Greetings! The National Review has crowned Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff Man of the Year. That’s not a joke. The deal-making Tinseltown lawyer is known as the hidden hand guiding Kamala Harris’s vice presidency.  Emhoff would be wise to  brace for scrutiny – good and bad -- with this spouse now the presumptive Democratic standard bearer…Clever! Here’s the latest New  York magazine cover story: Welcome to  Kamalot.  It features a beaming Harris photoshopped atop a giant coconut being swarmed by A-list supporters like Barack Obama beneath her.  Right wing media like Townhall finds fault with  the cover and features critical tweets from failed GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis and others…The Gateway Pundit reports that veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claims Obama forced Joe Biden to end  his reelection bid by threatening him with the 25^th Amendment…Popular podcaster and controversy magnet Matt Walsh has a documentary debuting September 13 in select movie theaters guaranteed to raise hackles on the left.  Am I a Racist? features Walsh going undercover as a DEI expert with the obligatory man-bun. “Prepare to be shocked by how far race hustlers will go and how much further Matt Walsh will go to expose the grift, uncovering absurdities that will leave you laughing,” touts the MAGA-friendly promo for the film.  Walsh’s previous feature-length documentary outing was the cringey What Is a Woman?...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard

Greetings! Monday laugh:  In a weekend tweet, Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci, who only lasted 10 days in the Trump White House, thanked JD Vance “for knocking me out of the position of the worst Donald Trump hire.  I didn’t think it would happen, but here we are and I’m grateful”…In a scathing editorial, the reliably right-leaning Wall Street Journal threw shade on Vance’s rocky first weeks as The Donald’s No. 2: “An old political saw is that the best VP choice is one who gets applause upon announcement and then is never heard from again. You can tell that doesn’t apply to Mr. Vance since Mr. Trump is being asked if he still believes he made the right choice. He says he does, but the Trump campaign can’t be happy about having to defend Mr. Vance instead of focusing on Kamala Harris’s many extreme views”…Melania Trump’s memoir Melania drops on September 17.   I’ve made a promise to myself not to  snark about the ex-First Lady’s foray into the world of letters.  Now if there was an iota of a chance that the Sphinx-like former First Lady was going to pull back the covers on her bizarre relationship with the ex-POTUS, I might be eager to read it. Instead, I’ll have to settle for 2020's Melania and Me, by ex-senior advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff…Ninety-nine days until the election. Nail-biting time….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard