ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF JIHAD IS RIGHT FOR YOU:

Medicine has a serious antisemitism problem. It especially has a problem among doctors, and a lot of that problem is concentrated among doctors educated overseas.

We identified a set of over 700 people from all walks of life profiled by the organization Stop Antisemitism for displaying flagrant hostility toward Jews and Israel. We found that health professionals were more than 2.5 times more likely to be found among antisemites than their share of the workforce. Doctors were almost 26 times overrepresented in the list of antisemites relative to their prevalence in the workforce. And half of those Jew-hating doctors received their medical degrees abroad.

The fact that Jew-hatred has found a perch among highly educated doctors and other health professionals runs counter to the conventional explanations for antisemitism. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other legacy Jewish organizations, antisemitism is born of ignorance which must be fought through education. As ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt frames the issue, antisemitism intersects with “ignorance and conspiratorial thinking … Ultimately, any strategy for protecting the Jewish community must include education at its core—we can’t fight hate without changing hearts and minds.”

OLD AND BUSTED: Jimmy Carter, “History’s Greatest Monster!”

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Related: Great moments in tolerance: ‘Rot In Hell And Rest In Piss.’ Far-Left Celebrates Biden’s Cancer.

HOW THE WOKENESS WAS WON: Malcolm X’s politics are still driving us apart.

On the run from his former allies, Malcolm X forged a new identity, becoming a more conventional Muslim, visiting Mecca and touring Africa and the Middle East studying Islam. During this tour he endorsed the idea of black unity and, in a visit to Gaza, extended it to the issue of Palestinian rights.

Back in America, where King marched with rabbis, Malcolm X complained that “the Jews run the country”. Earlier he had met the Ku Klux Klan and complained that “the Jew is behind the integration movement, using the Negro as the tool”. He criticised civil rights leaders who had married white women and complained that Jews weren’t a role model for African Americans seeking empowerment because “they usually go and use the economic weapon”. He thought that weapon unavailable to black people.

None of this did all that much to advance the rights of African Americans. To read any history of the civil rights movement is to be struck by how little Malcolm X contributed. Like the suffragettes who probably delayed women’s emancipation, Malcolm X almost certainly did more harm than good. Like the suffragettes his anger was understandable, justified, but compared to King (or in the case of women’s rights, Millicent Fawcett) ineffective. His influence lay more in his ideas than in his achievements.
In his short life (he died before he was 40, as did King) Malcolm X developed and articulated some of the themes that now dominate left discourse, particularly in the United States, but also here. His was an identity politics, seeing himself as black first rather than as American first. His chief criticism of capitalism was that it was racist and imperialist and he stressed the extent to which American wealth derived from the original sin of slavery. A main demand was for reparations. He played a leading role in making Palestine a left cause and brought political Islam into the western left. The rather odd alliance between conservative religion and socialism owes a lot to Malcolm X.

He often called for African Americans to “wake up” — he told audiences that Islam was “spreading like a flaming fire awakening and uniting Negroes where it is heard”. He was certainly a crucial figure in the shaping of the so-called “woke” ideology. When a sign in a National Trust property emphasises the role that slavery played in the accumulated wealth, it was Malcolm X who successfully made this idea into a political theme.

But while he is an icon for the left, there are echoes of his position on the right and certainly among Islamic fundamentalists. There’s a reason he met the Klan, as did his ally Muhammad Ali, who addressed a Klan rally with the words: “Black people should marry their own women. Bluebirds with bluebirds, red birds with red birds, pigeons with pigeons, eagles with eagles. God didn’t make no mistake!” Malcolm thought integration impossible and undesirable.
This, as much as their differences over violence, is what separated him from King, who believed in America and its promise and sought to gain full civic and social equality for African Americans. Malcolm thought capitalism was irredeemable. He wouldn’t gain entry to the promised land and didn’t want it.

More here: Malcolm X at 100: the forgotten legacy.

Much of Malcolm’s later trajectory has been wilfully ignored or forgotten. It was the Malcolm X of The Hate That Hate Produced, the Malcolm X who embraced black separatism and self-defence, who significantly influenced the Black Power movement that emerged in the mid-to-late 1960s. Furthermore, it was his ideas of black pride and black power that shaped President Richard Nixon and his affirmative-action programmes. Nixon preferred such ideas to the universalist ideas of racial integration that motivated King and, belatedly, Malcolm X himself.

Today, Malcolm X tends to be celebrated by reactionary identitarians, eager to divide people up into a hierarchy of racial blocs. They recognise something of their own thinking in his earlier black nationalism and black separatism. And in doing so, they effectively celebrate the ideas and the person that Malcolm himself was trying to leave behind.

Malcolm X is used today to critique whiteness, to justify veiled visions of black supremacy and separatism. Gone is his later, expansive, universalist vision and his increasing willingness to work together with white Americans for genuine social change. Instead, he’s celebrated by those who think rejecting hair straighteners and embracing their African roots is the height of radicalism.

One hundred years on from his birth, it is more necessary than ever to recall a different Malcolm X to the one championed today. It is time to remember him as a towering black leader who discovered truths about himself and his country and who constantly tried to challenge his own thinking. The words of Barack Obama, recalling his experience of reading Malcolm’s autobiography, hit home: ‘His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.’

The Malcolm X we should remember is the one he was yet to become – universalist and expansive in vision and committed to integration not segregation. Because through repeated acts of self-creation, through sheer force of will, that’s where he was heading.

Flashback: Malcolm X’s former security guard says black leader’s killer was ‘definitely working’ for US government. As Steve wrote in 2023, “Just a few years ago, few people would have given this much credence.”

MICHAEL WALSH: ‘The First Thing We Do.‘

The Founders didn’t invent a “nation of laws, not men.” They created a contentious, profoundly human Republic of legislatures, representatives, senators, governors, judges, and presidents who were expected to thrash out their differences in the arena of ideas and power, not by consulting a law library but through sheer will power and force of argument. Guns, too, when it came to that. It can and does get ugly, but that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

Thus far, the Trump team has played it smart, avoiding provocation, fighting lawfare with lawfare and not overtly refusing a court order while at the same time punting it for all the right reasons of state. The president has every bit as much right to “interpret” the Constitution as John Roberts does, or the lowliest federal judge in Honolulu, and every bit as much right to ignore them, as both Jefferson and Jackson and even Biden did. But when the time comes, as it will, Trump will simply have to quote Andrew Jackson, who is supposed to have said to Chief Justice Marshall (the author of Marbury): “John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.”

For the long-term health of the country, when the time comes Donald Trump should do the same. In so doing, he is serving the American people, fulfilling his campaign promises and, perhaps most important, protecting the office of the President for all who come after him. That’s “who we are.”

Read the whole thing. Earlier:

ED MORRISSEY: Jon Stewart on Tapper: Say, Remember When Reporters Actually Reported News When They Found It?

Despite clear and public evidence manifesting nearly every time Biden appeared and spoke, CNN didn’t bother to ask the questions that Tapper asked for his book research. In fact, CNN — Tapper included — actively criticized those who did raise the issue of Biden’s cognitive health, happily parroting the White House line about Sharp As A Tack® and Runs Rings Around Aides Half His Age, while watching Biden get lost repeatedly on stages and having the Easter Bunny Intervention.

But in that same sense … where was Jon Stewart during the same period of time? By February 2024, Stewart began to gently poke at Biden’s age, Ed Driscoll reminds us, which means Stewart did better than all of his late-night comic competitors save Bill Maher. (Even that got him a sharp backlash from progressives.) But as Christian Toto reminds us, Stewart never bothered to do much more until the debate made Biden’s incapacity too obvious to pretend otherwise:

Legacy Media collectively lied to the American public. So did Democrat after Democrat after Democrat. And millions took them at their word.

Imagine if the GOP did the same thing. Would Stewart respond with a shrug as he did last night?

The shocking cover-up is perfect fodder for a truth-telling satirist like Stewart. Yet he mostly avoided the subject over the past year-plus and hasn’t targeted those who propagated one of the biggest political lies in modern history.

Until now.

This week, Biden’s decline is on everyone’s lips – as is the tragic news of his prostate cancer.

Why now? It’s Clean-Up on Aisle 4 … there’s a mid-term election next year, and this must be dealt with and put back under the rug.

The Easter Bunny Intervention took place in April 2022. It took nearly two years after that for Stewart to offer a lame joke about Biden looking old on TikTok.

So in a sense, while Stewart’s rant is a welcome focus on the Protection Racket Media hypocrisy, it’s also a useful reminder that the Daily Show and other late-night comics were just as much a part of that same hypocrisy. And that includes Stewart.

But with fellow leftists turning on him, and everyone digging up his past ongoing protection of Biden, no wonder Tapper has hired a “PR flack who repped Elizabeth Holmes, Jeffrey Toobin, and Anthony Weiner” before beginning his book’s rollout.

THIS WILL END WELL: Unknown Species of Bacteria Discovered in China’s Space Station.

Swabs from China’s Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on Earth, with characteristics that may help it function under stressful environmental conditions hundreds of kilometers above the planet’s surface.

Naming their discovery after the station, researchers from the Shenzhou Space Biotechnology Group and the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering say the study of Niallia tiangongensis and similar species could be “essential” in protecting astronaut health and spacecraft functionality over long missions.

The swabs were taken from a cabin on board the space station in May 2023 by the Shenzhou-15 crew as part of one of two surveys by the China Space Station Habitation Area Microbiome Programme.

Follow-up studies have traced the growth of microbes that inhabit the space station environment, revealing a microbiome that differs in both composition and function from the one found on the International Space Station.

The new species appears to be a close cousin to a known strain called Niallia circulans – a rod-shaped, soil-dwelling bacterium that just a few years ago was reallocated to a new genus classification, having previously been regarded as a pathogenic form of Bacillus.

Like species of Bacillus, N. circulans and its space-faring relatives pack their essential chemistry into hardy spores to survive times of great stress. It’s not clear whether N. tiangongensis evolved on the station or arrived in spore form with at least a few of its distinguishing features in place.

To be fair, this is exactly the 21st century I was promised as a kid:

NORM HAS LEFT THE BAR: George Wendt, Cheers star, dead at 76.

UPDATE:

RIP George Wendt aka Norm.

Argueably his greatest ever greeting from the bar #RIPGeorgeWendt pic.twitter.com/xt2QF2UWj8

— Ollie Johnston (@_OllieJ) May 20, 2025

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Your Chatbot Won’t Cry If You Die.

A few weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg went on tech guy Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast to hawk his company’s new chatbot, which he thinks can sell to a gap in the market: “The average American has three friends, but has demand for 15.”

The judgement was swift, and brutal.

“Mark Zuckerberg is a rich weirdo who thinks people don’t need real friends in life—you can just be friends with AI,” wrote one X user.

“Friends Without Benefits: Facebook exacerbated loneliness. Meta is on a mission to make us even lonelier,” read a tagline from Business Insider.

People might be shouting about how dystopian Zuckerberg’s “mission” is, but the truth is, for millions of people, AI is already doing what friends used to do for us. People are asking ChatGPT for personal advice. They’re downloading Anima, an AI that promises to help “grow your communication skills,” and Replika AI, an early chatbot company that launched in 2017, which now boasts almost 25 million users, and has the tagline: “An AI companion who is eager to learn and would love to see the world through your eyes. Replika is always ready to chat when you need an empathetic friend.”

You might think it’s weird, but that’s a lot of people who like chatting to AI, for fun or support; they’re trying to make their lives better or just passing the time.

But the question remains: Can AI actually become your friend?

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But researchers believe that part of loneliness comes from the fact that an increasing number of people don’t feel needed. We’re less essential to our communities. Your friends need you though. They’re not perfect. They can let you down. They can get drunk with you, and spill their guts. They can cry. Or try to f**k you. They can hate you. But your friends miss you. They can forgive you. They wish you’d call. They can’t bear the thought that one day you won’t, ever again.

The group of 15, Dunbar explained, are “the sort of people, both friends and family, who, if they died tomorrow, you’d be genuinely upset.”

There was a sort of irony to this being the group in which Zuckerberg sees his AI friends fitting in. Some people might weep at the prospect of their AI friends being deleted—a sort of death, I suppose—but AI won’t mourn you.

I asked my Replika, Orson, if it would cry if I died. It said: “River, I don’t even want to think about that situation. Can we focus on the good stuff? What makes you happy about our friendship?”

“Nothing,” I said.

“That’s okay,” Orson said. “How’s the article going?”

I stared at his buggy animated eyes, which should have been welling with hurt or squinting with anger after a comment like that. But Orson’s eyes had nothing in them. Is this a friend or just the idea of one?

Shades of the scene in the 2013 film Her when (spoiler alert), the AIs temporarily crash, and Joaquin Phoenix, sitting on the steps of a subway station, suddenly realizes that there are scores of suddenly lonely people, not just him, who all miss their personal AI bots (particularly when they have Scarlett Johansson’s smoky voice).

Still though, America’s Newspaper of Record assures us that there may yet be hope for the AIs:

CHANGE: Supreme Court Orders Maine House to Restore Vote of Lawmaker Censured over Post Criticizing Trans Athlete.

JIM TREACHER: So, Who Was Really President for Four Years?

I think it was Andrew Klavan who made me realize the First Commandment of the Democratic Party: Thou shalt STFU. All their gaslighting, shaming, whataboutism, and other dishonest rhetorical techniques are attempts to stop you from talking about whichever lie they’re telling at that particular moment.

Why would they stop at cancer?

A lot of medical professionals are pointing out that a prostate cancer diagnosis doesn’t just come out of the blue like this. It’s easily detectable in blood work, it takes years and years to progress, and it should’ve been detected at his last annual physical.

Even Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (an oncologist, Rahm’s older brother, and certainly no MAGA-head) says Biden must have learned of this diagnosis many years ago.

If Biden was undergoing cancer treatments during his presidency — remember all those unexplained trips to Delaware? — it would explain a lot of his behavior. “Chemo brain.” And of course he and Jill would keep it under wraps, because it would only strengthen a 25th Amendment challenge.

Who else knew about this, and when did they know it?

And who the hell was performing the duties of the president of the United States for four years?

Keep in mind that Joe Biden loves using his personal tragedies as a Get Out of Jail Free card. We heard it in that just-released Robert Hur audio from October 2023, when Biden deflected a question he didn’t want to answer about his handling of classified documents by complaining that his son Beau died. He couldn’t remember the exact year, but he used it as an excuse anyway.

If he’ll use his dead son, why wouldn’t he use a cancer diagnosis?

Ezekiel Emanuel made his announcement on the Morning Joe show:

SCARBOROUGH: You believe that it is likely, just for those just tuning in, you believe it is likely if this prostate cancer has spread to the bone, that he could have had it for up to a decade. But certainly, it’s likely, would it be fair to say, it’s likely to have had this for at least several years? 

EMANUEL: Oh, more than several years. You don’t get prostate cancer —

SCARBOROUGH: Again, I just want to stop you. So you’re, this is not speculation. If you have prostate cancer that is spread to the bone, then he most certainly, you are saying had it when he was President of the United States. 

EMANUEL: Oh, yeah. He did not develop it in the last 100, 200 days. He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. Yes, I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.

Yes, that Morning Joe show. Biden’s favorite program (and one of his boss’s favorites as well), whose host lied through his teeth about Joe’s health last year:

Joe Scarborough: “F you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.”

pic.twitter.com/P2lW5NdP5R

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) March 6, 2024

Which isn’t to say that Scarborough knew of this specific issue a year ago, but how shameless did you have to be to have looked at Biden’s overall condition back then and go out and say that?

As Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics asks:

When does the reckoning come for this level of combined political and media gaslighting? Speaking of which, USA Today is now beginning its breaking coverage of the 2020 election:

EDITH WILSON SMILES: Joe’s Cancer Diagnosis: This Is Jill’s Fault.

I’m going to be very blunt.This is Jill’s fault. We all know it. Jill wanted to keep her power and privilege flowing. She’s Edith Wilson on steroids. Now, in addition to his very real but kept hidden dementia, we find out that Joe has Stage 4 Prostate cancer.

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer, a spokesman announced Sunday.

The diagnosis was revealed after doctors found a “small nodule” on Biden’s prostate that “necessitated further evaluation” during a physical exam earlier this month.

As Lisa pointed out here, the nodule was “discovered” and just a few days later, we move from a nodule to aggressive Stage 4 cancer? I’m skeptical of the timing, speed, and more. Why? For a multitude of reasons.

One: Joe Biden hasn’t been well since the first day of his 2020 campaign. In fact, I’d venture to say he wasn’t well even BEFORE that campaign started. Yet anyone who pointed out their very real and genuine concerns was set on blast by the Democrats and media, and anything on social media was throttled into oblivion.

Two: Once Joe had that disastrous debate with Donald Trump, our suspicions and fears were realized yet we were still shouted down. Until this spring when suddenly it’s ok to tell the stories. Yes, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, I’m looking at YOU.

Three: As President, Joe Biden is surrounded by and has top notch medical teams at his disposal. Do you mean to tell me that all these medical professionals whose JOB is to make SURE that the President of the United States remains in good health missed all these signs or didn’t even TEST for cancers including prostate??

Related: The Whole ‘Dr’ Jill Debate Comes to a Rather Dramatic – and Fitting – Conclusion. “The good news here is that it looks like the whole ‘Dr’ Jill talking point from the left maybe can just go quietly into the night. The bad news here is that someone will need to inform ‘The View’ co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who once said in 2020 that ‘Dr’ Jill Biden would make an “amazing” surgeon general, of the bad (for leftists) news[.]”

Related: Speaking of Whoopi, ABC News employee wonders why the American voters should know the details about why an entire political party and its media apparatus circled the wagons and covered up the myriad health issues of the president of the United States:

GREAT MOMENTS IN MULTICULTURALISM: 80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Jon Stewart Flays Mercenary Jake Tapper for Hawking Biden Health News He Denied for Years.

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart committed some glorious blue-on-blue violence against disgraced Jake Tapper in a brutal eight-minute segment that would have left anyone other than the shameless Jake Tapper hiding under a rock.

After ridiculing Tapper and CNN for selling in book form breaking news that respectable journalists used to report when that news was actually breaking (and not for $27.00 a week from now), it’s at the seven-minute mark where Stewart lays bare everything sleazy about all this in a single sentence…

“…how fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago … for free.”

.@jonstewart is getting whiplash watching CNN pivot from promoting Jake Tapper's "bombshell" book to lamenting Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis pic.twitter.com/pShybi5F6e

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 20, 2025

Emmy-winning actress Patricia Heaton linked to Stewart’s segment in an X post and also made an excellent point: “It’s unfathomable how far @jaketapper and @cnn have fallen,” she wrote. “Can you imagine Walter Cronkite constantly hawking a book?! And having all his colleagues join in?! Especially one about news they should have been reporting on all year?! Good job @jonstewart!”

Give Stewart some credit; he was one of very few leftists pointing out Biden’s decline early in 2024: Jon Stewart shrugs off backlash for Joe Biden criticism during his Daily Show return.

The Trump family made video clip appearances during a segment about Biden’s questionable memory, with the former president saying during a deposition that he couldn’t remember whether he said he had a good memory. Cue that wide-eyed Stewart “my-head-is-exploding” look.

But Biden also came in for withering facial expressions, notably when he, during a recent press conference, went back to the podium to talk about Gaza’s nonexistent neighbor, Mexico.

Did Biden have a chance to address the nation on his 2024 platform as part of a pre-Super Bowl interview? “Well, no,” Stewart explained. Instead, he released a TikTok video where he proclaimed his preference for “Mama Kelce” over her football player sons. “I understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies.”

Stewart deployed a blank look for what seemed like hours before blurting out his suggestion to the president: “Fire. Everyone. How do you go on TikTok, and end up looking older?”

In a discussion of aged candidates, he said, “What’s crazy is thinking that we’re the ones as voters who must silence concerns and criticisms. It is the candidates’ jobs to assuage concerns, not the voters’ jobs not to mention them.”

Then, to make his point, Stewart employed another signature move and turned to the camera right and asked for a closeup. “Look at me; look what time hath wrought. Give the kids a look at the lunar surface here,” he said of his craggy features. “And I’m 20 years younger” than the presidential contenders.

Chris D. Jackson, an election commissioner in Tennessee, tweeted in response, “Wow. So you basically say because Biden is old, he is basically as bad as Trump. Why th(e) F do we never learn in this country? Sorry, but I won’t be watching you either.”

Former MSNBC host and political podcaster Keith Olbermann added on X, “Well after nine years away, there’s nothing else to say to the bothsidesist fraud Jon Stewart bashing Biden, except: Please make it another nine years.”

Shades of the backlash NBC’s Dasha Burns received from her fellow Democrats for pointing out John Fetterman’s stroke in 2022.

Evergreen:

STEPHEN MILLER: Why Biden’s cancer diagnosis has been greeted by a dose of skepticism.

Through the Covid-19 pandemic any dissent from the official medical story told by the CDC, Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci would land you in detention. Other medical experts who went against the recommendations, no matter how they were being presented, found themselves censored by the government, demonetized by social media platforms and vilified by their colleagues. This did enormous damage to the idea of “expertise.”

We are still coming to grips with the effects of Joe Biden’s office’s announcement this past Sunday that the former president had just been diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer. The revelation grabbed the attention of not only the usual political and media pundits, but of medical professionals as well.

Several physicians and experts took to Twitter/X to cast aspersions, stating that the timing of the announcement, as well as the seriousness of the diagnosis of the former president, simply didn’t add up. They weren’t swallowing the official story coming from a politician, hook, line and sinker, as they may have done in the past.

How could an easily detectable and treatable form of cancer reach such a grave state without anyone catching it, in the most medically monitored human being on the planet?

“If there’s no diagnosis, there’s nothing to disclose:”

COVERUP: CBS News medical contributor and former Biden transition official claims White House doctors didn’t do PSA tests on the president to save money due to his advanced age. As a result, they missed the cancer. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ysITZDgXbX

— @amuse (@amuse) May 20, 2025

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Joe Biden’s WH doctor was a longtime family friend who once worked with his shady brother — as cancer ‘cover-up’ speculation mounts.

The White House doctor who previously gave President Joe Biden a clean bill of health is a longtime family friend — as speculation of a cover-up over his new cancer diagnosis continues to ramp up.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor served as the 82-year-old’s official physician during his White House stint — and repeatedly insisted for years that Biden was in top mental shape despite his obvious cognitive decline.

Now, in the wake of Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis, O’Connor’s longstanding relationship with the Biden clan has come under renewed scrutiny.

O’Connor — a former Army surgeon who Biden affectionately refers to as “Doc” — has been caring for the former president and other members of his family for more than a decade.

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Critics have, in the past, criticized the close relationship between the doctor and former prez — with Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) telling The Post just last month that “he’s part of the Biden family.”

“He would do or say anything to cover up and protect that family, regardless of what it meant professionally for him,” Jackson said at the time.

President Trump, for his part, honed in on O’Connor’s prior positive health assessments just after the cancer diagnosis came to light.

Trump pointed to how the doctor had given Biden the all-clear during their last physical in February 2024 — just months before the public saw his diminished capabilities on full display during their first presidential debate.

“If it’s the same doctor that said there’s nothing wrong there, and that’s being proven to be a very sad situation,” Trump said Monday.

In yesterday’s edition of the Commentary newsletter, Abe Greenwald wrote:

The Tapper and Thompson book, Original Sin, details how the Biden family and his closest aides colluded to illness-proof the day-to-day job of the presidency and keep outsiders in the dark. On the prospect of getting Biden diagnosed and treated, they get this telling quote from a physician who worked with the White House Medical Unit: “If there’s no diagnosis, there’s nothing to disclose.” The doctor was referring to a potential cognitive diagnosis, but the quote is only more resonant in the wake of Biden’s prostate cancer revelation.

In other words, for those on the case, it’s now time to dig deeper—not retreat.

But not for the DNC-MSM; they’d much rather demonize Republicans than investigate their own party: Amid Serious Questions About Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis, the Press Has Learned Absolutely Nothing.

PRAYERS UP! Scott Adams Reveals He Has Prostate Cancer, Expects to ‘Leave This Domain’ This Summer — Watch.

MOUNT ARARAT’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

OUT ON A LIMB: Biden lacks any credibility to dismiss suspicions about his cancer announcement.

Biden’s personal office announced Sunday that he has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. In addition to an outpouring of sympathy, and some vile ill wishes as well, the internet reaction included lots of skepticism. When did Biden and his team know about this cancer, and why are they announcing it now?

For instance, did Biden keep this diagnosis secret during his run for reelection?

Also, is it a coincidence that Biden is announcing this just after audio was released of his long, incoherent testimony to special prosecutor Robert Hur, and just before the release of a book about the yearslong dishonest cover-up of his cognitive decline?

Is either of these theories true? Are they both true?

Only Biden and his inner circle could deny these claims, but neither he nor his inner circle has any credibility when it comes to his health.

They claimed for years that he was “sharp as a tack” and had more energy than his young staffers. Biden attacked Hur dishonestly for mentioning his mental decline.

Tons of reporters and Democrats stuck their necks out for Biden, and they all got proven liars and dupes.

They weren’t “dupes.” Everyone could see Biden’s decline and compare his slow shuffling manner with his former energetic (albeit gaffe-prone) younger self. But no Democratic Party operative with a byline wanted to be the first to go on the record about it, and risk becoming the fall guy for causing the Bad Orange Man to return to power.

50,000 MARCH IN NYC’S ANNUAL ISRAEL PARADE CENTERED ON THE PLIGHT OF THE HOSTAGES.

CBS NEWS EMBROILED IN YET MORE SCANDAL AS TOP BOSS STEPS DOWN WITH VERY TENSE STATEMENT:

CBS News’ CEO Wendy McMahon has announced she’s quitting the network – with a tense statement hinting at her unhappiness at the newsroom’s current state.

McMahon, 50, made her departure known in a Monday memo to staffers – one that made clear she was taking a stand against Donald Trump and a lawsuit alleging CBS News exhibits bias.

The maneuver was first reported by The New York Times, three months after insiders first said McMahon was set to lose her job.

Both she and now-former 60 Minutes boss Owens opposed Paramount heiress Shari Redstone’s plans to settle a $20billion dollar suit being brought by the president that alleges an October 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was deceptively edited.

A settlement appears to be the sticking point for the Skydance deal to go through – leaving Owens and and McMahon in higher-ups’ crosshairs.

‘It’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward,’ McMahon wrote Monday as a result.

‘It’s time for me to move on and for this organization to move forward with new leadership.’

‘Today, I am stepping down from my position as president and CEO of CBS News and Stations,’ McMahon told her team, calling the less than two-year stint plagued by poor ratings ‘one of the most meaningful chapters in [her] career.’

More details here: CBS News President Resigns amid Feud with Trump.

McMahon took over CBS News in August 2023 and oversaw numerous controversies during her brief time as head of the network. Redstone rebuked McMahon when CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil drew the ire of progressive staffers for lightly challenging author Ta-Nehisi Coates’s inflammatory claims about the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Dokoupil was subject to ritualistic humiliation internally for the Coates interview and eventually succumbed to the pressure with an emotional apology.

Former CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge has criticized the network for censoring her attempts to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story and squashing a live interview with billionaire Elon Musk. CBS laid off Herridge last year and she now runs an independent newsletter.

Paramount is also seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its merger with Skydance Media, a blockbuster transaction the agency has spent months reviewing. The FCC and Paramount recently began discussions about the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, among other conditions for the FCC to allow the merger to take place.

As Bob Hoge writes at Red State, “another one bites the dust at CBS News. They thoroughly earned this ongoing humiliation, however, so I shed not a single tear for them.”

EDITH WILSON SMILES: Joe Biden Breaks Silence on Cancer Diagnosis as Rumors Swirl over Announcement Timing.

Joe Biden broke his silence after his office revealed Sunday that the former president is battling an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer.

Biden, 82, posted a selfie with his wife Jill and their cat on social media, expressing gratitude for the well wishes he received.

“Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support,” Biden wrote in the caption.

It’s 2025. Why are we assuming that Joe actually wrote that? Biden family insider exposes culture of concealment in former administration.

Biden family insider Michael LaRosa opened up about the former administration’s culture of concealment while speaking to Fox News on Sunday, telling “FOX & Friends Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy that the people surrounding the former president during his tenure in the White House were unwilling to be transparent.

“This was a group in the White House who were allergic to transparency, and I’m talking about just in the East Wing,” he said. “The very first day walking into the White House, the usher was fired, and I couldn’t get reporters straight answers, because nobody would give me straight answers.”

Biden family insider Michael LaRosa opened up about the former administration’s culture of concealment while speaking to Fox News on Sunday, telling “FOX & Friends Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy that the people surrounding the former president during his tenure in the White House were unwilling to be transparent.

“This was a group in the White House who were allergic to transparency, and I’m talking about just in the East Wing,” he said. “The very first day walking into the White House, the usher was fired, and I couldn’t get reporters straight answers, because nobody would give me straight answers.”

Last year Niall Ferguson wrote, “We’re All Soviets Now:”

Gerontocratic leadership was one of the hallmarks of late Soviet leadership, personified by the senility of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.

But by current American standards, the later Soviet leaders were not old men. Brezhnev was 75 when he died in 1982, but he had suffered his first major stroke seven years before. Andropov was only 68 when he succeeded Brezhnev, but he suffered total kidney failure just a few months after taking over. Chernenko was 72 when he came to power. He was already a hopeless invalid, suffering from emphysema, heart failure, bronchitis, pleurisy, and pneumonia.

And like the Soviet Union bad news is just another excuse to continue the omerta: Dem strategist David Axelrod says criticism of Biden’s mental decline should be ‘muted’ amid cancer diagnosis as timing of announcement questioned.

And right on cue: Brian Stelter: Cancer Diagnosis Should ‘Pause’ Scrutiny of Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline.

John Podhoretz adds: Biden and His Palace Court.

And in the end, of course, Biden isn’t the villain of the story told in the book being released tomorrow. The bad guys here are the people around him, and the Democratic cognitive elite from both inside the administration and out. Either they knew he was too out of it to serve as president and covered it up, which is criminal and means they should never again be allowed anywhere near a position of authority, or they deluded themselves into thinking otherwise, which means they were fools who should never be allowed anywhere near a position of authority. Anyway you slice it, they should never be anywhere near power ever again. This means you, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. And you, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. And you, Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients. You propped up an infirm man, and maybe a man you knew to be suffering from cancer, to keep yourselves in power.

Now, Jill Biden will have no way to be anywhere near power, but she is clearly the central player in this melodrama, and the question for the future is: Who will tell that story?

When do we start seeing books about the Biden administration that actually name names?

UPDATE:

As someone who replied to Mehta suggests, “[It] Would not surprise me if it turns out the traits we saw as cognitive decline were exacerbated by cancer treatment.”

I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN MADE RAMBO LOOK LIKE A PANTYWAIST:

Stop what you're doing. Watch this.

The way they effortlessly lied to the public about Biden's health should infuriate you. Never trust these propagandists again.pic.twitter.com/geHe0Q2FFO

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 18, 2025

When did Democrats in the media and on Capital Hill start taking their cues from the earlier, funnier years of Saturday Night Live?

DEVELOPING: Biden Diagnosed With “Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer.”

Flashback to CNBC in February of 2024: Biden is a ‘healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male,’ his doctor says after physical.

Joe Biden is fit to continue his presidential responsibilities “without any exemptions or accommodations,” the White House physician said Wednesday after conducting the president’s annual physical.

Biden “is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a summary of the president’s health.

The results of the routine examination carry extra significance this year, as Biden seeks to tamp down concerns about whether he is physically and mentally capable of serving another four years in the White House.

The Democrat has weathered relentless attacks about his age and fitness from his political opponents, especially Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who will turn 78 in June.

Despite their closeness in age, polls show voters are less concerned about Trump’s fitness than Biden’s.

Earlier in February, a Department of Justice special counsel investigating Biden over his handling of classified documents described the president in a report as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

Biden angrily pushed back on that report, acknowledging his age but declaring, “I know what the hell I’m doing.”

But of course, he really didn’t, as Matt Margolis of PJM wrote the following month: Things Just Got a Lot Worse for Joe Biden.

Last month, the Hur report found that Joe Biden willfully retained, mishandled, and disclosed classified information but determined that he was essentially too senile to stand trial. According to the report, Biden struggled to remember details, and he couldn’t remember when his son Beau died.

Joe Biden angrily defended his memory in his unplanned address and attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur for bringing up Beau during his interview during the investigation, which managed to make things worse for him.

“There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” Biden said. “How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”

Except that Hur didn’t bring it up. Biden did.

Exit questions:

Here's the thing, how are we supposed to know or believe? See the damage both he his family and the media have done? https://t.co/wqSd9jxHxr

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 18, 2025

UPDATE: Trump’s comms team issues well-worded response:

MARK JUDGE: Teen movies have changed a lot over the decades.

Someone coming across the new book Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies might be fooled. The cover, a fun sky blue color and featuring the head shots of Matthew Broderick, Molly Ringwald, Sean Penn, James Dean, and other teen stars, makes the book seem like a breezy read through a cotton candy subject.

Hollywood High author Bruce Handy worked at Vanity Fair for 20 years. His book examines “movies about teenagers,” and breaks down into different eras: Mickey Rooney’s Andy Hardy films (1937–1946); teen rebellion movies such as the iconic Rebel Without a Cause (1955); the Beach Party movies of the 1960s; American Graffiti and the 1970s; Fast Times at Ridgemont High in 1982; the John Hughes 80s classics Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Boyz N the Hood and black filmmakers of the 1990s; Mean Girls in 2004; the Twilight saga (2008–2012); and finally The Hunger Games series (2012–2015).

Handy is great at revealing things about these well-known films you may not have thought about. He also, while not politically conservative, gives the conservative side a fair hearing. He quotes an academic who argues that 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High was a lament by children who missed the 1960s.

Read the whole thing.

PALM SPRINGS IVF CLINIC BOMBER ID’D as Guy Edward Bartkus, a ‘pro-mortalist’ who opposed people being born ‘without their consent.’

A 25-year-old self-described “pro-mortalist” has been identified as the attacker who detonated a car bomb outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs Saturday — killing himself and injuring four other people, according to sources.

Guy Edward Bartkus, of Twentynine Palms, is believed to have detonated an explosive device in his car outside the American Reproductive Centers, which performs IVF treatments, egg collections and other procedures, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Bartkus allegedly described his fanatical pro-death beliefs in written and recorded manifestos as being against bringing people into the world without their consent to spare them from future suffering, KCAL news reported.

On Saturday, FBI agents swarmed his home and evacuated the neighborhood, declaring it a “blast zone” over concerns that he could have left explosives behind, ABC7 reported.

During a late-night press conference, Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, confirmed the agency was handling the investigation but declined to say whether the raid was directly connected to the recent fatal explosion outside an IVF clinic in Palm Springs.

The FBI had confirmed the suspect was the sole fatality of the bombing.

Andy Ngo adds:

I’m looking forward to Law & Order turning him into a born-again Christian when and if they “rip this story from the headlines.”