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60 Minutes's Scott Pelley: "Paramount sucks, but I don't have the conviction to resign like my boss did" pic.twitter.com/awmVHsdmxs
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 28, 2025
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60 Minutes’ coverage has never been accurate and fair. The program has always been a platform for the left that has been willing to lie and falsify documents in service of the Democratic Party. ...
Shari Redstone is the controlling shareholder in Paramount. Pelley is accusing her of truckling to the Trump administration in order to get Paramount’s merger approved. I suppose that is possible. I suppose it is equally possible that Redstone is disgusted by 60 Minutes’ conduct, as recently exemplified by its mis-editing garbled answers to questions by Kamala Harris in order to help her presidential campaign.
Ed: I learned about media bias in the 1970s by watching 60 Minutes. John Hinderaker is absolutely correct about this. Pelley is basically arguing that CBS News should be above any sort of accountability, which is utter nonsense.
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Chuck Schumer says he's not retiring:
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 28, 2025
"I’m staying put because I’ve been able to unite my caucus in a very strong fight against Trump."
Imagine thinking your number one job qualification is fighting the man the American people just elected in an electoral landslide. Shameful. pic.twitter.com/bP1aH5Mo7n
Ed: Speaking of a lack of accountability … I’m not offended by Schumer’s claim here as Charlie is. First off, that’s pretty much how opposition parties operate in modern American politics. Second, that’s all Democrats have to offer, especially over the last couple of years. The true offense here is that Schumer has miserably failed on that over the last decade, and was a large part of the root of that failure: the 2013 Harry Reid nuclear option. Reid, Schumer, and Durbin did a lot of damage to American politics, and they have never really been held accountable for it.
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In the decades since then, crime has gone up and down, as has our ability and willingness to used force abroad. But the one most consistent failure of conservatism has been the sustained and, in recent years, mindlessly explosive growth of government and its tentacles.
By this I don’t just mean our unhinged, gargantuan borrowing, taxing and spending. I mean the little stuff the government does to make your life annoying. Haven’t buckled your seat belt? Beep beep beep BEEP BEEP BEEP……….. Want to get out of your neighborhood without getting bounced around by speed bumps? Fine — walk. You’ll get there in an hour or three. Want to take a shower where you can feel rather than remember water pressure? I think they still have them in Romania.
Liberals did this to us to fulfill their lust for control for our safety. Yes, our safety, as if even as a pretext that was any of their business or they had any actual care about it.
Now, however, they’re squawking big time — not because they’ve wised up, but because Donald Trump’s government has shown itself wonderfully willing to use their cudgel against them where it hurts, to wit, their ownership of academia, and particularly the Ruling Class of academia such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford. See, e.g., today’s article in the WSJ about academia’s panic and its plan to strike back.
Ed: Be careful what you wish for! This may be the only way to teach the Left a lesson about the potential backfire of these policies. With that said, they won’t learn a darned thing, as Schumer keeps demonstrating.
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🔥HOLY SMOKES: @PressSec just EXPOSED the total sham that was the Biden White House "fake" Oval Office set:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 28, 2025
"This beautiful...auditorium...he used this like it was a fake Oval Office, weirdly, oddly. He was missing in action. He called lids at 2:00 in the afternoon!"
"That is… pic.twitter.com/rip2TIOZnt
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Not since the first year of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first term in 1933 has an administration engaged in such frenetic activity. If he keeps it up for the rest of the year, Trump may even beat FDR’s record-breaking average of 307 executive orders a year.
There, however, the resemblance ends. For, if FDR’s goal was to enlarge the federal government, Trump’s New Deal is designed to shrink it.
The question, as we look beyond the first 100 days, is how far can a chronically understaffed administration with wafer-thin majorities in Congress achieve such a counterrevolution in government while at the same time pursuing a parallel counterrevolution in U.S. trade policy? The economic consequences of Trump’s attempt to turn back the tariff clock by roughly a century are already manifesting themselves.
Trump is crushing his to-do list. The question for the rest of us is whether or not he will crush the economy, too.
Ed: This is an intriguing essay from NIall Ferguson, and these questions are worth asking -- but the answers will be found in the longer term. It would be better if we didn't freak out over the daily direction of the markets -- in either direction.
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During the 2024 campaign, @Tim_Walz was so anxious for his debate with @JDVance that he couldn’t sleep and aides had to remind him to eat.
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) April 27, 2025
The debate “terrified him,” Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write in their book “FIGHT.” pic.twitter.com/qfr1YVHX1H
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Rep. Henry Cuellar is pushing back against his own party over its stance on immigration, criticizing fellow Democrats for defending an illegal immigrant the Trump administration says is a violent MS-13 gang member.
"This is not the right issue to talk about due process. This is not the right case. This is not the right person to be saying that we need to bring him back to the United States," Cuellar, D-Texas, told "The Brian Kilmeade Show" on Fox News Radio. ...
"Democrats should not take this issue," Cuellar said. "When you look at immigration, is this the immigration case you want to take to fight on? In my opinion, absolutely no."
Ed: Democrats spent the last four years either ignoring Cuellar or trying to kick him out of Congress. I doubt they will start taking his advice now, but they should. They really should.
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Ed: That's about the standard amount of time between the funeral of a Pope and the start of the conclave. That gives the cardinal-electors plenty of time to get to know one another and discuss the issues facing the church in the next pontificate. Just remember: Fantasy Conclave is fun to play, as long as you know it's essentially meaningless. And one more thing: I actually got the scoop out on the timing of the last conclave for Hot Air. That was fun.
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