PEGGY NOONAN: A Lament for the Washington Post.

The diminishment of the Washington Post hits hard because it feels like another demoralizing thing in our national life. Our public life as a nation—how we are together, how we talk to each other, the sound of us—isn’t what it was. It’s gone down and we all feel this, all the grown-ups.

The Post was a pillar. The sweeping layoffs and narrowing of coverage announced this week followed years of buyouts and shrinking sections. None of this feels like the restructuring of a paper or a rearranging of priorities, but like the doing-in of a paper, a great one, a thing of journalistic grandeur from some point in the 1960s through some point in the 2020s. I feel it damaged itself when, under the pressure of the pandemic, George Floyd and huge technological and journalistic changes, it wobbled—and not in the opinion section but on the news side. But I kept my subscription because that is a way of trusting, of giving a great paper time to steady itself. (And there would always be an important David Ignatius column, or a great scoop on some governmental scandal that made it worth the cost.)

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Infamous School Board Trains Staff To Fight ‘Terrorist’ Parents Angry About Trans Bathroom Policy.

The Loudoun County School Board in January hosted a training to teach staff and board members how to fight off “terrorist” parents, according to eyewitnesses.

The closed-door meeting was meant to respond to “terrorist activity” at school board meetings and included dozens of hired actors playing the role of Loudoun County parents, according to 7News. Sources who were present at the meeting told the outlet the actors simulated parents bringing guns into the meeting, and staff were instructed on the same measures students are taught to use in the event of an active shooter situation: “run, hide, and fight.”

Board chair April Chandler referred to the actors as “disruptors” and “agitators,” and mentioned past meetings where parents voiced concerns over some of the district’s actions.

Loudoun County became infamous in 2021 after being exposed for allegedly attempting to cover up a sexual assault in a school bathroom perpetrated by a male student who claimed a transgender identity. The victim’s father was later arrested at a board meeting after he demanded that the board admit they covered up his daughter’s attack.

Ironically, if they really were terrorists, based upon what we saw in schools after October 7^th, the school board would likely be thrilled to meet them. As Stephen Jukes, global news editor for Reuters infamously instructed his contributors after September 11th, “We all know that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist. To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack.”

THIS IS HOW THE NFL SCANS ALL OF ITS OLD FILM:

The Instagram account, @mrcelluloid, is run by independent filmmaker Alex Grant who brings fans behind the scenes as he manages NFL’s massive film vault. There is a staggering amount of film in there: over 100 million feet — it would take 13 years to watch it all.

Using “state-of-the-art” scanners, Grant digitizes 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm film. “Methods of transferring film have varied over time, with older machines using a same similar principle of taking individual photos of every single frame,” he writes in one post.

Grant, who scans about 50,000 feet of film per day, says the vast majority of the NFL Films archives is on 16mm, but there’s plenty of 35mm, too. 8mm is relatively rare. The earliest films are from the 1920s and film was still being used as late as 2014.

“To keep up with the volume of film, we have four machines running almost all day,” says Grant, while adding each scanner costs $300,000. “It has a big camera lens inside, which takes a high-quality photo of every single frame. It even has a built-in fan to blow off any excess dirt/dust.”

I grew up in South Jersey, about 20 minutes from the NFL Film’s office in Mt. Laurel, and once interviewed the legendary Steve Sabol for Videomaker magazine, so I’m thrilled that the league is digitizing its archives. But how much will be available for public viewership? To watch old NFL Films product is to watch a worldview and a respect for its core audience that no longer exists among its management, and hasn’t for a decade:

In the 1960s, American culture was fracturing along a fault line, with the common man on one side and scorn against his mores and values on the other. The league’s commissioner at the time, Pete Rozelle, chose to take the side of ordinary Americans in the raging culture war, because they were his natural audience. The league sent star players to visit troops in Vietnam and issued rules requiring players to stand upright during the playing of the National Anthem.

In 1967, the NFL produced a film that combined sideline and game footage titled, “They Call It Pro Football.” The film was unapologetically hokey. It was crew cuts and high tops and lots of chain smoking into sideline telephones. With a non-rock, non-folk, non-“what’s happening now” soundtrack, heavy on trumpets and kettle drums. John Facenda, who would come to be called “The Voice of God” for his work with NFL Films, provided the vaulting narration. The production began with the words, “It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.” There was nothing Radical Chic about it.

The NFL surpassed baseball as America’s pastime with careful branding that conformed to the tastes and sensibilities of middle-class Americans – Nixon’s silent majority. A half century later, Roger Goodell would kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

In August 2016, America was experiencing a polarizing presidential election. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the playing of the national anthem, to protest injustice. It was a politically divisive act directed at fans who regard the national anthem as something sacred. The league did not lift a finger to stop him.

Most employers don’t let their workers make controversial political statements to their customers. It is why you do not know your UPS driver’s views on the expansion of NATO. The Constitution does not prohibit private businesses from regulating speech during work.

A savvier commissioner would have reminded Kaepernick that he is being paid millions to wear the logo of the NFL, and the league does not permit players to use its brand to flaunt their personal politics. Instead, Roger Goodell permitted the pregame ceremonies to become the focus of intense political scrutiny, as the media lined up to catalog whether players stood, sat or knelt during the national anthem.

As Iowahawk famously tweeted back then:

BEZOS HASN’T GUTTED THE POST ENOUGH YET: Colin Kaepernick Washington Post story on Super Bowl Sunday draws social media backlash.

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was top of mind for The Washington Post ahead of Super Bowl LX on Sunday.

Kaepernick was described in the story as Super Bowl LX’s “most relevant” figure despite the 49ers not making it and the subject of the story being out of football for nearly 10 years.

“The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol,” Adam Kilgore wrote of Kaepernick. “The social issues swirling around America’s largest sporting spectacle carry distinct echoes of what prompted his actions and what led to his exile. And yet he remains outside the conversation and invisible within the confines of the NFL.”

The story continued to assess Kaepernick’s legacy after he launched a kneeling protest against social injustice in the U.S. and wondered about his voice amid outrage against the Trump administration’s policy on illegal immigration after two deadly incidents involving federal agents in Minnesota.

The story garnered immense reaction on X.

In which a sports reporter at the Washington Post declares that “The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is” . . . Colin Kaepernick. They cannot fix themselves. They will not fix themselves. They are incorrigible, monomaniacal weirdos. https://t.co/sZRc6GxVT0

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 8, 2026

Much of sports media is just crazy left wing propaganda masquerading as sports news. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Sports audiences overwhelmingly reject this content, but shutting down the sports department and having this article run two days later is just too perfect.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 8, 2026

Exit quote: “Kaepernick has maintained that he’s staying ready for another NFL shot. He will be 39 in November.”

Tom Brady, Blaine Gabbert, and the ghost of George Blanda smile.

“THIS IS WHY THEY STOPPED TEACHING CIVICS IN HIGH SCHOOL:”

This is what happens when you stop teaching civics in high school.

This is why they stopped teaching civics in high school. https://t.co/XBoA1zoqEh

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) February 8, 2026

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE POLITICO: 

Got what I asked for award https://t.co/p3VUtl8CwV pic.twitter.com/zzCrHoMyEs

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) February 7, 2026

OLD GODS, ALMOST DEAD:

● Neil Young cancels tour of UK and Europe.

Neil Young has cancelled his planned summer tour of the UK and Europe with his band The Chrome Hearts, telling fans: “this is not the time”.

The 80-year-old singer-songwriter had been due to begin the run of concerts in June, with dates scheduled across Britain, including Manchester, Cork and Glasgow, before continuing through Europe and concluding in Italy in late July.

In a brief message on his website on Friday evening, he apologised to ticket-holders and confirmed he will no longer travel to Europe this year.

“Folks, I have decided to take a break and will not be touring Europe this time. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets. I’m sorry to let you down, but this is not the time. I do love playing live and being with you and the Chrome Hearts,” he said.

Ticket-holders will be contacted and fully refunded.

—The London Telegraph, yesterday.

● Dee Snider [70] quits Twisted Sister over health issues, forces band to cancel anniversary shows.

In a recent Instagram post, the band announced that all performances planned in celebration of the band’s 50th anniversary were canceled after lead singer Dee Snider’s resignation.

“Due to the sudden and unexpected resignation of Twisted Sister’s lead singer Dee Snider brought on by a series of health challenges, the band has been forced to cancel all shows scheduled, beginning April 25th in (São Paulo) Brazil and continuing through the summer,” the band’s statement said.

The statement continued by addressing the future of the band, saying it “will be determined in the next several weeks” and encouraged fans to “stay tuned for updates.”

—Fox News, yesterday.

And from Variety in December: Rolling Stones Call Off 2026 Tour.

The Rolling Stones have called off plans for a 2026 stadium tour of the United Kingdom and Europe, a source close to the band confirms to Variety, following reports that guitarist Keith Richards was unable to “commit” to it.

While never officially announced, the group’s touring pianist Chuck Leavell and a spokesperson recently told press in the U.K. that the band has nearly completed a new album — their second with 35-year-old producer Andrew Watt — and planned on touring the U.K. and Europe. However, Richards, who turns 82 on Thursday, is said to be unable to commit to the rigors of another tour. Live dates in recent years have shown that he has faced challenges due to a long battle with arthritis, which he has called “benign” and said has forced him to change his style of playing.

As Kyle Smith wrote in 2019 in “The Great Forgetting:” 

As the Who suit up for what I suppose will be their final tour (“Who’s Left”?), Chuck Klosterman points out in his book But What if We’re Wrong? that whole forms die out. He compares rock to 19th-century marching music: nothing left of the latter except John Philip Sousa. That’s it. And Sousa himself is barely remembered. In 100 years rock might be gone too, Klosterman guesses. Maybe we’ll remember one rock act. Who will it be? Maybe none of the obvious answers. It certainly wasn’t obvious at the time of Fitzgerald’s death that The Great Gatsby would be the best-remembered novel he or anyone else wrote in the first half of the 20th century.

No wonder Paul McCartney allowed Beatles songs to be used in two commercials during the NFC/AFC championship games a couple of weeks ago. Starbucks and Airbnb likely paid a small(?) fortune for the rights, and it keeps the band at the top of the consciousness for millions of similarly aging fans:

Two original Beatles recordings popping up during the AFC championship. Used to be very rare….maybe McCartney thinking Beatles can stay in pop culture via this route?

— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) January 25, 2026

UPDATE: 3 Doors Down frontman Brad Arnold dead at 47. Arnold announced his stage 4 cancer diagnosis in May 2025 and died Saturday surrounded by loved ones.

THIS JUST IN: EURO-TRASH STILL HATE AMERICA.

RE: Vance Getting Booed at the Winter Olympics

So a bunch of Eurotards from Europe’s fashion capital booed our Vice President and Second Lady at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

Democrats, of course, are thrilled by this because they too hate America. I, of course, could…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) February 7, 2026

DAVID FRENCH ONLY TONE POLICES THE RIGHT:

David French went to a protest where they were celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk and yet he still has the audacity to morality-police the right. https://t.co/08t5bN9l0S

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 7, 2026

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Founding member of Time’s Up movement advised Jeffery Epstein two years before launching the anti-sexual harassment organization.

Back in 2018, Time’s Up was the toast of the town, feared and lauded across the industry. The influential anti-sexual harassment group made its splashy debut at the 2018 Golden Globes, in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, raising $26 million off the backs of his accusers. There were a few missteps early on — a tone-deaf Vogue photo shoot — but overall, Time’s Up organizers deftly consolidated money and power.

And while its mission was to provide victims of sexual assault with financial and legal assistance, the organization seemed to spend more time advocating for A-listers like Reese Witherspoon and Emma Stone to get bigger paydays. (Mark Wahlberg gave a $1.5 million donation in Michelle Williams’ name following revelations of a massive pay gap for the reshoots of the film “All the Money in the World.”) What started out as righteousness ended in scandal, and Time’s Up was forced to cease operating in 2023 after it was revealed that the organization had advised former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo how to counter sexual harassment allegations against him.

But the power grab appears to have been even more craven than previously known. Documents in the Epstein Files suggest that Time’s Up leaders may have been actively engaging with Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle in a bid to launder his disgraced image. The scandalous ploy involved LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, former director of the MIT Media Lab Joichi “Joi” Ito, Steve Bannon and (perhaps most notably to the town) CAA board member and chief innovation officer Michelle Kydd Lee – who now goes by Michelle Kydd.

The whole sordid affair spans the period between 2014 and 2018, long after Epstein’s high-profile 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14.

As Glenn liked to say during Trump’s first term, “All those #metoo torpedoes they put in the water for trump keep circling around on them.”

HE’S SUPER-CEREAL, YOU GUYS: Bioethicist: Government Whole Milk Push Is Racist.

The noted bioethicist Art Caplan — with whom I usually disagree, but not always — has really jumped the shark with a column in which he accuses the administration of pushing racism in its publicity promotion of whole milk as part of a healthy diet. From “Is the Recent Effort to Glorify Whole Milk Tainted by Racism?” published in Bioethics Today:

As a student of and writer on the history of science and public health under fascist regimes, I am suspicious. Milk drinking is political. Drinking whole white milk has played a big role in racist and far-right thinking.

That’s the first I have ever heard of such argumentation. Caplan gives examples:

Fascists have used the beverage as a rallying cry for white supremacy since the days of Il Duce’s (Benito Mussolini’s) public health campaigns in Italy. The Nazis were enamored of whole milk as well. In America, drinking whole milk has for years been a part of alt-right, white nationalist messaging in tweets, memes, and videos.

Didn’t we do the “milk is racist/fascist” stuff repeatedly during Trump’s first term? Why, yes we did!

● WUT: College Student Explains Why Milk Is Racist.

—The Daily Wire, March 16^th, 2017.

● PETA of course got in on the act on March 31^st, 2017:

● Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed).

—The New York Times, October 17^th, 2018.

Curiously, for the four years in-between Trump’s terms in office, milk wasn’t deemed racist by the left: Biden orders milkshakes in bizarre behind-the-scenes video of final days in White House.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Somalis sign up for IDs, voter cards, but not all are sold on universal suffrage.

Irony can be pretty ironic, sometimes:

You literally can’t make this up

Somalia just implemented a new program issuing voter ID cards to every voter. This is to ensure every voter can only vote once

An ID is mandatory for voting

But Ilhan Omar and Democrats reject ID for voting in America….pic.twitter.com/CinKmcYwSe

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 6, 2026

WHY DOES TAXI DRIVER STILL RESONATE?

Another thing [David] Berkowitz shared with his fictional counterpart was that strangely American cult of celebrity that allows its outcasts to become just as famous as its achievers. In the somewhat incongruous happy-ending coda to Taxi Driver, Bickle ends up a hero, finally validated, at least in his own mind, for having cleaned the scum off the streets, while Berkowitz, in turn, would prove far from averse to sharing his story with the outside world. It’s largely thanks to him that 40 US states currently carry so-called Son of Sam – named for Berkowitz’s Labrador-owning neighbor, Sam Carr – laws on their books specifically designed to keep convicts from profiting financially from their crimes.

The other ghastly perversion of Scorsese’s movie came when another pudgy-faced drifter, this one named John Hinckley Jr., became obsessed with the actress Jodie Foster, who famously plays a pre-teen hooker in the film. Like Charles Manson before him, Hinckley was a frustrated folk singer, and, like Berkowitz, another sad advertisement of what can happen when paranoid delusions meet with gun ownership. Over the years, his plan came to revolve around the idea of assassinating the US president in the belief that this might impress the object of his desires. Hinckley wasn’t fussy about which president. In October 1980, he was arrested at Nashville airport with three handguns in his luggage while Jimmy Carter was speaking elsewhere in the city. He was fined $50 and released the same day.

Five months later, Hinckley managed to shoot Carter’s successor in office, Ronald Reagan, outside the Washington Hilton. The attack left Reagan with serious injuries and permanently paralyzed press secretary James Brady. A Secret Service agent and a police officer were also wounded. Jodie Foster was not impressed. So far from being attracted to Hinckley, she’s commented on her reluctance to ever act in live theater lest another deranged fan appear in the audience. Hinckley himself was released after 41 years’ confinement in a psychiatric hospital, and is now attempting to resume his career as a musician and artist, although his reception thus far has not been encouraging from the ranks of either the record industry or the public.

And once again, the WaPo was there! “The man who shot Reagan wants to play concerts. It’s not going well,” the Post reported in 2022:

If he were any other shooter — found not guilty by reason of insanity and later deemed not a danger to himself or others — Hinckley might have been free of the court system years ago, and blending in with his guitar at a New York City club. But his victims included a U.S. president, as well as a press secretary, a D.C. police officer and a Secret Service agent. Many people are not eager to see him enjoy the benefits of a life without court supervision.

The Reagan Foundation opposed lifting Hinckley’s restrictions and his attempt at a music career, saying in a statement that Hinckley “apparently seeks to make a profit from his infamy.” A 2021 op-ed in The Washington Post by Patti Davis, one of Reagan’s daughters, also protested his freedom.

“I don’t believe that John Hinckley feels remorse,” she wrote. “Narcissists rarely do.”

In 2022, we descended into some sort of bizarre hell-world in which Patti Davis was a voice of sanity. But then pretty much everyone was much saner the Washington Post during the last decade. QED:

Why does everyone have to yell and have tantrums in public now? Go get another job like the rest of us.

— Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) February 6, 2026

As James Lileks wrote of Taxi Driver: “It’s a brilliant movie. The civilization it portrays is a sad and empty place — Weimar Germany without the energy to muster up the brownshirts, Rome that fell because it was grew bored waiting for the Huns. If I had to choose between its 1 hour and 54 minutes of brilliance and the few minutes of Herrman’s score — no question. That sad sax theme alone sums up everything about the latter 70s, its exhaustion, its dead-hearted nostalgia for everything it grew up pissing on. Julia Phillips was one of the movie’s producers. I’ll bet she would have wanted someone to play that theme at her funeral.”

I wonder what Zohran Mamdani thinks about Taxi Driver? Much like Bill de Blasio before him, he seems determined to return New York to its dissipated 1970s-era condition, which made the film imaginable in the first place.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Get Off My Land Edition.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID https://t.co/2B0auATVZZ pic.twitter.com/omBcRnvJFI

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 6, 2026

IT’S A GOOD START: Hundreds Of Truckers Taken Off Road For English Proficiency Concerns In Nationwide Operation.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Senators Ask Netflix Head Ted Sarandos: Why Does Your Company Propagandize Children as Young as Babies to be Transgender?

STEPHEN KRUISER: This Awful Thing That the Super Bowl Has Become Belongs on the Hallmark Channel*.

The greatest evil visited upon us by the non-fans who have taken over the Super Bowl is the halftime show abomination. The NFL rulebook states that, “Between the second and third periods, there shall be an intermission of 13 minutes.” Again, that’s from the official rules. Because the Super Bowl has very little to do with football, the rules are tossed out the window in order to appease the television network programming wraiths whose offices are in the ninth ring of Hell. The Super Bowl halftime show finishes a few minutes before Opening Day in Major League Baseball. A slow learner could get an associate’s degree during the Super Bowl halftime.

No true fan wants there to be extra time between the action of a football game. Oh, and we don’t care about the party cuisine either. Get the Lipton’s onion soup mix, make some dip, and get your idiotic commercial-loving butt away from the TV.

Since I don’t believe in coincidences, I read a lot into the rise in popularity of the Super Bowl and its attendant parties happening concurrently with the wussification of the game of football. Within ten years, I swear that the defenders will have to seek verbal permission to come in contact with the offense. In an effort to bring more fans to football, the NFL apparently believes that gutting everything that’s good about the game of football is the key. Roger Goodell (told you I didn’t like him) probably dreams of the day that NFL scores look like NBA scores.

I know that we real football fans will never get the Super Bowl back. Goodell’s vision board probably sees a day when there are four quarters of halftime performances, with 13 minutes of flag football between the second and third, and the games will be played in Stockholm or Buenos Aires (a rant for another day). Perhaps I’ll start a company that organizes Super Bowl parties for true fans. Membership will be predicated upon things like knowing the difference between encroachment and offside, or being able to name at least five players from the 1950s and ’60s.

* Provided your smart TV has bilingual closed captioning enabled:

Gosh, it's hard to understand why the Washington Post had to lay off half its staff considering the fact that they routinely churn out such excellent reporting as the piece below. https://t.co/iYanFKo23e

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) February 6, 2026

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:

There’s no one more right wing than people who saw in their lifetimes the total destruction of a California paradise https://t.co/PHsDe03oNf

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) February 6, 2026

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE WASHINGTON PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM: Hall of Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgensen dies at 91.

Sonny Jurgensen, the Hall of Fame quarterback whose strong arm led to passing records for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders and affable personality made him a beloved figure, has died at the age of 91.

ESPN was on in the locker room of the gym this afternoon, and I watched the newsreader discussing Jurgensen’s pro career by uttering something like “his time playing football in Washington,” as a way to avoid the R-word entirely.

Similarly, if the WaPo’s readers are wondering what happened to its sports section, rest assured its demise was entirely self-inflicted:

@ericfingerhut @JacksonSports The Washington Post sports desk pushed the NFL to have the Washington Redskins change their name. It was a political sports desk.

The entire sports desk was laid off today.

America is healing.

— Mike Mcdonnell (@MMcdonnell54533) February 4, 2026

OLD AND BUSTED: Dow 36,000.

The New Hotness? Dow surges 1,200 points for first close above 50,000 in sharp rebound from tech rout.

Evergreen: Krugman On Election Night 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

SHE’S BACK! Douglas Murray: Kamala Harris returning to the political landscape can be best described by Gen Z as ‘cringe.’

If you´re still not clear on what is going on, well, at least Kamala and her team have given us a couple of clues. One is that they have decided to adopt the X-label of “@headquarters_67.”

This is a reference to an online meme briefly popular with some youths some while ago.

The meme — which, like a lot of online memes, is too complicated and unimportant to go into here — signals a desire to be down with the kids.

Unfortunately, the meme was already long dead and buried even before Kamala and her social media geniuses decided to dig it up and batter its corpse one final time.

Even CNN has admitted that this attempt to look cool is almost the epitome of what the kids might call “cringe.”

Kamala couldn’t have looked more out of sync if she’d started talking about Pepe the Frog.

Which is why her clueless social media team decided it was time for a quick re-rebrand:

I regret to inform you that, after being clowned on, “Headquarters 67” is now “Headquarters 68.” Unfortunately I can now predict where this is going. https://t.co/D8by0fvBPT pic.twitter.com/a5YKibZ1EA

— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) February 6, 2026

‘VERY REVEALING!’ One Short Word in AOC’s WaPo Layoffs Take Gives Away How Dems View the Media.

The left have viewed the Post as “our media” for quite some time. In the fall of 2006, Bill Clinton told a Washington Post interviewer, that “There is an expectation among Democrats that establishment old media organizations are de facto allies — and will rebut political accusations and serve as referees on new-media excesses.”

That’s a pretty mild way to describe what the media would shortly morph into a year later, as Obama worship went into overdrive, followed by everything we’ve seen over the last decade to attack the Bad Orange Man.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED IS LOWERING SUPER BOWL EXPECTATIONS: Why Super Bowl TV Ratings Will Be Down This Year.

Last year’s Super Bowl between the Eagles and Chiefs drew 127.7 million viewers for Fox. It set a new record for the most watched telecast in television history.

My guess is that NBC won’t come close to topping this on Sunday, despite Nielsen using a new viewership measurement system that has seen big increases across the board for most sporting events in recent months.

For one reason, last year’s Super Bowl aired on Fox’s free streaming service, Tubi. This year’s Super Bowl will air on Peacock, which is a paid service. Tubi has 97 million active users. Peacock has 44 million subscribers.

Another big reason why this Super Bowl won’t be watched by as many people as last year’s is because of who is here and who isn’t here.

Travis Kelce’s fiancée is not part of this Super Bowl. That eliminates a large portion of people who watched last year’s Super Bowl despite not caring even one bit about football. Patrick Mahomes has also reached that level where the non-NFL fan may tune in to see him play. Sam Darnold and Drake Maye will not bring in one of those fans.

Okay, so the Chiefs didn’t even make it to the playoffs this year. But why couldn’t “Travis Kelce’s fiancée” perform at the Super Bowl halftime? As alluded to above, she has a rather substantial fan base, and they might have tuned in just to see her.

Flashback: Why is an anti-American crossdresser being chosen to headline the most American event ever?

That’s why:

LATEST LEFTIST MONOMANIA ACHIEVED:

Anti-ICE Hysteria is the new Covid Hysteria.

Anti-ICE virtue signaling is the new Ukraine emoji.

Anti-ICE rioting is the new BLM rioting.

Anti-ICE propaganda is the new Russia Hoax.

No matter how many times the Democratic Party goes back to its same old dirty tricks, they can…

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 6, 2026

Tweet continues:

No matter how many times the Democratic Party goes back to its same old dirty tricks, they can always count on the same gullible, impressionable, low-info fools to keep falling for it.

QED: Team GB skier urinates ‘F— ICE’ in snow at Winter Olympics.

A Team GB athlete has launched a stinging attack on the ICE agency ahead of the opening ceremony at the Winter Games, urinating the words “F— ICE” into the snow.

Gus Kenworthy, a British-American model and actor, who has come out of retirement to appear for Team GB in freestyle skiing, posted the message on his Instagram account on Wednesday before confirming his methodology with a follow-up message. “My last post was pee so it only felt appropriate to follow it up with a lil’ dump… of photos from January. Yes, I’m a child,” he told his 1.2 million followers.

Well, yes. So why should anyone follow your advice on ignoring illegal immigration in either nation?