The debate moderators last Tuesday left Candy Crowley circa 2012 behind in a cloud of dust in terms of strategic “fact-checking.” Crowley protected Obama in a 2012 debate against Mitt Romney by giving a dramatic and false “fact-check” (I wrote … Continue reading →
Glick was incensed by Harris’ remarks on Israel during the debate: ADDENDUM: Melanie Phillips writes about the media’s role in amplifying anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment: The impression given by the British media for the past 11 months of this war … Continue reading →
Are Haitian immigrants killing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio? There no proof of it, and although there’s testimony to that effect from a few residents, it may be a mere rumor. In fact, my guess would be that it’s … Continue reading →
By now, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris for president (if you say “who’s Taylor Swift?”, then you probably have been living under a rock). This news underwhelms me, … Continue reading →
McCabe is beating the same old drum: Andrew McCabe, the former FBI Deputy Director who Donald Trump fired in 2018, said on a podcast that the former president was a “de Facto Russian asset.” When Sir Richard Dearlove, a former … Continue reading →
It seems that the Trump-Harris debate really highlighted this already-existing divide. It may even be particularly wide between the media and undecideds. I can’t say I know the characteristics of undecideds at this point, but they exist and they are … Continue reading →
I think this clip deserves a post of its own. It’s from one of the Democrats’ debates during the 2020 primary. Quite extraordinary: MUST WATCH: The last time Kamala ran for President, she told David Muir that she would use … Continue reading →
First let’s talk about what happened last night. I didn’t watch the debate, because – as I’ve said many times – I hate presidential debates and they make me very nervous as well. In this case, I expected Trump to … Continue reading →
Hard to believe, isn’t it? And yet easy to believe, because in many ways it seems a distant memory. Children who were born that day are turning twenty-three. But the main reason for the feeling of distance, I think, is … Continue reading →