Sam Seder
Role at the time: Host, The Majority Report
Statement summary
Sam Seder mocked Robert Kraft's antisemitism-monitoring operation as billionaire paranoia, called Kraft "a really, really terrible person" over his IDF donations and Epstein correspondence, and said extreme wealth disconnects people like Kraft and Sheeran from mainstream opinion on the conflict, which he said is why they sided against Macklemore.
“I like that a billionaire's life is so safe and siloed that they have to like spend money to find fear.”
13:08 episode of The Majority Report with Sam Seder, published to YouTube September 17, 2026, discussing the Kraft/Macklemore/Sheeran fallout and playing a clip of Ben Shapiro's September 15 Fox News appearance. checked against the recording; the show includes a second, unnamed co-host voice whose lines are not separately attributed here.
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Seder does not evaluate Macklemore's on-stage conduct at all; his entire response attacks Kraft's character and motives and frames Sheeran's and Kraft's opposition to Macklemore as a product of billionaire disconnection from mainstream opinion, implicitly defending Macklemore's position as the reasonable one.