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New York Times covid-beat reporter Apoorva Mandavilli’s overheated lead story on Saturday, “Immunized People Can Spread Virus, the C.D.C. Reports,” seized upon rushed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control. The numbers from a comprehensive study of a virus outbreak over the July 4th holiday in the coastal resort town of Provincetown seem alarming at first glance. But are the figures…

Cancel Culture grandfathered in a few pop culture touchstones between outrage cycles. One example? Blazing Saddles. The 1974 western couldn’t be made today, as creator Mel Brooks repeatedly reminds us. Yet there’s been no concentrated effort to cancel the satire and its liberal use of the “n-word” to mock bigotry, not elevate it.

Years before Barack Obama gave Chris Matthews a “thrill” UP his leg, the Democrat prompted a “chill” IN his leg. In fact, it was 17 years ago this week that the former MSNBC host swooned over the Democrat the media would fall in love with. During John Kerry’s Democratic National Convention, Matthews used eerily similar language to his more famous outburst: “I have to tell ya a little chill in…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to let Republicans pick their own members for her Select Committee on the January 6 riot, making the panel look obviously stacked. But on the Week in Review segment of Friday's PBS NewsHour, this was an unfortunate kerfuffle that should be overlooked. David Brooks called any complaints about the stacking "90 percent BS."

Joseph Wulfsohn at Fox News pointed out that Conservative Twitter had a lot of fun with PolitiFact on Thursday when Bill McCarthy didn't see the double meaning in his tweet "PolitiFact is hiring! Come join our misinformation team."

After a week that consisted of vehement pushback against the Biden administration’s new mask edict and threats of bringing back crippling Covid restrictions, the liberal media decided on Friday to fall in line during the White House press briefing with only Fox News’s Peter Doocy remaining skeptical about this sudden change.

CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen had a short and stormy tenure at top of Planned Parenthood, but CNN avoids mentioning it like the plague. They're not alone. Wen is now selling a new memoir called Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health, and the book profile on Amazon doesn't include it. On Tuesday, NPR's talk show Fresh Air interviewed Dr. Wen for 36 minutes... without…

Journalists have shown astonishingly little interest in the ethical mine field that is Hunter Biden’s upcoming art sale, paintings that could go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The art was supposed to be an anonymous sale, but now it turns out the President’s son will meet with potential buyers. 

On Friday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe kept pushing left-wing hysteria about Republican voting reform laws in states across the country and cheering on the scheme by Democrats to have the federal government take over elections nationwide. One pundit even went so far as to vilely compare legislation by GOP lawmakers in various states to the brutal 1955 murder of black teenager Emmett Till.  

We made it to the end of another week of Curtis Houck and I filling in for Tim Graham. He’ll be back on Monday, but we have a blast and we hope you enjoyed listening to us and our interns. On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the coming reimplementation of the dreaded mask mandates, President Biden snapping at a Fox News reporter, and CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo getting called out on his…

We have always had them among us: fortune tellers, diviners, readers of palms, tarot cards, tea leaves, stars, horoscopes, discerners of animal entrails, calling on gods of wood and stone, and all sorts of other “seers” who have attempted to convince the gullible that they have the power to predict the future. To some, climate change proponents are little more than modern-day soothsayers that…

Washington -- We at The American Spectator call it “Kultursmog,” and it is the only kind of smog of which our friends on the left approve. Actually, they not only approve of Kultursmog, but they contribute to it. Kultursmog is that aspect of American culture that is utterly politicized, and it is politicized by the politics of the left. Its leading centers of pollution are Hollywood,…

The next time you hear the journalists at ABC complain about corporate interference in big business, or mock Fox News as under the thumb of the GOP, remember that ABC “News” exist to provide corporate business for the network’s overlords at Disney. On Friday, Good Morning America took their bosses side in the fight against Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson. The long-time Marvel actress is…

One New York City business owner took CNN to task this morning, over their love for government lockdowns and mask mandates. After Mayor Bill De Blasio threatened to reinstitute mask mandates next week due to coronavirus variants, art dealer Eli Klein came onto CNN to blast the decision as “a blueprint for indefinite government restrictions in New York.”