Chuck Todd is the hot dog guy

Twitchy: "Chuck Todd Pretends He Didn’t Take Part in Trying to Deplatform and Destroy President Trump."

Long-time readers (both of you!) know I have a special contempt for high-school graduate Chuck Todd who perpetually believes he is the savior of journalism and therefore the country.  Now he's playing like the Internet doesn't exist and we don't have the evidence of his previous actions.

GFY Chuck.

Don't threaten me with a good time

Boston Globe: "Conservatives, be careful what you wish for at Harvard - Harvard has been slowly reforming itself under pressure. But now that the government is punishing the university anyway, its leaders may paradoxically feel less pressure to change."

Will it become the progressive version of Hillsdale College — a conservative hub that isn’t bashful about its entirely private funding status?

All of that might seem premature, since we don’t at this point know exactly what funds Harvard has lost or how deep the cuts go. But the more funds the Trump administration strips from Harvard, the more pressure points it removes. Indeed, the university paradoxically may feel less pressure to reform, since the government has already used up its main point of leverage. And it could even feel free to turn back the clock on changes most conservatives have celebrated.

Do it, Harvard.  Just drop the mask and get off the government dole.

Ground control to major clowns

Don Surber: "Did Katy Perry just kill feminism?"

Pretty funny take.

Congratulations, you played yourself

Legal Insurrection: "Sen. Van Hollen Meets with Abrego Garcia, Forgets Cameras Exist" - "Van Hollen made a grave mistake. His photo with the likely MS-13 gang member is political poison for his party. What a foolish unforced error." 

Interesting response

NY Post: "Ex-NY Times editor breaks down in tears, apologizes to Sarah Palin at defamation trial — but former Alaska gov wasn’t buying it."

ICYMI, this case is being re-tried because the first judge declared he would toss the case while the jury was deliberating.  Understandably, an appellate judge told us that smartphones exist and that the jury almost certainly heard the news their decision was irrelevant. 

Sarah Palin probably won't win this case either but it's fun to watch the NY Times squirm. 

And Luigi

I wish somebody loved me the way Democrats love illegal, wife beating, MS-13 gang members.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 17, 2025

Say her name

Townhall: "Today's Guest at the White House Was a Shocker...and Heartbreaking." 

Legal Insurrection: "Rachel Morin’s Mother Blasts Sen. Van Hollen for Trying to Free Suspected MS-13 Member - “And to have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured..so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen.”

That's not allowed

Joe Biden created, through executive action and thin air, a program to ship immigrants into the country.

Donald Trump signed an executive action to reverse this and an Obama judge blocked it.  Of course.

The Left, and Harvard, hate free speech

But I repeat myself.  Daily Caller: "‘Why Didn’t The Left Care?’: CNBC Panelists Descend Into Shouting Match As Host Calls Out Left’s Hypocrisy On Speech."

Kernen further argued that Harvard University allows for students to shout antisemitic rhetoric on campus, but expresses outrage when conservatives practice their rights to free speech.

“The left, they don’t care about. They’re not up in arms about sending people to jail for a tweet over in the U.K. You don’t get to pick and choose. They pick and choose when sometimes they want free speech, when it doesn’t suit them, they don’t want free speech,” Kernen said. “If you misgender someone, you get thrown off the faculty. But if you say ‘from the river to the sea’ and lead a demonstration at that campus and say ‘genocide the Jews,’ you’re all celebrated at Harvard. That’s where this comes from.”

Poor, poor Harvard and their $53 billion endowment.

I want to believe this is going to happen

NY Post: "White House readies plan for Congress to ax taxpayer funding for NPR, PBS."

The major funding changes are contained in a long-awaited “rescissions” plan, obtained and first reported by The Post, that pitches a clawback of $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and $8.3 billion from USAID.

A memo drafted by White House budget director Russ Vought — and requested by GOP congressional leaders — accuses CPB of a “lengthy history of anti-conservative bias” and cites “waste, fraud, and abuse” at USAID.

All of this is true, but I'm concerned about making a request to Congress, even if it can be passed on a straight majority via reconciliation.  

This is a masterpiece

A cautionary tale about Facebook Marketplace: 😭pic.twitter.com/YuMu3GLGHz

— AlphaFo𝕏 (@Alphafox78) April 12, 2025

Credibility destroyed

Sasha Stone: "How The Media's Elitism Cost Them Their Credibility - And it might be too late to turn things around."

One minor quibble with this otherwise excellent essay: no mention of the media's execrable treatment of Brett Kavanaugh.  That was the irredeemable moment for me where it became clear that the mainstream media had no interest in fairness or telling the truth.

Burn them all to the ground.

They pay college football players now?

I read this story about the Tennessee quarterback leaving the team and realized I've been completely out of the loop on college sports nowadays. 

Bernie's perpetual grift

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has some terrible news.

Donald Trump is rapidly turning America into an oligarchy. pic.twitter.com/VCfd5sxgx4

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 11, 2025

Being a Democrat turns you into a wimp

What happened to astronaut Mark Kelly?  I can't believe he said this:

Reporter: "Did you like the no emissions on the Tesla, though, being electric?" 

Kelly: (Reluctantly) "Yeah, yeah. You know, I--"

Reporter: "'Cause the truck doesn't get very good miles per gallon."

Kelly: "I bought the Tesla for its performance. That thing was really fast. Um, but there were also things I didn't like about it. And I couldn't drive it anymore. I mean, the guy's calling me names. You saw that."

Reporter: "I did see that. Thanks, Senator."

Elon called him names.  This is the response from a person who isn't eight years old.  My God.

Well, I'm sure this exchange will turn the tide with young male voters.

Rachel Maddow: I'm a journalism

Ace: "On Eve of Trial, NBC Settles $30 Million Defamation Suit With Obstetrician That Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Niccole Wallace Repeatedly and Recklessly Defamed as a "Uterus Collector" Who Butchers Women and Steals the Uteruses of Immigrant Women."

I'm astonished that the woman who ran with the Russia Russia Russia hoax for three years has been duped again.  Just gobsmacked. 

Well, bye

Twitchy: "Greenland Base Commander Relieved of Her Post After Publicly Undermining VP Visit." 

Why can't Chuck Todd go away?

PJ Media: "Chuck Todd Finally Confesses but There's a Catch."

The point — once again — is that the entire mainstream media knew that Biden wasn't just unfit to run for reelection but that he was already so deep into senility that he was effectively a figurehead, a puppet of unknown figures. The electorate had the right to know all this, and Chuck Damn Todd had the duty to report it. 

Chuck Todd is a complete hack and his recent attempts to justify covering up for Biden is just part of his typical M.O.  He loves to cosplay as the White Knight protector of a higher truth, the same way he censored all viewpoints that didn't align with the environmental nuts. 

Go away, Chuck.  Nobody wants you here.  Take Stephanopoulos with you.

Snubbed

Hot Air: "Hilarious: Leavitt Refused to Answer Journalists Who Specify Pronouns in Bio."