Sam Seder
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Socialists Are WINNING Elections. Mehdi & Sam Seder Explain Why
20 attributed claims Published August 2026
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The Majority Report began as a three-hour radio program on Air America.
The Majority Report was launched on Air America Radio in 2004, with Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo hosting an evening three-hour block.
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Seder said he thinks he started the podcast in 2010.
The Majority Report with Sam Seder was relaunched as an independent online podcast in November 2010, so the speaker's qualified statement that he thinks he started it in 2010 is accurate.
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The podcast originally had a 45-minute free show followed by a 45-minute Fun Half.
Available archives confirm that the program used a free portion and a Fun Half, and that the show was once intended to run for 45 minutes, but I found no reliable independent source confirming that both original segments were each exactly 45 minutes.
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The show had expanded to approximately two and a half hours.
The show's format and episode lengths have varied, and the available official description gives a 40-minute main show plus more than an hour of Fun Half content, but it does not establish that the program was usually two and a half hours at the time of the statement.
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Seder produced approximately ten installments of his That's Bullshit series between his Air America work and launching the podcast.
Contemporary references establish that Seder produced That's Bullshit videos in 2010 and that the podcast launched later that year, but I found no reliable archive establishing that he produced approximately ten installments.
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There was racist rhetoric involving Barack Obama's full name during that period.
Contemporary reporting documented politicians and political figures using “Barack Hussein Obama” in rhetoric that critics identified as racist or as associating Obama with Islam and foreignness. The claim says such racism existed, not that every use of the name was inherently racist.
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Sam Seder's Air America program with Marc Maron covered a protest against David Letterman.
Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder was an Air America webcast, and contemporary coverage confirms that Seder went to report on the 'Fire David Letterman' protest. The available career chronology also places the program at the end of his Air America work.
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The Park51 project was not itself simply a mosque and was not located at Ground Zero.
The location portion is accurate: Park51 was near, but not at, Ground Zero. However, saying it “wasn't a mosque” omits that the planned cultural center included a mosque or Muslim prayer space, so the combined framing gives a misleading impression.
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The speaker co-wrote the book F.U.B.A.R. with his producer, and the book was published in 2006.
F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare is credited to Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill and was published by HarperCollins in 2006. Sherrill was associated with Seder’s Air America program, matching the speaker’s description of his co-author as his producer.
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Seven DSA members will be members of Congress in 2026.
A contemporary DSA tracker reported seven DSA-backed candidates had won their primaries. That is not identical to seven DSA members, and primary victories alone do not guarantee that all seven will win general elections.
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Tucker Carlson had a show on MSNBC in 2004.
The date and network combination is incorrect. Carlson did host a television program in 2004, but it was Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered on PBS; his MSNBC show began in 2005.
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Pat Buchanan filled in as host for Tucker Carlson's show.
Available records confirm that Pat Buchanan appeared as a guest on Carlson's MSNBC program, but the sources located do not establish that he served as a substitute host for Carlson. The claim therefore cannot be confirmed from reliable independent evidence.
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Pat Buchanan invited the speaker onto his show when he wanted to criticize Israel.
This is a specific personal recollection, but the speaker's identity and the relevant program are not identified in the excerpt, and no reliable independent source was found documenting the alleged invitation or its purpose.
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Sam Seder appeared in two episodes of Spin City and played a sign-language interpreter for the mayor.
Credits list Sam Seder in two Spin City episodes, including “Deaf Becomes Her,” whose plot centers on the mayor’s inept new sign-language interpreter. The episode cast identifies Seder as the interpreter character, “Bogus Temp.”
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Sam Seder appeared on Sex and the City.
Sam Seder is credited as Lew in the Sex and the City episode “Sex and Another City,” which aired in 2000.
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Sam Seder continued voicing Hugo, the health inspector, and other characters on Bob’s Burgers.
Bob’s Burgers credits list Sam Seder as a voice actor for Hugo and other characters, with credits continuing through the show’s later seasons. Hugo is identified as a health inspector.
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Sam Seder was a guest on an unnamed show that was in its second season.
The claim does not identify the show, and “pretty high-profile” has no agreed operational definition. Without the program’s name or another identifying detail, the assertion cannot be reliably confirmed or refuted.
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Sam Seder hosts The Majority Report, and Emma Vigeland co-hosts it.
The Majority Report’s official about page identifies Sam Seder as its host and Emma Vigeland as its co-host.
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The Majority Report airs daily on YouTube or Twitch and goes live at noon.
The show's official materials describe it as a daily program, and its channel description says it airs Monday through Friday at 12 p.m. Eastern on YouTube while also listing Twitch as an outlet.
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The Majority Report is available as a podcast.
The show's official website states that the main program is available via podcast and can be downloaded from podcast platforms.
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'I Didn't Realize It Was This Bad': Mehdi and Sam on Jubilee
1 attributed claim Published August 2026
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The Nazis persecuted the church, but only to a small extent.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum documents that Nazi pressure on both major German churches increased over time and that Nazi authorities forcefully responded to church opposition, including arresting over 700 pastors. Describing this simply as persecution "a little bit" materially understates the documented record.
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Will Tucker Carlson Run for President?
1 attributed claim Published August 2026
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Tucker Carlson has advocated that the United States should stop supporting Israel.
Carlson has publicly called for ending U.S. military and economic aid to Israel and for detaching the United States from Israel. That directly supports the substantive claim that he advocates ending U.S. support, although "his people" is an informal reference to his audience.