Greetings! Jill Biden’s memoir, A View from East Wing, hits retail shelves today. She shares her recollections about her husband’s presidency including his awful June 2024 debate performance that every Democrat wants to forget. Thanks to the former First Lady, it’s now being discussed and dissected all over again...Great Scott (Pelley): Journalism’s hero of the year turns out to be “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley. Yesterday, he fearlessly and ferociously confronted “60 Minutes’” new boss Nick Bilton during a tense, initial meeting with the staff.   Pelley, according to CNN and other news outlets, stood up to Bilton who was installed as the executive producer of the long-running newsmagazine by the right-leaning new honcho of CBS News Bari Weiss. Didn’t think Pelley had it in him, but yesterday he proved himself as someone worthy of carrying the torch of past CBS legends like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather. I’m wondering what his “60 Minutes” colleague Lesley Stahl will do. She’s 84 years old and has spent more than half a century at CBS News. I hope she publicly supports Pelley and goes out in a blaze of glory. To spend the last year or two of her professional life in a Bari Weiss-controlled newsroom would be an insult to her esteemed career...Townhall says that conservatives give better graduation speeches than liberals. I guess I haven’t been paying attention...Here’s a tongue-twisting, 23-word headline no Senate candidate wants to read about themselves (courtesy of the Washington Free Beacon): “Look at All These Democrats Defending Graham Platner, the Nazi-Inked Porta Potty Masturbator Caught Sexting on Hookup App Dubbed ‘Paradise’ for Child Predators”....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! The knives are out for Graham Platner.  Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times both published major stories alleging that the married Platner was texting multiple women with sexually oriented messages.  And the Washington Free Beacon reported that Platner’s role as harbormaster of Sullivan, Maine, was basically a clerical position, undercutting his blue collar image that he projects as he seeks to oust Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in the November election...Pride Month begins today. Brace yourselves for a barrage of homophobic remarks and innuendos from the Trump administration and right-wing press.  It was bad last year and I expect the insults will be worse this year...Arkansas declared June “Fidelity Month” in a move to counter-program Pride Month. I guess Trump won’t be visiting Arkansas this month...Something is wrong with the Trump: He seemed to have spent his entire weekend on Truth Social concocting a deluge of unhinged posts.  I stopped counting at 70; it’s more than I’ve ever seen from him in such a short period.  Here are just a few of the topics that got Trump’s attention: Greenland, Mt. Rushmore (with his face etched in stone, natch), DC’s reflecting pool, Rosie O’Donnell, E. Jean Carroll, the NY Times, and NFL QB Jaxson Dart. He also included many AI-generated images like this one of him and George Washington (both dressed in 1776 military clothing) riding horse across the White House lawn as racing cars zoom across the White House lawn. If he was your teenage son, this would be the time to take his phone away and send him to a wilderness therapy camp for out-of-control adolescents....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard