JIM GERAGHTY: Wait, You’re Telling Me This Person Is Shifting the Overton Window?

Now I see the New York Times has published a long and mostly positive profile of Jennifer Welch, an interior designer and former Bravo reality TV star, who has co-hosted a podcast since 2022. The Times gushes that Welch is “the rare figure who appeals to the mainstream liberal, angers the Fox News viewer and thrills the dirtbag left. As she challenges Democrats from a more progressive stance, a portrait of Kate Moss in the frame behind her, she provides the sensation of watching the Overton window shift in real time.”

Here’s Welch’s take on Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk:

You are an opportunistic grifter who weaponizes your gender to demean women, and you are a walking, talking, breathing example as to why nobody, number one, wants to be a Christian, and number two, wants to be a female hypocrite such as yourself. . . . This woman should be kicked to the curb.

(The Kirk assassination has really brought out the best in people, huh?)

Welch has argued that Trump voters should be banned from eating at Mexican, Chinese, or Indian restaurants, or using the services of gay hairdressers:

I’ve had it with white people that triple Trumped that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to a gay hairdresser. . . .  White people that triple Trumped should be boycotted, banned from enjoying the best thing that America has to offer, which is multiculturalism. I don’t think you should be able to enjoy anything but Cracker Barrel.

In an October MSNBC appearance, Welch said that Vice President JD Vance “is married to a woman of Indian descent. He has mixed race children. So to all of the MAGA voters out there, if this man will not defend his wife and will not defend his kids, do you think he gives a crap about you or anything to do with you?”

Last month, the London Telegraph gushed, “This sweary ‘wine mom’ is the Democrats’ answer to Joe Rogan:”

Since starting the I’ve Had It Podcast (IHIP) with her best friend Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, Ms Welch’s expletive-laden rants have seen her gain a loyal following of almost four million and frequent Fox News coverage.

She has attacked Donald Trump, calling him a “teeny weeny mushroom c— piece of s— cankles McTaco t-ts”, said JD Vance is a “smokey eye failed drag queen” and likened Stephen Miller to a “Nazi Jew”.

Ms Welch, 51, and Ms Sullivan, 55, start what they boast is “America’s top DEI podcast” by shouting out “patriots, gaytriots, theytriots, blacktriots and browntriots” and telling those who do not support them to “f— off”.

The so-called “wine moms” have now amassed more than 3.8 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, interviewing some of the biggest Democrats in the business, including Barack Obama, Kamala Harris and Zohran Mamdani.

Geraghty writes that “NPR, the U.K. Daily Telegraph, and the The Guardian have also written positive profiles about Welch.” There’s no doubt that she’s getting massive amounts of hype from her fellow leftists, but nothing in the Telegraph’s profile indicates that the left have figured out how to produce podcasts that appeal to men, unlike Rogan, who was a Bernie-supporting leftist until his party shunned him for not toeing the official line on Covid.

YES, THAT’S THE IDEA: Charlotte Sheriff Gripes That Iryna’s Law Is Likely to Overcrowd Jails.

Talk about having your priorities completely out of order. The sheriff for the North Carolina city that became infamous for the race-fueled, deadly stabbing of Iryna Zarutska is angry that so many crimes are occurring in his city, but not for the reason you’d think.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden complained that Iryna’s Law will overcrowd the jails. He said this days after another train stabbing. So it would seem he has no issue with criminals sticking knives into innocent victims, so long as they don’t fill up his jail. Talk about a sheriff unfit for duty. To make the situation even more shameful, the sheriff whined about how many people saw the video of Iryna getting stabbed and acted as if the judges that social media users criticized were more worthy of pity than Iryna.

Sheriff McFadden acted as if Iryna’s grisly death at the hands of serial criminal Decarlos Brown Jr. — simply because she was white — were somehow a plot to make his life difficult. “And we believe that the only reason that this caught national attention is because it was caught on video and it was displayed across the United States, and our local politicians at that time saw it was a political agenda, or they could highlight her as a refugee and not an immigrant,” he griped at a press conference. “This is why they created Iryna’s Law.”

And boy, is he angry that criminals will be sent to jail instead of being allowed to roam free and commit crimes over and over and over. You see, Iryna’s Law imposes stricter penalties for violent offenders and repeat offenders before pre-trial release, in some cases preventing them from pre-trial release altogether.

Sheriff McFadden is the latest leftist to stumble into the world of Fox Butterfield: “‘The Butterfield Effect’ is named in honor of ace New York Times crime reporter Fox Butterfield, the intrepid analyst responsible for such brilliantly headlined stories as ‘More Inmates, Despite Drop In Crime,’ and ‘Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction,’ not to mention the poetic 1997 header, ‘Crime Keeps on Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling.’”

I’ll TAKE HEADLINES FROM 1943 FOR $500, ALEX: Porsches Across Russia Suddenly Stop Working.

Hundreds of Porsche cars have stopped working in Russia due to an issue with a satellite-based security system, according to local reports.

Owners reported various issues with their vehicles, including not being able to start the engine, or it shutting down soon after ignition. Others said that they had been locked out of their cars.

The root cause of the issue is not yet known, though a representative for Russia’s largest dealership group told local media that it could be an act of sabotage.

“It’s possible this was done deliberately,” the Rolf spokesperson told the RBC news website, without providing any evidence.

There is no official support for Russian Porsche owners after the German manufacturer suspended commercial operations in the country following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

To be fair, Porsches have a long history of being surprisingly unreliable in Russia: Elefant Tank Destroyer: Ferdinand Porsche’s Epic Fail That Got Its Butt Kicked at Kursk.

HAMAS CAPTURES HOBOKEN! Palestinian Flag-Raising In Hoboken Draws Ire From Mayor-Elect Jabbour.

HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken’s next mayor has blasted the current city administration for raising the Palestinian flag in front of City Hall without input from other officials.

As the conflict in Gaza continues, a number of events related to Israel and Palestine have raised controversy around the region.

As Mayor Ravi Bhalla finishes his last full month in office, Mayor-Elect Emily Jabbour blasted his decision to raise the flag on Tuesday.

“Today, we are seeing first-hand the repercussions of decisions made without a larger community conversation, and without any engagement with myself or my council colleagues,” Jabbour said in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon. (See the post below.)

Local resident Audrey Truschke said in response, “The Palestinian flag raising was organized by an informal group of Hoboken residents from diverse backgrounds. City Hall selected the date.

“Mayor-elect Jabbour’s arm-jerk reaction against a basic show of solidarity with a beleaguered people shows that she is out of touch with her constituents, who requested this flag raising. It also suggests that she lacks empathy. I hope she displays better judgment as mayor than she has as mayor-elect in this situation.”

What is an “arm-jerk reaction?” Is she implying something like this?

If only there was a way for mayors to avoid this sort of unnecessary controversy. If only:

Maybe then we should chill with all these flags. Too risky. A USA flag, a NJ flag and maybe the new mayor can initiate a citywide contest to design a Hoboken flag— and that’s it. Nothing else goes up that pole.

— David Brown (@thatDavidBrown) December 9, 2025

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Non-Binary Teacher Cites Personal Safety Concerns to Avoid Director’s Child, Sparking Legal Action.

I almost can't believe I'm typing this. A 5th grade gender-nonbinary teacher in Tumwater, WA, did not want to teach the 10-year-old son of a conservative school board member, citing safety concerns. Mx. TJ Thornton requested the school craft a policy to "help mitigate the… pic.twitter.com/1ut6uS8AYX

— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) December 8, 2025

Does the reverse work as well?

ACE OF SPADES: Paramount/Skydance Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros.

David Ellison is reportedly trying to induce Trump to block the Netflix buyout by promising that if he gets hold of Warner Bros. — and its failing “news” channel CNN — he’ll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network.

Paramount CEO David Ellison assured Trump officials that if the government OKs his company’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) he would overhaul the president’s media arch nemesis — CNN.

Netflix announced last Friday it reached a deal to acquire Warner and HBO properties for $72 billion – but Paramount immediately launched a hostile counterbid, taking its case directly to shareholders.

The Netflix-WBD merger is facing a stiff challenge from Paramount, whose majority shareholder is the billionaire Donald Trump ally, Oracle founder Larry Ellison.

On Monday, Paramount made its move, offering $77.9 billion in all-cash and urging Warner shareholders to reject the Netflix deal.

On a recent visit to Washington, DC, Ellison’s son David told Trump’s team he would impose sweeping changes at CNN if he purchased its parent company WBD, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

David’s father Larry discussed firing hosts like Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar – figures Trump dislikes – with White House officials during takeover bid talks last month, the Guardian reported.

Is that true? No idea. I do know that if you really were making this offer you would want to do it privately, not publicly, with the Wall Street Journal notified. Because the president isn’t supposed to approve or nix mergers based on his personal or political self-interest. By making this supposed offer so public, it basically stops Trump from even considering taking the alleged “deal.”

It could be that Netflix, not Ellison, is pushing this story out there to pressure Trump to approve their own bid.

Leftwing movie review[er] Grace Randolf claimed that Warner Discovery shareholders are faced with two repellent options — accept Netlix’s deal and “kill the theater business,” or accept Ellison’s deal and (horrors!) put two movie studios under the control of a “conservative” man friendly to Trump.

Quelle horreur! Wait until Randolf that the movie industry only exists today because it was created by and under the control of conservative men for the first 60 years or so of the industry’s lifespan.

COLUMBIA BROADCASTING STRUGGLE SESSION CONCLUDES: CBS News has picked Tony Dokoupil as ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor: source.

New @PuckNews: Tony Doukopil will be next anchor of CBS Evening News. @tonydokoupil

Bari Weiss & Tom Cibrowski expected to make announcement tomorrow.

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) December 9, 2025

According to the London Independent, their fellow lefties across the big pond at CBS are not happy: CBS News staff grouse over ‘mediocre’ Tony Dokoupil getting ‘Evening News’ gig: ‘It’s an insult.’

Many staffers at CBS News are not thrilled with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss tapping Tony Dokoupil as the next anchor of the network’s flagship nightly news broadcast, describing the CBS Mornings host as a “mediocre straight white man” who only got the job because his views align with Weiss’ pro-Israel stance.

“It’s an insult to the storied news giants who came before him,” one CBS News reporter told The Independent.

Well, I certainly hope so, given how in thrall to the institutional left those “giants” were for about 70 years or so.

Flashback to October of last year: CBS Rebukes [Dokoupil] Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates.

FASTER, PLEASE: Going Hypersonic: A Look at the Record-setting X-15.

JUST DON’T MENTION THE WAR:

talking about free speech in america vs. europe is like "in germany you can be jailed for making fun of politicians," and europeans responding with a one-off story about a guy 'arrested for critiquing trump' who… actually planted a pipe bomb or threatened to shoot up a school.

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) December 9, 2025

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY:

“Actually, DEI was designed to benefit white men” is a headline that would never make it through the editorial process at any halfway-honest paper. Embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/dmN0aSVOUy

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) December 5, 2025

IT IS TIME FOR US TO DO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING. AND THAT TIME IS EVERY DAY:

Truly, she is the Alben W. Barkley of our time https://t.co/wZLXdV8w63

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 9, 2025

DON’T GET COCKY: Joe Concha makes bleak prediction for ‘unserious candidate’ Jasmine Crockett.

JIM GERAGHTY: Hollywood Only Has Itself to Blame for Industry Woes.

Speaking of superhero blockbusters, we should take a moment to stare in amazement at how Disney has managed to take not one but two of the all-time most popular franchises, a pair of toy- and merchandise-selling golden geese, and run both of them into the ground. There was a time not that long ago — 2019, when Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame was released — when it looked like the Marvel superhero movies and the Star Wars films would make billions, year after year, for the foreseeable future.

Chalk it up to the “M-She-U,” or the retirement of popular characters and actors, or the rapid proliferation of Marvel shows on Disney Plus, but the magic is gone; there’s nowhere near the sense of a Marvel movie being a must-see as there was before the Covid-19 interruption.

Your mileage may vary, but I actually feel like Marvel has enjoyed a comeback in quality this year with Thunderbolts and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. By the standards of other movies, they did okay; Thunderbolts is the 12th highest-grossing movie of 2025 with $190 million in the domestic box office, and Fantastic Four ranks 7th at $274 million. But by the standards of previous Marvel movies, they’re flops.

Star Wars hasn’t released a movie in theaters since before the pandemic. In May, we will get The Mandalorian and Grogu, featuring characters from a Disney Plus television show that was beloved by fans for about two seasons, then bizarrely careened off the rails in its third. Again, your mileage may vary, but the trailer for the forthcoming movie looks astonishingly “meh” for a Star Wars movie.

Finally, this complaint is the most nebulous, but I feel like the entire storytelling culture of Hollywood’s creative class is broken. This tweet from Riley Hale spoke to me:

Hollywood removed the hero’s journey, masculinity, redemption, sacrifice, and beauty standards in 2025, then wondered why global box office fell 18 percent and no film cracked $1 billion. . . . The same industry that spent a decade lecturing audiences on “problematic” tropes now releases 400 movies a year that nobody wants to watch. They didn’t just kill the blockbuster. They sterilized the entire reason humans ever told stories in the first place.

I notice that Amazon’s Reacher was one of the biggest streaming hits of the year, and in a lot of ways, it’s an “old-fashioned” show. A big burly hero, played with a lot of charm by Alan Ritchson, gets ensnared in a mystery and constantly runs into thugs and villains who look at the 6’3”, 240-pound former military police investigator Jack Reacher and think, “Oh yeah, I can take this guy in a fistfight.” As you can imagine, it almost never goes well for them.

So, yes, Hollywood and the movie business have a lot of problems. But one of the biggest and most glaring ones is that they stopped making movies that people enjoy watching.

Marvel and Star Wars at Disney, and Star Trek at Paramount, are reminders of how badly the producers of these originally male-oriented franchises absolutely hate their core audiences with a white-hot passion…

…And then they feign cluelessness when the feeling is mutual:

IT’S A MIXED UP, MUDDLED UP, SHOOK UP WORLD, EXCEPT FOR LOLA: Netflix Mocked For Film About Trans-Identifying Coal Miner Fighting The Patriarchy.

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY:

Besides the underlying racism of the text of your meme you have repurposed a picture from a demonstration of one of the first uses of anesthesia. That would be generally known as a breakthrough that greatly reduced pain for human beings https://t.co/7tZxbD49cF cc @BoulwareH2 https://t.co/40MCx0vSD9

— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) December 9, 2025

“YOU’RE NOT REALLY BLAMING IT ON WHITEY, ARE YOU? YOU’RE BLAMING ISLAM ON WHITEY?” Bill Maher ignites fiery clash with guest as he asks which Middle Eastern city would let her dress like that.

REALLY, REALLY FIRST-WAVE FEMINISM: Female gladiators shocked the ancient Roman world — but not for the reason you think.

YES, NEXT QUESTION? Were the late ’80s and early 1990s “the best time in recent years to be alive?”

RE: A Golden Age

Mrs. Dr. Publius and I were just discussing how awesome the mid-to-late ‘80s and early '90s were, in general, as the best time in recent years to be alive (full disclosure, for each of us this was our favorite time to be alive), and we were wondering if:

"Are…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) December 8, 2025

ACE OF SPADES: Supreme Court Seems Likely To Rule That the President Has Control Over, Get This, the Executive Branch.

Related:

Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency. https://t.co/bD0mUaqiTR

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) December 8, 2025

ANDREW FERGUSON: Getting Intimate With Updike.

When he was a young writer—[John] Updike was astonishingly precocious, becoming a regular contributor to the New Yorker when he was barely out of Harvard—the protagonists of his fiction tended to be sex-obsessed young men. As he grew into middle age, the protagonists evolved into middle-aged men obsessed with sex. Entering his dotage, full of honors and years, he somehow conjured up older, materially successful protagonists who were obsessed with sex. One of the great American stylists, he nevertheless managed to write sex scenes that were unbearably cringe-making. The meticulous, magical gift for poetic physical description that led him (for instance) to describe a snowfall at night as “an immense whispering” was misapplied to the mysteries of sex. A year before his death in 2009, the British magazine Literary Review, famous for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction competition, simply threw up its hands and gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

And yet it would be a mistake to call him the horniest writer of his time. It was quite a time. And he had lots of competition—an entire class of phallocrats, as they were sometimes called. These were male novelists who were too old to have enjoyed the vanguard of the sexual revolution, led by youthful baby boomers, and who were making up for lost time. In the 1990s, the novelist David Foster Wallace lumped several of them together—Updike, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Frederick Exley, Charles Bukowski—under the heading GMNs, the Great Male Narcissists. As Wallace pointed out, however, Updike was the one who evoked an especially intense mockery, at least among Wallace’s own contemporaries (Wallace was under 40 at the time, Updike in his 60s). One of Wallace’s feminist friends called Updike “a penis with a thesaurus,” a deathless tag that followed him to the grave.

Heh, indeed. It’s Andrew Ferguson, so definitely read the whole thing.

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: The Beginning of the End.

UPDATE: Hollywood has only themselves to blame:

T. BECKET ADAMS: Have media forgotten what it means to be ‘sympathetic?’

The New York Times recently published what is clearly meant to be a tear-jerker, highlighting the supposed human cost of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. Except that the paper of record tried to portray as a sympathetic character an illegal immigrant who killed a man. Amazingly, it doesn’t end there. Romeo Perez-Bravo has additional victims, including those who’ve suffered the consequences of his theft, drunk driving, and repeated illegal border crossings.

One such victim is American-born Dan Kluver, whose identity Perez-Bravo stole around 2009. Since then, the real Kluver has had to pay thousands of dollars in mistakenly assigned IRS fees. His wages have been garnished. Kluver has spent hundreds of hours trying to convince the IRS that the man they really want is the illegal immigrant who stole his identity. It gets worse. False charges of tax evasion are just the beginning.

The real Dan Kluver has also been sued in a wrongful-death lawsuit after Perez-Bravo struck and killed a 68-year-old American-born man in a vehicle accident. Perez-Bravo was “cleared of any wrongdoing” in the man’s death, according to the New York Times, but that’s no comfort for Kluver, whose name and identity are now forever linked to an accidental death in which he had no part.

If you need more proof that Perez-Bravo is a bad person, beyond the episode in which he refused to give up his stolen identity even after he killed a man, it’s worth noting that since first crossing illegally into the United States as a teenager, he has accumulated a “string of DUI convictions.” He was also deported in 2005, 2008, and 2009. Each time, he illegally crossed back into the U.S. and stole a different citizen’s identity. Perez-Bravo has since been arrested and charged with aggravated identity theft and false representation of a Social Security number. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison to be followed by deportation (again) to Guatemala.

Perez-Bravo is not a good person. He’s the antonym of “sympathetic.”

Yet, in its coverage of Kluver and the man who has made his life a living hell, this is what the Times chose as its headline: “Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price.”

The subhead is even worse: “Thousands of undocumented workers rely on fraudulent Social Security numbers. One of them belonged to Dan Kluver.” The story itself refers to identity theft as “a survival tactic used to pass background checks and get jobs.”

Surely, the New York Times is aware that identity theft isn’t like cancer or a wildfire caused by lightning, or some other random event. It involves agency, free will, and premeditated criminal intent. Yet its writers and editors seem to think you can slip on a banana peel and, by pure chance, end up using someone else’s Social Security number. Even more ridiculous is that Times staffers evidently believe that identity theft is a victimless crime, just a little bit of harmless truth-bending. Tell that to Kluver.

As the classic Babylon Bee headline from 2019 noted:

I assume this sort of moral equivalence is designed to keep the Grady Lady’s subscriber base happy (and thus not reaching for their pitchforks), which speaks volumes about the left’s collective mindset in 2025.

QUESTION ASKED: Why in the World Is Bari Hiring This Guy?

CBS News remained in the headlines last week vis-à-vis comings and goings as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss further having a look under the proverbial hood. This time, we saw a date for the expected departure of CBS Evening News co-anchor Maurice DuBois and a reported desire to sign CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil to the PM chair, but most notable was a questionable decision to bring over longtime ABC correspondent Matt Gutman.

Yes, the same Gutman who said the texts between the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination and his transgender lover were “heartbreaking,” “intimate” and “touching” (which he was forced to offer a mea culpa one day later):

DISGUSTING: ABC’s Matt Gutman says he’s not sure “if we have seen an alleged murder with such specific text messages” that were “very touching, in a way, that I think many of us didn’t expect — a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the… pic.twitter.com/ulPcxoOwM3

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 16, 2025

Earlier this year, he whined about the actions of Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) in California, defended Los Angeles rioters, and carried water for Harvard in its fight against the Trump administration.

Exit question: “Thus, it has to be asked: What in the world is Bari thinking?”

ED MORRISSEY: Hold the Phones and Pass the Popcorn: Ellison Launches Hostile Bid for Warner, CNN.

This morning, Ellison’s Paramount launched a hostile takeover offer for Warner Discovery, going directly to the shareholders with a better share price bid. Ellison also wants all of Warner Discovery:

Paramount, run by David Ellison, is arguing that its all-cash $30 a share offer for all of Warner, owner of networks such as CNN, TBS and HGTV as well as the HBO Max streaming service, is a better deal for shareholders and more likely to pass regulatory muster. Paramount said its offer “provides shareholders $18 billion more in cash than the Netflix consideration.”

The offer, “provides superior value, and a more certain and quicker path to completion,” Ellison said in a statement.

Netflix agreed to pay $72 billion, or $27.75 a share, for Warner’s studio and HBO Max streaming business after the entertainment company splits itself in two, in a cash-and-stock deal the companies announced Friday.

That’s not the only consideration that WBD shareholders will have to consider. Any acquisition of WBD will raise regulatory concerns and will have to pass muster with the FTC. Donald Trump warned last night that he planned to take a role in the approval process, although he praised Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos as well:

President Trump says he would have a role in whether a proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers should go forward, telling reporters the market share of a combined entity could raise concerns https://t.co/bIqw9EKC72 pic.twitter.com/F4bw7d6TUp

— Reuters (@Reuters) December 8, 2025

Axios notes that “Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing…Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner’s involvement only strengthens that case.”

Stay tuned.

GREAT MOMENTS IN AI HALLUCINATIONS: UK police used fake evidence to justify ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, chief admits.

The UK’s West Midlands Police used fictitious evidence to justify its advice to ban Israeli fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team from attending a match in Birmingham last month, the force’s chief admitted to a parliamentary committee Monday, as MPs grilled police brass on the basis of their controversial decision.

The Aston Villa soccer club announced in October that no Maccabi fans would be allowed at a November match following a police assessment that classified the event as “high risk” and suggested banning Israeli fans from the stadium.

In the report presented to the club that suggested banning Israeli fans, police presented information about a 2023 match between Maccabi and West Ham, which the report said was the Israeli club’s “last appearance on UK soil to date.”

“The most recent match Maccabi played in the UK was against West Ham in the Europa Conference League on Nov 9, 2023,” the report read.

However, no such match was played, and Maccabi has never faced off against the East London club.

Well, it did in the Central Scrutinizer’s digital mind:

I’m not sure which is worse. They cheated on their dossier with AI or they thought they could get away with it.

Nick Timothy use AI cheating detection and each came back with 100% AI fabrication.

There needs to be accountability! @mdubowitz @marklevinshow @SecRubio

— I Woke Up (@drewidia) December 8, 2025