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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Feb. 23, 2026

Greetings! Kash Patel is on thin ice after celebrating in Italy yesterday with the U.S. Olympic hockey team after their gold medal win over Canada. The lens-loving FBI Director was seen guzzling champagne with the team post-victory triggering questions about why he was there and who paid for the trip. (Perhaps he’s distancing himself from the stalled Nancy Guthrie disappearance investigation???) Mediaite charged him with behaving more like a social media influencer than the head of the FBI. A mock headline in The Borowitz Report hilariously “reported” that he was rushed to a hospital after “the trauma of flying coach”…Looks like I’m not the only semi-fan of the “CBS Evening News” with Tony Dokoupil. Writing on his blog, former Time magazine senior editor and media maven Richard Zoglin, opines that the show is “quite watchable.” Not a rave, still not the MSM consensus slam of a suspected MAGA mouthpiece. In addition, Zoglin suggests audiences, as well as his media critic brethren, shouldn’t shun the big three networks’ evening newscasts. “(T)hey are a rare island of calm in a chaotic, agenda-driven news environment.” I’m with Zoglin on this one too….The Wall Street Journal opinion editors once again slammed Donald Trump. Late Friday, they blasted the MAGA-in-Chief’s  juvenile rant aimed at the Supreme Court justices who overturned his wacky tariff policies. Not only did the WSJ say he owed Justices an apology, but the editors wrote that “it was arguably the worst moment of his Presidency.” So many “worst” moments, so little time to digest them all. Worth noting: Trump is so angry with the Supreme Court that he’s only going to refer to the country’s top judicial institution in lower case letters, according to this childish Truth Social post…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard