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May 26, 2025

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

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Wow, Tapper sure argued long and hard with “Dr.” Jill when she unilaterally announced that her husband’s decades of infamous gaffes were suddenly rendered samizdat in 2020.

UPDATE: Now It Can Be Told: Before Tapper’s Book, Washington Week Host/Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg Mocked Warnings from Rep. Phillips, Hur.

Washington Week with The Atlantic host (and Atlantic editor) Jeffrey Goldberg devoted a full episode of his latest show, normally a political panel, solely to interviewing journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about their book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.

NewsBusters has already covered Goldberg’s insulting arrogance, as if “media critics don’t understand ‘how reporting works’ when journalists cooperated with Biden in denying what was obvious to a large majority of Americans — that Biden wasn’t fit to be president.”

Tapper also brought up a couple of names of people who brought Biden’s decline to national attention in 2024, including former Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who tried to challenge Biden in Democratic primaries, calling attention to Biden’s age and decline, and special counsel Robert Hur, who had famously described Biden in his special counsel report on the former president’s handling of classified documents as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

After Tapper asked rhetorically, “Where are the incentive structures for people in our politics to raise their hand and say, the emperor has no clothes?” Goldberg himself brought up Rep. Phillips’ challenge.

Flashback to last September: Jake Tapper and Jeffrey Goldberg, Good Buddies Who Hate Trump.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 26th, 2025

MARK JUDGE: Journalism, Feminism, and the Low-Sex Sorority. “In her forthcoming book The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future, journalist Carter Sherman accuses a New York Times reporter of being disappointed that members of a sorority she was writing about were not more sexually active. Indeed, the reporter was so disappointed that the sorority’s non-partying ways were left out of the book the Times reporter wrote about the sex lives of young women. In other words, when a Times reporter wanted some hot and heavy copy to sell a book and the sorority girls she interviewed did not offer it, the reporter left the girls on the cutting room floor.”

They always know what they want to “report” before they even go look.

Posted at 7:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on May 26th, 2025

UM DIE WICHTIGEN FRAGEN ZU STELLEN: How can Germany be so bizarre and so boring?

When I lived in Berlin a decade ago, I was struck by the contrast between the dullness of young Germans and the incredible weirdness of everything else. Only in German could the word for “gums” (Zahnfleisch) mean “toothflesh.” And only in fleisch-mad Germany (the word for “meat” is the same as “flesh,” which is somehow incredibly disgusting) would people snack on raw pork, a dish known as mett. Mett, also known, rather curiously, as Hackepeter, is sometimes offered at buffets in the shape of a hedgehog (what else?) with raw onion spines. It simply doesn’t get stranger.

While musing on such things, I would cycle slowly around the bizarre gigantist ministries of the Nazi period near Checkpoint Charlie (itself a relic of a truly bonkers, menacing portion of the past), or past the Stasi headquarters in the almost mind-bendingly drab Lichtenberg. Or I’d drive down south with my then-boyfriend to Munich or Heidelberg and observe the particularly blood-curdling hedonism with which older West Germans took refreshment. All very odd.

Germany is still just as dull and just as mad. Bar some standout characters like Sahra Wagenknecht, of the populist party of the same name, and the knicker-twisting rise of the AfD, the political landscape is preternaturally boring – in part a function of its hopeless and labyrinthine proportional electoral system.

A week and a half ago, I visited the “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945” exhibition at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, which runs to June 22nd, before moving onward to other American museums. Assembled by Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie*, take two guesses why this exhibition is touring the States in 2025. Of the exhibition, Judith H. Dobrzynski of the Wall Street Journal notes:

Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of nationalism and socialism; the defeat of World War I; the creation and swift fall of the liberal Weimar Republic; and a totalitarian Nazi regime that enforced its artistic taste by persecuting, exiling, even killing artists—German art certainly was.

From Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Christian Schad to Max Beckmann and Paul Klee, artists drew inspiration from the turmoil, turning out paintings and sculptures that commented overtly or slyly on modern life and politics. Alas, beyond these marquee names, many have had little to no exposure in the U.S.

(In contrast, a Fort Worth alternative weekly author lets his TDS run rampant in his review of the exhibit.)

What’s fascinating is how terrifying German expressionism appears, especially when compared to infinitely more cheerful French impressionists of the 19th century. German expressionism was dark, angry stuff – and these artists were the good guys! But much of the interwar art on display here has an ominous foreboding quality to it. Perhaps it was simply the unease and the terrible economic strains of the worst of the Weimar years, but in retrospect, much of this troubling artwork seems to preview far worse times ahead for Germany.

Speaking of which, to return to the topic at the start of this post, as to making 21st century Germany less boring, things in 2025 should be heating up quite nicely:

* The Neue Nationalgalerie, an incredible exercise in engineering which functions quite poorly as an actual museum, was the last building that architect Mies van der Rohe played a major role in designing, before he passed away at age 84 in 1968. Yes,that Mies van der Rohe.

Posted at 5:34 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 26th, 2025

BILL WHITTLE: Remember Them.

Posted at 5:05 pm by Stephen Green on May 26th, 2025

THE REAL NEWS IS THAT YOU CAN SAY THIS WITHOUT BEING CANCELED NOW:

Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on May 26th, 2025

THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SINKHOLE: Deranged Leftwing Propagandist Scott Pelley on Chopping Block at CBS; CBS “News” Embarrassed by Gayle King’s Insistence That She’s an Astronaut Now, and May Also Be Fired.

Back to the Daily Mail:

And there might be more exits to come. Multiple sources told the Daily Mail that 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley could also be on the way out.     ‘It’s marquee name after marquee name.’

As Megyn Kelly noted, CBS doesn’t have any “marquee” names.

‘People don’t want to say it out loud in the office but the entire space debacle really hurt us,’ a 60 Minutes staffer said of King’s participation in Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight on April 2. ‘Gayle being part of that is not a good look for our brand.’

‘I think a lot of people resent Gayle for that,’ continued the insider. ‘I know I do.’

There was a general sense of embarrassment, said one Early Show producer. ‘I almost feel like apologizing when I tell people where I work. I hate it here.’

LOL. Cry more.

Coding you must learn.

But the most palpable impact appears to have been felt at 60 Minutes, where staff have compared the atmosphere to a ‘sinking ship’.

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Scott Pelley supported the Regime’s banning of rightist speech but now tells Wake Forest graduates they are soldiers in the war against Trump’s crackdown on free speech.

Which is odd, because as Guy Benson notes below, in February, 60 Minutes acted like it really, really hated free speech. Here’s our roundup from back then: Europeans Don’t Get Free Speech, and Neither Does CBS News, Apparently.

That was also the weekend in which CBS’s Margaret Brennan astonishingly said with a straight face to JD Vance that an excess of free speech caused the Holocaust.

Related: Would Pelley approve of this basic American freedom being taken away? They Want to Control Us: MA Democrat Introduces Legislation to Limit How Far Citizens Can Travel.

Of course he’d sign onboard with the above MA state senator’s proposal in a second: CBS ‘Global Warming Special’ Host Likened Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers.

While most of the country was watching the Green Bay Packers play the New York Giants, CBS aired an hour-long, severely one-sided special about the threat of global warming.

The special was hosted by CBS’s Scott Pelley. In January 2007, Pelley was asked why he refused to include global warming skeptics in his reporting. He responded, “If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?”

The January 20 CBS special attacked the Bush White House for not being willing to sign the Kyoto Protocol after he was elected – furthering the common misconception that Bush has been alone in his opposition to it, as the Senate actually voted 95 to 0 to reject Kyoto earlier.

—Jeff Poor, NewsBusters, January 21st, 2008.

Flashback: CBS’s Scott Pelley Loses a Fight Rigged in his Favor.

Posted at 4:39 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 26th, 2025

A VIDEO WORTH WATCHING: or even subscribing to, that is, if you think American History and Free Speech matter.

Richard Miniter is an American investigative journalist and author, known for his work on national security and foreign policy. The video starts with the English Civil War And the Puritans, through The Left’s Fear of the Religious Right, and up to asking What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About That We Should Be?, and all points in-between.

Interviews and discourses with a wide range of bright minds, including Steven Fry, Sebastian Gorka, and Tom Holland are guests on various episodes.

Self-description:  “TRIGGERnometry is a free speech YouTube show and podcast. We believe in open, fact-based discussion of important and controversial issues.”

Here’s the one I recommend highly with which to start (link here)Here’s the X link and here’s the Facebook link.

Posted at 3:00 pm by Charles Glasser on May 26th, 2025

MURDERED ISRAELI EMBASSY COUPLE WERE CHRISTIANS: Richard Pollock notes that the accused killer of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn at a Washington, D.C. American Jewish Committee function likely thought he was killing practicing Jews. Nope.

Posted at 2:56 pm by Mark Tapscott on May 26th, 2025

WHEN #JOURNALISM = #LIES:

Surprisingly often, actually.

Posted at 2:27 pm by Glenn Reynolds on May 26th, 2025
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