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15
Sep

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Matthew Dowd, who MSNBC sacked last week for comments about the murder of Charlie Kirk, has had a Substack where his posts were infrequent. I suspect will see more from Dowd in that newsletter space in the coming weeks. Worth noting: Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt offers a spirited defense of Dowd on his Substack....Rev your conspiracy engines: A  Washington Free Beacon exclusive states that the FBI is looking into social media accounts indicating “foreknowledge” of the Kirk killing.  “The posts—one of which referenced the date of Kirk’s assassination, September 10, more than a month before it took place—were all deleted in the days following the killing,” according to the Free  Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium... Trump just did Joe Concha a huge solid on Truth Social  by promoting the conservative commentator’s tome The Greatest Comeback Ever: Inside Trump’s Big Beautiful Campaign. Concha’s MAGA love letter of a book dropped five months ago. ...Last night’s Emmys ceremony  was mostly politics-free, save for  “Hacks” co-star Hannah Einbinder’s four-letter ICE outburst and her call to “free Palestine.” (NY Post)...The Free Press was only one of the three right-wing websites to post traffic gains in August, according to TheRighting’s new analysis. Founded in 2022 by neo-con Bari Weiss, there have been multiple reports that The Free Press is about to be acquired by Skydance, the budding media giant that just acquired Paramount.  If the deal goes through, there’s serious speculation that Weiss, who made a noisy and nasty exit from her editorial post at the New York Times in 2020, will assume an editorial leadership role at Paramount-controlled CBS News.  Naturally, agita inside the home of “60 Minute” has been turned up to 11 at the prospect of having Weiss  at the reins of the storied news division...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Kamala Stumbles onto the Truth: She’s a Whiny Liar

source: NY Post

Kamala Harris in her new book seeks plaudits for her loyalty to Joe Biden, while blaming him for her own shortcomings — and remains hopelessly unaware of who she is

The Free Press Among Only 3 Right-Wing News Outlets to Post August Traffic Gains

source: A Righting Research Exclusive

The Free Press, the right-tilting company co-founded by former New  York Times journalist Bari Weiss in 2022,  generated a 4% increase in YOY visits. It had more visits than established right-wing news brands like the National Review, the Washington Free Beacon and The Federalist.

Mayor “Madman” Mamdani Will Do More Economic Damage Than 9/11

source: American Spectator

Even a well-intentioned proposal to make NYC more affordable risks driving away the very people and businesses needed to fund it.

Pete Hegseth Needs to Settle All the Family’s Business

source: Townhall

The challenge for Secretary Hegseth is that he’s got damaged goods to choose among for the next generation of senior leaders, because, to some extent, everybody was complicit with the previous administration and its ideology.
12
Sep

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! I found it noteworthy that Trump made the announcement about the apprehension of the alleged killer of  Charlie Kirk.  It points to Trump’s pathological need to take credit for any positive news, and a subtle dig at the much criticized FBI Director Kash Patel. The NY Times has a scathing takedown of Patel today.  The FBI director’s remarks at the press conference this morning announcing the successful end of the manhunt struck me as a rebuttal to the Times story where he repeatedly touted the speed and efficiency of his agency’s investigation...Low-profile Middle Tennesse State University (MTSU) has landed in the middle of two controversies. As The College Fix reports, it fired Assistant Dean laura Sosh-Lightsy after she posted a comment on Facebook saying she had “zero sympathy” for the murder of Charlie Kirk.  And Campus Reform published a story saying that official chat group of the MTSU College Democrats “appear to say ‘There is no reason to feel sorry’ for murdered Charlie Kirk.” However, the story went on to point out that the group denounces political violence and termed the assassination “reviling”...Echoing an oft-repeated phrase relating to the JFK assassination, this NewsBusters article asks, “Where were you when Charlie was shot?” “Like the JFK assassination, this brutal murder will not be forgotten, not for many years to come,” writes Brent Bozell, the founder of the right-wing watchdog group the Media Research  Council. “You just felt it yesterday. Something happened that pierced America's soul — deeply”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Charlie Kirk and the Depravity of the Left

source: Victory Girls

By Lisa Carr: Twenty-four years ago, it was foreigners on our soil attacking us from within because they hated what we stood for. Today, it is our own. If that does not indicate how sick our society is, I don’t know what else to say.

Charlie Kirk Must Now Be Made Immortal

source: American Spectator

May the truth he fought for prevail and be remembered.

Kirk’s Assassination Should Herald the End of the American Left

source: The Federalist

The left has always been a violent, revolutionary movement, incompatible with ordered liberty. Politics isn’t possible with the left.

Leftist Wikipedia Twists Facts to Smear Charlie Kirk

source: Fox News

Majority of sources cited in Charlie Kirk's Wikipedia page are left-leaning news outlets.

The Left’s War Claimed Charlie Kirk

source: Newsmax

America just lost one of her bravest truth-tellers. Charlie Kirk is dead — not by accident, not by random chance, but by political assassination.

Kirk’s Assassination Is Latest Evidence That U.S. Suffers from an Epidemic of Leftist Violence

source: NY Post

The ruthless assassination of conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk, 31, at a crowded campus event in Utah on Wednesday is the latest manifestation of the hateful rhetoric aimed at President Trump and his MAGA movement.

Is America Heading Toward a New Civil War?

source: FrontPage

The Left’s love for violence suggests that it is.

Kirk’s Assassination Feels Like a Hinge Point

source: Wall Street Journal

By Peggy Noonan: The assassination of Charlie Kirk feels different as an event, like a hinge point, like something that is going to reverberate in new dark ways. It isn’t just another dreadful thing. It carries the ominous sense that we’re at the beginning of something bad.

Dems Denounce Kirk Killing, But Use It to Push Gun Control

source: Daily Signal

Democrats have joined in denouncing the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, but many have also used it as an opportunity to promote gun control, even while pushing back on attempts to honor him.

“Transgender and Antifascist”

source: WND

Messages engraved on bullets in gun found after Kirk's assassination.

Ilhan Omar Mocks Trump and Others for Praising Charlie Kirk

source: Blaze Media

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) ridiculed admirers of Charlie Kirk while trying to express sadness at his assassination. Omar was speaking with former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on his show when she criticized Kirk and his allies for many of their politically incorrect positions and called them "full of s**t."

Treat Campuses Like Terrorist Training Camps

source: FrontPage

Charlie Kirk is dead because 1 in 3 students support violence against opposing speakers.

In Praise of Divisiveness

source: American Thinker

We do not need to “get together.” We do not need to “reach out.” We do not need “unity,” or any of the other marshmallow-soft euphemisms for surrender and cowardice.