Right-Wing Host Throws Tampon at Left-Wing Female

How the right wing deals with women

ADAM SOSNICK — Image taken from X

Growing up, I made many mistakes with the opposite sex.

My first kiss, at 12, was with a girl behind the school's sports hall. When our lips locked, I just stood there with my hands by my side.

The second time we kissed, she stopped me and asked, “Do you think we could hold hands as we kiss?”

I nodded.

One memory that haunts me is from when I was 14 and had just watched a DVD of the Red Hot Chili Peppers live at Woodstock 99.

I remember the lead singer asking all the crowd, the females, to take out their tampons and throw them on the stage.

I remember telling female friends about the show excitedly and about the tampon thing and how rock n roll it was.

Cue eyerolls and disgusted looks.

I nodded in embarrassed silence, knowing I had just come across as the biggest creep in the world.

I forgive myself for the first memory, but the second still haunts me.

But again — I was 14. Young, dumb, still figuring out where the line was between edgy and idiotic. And crucially, I wasn’t on a political podcast, being paid to debate foreign policy with a respected journalist.

Which is why I nearly dropped my phone when I saw Adam Sosnick, a grown man — not just any man, but a host on Valuetainment’s Her Take podcast, part of Patrick Bet-David’s media empire — pull a tampon out of his blazer and throw it across the table at Anna Kasparian.

This was not some teenage mistake but a public, calculated jab — designed to belittle, to provoke, to shift focus from the real debate through a sexist flourish.

This wasn’t a one-off, tacky soundbite.

On Valuetainment — which includes the PBD Podcast alongside Zoomer-edgy content targeting modern feminism, dating norms, and gender roles — there has been a steady drip of misogynistic messaging.

Patrick Bet‑David’s platform has hosted debates framing feminism as a threat to family life or masculinity, at times promising “hot takes” that reinforce traditional gender hierarchies.

What happened (so you don’t miss the full context)

• The setup: The conversation on Her Take escalated into heated territory, debating Israel, Iran, and the emotional tenor of Kasparian’s questions. Sosnick accused her of being “very emotional.”

• The throw: He said, “I threw you a tissue… I also have a tampon in case you need a tampon,” before launching the menstrual product across the desk.

• The impact: There was a stunned pause. Anna paused, visibly taken aback, yet she remained composed. There were no theatrics. No walking off. She barely blinked.

• The pivot: Kasparian immediately redirected the conversation back to substantive policy questions, without letting the stunt derail her. Her impressive restraint spoke by being silent: she refused to validate the moment by treating it as anything more than the distraction it was. Her resilience read louder than any comeback line ever could.

This was no teenager’s moment of immature bravado. It was an adult — a media figure, aligned with a platform steeped in traditionalist, anti-feminist tropes — weaponizing a tampon to mock and undermine a female colleague in real time. The gendered symbolism was deliberate and chilling.

Anna Kasparian’s response was textbook poise: unflappable, focused, returning the conversation to the issues at hand. That silence was her rebuke.

However, while Ana was class personified, she and her co-host, Cenk Uygur at The Young Turks, must understand that engaging with lunatics — a strategy they’ve embraced in an effort to win over Trump voters — will get them nowhere. If you lie with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

I find it difficult to comprehend how someone like Adam Sosnick — scum, by any reasonable moral metric — has a home, a car, a job, money, and media exposure in the political commentary sphere, all while pretending to speak for the working class he has nothing in common with.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that a pyramid-scheme grifter like Patrick Bet-David would attract such a cockroach. But I am curious to see whether he — this strong, immigrant-made American man who’s paradoxically anti-immigration — will lay down the law on his minion.

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