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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Jun. 2, 2026

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