Adam Carolla Explains Why So Few People Trust the Legacy Media

Adam Carolla Explains Why So Few People Trust the Legacy Media

Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine recently interviewed Adam Carolla, and while their discussion covered a wide range of topics, the one that stood out was the segment about the collapse of trust in the mainstream media.

What Carolla points out is that when you look at people who have left legacy media outlets, they have all revealed themselves to be people of the far left, and of course, they do this after pretending to be down the middle for years.

He uses Katie Couric’s recent, fawning interview of Gavin Newsom as a classic example.

Partial transcript via Reason:

Katie Couric, in this case, is a kind of standing for the legacy media. What we’re calling it.

And I don’t have anything against her personally. My feeling is, and here’s my beef with her. She is the legacy media and all these people are, you know, they’re all, you know, Don Lemon is right down the middle of everything. As soon as they get off the reservation they’re all hard leftists, which is who they were the whole time. So it’s sort of like you’re sitting around going, “I’m not vegan, I’m not vegan, I’m not vegan.” And as soon as you quit your job, “Meat is murder.” Right? Well, that’s how you were thinking the whole time. So now I don’t really believe that you were doing a sort of fair and balanced…

Here’s the clip:

🚨NEW: Adam Carolla: "Here's my beef with [Katie Couric]. She is the legacy media & all these people are… Don Lemon is right down the middle of everything. As soon as they get off the reservation they're ALL hard leftists — which is who they were the WHOLE time!" @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/cG7YRVQvak

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) March 28, 2026

In another interesting moment, Carolla explains to Gillespie why he likes Trump.

What do you like about Trump first?

I like that he’s a commercial builder and he’s always in a hurry. He’s like, “Why? Let’s go. Let’s do this.” You know what I mean? Which I identify with as a builder. Builders are always like, “What’s taking so long?” You know, when you saw him with that presser with Karen Bass after the fire in Palisades, he’s like, “People should be clearing their own lots themselves. They should be going tonight.” She’s like, “whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down, safety. Do it safe.” And she’s like that’s a process person talking to a ‘let’s get it done’ builder. That’s a career bureaucrat talking to someone who builds skyscrapers. Whose like, “let’s go.” So I like the, “get it done” I like that kind of ‘why not?’ part of him. Like a sort of like “You can’t do that.” And he goes, “Why not?” You know what I mean? Like I sort of, it’s a sort of reason why I like Elon Musk. You know, like it’s just, I like those guys who go, “Why not, we’ll just do it.”

“How are you going to get to Mars?” “Because we’re going to Mars.” That’s admirable. He talks shit about Rob Reiner after he dies, and then he can’t, that’s indefensible. I also think people get too caught up in…and it shows a kind of naivete and a narcissism where they go, “That guy would be a good guy to have a beer with.” You know what I mean? “Like Barack Obama. That’d be a cool guy to have a beer with.” Right, with horrible policies. This guy would be a horrible guy to have a beer with, but he’s got policies. Like, I don’t know, just stuff like, “We’re gonna start a savings account for all these kids, by the time they’re 18, they’ll have $100,000 in the bank.” I’m like, yeah, good, do it.

Watch:

🚨 Adam Carolla just said he LIKES BOTH President Trump and Elon Musk!

"I like that he's a commercial builder! He's always in a hurry. He's like, LET'S GO, let's DO this."

"It's a sort-of reason why I like Elon Musk. I like guys who go, JUST DO IT!" 🔥pic.twitter.com/0gYG4KuP2G

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 28, 2026

You can watch the full interview below, if you like. It’s about 49 minutes.

Featured image via YouTube.

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