In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

The video embedded above is YouTuber Brandon Tatum's astonished reaction to Tucker Carlson's disastrous interview witn Lulu Garcia-Navarro of the New York Times, which is entertaining enough, but he also interposes Megyn Kelly's commentary, "Tucker sat down with Lulu, and Tucker handled himself, of course, very, very well. . . . Any sort of would-be trap she was laying, he saw from a mile away." It's as if she saw an entirely different interview from the one everyone else watched. But that took me back to her "hostage video" that I discussed Thursday , where she explains to captive Mark Halperin about the wonderful new audience of young Muslims that she and Tucker are reaching. Her typical wardrobe, though, isn't exactly Muslim-friendly, so it's hard to imagine what kind of Muslims are tuning in to watch her. In other words, I'm not sure if she understands much about Islam -- certainly if she wanted to appeal to Muslim sensibi...

Spencer Pratt’s LA mayor ads are incredible. pic.twitter.com/uEge9Q9yyH — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 5, 2026 On Monday , I poated about Spencer Pratt's campaign for mayor of Los Angeles, focusing on an ad -- at the time, it wasn't clear that his campaign had in fact not commissioned it, but this is the case. But within days, two more independent, "fan produced" ads have come out : one, embedded above, is based on The Dark Knight Rises ; the other, embedded below as part of a Mark Halperin 2WAY segment, is based on the Hitler-in-the-bunker scenes in Downfall . But then there was an enmtirely separate development: at a Wenesday night debate, Pratt wiped the floor with his two opponents, incumbent Karen Bass and Democratic Socialist Mamdani clone Nithya Raman. (Some commentators get several things wrong about the candidates -- first, Los Angeles City elections are "non-partisan", and candidates don't idenmtify by party, and second, Pratt, although ...

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...