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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Mar. 13, 2024

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