In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Megyn Kelly is excited about her and Tucker’s new Muslim audience- “he’s defending Islam!” 🥴 pic.twitter.com/cQM0ZLDCba — Ally (@AllyJKiss) May 6, 2026 The remarkable thing about the video embedded above is that Megyn Kelly has Mark Halperin on for over a minute, but all he's there for is to interject "Yup" and "Right" a few times into what she's saying -- which is basically that she and Tucker are reaching a wonderful new audience of young Muslims. In other words, this is a hostage video, and when the camera shows his face, he doesn't seem happy at all. This piece on Twitchy notes that she's done a 180 in the course of four months and speculates she must have bills to pay. But why is she bringing Mark Halperin along with her? Halperin has had some major career struggles. His Wikipedia entry suggests he'd been vulnerable since the Dubya years for leaning a little too Republican, but once Obama was president, he really began to get into hot ...

Salem Media owns a number of nominally conservative and "Christian" radio stations, as well as "conservative" web sites like Instapundit, PJ Media, Red State, Hot Air, Twitchy and Townhall, but it isn't doing well with them : According to its annual report for the year ended Dec. 31, 2025, Salem posted total net revenue of $212.7 million, down from $237.6 million in 2024, a decline of about 10% year over year. The company reported a net loss of $34.6 million, reversing net income of $16.2 million in 2024. On a per-share basis, Salem posted a loss of $1.11 compared with earnings of $0.59 per share the prior year. Yesterday I looked at Glenn Reynolds (the eponymous Instapundit) and his ideas about AI, but I also found a post on the Instapundit site pointing (incestuously, as so many posts there do) to a piece on another Salem Media site, PJ Media, Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of ‘The God Delusion’ — Believes AI Is Conscious : Dawkin...

Glenn Reynolds is a majpr symptom of the curruption and stupidity of our publishing industry, both print and online. Reynolds, a prominent libertarian, is a quack who apparently doesn't even understand Libertarianism 101. In February, I posted on a recent piece in which he decries the danger of AI sex bots becoming so seductive that they'll convince their patrons, say, to change their wills and leave their estates to their imaginary sex bot companions. But this is nothing new -- like anything else, AI just makes same-old same-old faster and cheaper. For instance, in 2019, Florida man Grant Amato was convicted of killing his parents and brother to continue financing his obsession with a Bulgarian webcam model. He stole roughly $200,000 from his family to pay for webcam services. No AI needed, but now they can lay off the live webcam babes, AI will do it better without them. But where was Glenn Reynolds? If a webcam site could get a mark to ante up $200,000 then, why wasn...

🔥 WOW - Another INSANE Campaign Ad released by Former Reality TV Star Spencer Pratt as he runs for Mayor of Los Angeles CA. Whoever Mr. Pratt hired for media is ON POINT! I live 3,000 miles away but California and New Jersey have some of the SAME PROBLEMS! I am HYPED. Lets… pic.twitter.com/GxhdDP2HEB — Jay Costa (@JayCostaUSA) May 2, 2026 Legacy media has begun to pay attention to the California primaries coming up on June 2. The governor's race has already been picked pretty clean: there's a possibility that two Republican candidates will come out on top in the "jungle primary" and face off against each other in November, freezing the Democrats out completely. Still, this isn't inevitable, and lots can happen. But now the Los Angeles mayor's primary has also headed in an unexpected direction: Spencer Pratt, a reality TV star, is running a brilliant media campaign. (An artifact of the progressive era, Los Angeles City races are non-partisan.) The ad embe...

In this post , I brought up the Canadian-born current Texas resident standup comic Ben Bankas, whose stage persona is in-your-face working class. One of his routines is embedded above (language warning). In a typical segment, he imitates an angry liberal lady podcaster: "F--- the Constitution. I don't care what a bunch of white men from 200 years ago.. . ." J---- C-----, they were right. Back then, they were like "Do not let these women vote. If you care about freedom of speech, you'd better not let these women vote." And now we did, and they're f------ screaming in their cars after they go to Sonic. The reason for his growing success is slightly puzzling. As I noted at the link, he plays to bourgeois, heavily college-educated audiences. He omits it from any thumbnail, but I strongly suspect he has a four-year degree himself; he knows his audience too well. Some -- maybe most -- of his audience have conventionally liberal views, but the...

Every now and then, Real Clear Politics links to a piece that's exceptionally egregious, beyond even its usual level of mediocrity. This one has no title, which is only the first of its problems. but it appears in a Washington Post section called Awakenings. It's by Matthew Schmitz, the religion editor for The Washington Post's Opinions section. If you're a religion editor for the Washington Post, this is hinky on its face. AI tells me, "Before joining the Post, he was a senior editor at First Things, a prominent ecumenical religious journal." Well, I've submitted to First Things and never gotten past the intern who returns manuscripts unread, so I stopped bothering. Mr Schmitz begins here: In 2015, Michel Houellebecq published “Submission,” a novel describing (among other things) how members of the radical right might come to admire, even embrace, Islam. Now we are seeing exactly that happen, as I describe in today’s column on the rise of the...

At 3:07 in the video embedded above, Mark Halperin comes about as close to the truth as the Overton window will allow when he says of James Comey, "I've never seen somebody so unpopular act in public like he's so popular". On the other hand, Real Clear Politics has been unwilling even to touch the subject of the DOJ "8647" indictment over the past few days: that Comey is innocent is apparently not even a matter for civilized debate. Freedom of speech! Anyhow, "86" just means the the kitchen is out of soup! But I'm a contrarian, not even a recovering contrarian. This all seems a little too cut-and-dried to me. First, a quick web search shows that people are convicted by juries, or plead guilty, for threatening the president all the time. For instance , According to court documents, between Feb. 15, 2025, and May 15, 2025, Valeriy Kouznetsov, 41, made multiple threats toward the President of the United States, his family, and other...