Greetings!  Popular podcaster Candace Owens has jumped the shark.  Earlier this week, the right wing pundit  declared French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife was actually a biological man. That was too much even for the staunchly conservative Washington Examiner which declared “Candace Owens has lost her mind”…Right wing media attacks on Jill Biden are increasing and getting nastier. Townhall slimes the First Lady today…Support for same-sex marriage declining.  That’s according to the Daily Signal, which quotes a report from the Public Religion Research Institute.  However, still 67% of respondents support the concept, down from 69% in 2022…Richard Zoglin, ex-Time Magazine culture critic and author of the recent book Elvis in Vegas, offers a  laser-sharp deconstruction of a Donald Trump speech in North Carolina on his blog.  Zoglin shreds The Donald on his noxious style and substance…A growing number of right wing websites are entering the documentary biz. Blaze Media is the latest. Today, the Glenn Beck-founded site drops Texas vs. the Feds. The documentary chronicles Texas Governor Gregg Abbott’s battles with federal border agents…The right wing outlet FrontPage may soon be out of business, due to ongoing troubles its parent company has with the IRS, according to Freedom Center founder David Horowitz…Dept. of Good News? The American Conservative throws shade at two autocrats you may have read about.  The headline says it all: “Trump and Orban Are Both Weaker Than They Seem”….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Tucker Carlson's big “get” for this week’s  X interview (behind a pay wall) is Jake Chansley, aka the QAnon Shaman.  Chansley is the whack-job who stormed the Capitol on January 6 bare-chested, in warpaint, with a  furry horned headdress atop his insurrectionist dome.  A screenshot of Chansley from the Carlson interview has him garbed with an American flag kerchief around his head, complimenting a sharp white sport jacket, over a black shirt with matching pocket square. It's an astonishing fashion makeover that I dub insurrectionist couture…This is not an early April Fool’s story: the National Review thinks Jets conspiracy-spouting QB  Aaron Rodgers should be RFK Jr’s running mate…Beware of Islam in Iceland! FrontPage sounds the alarm after a meeting of the country’s governing body was interrupted by three Muslim protesters in late 2023.  FrontPage’s  Bruce Bawer cautions, “How soon before tiny Reykjavik starts looking like the iciest ever version of Karachi or Lahore or Peshawar?”…Conservative comedian K-von says he was canceled by the University of Connecticut this week just three hours before he was about to hit the stage…Newsmax calls for a new Oscar category: Religiophobia.  “It would prove to be a very competitive field, and would have the benefit of raising awareness about Hollywood’s long suffering malady,” according to author Bill Donohue, presumably tongue-in-cheek…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard