Anti-Trump Columnist Quits CNN In Profanity-Laced Tirade: ‘F*** Those Guys’

Left-wing columnist Kara Swisher, who has been a CNN contributor since 2023 and also hosted the network series Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever, said during Tuesday’s installment of her Pivot podcast that that she has asked her agent to release her from her contract following a settlement that cleared the path for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company.

Swisher first stated in December of last year that she would leave if the deal was completed. “I’m walking right out of there the day they get there. I’m walking, and there’s no way I’m working for these terrible people,” she said at the time.

She shared further thoughts on the matter when the Justice Department approved the merger this past June. “With the CNN thing, well you know my feelings on that. I’m leaving as soon as I can,” Swisher told co-host Scott Galloway.

“Let me try to outline it: I don’t want to work for the Ellisons, and I don’t want to work for their handpicked minions because I think they’re incompetent. I just don’t see any way that these people make good decisions and I don’t trust them. That’s it. I don’t want to work for tech people,” she added. Swisher further noted that she liked working with current CNN staff, including CEO Mark Thompson, and added, “I’m under contract with them until the end of the year, and I’m hoping they’ll let me out early because I don’t want to affiliate with them.”

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On Tuesday’s podcast, Swisher indicated that she had been reviewing her contract throughout the day .“It ends December 31, so it’s only a few months, right? I just can’t. I just, I thought like I was trying to figure out ways I could work with them in some like licensing way. But then I thought, f*** these guys! I don’t want to work for them. I just don’t.”

She added, “I have a lot of regard for the executives there now. I have other things that make more money, that matter more and have a bigger audience. I think they are terrible media owners. I would rather work for Rupert Murdoch. I can’t leave yet, but I will leave as soon as I can.”

Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, agreed in February to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal valued at approximately $111 billion. The Justice Department approved the transaction in June, and on Monday, September 21, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of state attorneys general settled their antitrust lawsuit, as did the Writers Guild of America.

Discovery CEO David Zaslav said the merger was expected to take effect by early October 2026.

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