Greetings! Matthew Dowd, who MSNBC sacked last week for comments about the murder of Charlie Kirk, has had a Substack where his posts were infrequent. I suspect will see more from Dowd in that newsletter space in the coming weeks. Worth noting: Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt offers a spirited defense of Dowd on his Substack….Rev your conspiracy engines: A  Washington Free Beacon exclusive states that the FBI is looking into social media accounts indicating “foreknowledge” of the Kirk killing.  “The posts—one of which referenced the date of Kirk’s assassination, September 10, more than a month before it took place—were all deleted in the days following the killing,” according to the Free  Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium… Trump just did Joe Concha a huge solid on Truth Social  by promoting the conservative commentator’s tome The Greatest Comeback Ever: Inside Trump’s Big Beautiful Campaign. Concha’s MAGA love letter of a book dropped five months ago. …Last night’s Emmys ceremony  was mostly politics-free, save for  “Hacks” co-star Hannah Einbinder’s four-letter ICE outburst and her call to “free Palestine.” (NY Post)…The Free Press was only one of the three right-wing websites to post traffic gains in August, according to TheRighting’s new analysis. Founded in 2022 by neo-con Bari Weiss, there have been multiple reports that The Free Press is about to be acquired by Skydance, the budding media giant that just acquired Paramount.  If the deal goes through, there’s serious speculation that Weiss, who made a noisy and nasty exit from her editorial post at the New York Times in 2020, will assume an editorial leadership role at Paramount-controlled CBS News.  Naturally, agita inside the home of “60 Minute” has been turned up to 11 at the prospect of having Weiss  at the reins of the storied news division…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard