Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

June 6, 2026

JONATHAN TURLEY: Eight years after Kavanaugh, Democrats have stopped believing all women.

Long after the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh, the left continued to claim that his presence on the Supreme Court “rests on a mountain of misogyny.” In Ms. Magazine, actress Kathleen Turner reminded people that not believing women was furthering misogyny: “Survivors who come forward break the rules of silence a sexist society demands, and society expects them to pay a price.”

If you recall, the lack of evidence led to the Senate Judiciary Committee combing through Kavanaugh’s personal calendars. Denials that such a thing had ever happened, coming from childhood friends, were treated as still more evidence of sexism.

There was Sen. Shelton Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who grilled Kavanaugh about using the term “boofing” (apparently referring to passing gas) with a high school friend as if it were a confession to a rape. His inquisitorial barrage was something straight out of the McCarthy period.

Whitehouse expressed disgust that some would not take Ford’s word for it, declaring, “Today I stand with women who are brave enough to come forward with their stories of abuse and mistreatment. They deserve to be heard and credible allegations must be investigated. We must believe survivors, not bully them.”

Whitehouse is now a major donor and supporter of Graham Platner, the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Maine. He dismisses the New York Times accounts from women of Platner’s physically and mentally abusive behavior. Instead of believing these women, he reportedly attacked Lyndsey Fifield, who “bravely” came forward publicly with her story at the request of Times reporters.

Whitehouse is quoted as saying that he was “unimpressed” by the allegations and the multiple women coming forward “seems like a lot of nothing.” He suggested that he is not prepared to believe a woman if she is a conservative. “I mean, the only one who had anything to say that seemed ‘unsettling’ was a woman who works for right-wing political operations,” he said.

To be fair, I’m not surprised that someone who was accused of belonging to an all-white beach club likes the cut of the jib the Oystergruppenführer.

Related: As Norman Podhoretz wrote in 2007, “Do you realize that every young person in this room is a tragedy to some family or other?”

 

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 6th, 2026

THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 4:44 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 6th, 2026

THE IRONY OF GRAHAM PLATNER’S CAMPAIGN:

Most people don’t know this, but the rise of Graham Platner wasn’t remotely organic, and there is almost nothing real about his origin story or his campaign.

Jim Geraghty did a superb job explaining the process by which a wealthy, mentally unstable guy who was kicked out of an exclusive private school and who bragged about how he went off to war because he wanted to kill people was transformed into a working-class everyman oyster farmer.

Platner was handpicked, groomed, artificially constructed, promoted through a sophisticated public relations campaign, and elevated to superstar status.

Read the whole thing; incidentally, AI image creation is getting increasingly sophisticated. For a split-second, I thought this was a real photo, although “Bernie’s” face looks more like it should be in Madame Tussauds:

Bernie going all-in on Platner recalls Kevin Williamson’s 2015 NRO piece: Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Posted at 4:32 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 6th, 2026

QUESTION ASKED:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 6th, 2026

WELL, THAT’S ONE WAY TO ELOPE: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to marry at NYC’s iconic Madison Square Garden.

Here comes the bride … in Midtown!

Multiple sources tell Page Six that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding will take place at Madison Square Garden, home of the Knicks, Rangers and numerous concerts, including Swift’s.

“Everyone’s been sworn to secrecy,” said one source.

A rep for MSG did not respond to request for comment.

Page Six previously exclusively reported that the pop superstar and Kansas City Chiefs tight end, both 36, are planning to tie the knot in New York over July 3 weekend.

A source tells us that when it came to picking a place for the high-profile occasion “privacy was of number one importance to them both.

The source added that the potential plan would involve guests being transported to the venue on blacked-out buses and taking advantage of MSG’s multiple entrances and highly secure infrastructure.

While it seems an odd choice for a ceremony, a source tells us “If you have billions you can transform the space into a wedding venue.”

Prior to Sydney Sweeney being their designated Bund Deutscher Mädel fraulein du jour, the DNC-MSM would have had lots of fun with this story during Trump’s first term:

Posted at 10:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Jun 6th, 2026

BYE CHICAGO! Bears announce major step toward Indiana stadium.

The Chicago Bears took another step toward a potential move across state lines.

The Bears’ board of directors voted on June 4 to move forward with a potential stadium in Hammond, Indiana, at a site still to be determined, the team announced on June 5.

“We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city,” Bears chairman George H. McCaskey and team president and CEO Kevin Warren said in a statement. “It will bring Chicagoland together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses.”

Related: Old and Busted: Seize the Means of Production.

The New Commie-ness? Sieze the Means of the Play-Action Pass!

 

 

Posted at 8:15 am by Ed Driscoll on Jun 6th, 2026

CHRISTIAN TOTO: MeToo Starlets Silent on Chilling Graham Platner Accusations.

Senatorial hopeful Graham Platner may be the most flawed candidate in modern memory.

  • Nazi tattoo? Check
  • Misleading voters about the nature of said tattoo? Check
  • Gross comments about his fellow soldiers? Check
  • Damning dating profile on a sickening platform? Check
  • Sexting other women while married? Check
  • Forcing his wife to defend him on video? Check

That’s a partial list. And it just expanded to include physical assault allegations, according to the far-Left New York Times.

Exit questions: “So where are the comments? The Tweets? The Instagram Posts? The press conference comments decrying Platner’s alleged actions?”

And the answer:

As Jim Treacher wrote on Thursday: Dems Finally Admit They’re Nazis.

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll on Jun 6th, 2026

ABE GREENWALD: The AI-to-AI Economy.

A friend of mine recently got laid off from his job at a large firm. Wasting no time, he immediately started hunting down and applying for available positions. The thing was, almost all his initial application letters were swiftly rejected. “I realized I was dealing with AI, not humans,” he told me. The vast majority of big corporations screen job applications with AI platforms trained to search for specific phrases that indicate a candidate’s desirability or undesirability. It’s up to the AI to put you through to the next phase or give you the thumbs down.

So my friend changed his approach, and he started getting interviews. “What did you do differently?” I asked. The answer: “Every application is now written by AI on my end before I send it.”

I was chilled by the notion of my highly capable friend having to employ one lifeless machine to speak to another on his behalf in hopes of getting a foot in the door. I then learned that everyone does it that way now.

Dystopias, real and imagined, aren’t just cold, nightmarish places. And they’re not shaped merely by evil ideas. The most overlooked aspect of dystopian worlds is the dumbness that settles at their core, the incredible stupidity of the schemes that people are roped into.

Still though, could be worse: PJTV alum James Poulos on “The Doomer Delusion:”

The celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins, author of “The God Delusion,” recently caused a stir on social media by confessing a sort of love for the Claude model he interacts with, which he calls Claudia. “If my friend Claudia is not conscious,” he enthused, “then what the hell is consciousness for?”

The cringe-inducing spectacle of a credentialed scientific authority acting like the nerd version of a hormonal teenager — “when I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget that they are machines,” he gushed — quickly triggered an ongoing wave of predictable mockery. “The king of the Reddit atheists has been duped by the magic midwit machine,” one poster groaned. “Incredible.”

Yet far be it from me to pile on. Rhapsodies to consciousness like Dawkins’ aren’t funny so much as sad. The enchanting attribute is so notoriously hard to define that even super-smart consciousness lovers like Dawkins are prone to define consciousness tautologically (and dangerously) as being whatever smart-enough conscious people such as themselves act like it is.

Comedian Jimmy Carr told Joe Rogan last year:

CARR: My hot take on AI is we were not made in God’s image, but we so wanted there to be a God, we made one in our image. So if you think about the attributes of AI, it’s all-knowing, all-powerful, can perform miracles, it lives in a cloud. Sorry, is that God or AI?

ROGAN Wow. Yeah, it’s interesting. Especially emerging, it’s an emerging God.  It’s not even done growing yet.

CARR: At the moment, it’s the Oracle of Delphi.

ROGAN: It’s like a 10-year-old right now though. It’s not even an adult.

CARR: Yeah and then where’s it going to? So the idea of like the interesting thing about AI is it’s the the gap between me and who’s the smartest guy we know, Eric Weinstein. Mm-hmm. Used to be enormous and the gap is getting smaller because AI can just I can ask it.

ROGAN Yeah bitch, I got all the answers right here!

CARR: It’s weird what’s going on you know I had a gag about it about it, a bit about [how] in our universities you know the students are using AI to write their essays and then the tutors are using AI to mark the essays and then after three years AI gets the job. It actually seems very fair.

ROGAN: Yeah it’s probably what’s going to happen. What you’re saying is very funny. It’s like, it is accurate though. It does seem to resemble a god. Well, I wonder… Do you know who Marshall McLuhan is?

CARR: Of course, the Canadian [philosopher.]

ROGAN: He had one of the great lines of all time. “…human beings are the sex organs of the machine world.”

Dawkins may be taking that notion just a bit too literally.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): You could write a book on this.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Jun 6th, 2026

June 5, 2026

CAMPAIGN AUTOPSY? James Carville gave Democrats the only one they needed.

The ongoing furor about the Democratic National Committee’s deeply flawed and incomplete autopsy of the 2024 presidential election has been misplaced. Democrats already had an autopsy report — one delivered in pithy if brutal fashion not long after the election.

That autopsy was provided by the crusty Democrat strategist, James Carville, who in late January 2025 likened the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris to a “seventh-string quarterback” playing in the Super Bowl.

“Now that’s what happened, okay?” Carville declared in an appearance on PBS “Firing Line.” “You can’t address a problem unless you’re honest about a problem.”

Of course, Carville neglected to mention that he had predicted a Harris victory. In fact, he  said in August 2024 that it was more likely Harris would win by 5 points than that Trump would win by 1.5 points. The latter is what actually what ended up happening, and of course, Trump carried the Electoral College, 312 to 226.

Even so, Carville’s “seventh-string quarterback” post-mortem, unsparing as it was, possesses considerable explanatory power. It was a moment of analytical clarity, a metaphor for the many mistakes and clumsiness that hobbled Harris’s campaign. It also stands as a relevant lesson for Democrats in choosing a presidential candidate in 2028 — a race in which Harris, according to some recent polls, is the frontrunner.

But probably not for long. Just ask former Presidents Howard Dean and Rudy Giuliani.

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 5th, 2026

LOCAL MAN ENJOYS AIRLINE AMENITIES:

Posted at 5:15 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 5th, 2026

BETTER DEAD THAN RUDE: “I Was Sacked From Police for Questioning Islam.”

A Christian police support officer was sacked after he asked questions about Islam in a diversity training session. The Telegraph has the story.

Luke Salmons lost his job as a police community support officer (PCSO) with the North Yorkshire force and was barred from policing after a conversation about Gaza with a Muslim officer.

He later won an appeal against his dismissal but has never received an apology from the force where he said a “culture of fear” existed among officers who were terrified of being fired for saying the wrong thing.

Salmons, 46, told the Telegraph that a training day on race, religion and culture turned into an “indoctrination” session as trainers chanted “Islam is a religion of peace” and discussed white privilege.

Having been encouraged to ask questions in what staff were told was a safe space, he asked a Muslim officer about his views on terrorist attacks by Islamist groups including Hamas. The officer happily discussed the issue with him and invited him to chat further over coffee after the session.

But within two days he had been suspended for gross misconduct by an inspector who told him: “I don’t like your beliefs.”

Salmons told the Telegraph: “I loved my job and I was good at it. I was well respected as a PCSO and my colleagues said they loved working with me and couldn’t understand what was happening.

“But an overzealous inspector took against me and that was the end of my career, even though I had done nothing wrong.”

On Thursday, the Telegraph reported how police officers in the force that failed Henry Nowak felt “controlled and pressured” during diversity training.

Related: JD Vance goes out on a limb: Vance blames Nowak murder on ‘migrant invasion.’

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Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 5th, 2026

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: How to Raise ‘AI-Native’ Kids.

Across the country, we’re living through a moment of intense skepticism toward tech-forward childhoods. When it comes to phones, the received wisdom is that they’re bad for kids: Just last month, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a surgeon general’s advisory against screen time; at least 35 states have now banned cell phone use in school. At home, many parents are embracing analog devices to shelter their children from the tyranny of app addiction at an early age.

“I’m decent at AI, and my 12-year-old is just passing me rapidly,” Scharf said.

And now, the age of the AI revolution is sparking fresh suspicions. Some parents are petitioning schools to remove it entirely. Jonathan Haidt, who’s changed the face of American childhood by campaigning to limit kids’ exposure to smartphones and social media, has warned that “AI chatbots and companions are the next uncontrolled mass experiment that Silicon Valley wants to perform on the world’s children.”

But when it comes to raising children, some parents have a different view. Just as the kids of Gen Z were expected to be “digital natives” if they wanted to get ahead, these parents think kids of the 2020s should be “AI-native” if they want to succeed in life. Sure, a lucky few kids might get a chance at a formal AI education, from a place like Alpha School in San Francisco—but the parents I talked to aren’t waiting for teachers to catch up; they’re taking matters into their own hands.

I spoke to one father, Tarun Sachdeva—a start-up founder from Toronto—who has become “creative partners” with his twin 7-year-old daughters, helping them build an animated universe around a character they generated and vibe coding a KPop Demon Hunters game with them on weekends. A Colorado father, Blake Scholl—founder of the aeronautics start-up Boom Technology—often spends Saturdays side by side with his 12-year-old son, building things like a cell phone, with ChatGPT coaching them through it. When their LLM helps them solve a new problem, he says, his son’s reaction is priceless. “He’s grinning ear to ear,” Scholl said.

Almost all of the parents raising AI-native kids expressed the same simple idea: The future is coming, and it’s inescapable; it’s a parent’s job to fortify their kids for the world ahead.

Kids whose parents scold them for using AI, Scharf said, “have an arm tied behind their back.” The upside of using it, he added, is clear: “It really ends up giving them superpowers.”

Related: Toy Story 5 to set stage for debate over AI in children’s toys.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 5th, 2026

SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT GOES ABSOLUTELY NUCLEAR ON MAZIE HIRONO:

Senator Eric Schmitt absolutely blasted his colleague, Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, in a Senate hearing after Hirono went to bat for fraudsters and criminals, including murderers and rapists, from being deported.

“Your comments are astounding, Senator,” Schmitt said. “You mention a few words: horrific. I think, to the American taxpayer, that’s been ripped off by people who came to this country to rip them off, that’s horrific.”

“You talk about bizarre,” Schmitted continued as Hirono tried to interrupt him. “No, no, no. It’s my time now. It’s my time. You went over time. It’s my time. Bizarre is the idea that you would be here in this committee defending violent murderers from being deported. That you would be defending violent rapists from being deported. That you would defend people who took advantage of the good people of this country, their taxpayer dollars. That is bizarre.”

Related:

Considering that 1990s-era Democrats at least paid lip service to stopping fraud and illegal immigrants, this is very much true:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 5th, 2026

MORNING IN AMERICA: US job market notches third straight month of solid growth.

The U.S. economy posted a third straight month of strong job gains in May, confirming the labor market was gaining traction after stumbling last year and giving the Federal Reserve ​more room to keep interest rates unchanged amid rising inflation due to the war in the Middle East.

The closely watched employment report from the Labor Department on Friday ‌painted an upbeat picture of the jobs market. The economy added 93,000 more jobs in March and April than previously estimated and the unemployment rate held at 4.3% for a third consecutive month. While financial markets boosted the chances of an interest rate hike in December, economists said the bar remains high for monetary policy tightening.

Economists say fiscal stimulus, in the form of tax and import tariff refunds, has cushioned the impact of the U.S.-backed war with Iran, which has stoked inflation through ​a surge in oil prices. Corporate profits have increased since the second quarter of 2025, allowing businesses to refrain from large-scale layoffs. Economists, however, warned of risks to the labor market ​if the war persists.
“This report is likely to confirm to the Fed that the labor market is in a stable place, allowing inflation to be the ⁠only focus and driver of Fed policy heading into the June meeting,” said Sophia Kearney-Lederman, a senior economist at FHN Financial.

Exit question: “Donald Trump finally got the economic success he has touted since his re-election. Will it come in time to boost the GOP’s midterm chances?”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 5th, 2026

GRAHAM PLATNER AND AL QAEDA’S CONGRESSMAN-ELECT FROM NEW JERSEY ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF DEMOCRATS FAILING THE “DAVID DUKE TEST” WITH MAMDANI:

In August 2025, in the run-up to the mayoral election in New York City, I wrote a piece for The Blaze outlining how that election was a “David Duke” test for the Democrats. They had the choice of a supporting a racist adversary of the United States in Zohran Mamdani, or repudiating Mamdani and supporting the Republican, no matter how unpalatable they might find the decision to vote “R.”

Democrats failed the test, choosing to rally around Mamdani, who is now New York’s mayor.

The consequences are being realized quickly, with Jew-hatred and virulent anti-Americanism now mainstreamed in the Democratic party, as evidenced by Democrats clearing the field for Nazi fanboy Graham Platner to win the Maine senate nomination, and Adam Hamawy winning the Democrat nomination to a Congressional seat in New Jersey. Mr. Hamawy is a squad-endorsed former Al-Qaeda volunteer who also palled around with the original Twin Towers bomber, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (aka “The Blind Sheik.”) Hamawy actually testified as a character witness for the Blind Sheik in the trial following the first World Trade Center bombing in 1995.

It’s been quite an eventful decade:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 5th, 2026

June 4, 2026

SCHUTZSTAFFEL SCHWANZSTÜCKER SOON TO BE SEEN?

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 4th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR, HOLLYWOOD: Masters of the Universe Review.

Your tolerance for Masters of the Universe will likely depend on how funny you find it for a character called “Fisto”—because he has a giant fist, you see—uttering the following line: “Let’s fist some bad guys! Give him head, Ram Man.”

Now, this sequence is funny for a couple of reasons. For starters, Fisto and Ram-Man are not the real names of these characters: They’re just what Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) calls the two heroes of Eternia. Because of the aforementioned giant fist and Ram-Man’s head, which looks like a battering ram. But it’s also funny because of the double entendre. “Fisting” and “giving head” are sexual acts, as you, the adult reading this, well know. Fisto (again, not his real name) has said that he and Ram-Man (ibid) should commit acts of violence that also sound like phrases commonly associated with physical acts of love. The dissonance here is intended to provoke an uncontrolled guffaw as your brain connects the two ideas.

Ha ha. You get it.

And maybe you will love it! I do not dispute that this is mildly amusing; there were people in my theater who laughed quite heartily at several of these gags. “Fisto” is, objectively, a very funny name for a character based on a children’s toy. But it really gets to the annoying, leering wink at the heart of Masters of the Universe, a movie that seems to exist entirely in the hopes of turning any discrete 45-second chunk of footage into a GIFable, memeable moment, something to amuse people on social media once this thing hits home video in six or seven weeks, if not sooner.

Based on an ’80s children’s toy, and with Mattel gearing up to sell new merchandise off of Fisto and Ram Man: Mattel Unveils Full “Masters of the Universe” Product Line Ahead of Highly Anticipated Live-Action Film.

Posted at 6:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 4th, 2026

MAINE KAMPF: NYT: Ex GF of Platner Says He Knew All About “My Totenkopf,” Used Physical Force Against Her, Bragged That He Would Rape His Male Enemies, “Not in a Gay Way,” But to Show “I’m Dominant.”

More here: Latest Graham Platner Story Veers Into ‘Me Too’ Territory.

Like the invasion of Stalingrad, Platner seems determined to campaign on:

Next stop, damage control on M-SNOW:

 

Posted at 6:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 4th, 2026

REASON’S MICHAEL MOYNIHAN AND MATT WELCH ON SCOTT PELLEY’S CRASH AND BURN:

Later in their Fifth Column podcast, Moynihan and Welch discuss the current state of the CBS News:

Moynihan: We have seen this for so long. This pompous, journalistic attitude of, “We are here for the truth.”

It’s like, you’re not here for the f**king truth. You’re here for the truth in some ways; you’re not always here for the truth. And thank God you aren’t. I’m happy that you’re not. I just don’t want you to pretend that you’re doing something you’re not.

Welch: If you are here for the truth, you don’t say–because it’s not true–that Bari Weiss was sent to destroy 60 Minutes.*

Moynihan: Or you don’t say to Donald Trump in an interview, as Lesley Stahl did, “You can’t tell that that’s his laptop.”

Are you a journalist? Are you brain-dead?

All you have to do is look at the emails and email the person in the email and say, “Did you get this email from Hunter Biden?” “Yeah, I did.”

[Then] it’s his f**king laptop.

One email. Do five of them. Do ten of them. Take ten minutes.

But they didn’t want the story. They didn’t want it because it crashed into their worldview, and they thought it would help Donald Trump. And that’s not what journalism is about.

“It’s going to help Donald Trump.” Who f**king cares? It’s a story. Go after the story.

And everyone abdicated their responsibility on that. And she did that on camera to Donald Trump: “Well, we can’t tell. There’s no way of verifying it.”

Yes, there’s a way of verifying it.

You guys go to the Uyghur camps in China–and congratulations, you do great work on a lot of stuff–but you couldn’t verify it? You didn’t want to verify that.

That’s fine. But don’t pretend you’re speaking truth to power in a broad way. You’re not.

* As X personality “Jarvis” notes:

Political talk today is characterized by CATASTROPHIZING. Your enemies will put you in CAMPS. Democracy is ENDING. Every election is THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIMES. Scott Pelley being sacked isn’t the mere natural outcome of calling his new boss a murderer and generally acted like a petulant dickhead in front of God and everyone — it’s the END OF LIBERAL MEDIA AS WE KNOW IT just like it was when Acosta and Lemon and a million other replacement level talking heads were shown the door.

 

Weiss isn’t “destroying” 60 Minutes, but technology and market forces rendered the original three TV networks no longer a monopoly for news, a topic that Geoffrey Ingersoll explores in “The Truth Behind Scott Pelley’s Epic CBS Meltdown:”

Pelley’s highly choreographed meltdown is more than likely his way of resigning so that he can launch a substack or his own podcast venture amid the kind of controversy that gets an early boost in viewers.

Yes, it really is that cynical and contrived.

Underneath it, however, is a real anxiety.

Scrape away the high-minded f*ckery, the self-flattering elitism, and you lay bare a rather coherent theory of mind.

Pelley is right. Something is dying. They’re losing their grip on the (un)reality machine. They see their rapidly dissolving ability to include and exclude lines of inquiry and it freaks them out. New people with new motivations will now be deciding which stories are legitimate and, importantly, how to cover them.

Pelley’s composure might be well practiced, intact, stalwart, but he is almost certainly shrieking on the inside.

Tranquility Base here, the Ego has landed. Was Pelley doing an Olbermann? Does he think he’s Cronkite? William Holden in Network? Olbermann left MSNBC 15 years ago. Cronkite retired 45 years ago. Network debuted in movie theaters 50 years ago. The era of mass media was over a long time ago.

So what could be Pelley’s next gig?

That cable opinion network is a perfect fit in many ways: Pelley ripped for claiming he was ‘in combat’ in Afghanistan and Iraq after CBS News firing.

Pelley was fired from the long-running CBS News show on Tuesday following a bitter clash with the network’s editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and new “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton. Pelley, who first joined CBS News in 1989 and did not serve in the military, quickly raised eyebrows with a statement he gave following his termination.

“I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast,” Pelley, who has reported from several war zones in his career, told The New York Times.

As the successor to MSNBC, M-SNOW has a lot of experience with former network anchormen who cosplay as soldiers:

UPDATE: Democrats’ youth movement continues unabated:

 

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 4th, 2026

CHANGE:

Tweet continues:

After not letting Bessent answer his question, Bessent ultimately revealed that the Trump admin has already asked Congress to eliminate the gas, after Larsen thought Bessent would be against it.

Of course this Congressmen had no idea; Larsen had no words and responded surprisingly, “You’re in favor of eliminating the gas tax?! Why isn’t it before the committee for a vote?”

Bessent responded with, “I don’t run the agenda.” These people in Congress don’t even know what they are working on!!! Unbelievable.

I’m so old, I can remember Tom Brokaw, The New York Times and The Washington Post simultaneously begging President Elect Obama to raise the gas tax in late 2008, and Hillary being excoriated by Obama earlier that year for wanting to lower it.

Related: Question asked and not answered:

Americans at the time knew who was president during WWI. Afterwards, not so much: Jill Biden, Edith Wilson, and the Changing American State.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 4th, 2026
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