IT’S COME TO THIS: NASA tells Kim Kardashian: Yes, we’ve been to the moon before.

Nasa has rejected a claim by the reality star Kim Kardashian that the 1969 moon landing was faked.

In an episode of the television programme The Kardashians, Kardashian told the actress Sarah Paulson that the space mission “didn’t happen”.

Sean Duffy, the US transport secretary and acting administrator of Nasa, corrected her on X. He wrote: “Yes, Kim Kardashian, we’ve been to the moon before … Six times!

“And even better, Nasa Artemis is going back under the leadership of [President Trump],” he added. “We won the last space race and we will win this one too.”

When will ABC News employees get the memo as well? Whoopi Goldberg Entertains Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories.

YES:

To be fair, as a conservative black woman, Earle-Sears is neither a woman nor black — according to lefties.

JIM GERAGHTY: Heritage’s Shaky Foundation.

“Christian Zionists, I dislike them more than anybody.” — Tucker Carlson, in his interview with the Holocaust-denying, Hitler-praising, Stalin-praising Nick Fuentes.

Really?

We already knew that Carlson had warm and fuzzy feelings toward Russian dictator and warmonger Vladimir Putin. (Everybody who keeps insisting they just want peace always has these happy, smiling meetings with Russian officials full of warm handshakes, big bouquets of flowers, and gift exchanges, and then they turn around and furiously blame the war on folks like our old friend Jay Nordlinger. They can never seem to get around to mustering any anger at the guys shooting drones into kindergartens.)

And we already knew that Carlson got along surprisingly well with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, because we’ve seen him ask tough questions and challenge his interview subjects — and when Carlson traveled to Tehran (!) to interview the Iranian president, the former Fox News Channel host was downright deferential[.]

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But of all the people in the world to dislike more than anybody else, Carlson dislikes . . . Christian Zionists?

More than, say, the Taliban? Or more than what’s left of al-Qaeda? Or what’s left of ISIS? The Houthis? The “Rapid Support Forces” massacring civilians and committing ethnic cleansing in Sudan?

More than North Korea’s Kim Jong-un? Xi Jinping and the thugs of the regime in Beijing? The junta in Myanmar?

More than Nicolás Maduro and his thugs down in Venezuela?

More than MS-13? Tren de Aragua?  The Sinaloa Cartel? More than the Jalisco Cartel New Generation? (Aren’t you glad you read this newsletter so you can keep up to speed on all the violent and brutal cartels that just don’t get the recognition they deserve?)

More than Antifa? More than “Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade”? More than “Trantifa”? More than everybody who cheered the assassination of Charlie Kirk?

Jonah Goldberg adds: “We should all have someone in our life who loves us as much as [the Heritage Foundation’s] Kevin Roberts loves Tucker Carlson:”

When Carlson was still on Fox News, the Heritage Foundation president displayed a level of Carlsonphilia that was hard to comprehend. At times it seemed like Heritage had become a massive booking bureau just to get Roberts on Tucker Carlson Tonight.

When Roberts announced that Carlson would be headlining Heritage’s 50th anniversary gala in 2023, he proclaimed that, “Tucker Carlson is a fearless American who is unafraid to challenge the Washington regime, ask tough questions, and hold the ruling elite accountable. His nightly show is must-see TV for anyone who realizes we have a limited window of time to save this country.”

Indeed, one of the things Roberts admires most about Carlson is his “fearlessness” in pursuit of asking “tough questions.” Carlson, who amplified batty conspiracy theories about January 6—and so much more—is in Roberts’ eyes the very essence of the last honest man in America. More on that in a moment.

Scott Johnson of Power Line writes that “Tucker Carlson has made this a time for choosing.”

George Washington, in a famous letter to a Jewish congregation in Newport, R.I., in 1790, wrote, “May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants.” American Jews have enjoyed more security and freedom here than at any place in world history and rewarded that welcome by making positive contributions to the nation in just about every field imaginable. A version of America that is no longer safe for Jews to live in securely, and that is overtaken by anti-Israel zealots, is not an America that any conservative should want to live in.

But then, Kevin Roberts and Tucker aren’t the only ones who have made very bad choices as of late:

Why it’s as if:

Earlier: Warning: The Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes Bigots Are Targeting JD Vance.

I’LL TAKE THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN FOR $500, ALEX: Dem Jasmine Crockett: Republicans Keep Walking Up to Me at Airports and on Streets Saying ‘I Love You!’

Although to be fair, I’m sure she runs into Michael Steele, Bill Kristol, S.E. Cupp, Ana Navarro, Nichole Wallace, and Alyssa Farah Griffin at airport departure lounges all the time. Beyond those TV Republicans, there’s the actual GOP base:

GOOD RIDDANCE: Michael Mann Finally Goes Away. “Now, it is true that Mann’s suit against us, thanks to dilatory and irresponsible judges, dragged on for an ungodly twelve years and drained us of time and resources. Mann also, shamefully, got judgments against Steyn and Rand Simberg (who posted a critique of Mann that Steyn quoted) from a friendly D.C. jury. A series of legal reverses for Mann since then, though, suggest that this purported victory will wash away under scrutiny from more objective authorities.”

ANDREW SULLIVAN: “Read A Book:” The circular, impregnable resilience of Higher Miseducation.

One of the more maddening aspects of the rise of wokeness in the last decade was how some of the younger advocates for “social justice” responded to criticism. “Read a book,” they’d tell me, and roll their eyes. I was twice their age, had relevant degrees from Oxford and Harvard, but I could obviously only believe what I believed because I had never “read a book.” No discussion was possible until I had “educated” myself — a task they refused to expend any “emotional labor” on. A few exasperated huffs, a slight panic in their angry eyes, and they were gone. . . . It wasn’t the differing opinion that upset me. One of my queerest character traits is that I love differing opinions. It was the assumption that none of this was opinion at all, but merely established empirical fact — of which I was blissfully unaware, probably because I was a bad-faith bigot, or had never picked up a book. This absolute certainty was also generally correlated with higher levels of education — just as “liberals” and “very liberals” were far more likely to have a college degree than those to their right. Over time, my friends began to wither among the educated classes, especially the newly minted and humorless “queers”, as I gravitated to normies, who had some strong views, were open to some others, and enjoyed a good chat and smoke sesh.

Higher education doesn’t produce value as advertised. It’s quite possibly a value-destroying phenomenon overall.

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE:

SASHA STONE: No Country for Old Media: The Shameful Blackout on Arctic Frost.

Is it worse than Watergate? I think so. But you have to look at the big picture, not just one story. The Democrats’ ten-year war to prevent Trump from representing those who voted for him and to deny half the country their right to representation remains one of the biggest scandals in American history.

We’ve never had an administration refuse to step aside because they didn’t like the winner and decide for the American people that their votes didn’t matter because one side had all of the power. It was never Trump who refused to leave. It was Barack Obama and the America he believed he had forever shaped.

Since the Democrats have complete control of the legacy media, they decide what matters. They have manufactured nearly every major crisis where Trump is concerned. So much so that they’ve inadvertently manifested a Boy Who Cried Wolf scenario for themselves, which is why they’re so dangerous now. They are willing to do and say anything to win a war they’ve already lost.

This press conference was ignored by the legacy press, but it’s worth listening to. It lays out in shocking detail just how deep the rabbit hole goes.

It’s No Country for Old Media because they can’t cover a story like this, no matter how big it gets. They don’t chase the story anymore.

Let’s check in at Bari Weiss’ Free Press to see how they’re covering the story. So far, it looks like only one mention, on an October 10th news roundup by Nellie Bowles, Weiss’s spouse:

FBI just investigates senators all day, all night: A new document posted by Senator Chuck Grassley shows that the FBI, under the Biden administration, got phone records for eight of his Republican Senate colleagues, as well as a congressman, during its “Arctic Frost” investigation. The lawmakers targeted, in a probe of “election conspiracy,” Mike Kelly, Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, and Marsha Blackburn. They got everyone. All the FBI agents who weren’t tasked with smashing windows on January 6 were charged with tailing Lindsey Graham. The more famous Bari gets, the more likely it is that an FBI detail will also start poking around on me, and I just want them to know that I voted for Biden 17 times. I dug up bones and stole identities to cast more votes. I registered migrants and voted for them, for him. But you may want to sniff around Suzy [Weiss]—she’s got some skeletons.

If that’s all the space Weiss’ Website devotes to the topic, it’s not surprisingly, CBS is remaining shtum as well: Complicit: ABC, CBS, and NBC Suppress Bombshell Documents on ‘Arctic Frost’ Scandal.

ALEX BERENSON: Why a seven-story glass building in North Miami forced the government to shut down. “It seems possible the center, which is 336,000 square feet over seven floors, cost as much as a half-billion dollars — well over $1,000 per square foot, as much as or more than a high-end Manhattan skyscraper. This is nuts. The building is a bunch of office and surgery suites. It closes at 5 p.m. and isn’t open on weekends. It may need some backup power so the lights won’t go out in the middle of a facelift, but it does not require a hospital’s infrastructure. . . . It’s all fun and games, especially for hospital executives, except that American healthcare is now so expensive that it can only survive with massive government subsidies, as I wrote last month. Bloated does not begin to describe the system.”

CHANGE: Big Day in Bolivia. “No longer will Bolivia be another sad, failing, socialist hermit kingdom.”