KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The J6 Daddy Issues Fascists Are Terrified They’re About to Be Exposed. “It’s tough to sell the insurrection story when there’s a video record that proves that most of the people involved were merely exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I’d like to see Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff subpoenaed and questioned before committee on why they released deceptive and misleading video clips. Basically a what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they-know-it inquiry.

CHANGE? Hostile takeover at Disney all but confirmed after alleged emergency meeting.

The headline is an attention-grabber but the only outlets I could find running it were Sportskeeda and an MSN reprint of the Sportskeeda report — and it reads (at least to my eyes) like AI-generated content.

Previously: Microsoft Shamelessly Pumping Internet Full of Garbage AI-Generated “News” Articles.

Maybe the meeting is real, maybe not. But you could never say for sure reading about it on MSN.

Be careful out there.

2024: These Senate Seats Are the Most Likely to Flip to the GOP in 2024.

SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE: Al Jazeera Airs Hamas Footage Showing Militants Entering Gaza Children’s Hospital, Supporting Israeli Claims.

The segment showing the intense fighting appears to have been shot with either helmet or body cameras.

The video is a compilation of clips showing Hamas soldiers taking out tanks with crude-looking rocket launchers. Buildings are also targeted.

One portion of the video shows a crouching Hamas fighter walking up to an Israeli tank, and successfully placing an explosive on it.

The soldiers repeat the phrase “Allah Akbar” throughout the footage.

Then there’s this from Rasmussen: Media Get Mixed Grades for Israel-Palestine Coverage.

“Mixed” is better than they deserve.

HE COULD STEP ASIDE BUT THAT HARDLY SEEMS LIKELY OR EVEN POSSIBLE: Biden Campaign Can’t Decide How to Handle the Age Issue.

CORN, POPPED: Speaker Johnson Releases J6 Footage, and the Left Is Gonna Flip Out

AT NO EXTRA CHARGE? The Biden Admin Offered China a Tour of a Critical Nuclear Test Site.

CHANGE: Snoop Dogg begs fans to ‘respect my privacy’ after rap legend announced he had quit smoking weed sparking concern. “The main way is being concerned with how I live, how I move, the kind of people I’m associated with because I want to see my grandkids grow old.”

BLUE ON BLUE: New Hampshire Democrats Give Biden the Finger.

THIS TIME THEY COME IN PEACE: Why One of Japan’s Newest Carriers Is Headed to America in 2024.

FINALLY: Good News: MLB Says Georgia Is No Longer Racist!

SET UP TO FAIL: Dumb and dumber: NY rethinks Regents exams. “In short, rather than try to improve students’ mastery of reading, writing, math, science and social studies, educators want to make it easier for those who can’t pass the exams to get a diploma.”

CONSIDERING THE PREVIOUS VALUE OF THE BRAND, THAT WAS MONEY EFFECTIVELY SPENT: Oof! Bud Light Paid Dylan Mulvaney Six Figures to Destroy Its Brand.

SAD BUT TRUE: Dan Aykroyd on ‘The Blues Brothers’ – ‘You’d Never Make It Today.’

“To me, that was an important movie,” Carolla said of the film, nothing its unique blend of genres and comedian flourishes. “This concept must have been bizarre to explain to a studio.”

“You’d Never Make It Today,” Aykroyd said. “They would say, ‘Excuse me? What, Catholic? What, wrecking so many cars and practically no CGI?’ … They wouldn’t do it.”

The film’s Catholic themes may seem incongruous given the violence and the brothers’ irreverent tone, but they claimed they were on “a mission from God” to save the Catholic orphanage they once called home.

The Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano later dubbed “The Blues Brothers” as a worthy film for Catholics the world over.

And an even better one for music fans. I was 11 at the time the movie came out, and it made me realize that “old” stars like James Brown and Aretha Franklin deserved… respect.

THIS IS CNN: CNN Goes Full ‘Enemy of the People’ Reporting on the Arrest Made in the Death of Paul Kessler. “This is a story that, predictably, the mainstream media tried to ignore and send down the memory hole.”

IT IS UNWISE TO DISPLEASE COMRADE PUTIN: Former Russian Commander Who Criticized Putin Found Dead in Mysterious Circumstances. “Lieutenant General Vladimir Sviridov, 68, and his wife Tatyana, 72, had been dead for around a week before their bodies were found on Nov. 15.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Who Had ‘American Youth bin Laden Fetish’ on Their Bingo Cards? “The cocktail parties in commie Academia must be positively abuzz with triumph these past few weeks.”

BLUE CITY BLUES: Oakland pro sports dead at 63 as A’s abandon East Bay, ending era of titles and fun. “This unprecedented triple exodus leaves fans crestfallen and angry. Oakland pro sports lived an eventful, exhilarating life, winning 10 championships — four each by the Warriors and A’s, two by the Raiders — and 11 if you include Rick Barry and the Oaks capturing the American Basketball Association title in 1969.”

I wonder if and when the Golden State Warriors will pick up and head east — and what new name they’ll use.

OH: Palestinian Authorities Cancel Christmas in Bethlehem to Honor Terrorists.

Related: The Not-So-Surprising Bromance Between Palestine and Marxism.

WELL, GOOD: Trump gag order in NY fraud case temporarily lifted by appeals court. “The order follows an emergency lawsuit filed by Trump’s legal team Wednesday against Judge Arthur Engoron, whose enforcement of the gag orders they claim ‘casts serious doubt’ on his ability to serve as an “impartial finder of fact” overseeing Trump’s case.”

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Amorite Iniquity Effect. “The big build-up of Gaza as an impregnable Hamas tunnel fortress has turned, in a comparatively short time, into the saga of a martyr city, soon to be a displaced person’s camp, the West’s wards. Leaving politics and ethics aside, the military collapse suggests Hamas soldiers have been poorly served by their leadership. Gaza was designed as a terror base, not for the conventional war Hamas got itself and the whole strip into. It was never configured and could not conceivably have resisted the IDF. Their survival plan depended on Israel reacting as they anticipated, and not as it could. Hamas’ high command was so sure they could predict Israel’s intentions that they just plumb ignored its capabilities.”

To be fair, that’s a pretty common defect among people who start wars they can’t finish.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Maybe the Guy Who Ruined Thor Is the Guy Who Can Save Star Wars.

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: A Serious Invitation to Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. “Do you have the courage to take me up on this offer, see this footage, and have an honest, open, and private dialogue afterward? Not as a publicity stunt and not as a television ratings ploy, but as an opportunity for your own soul’s understanding.”

This is a powerful piece.

BLUE ON BLUE: Pro-Hamas Protestors Shut Down This Vital Bay Bridge.

MOSTLY PEACEFUL: Chaos at DNC HQ When Pro-Palestinian Rioters Attempt to Break In.