Media
October 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
You may recall moderator David Muir’s correction of President Trump during the September 10 debate with Kamala Harris (transcript here). Muir purported to fact-check Trump’s assertion that “crime here is up and through the roof.” Muir instructed viewers: “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country…” Jeff Anderson is president of the American Main Street Initiative and the former Director of
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October 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Well, okay, she hasn’t started making sense. Yet Kamala Harris continued…doing her thing…in her appearance on 60 Minutes yesterday evening. Interviewer Bill Whitaker posed some difficult questions. I don’t think it went well for her. Any sentient observer could infer why Harris has heretofore preferred to avoid subjecting herself to these ordeals. Andrew Stiles reports on Harris’s appearance in the Free Beacon story “Artless Dodger: Harris Flustered in Substance-Free 60
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October 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
You may have missed the news that Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted from the position of White House press secretary to senior adviser. Whom is she advising? As KJP’s predecessor liked to put it, we’ll have to circle back to you on that one. The Biden administration has recently announced that it is sending $157 million in additional funding to Lebanon. Lebanon has no independent government. The government is under
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October 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz appeared on a segment of Fox News Sunday for an interview by Shannon Bream yesterday. I have posted the video at the bottom. The interview was notable insofar as it constituted Walz’s first appearance on one of the Sunday morning gabfests since he was named Kamala Harris’s running mate. Walz’s continuing lies and evasions are of interest in themselves, but his
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October 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Bret Baier hosted Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Special Report this past Friday. The segment (video below) takes up Yingst’s book Black Saturday. Yingst concludes: “It’s a reminder to readers that two things can be true at once. The October 7th massacre was the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Israel’s response to that massacre has led to the highest death toll among civilians in the
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October 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In Memories of Hurricane Katrina, I contrasted press coverage and Democratic Party hysteria over Hurricane Katrina, which effectively destroyed George W. Bush’s second term and contributed to the Democrats’ 2006 election victories, with the muted (if not altogether silent) reaction to Hurricane Helene and the vastly more problematic governmental response thereto. It is a theme worth returning to. On CNN, Scott Jennings makes the point effectively: Joe Biden was at
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October 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
It was inconceivable to me that Kamala Harris would select Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate because of his record in office. His record as governor ranges from the horrible to the despicable. I made this point, by the way, before Harris selected Walz, in the July 30 Free Beacon column “Take my governor — please.” In that column I wrote that Walz would never live down the
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October 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Among the corporate media “fact-checks” of the great debate between Senator Vance and our overmatched Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, I have yet to find one that homes in on the fundamental question of free speech. When Vance brought it up, Walz vomited up his ignorant take on the law of free speech: “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. That’s the test. That’s the Supreme court test.” That’s what
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October 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
J.D. Vance squared off against our own Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in a debate hosted by CBS News last night. I have posted the full video at the bottom. CBS News has posted the transcript here. Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan. Vance bested Walz by a substantial margin. Indeed, to borrow the metaphor that Howard Cosell applied to boxing contests, Vance ever so gently pummeled Walz’s face into a bloody
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September 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Terry Teachout published more pieces in Commentary than any other writer in the magazine’s 76-year history,” wrote John Podhoretz in January of 2022 after Teachout passed away at 65. “The loss to his loved ones, the loss to the American theatre he both championed as a critic and mastered as a playwright, and the loss to the broader American culture he knew more fully than anyone else in our time
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September 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
You may have heard that the Secret Service was dispatched to guard the president of Iran — one Masoud Pezeshkian — during his visit to the United Nations in New York last week. For some reason, the Secret Service has done a better with the President Pezeshkian than with President Trump. AEI’s Danielle Pletka attended a closed session with Pezeshkian for press types. Pletka sizes Pezeshkian up and discreetly (per
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September 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In her Devine Online newsletter this morning, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine takes up President Biden’s appearance on The View yesterday. For those of us who missed it, Devine writes: Joe Biden is still president and, on Wednesday, when he appeared on ABC’s rancid talk show, “The View,” he showed himself, yet again, to be morally unfit for the job. Just ten days after the second assassination attempt against
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September 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In the adjacent post I serve up the 24-minute MSNBC video of Kamala Harris’s “interview” with Stephanie Ruhle yesterday. Here I want to offer bite-sized video clips via X for those who don’t have the taste for the whole thing. Speaking of bite-sized…here Harris reiterates her McDonald’s fakery. This is the least of it. It’s all fakery. Ruhle: "At any point in your life, have you served two all beef
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September 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Last week on Bill Maher’s HBO show Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC appeared with Bret Stephens of the New York Times. When Stephens had the temerity to suggest that Kamala Harris owed it to the American people to come out from beneath her rock and do a solo interview or two revealing her plans and schemes, Ruhle instructed Stephens that he was mistaken. We didn’t need to learn anything about Harris
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September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In the tweet below, Aviva Klompas provides a good summary of the apparent facts underlying Israel’s astounding Operation Grim Beeper, as Michael Doran calls it. Doran himself comments in the thread “A few thoughts on Operation Grim Beeper.” As I get it, Israel seems to have manufactured and sold the beepers to Hezbollah through a Hungarian front. Perhaps the terrorists were attracted by the volume discount. On October 8 Hezbollah
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September 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
National Public Radio is a Democratic Party organization, which over the years has become shameless in its dishonesty. But this really takes the cake: National Public Radio (NPR), a taxpayer-supported and supposedly nonpartisan news network, falsely accused National Review editor-in-chief of using the “n-word” during a podcast interview with Megyn Kelly this week. Under the headline, “Conservative editor-in-chief appears to use racial slur to refer to Haitian migrants,” NPR asserted
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September 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In “Fact-check this,” I wrote about the alleged ABC News whistleblower and his affidavit contending that ABC tilted the terms of the debate to favor Harris in coordination with the Harris campaign. Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has called for a response from Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, ABC’s corporate parent. The Daily Beast sought a comment on the affidavit’s allegations from ABC News. Corbin Bolies reports: In a statement
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