweights, and try to squeeze results out of a hostile rival. - Fauci’s COVID cover-up gets dragged back into the spotlight as a CIA whistleblower details how the lab-leak story was buried and the public was lied to from the start. - Rand Paul keeps hammering the same brutal point: taxpayer money helps fund dangerous Wuhan research, civil liberties get shredded, millions die, and the central figure still walks free. - Gavin Newsom’s California is portrayed as moral and political lunacy, with death row inmates allegedly using state-issued tablets for porn, explicit messages, and even the grooming of minors. - The broader theme is relentless: from Karen Bass to Patty Murray to Ayanna Pressley, Democrats keep reacting to failure with delusion, excuses, and policies that look disconnected from basic reality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Communist and a Nazi Walk Into Maine — and th...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 
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