If I fear I'm losing you, it's just no good, you tabbing like you do ...
Why you do not hate the regime media anywhere near enough...
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 7, 2026
She was late because she failed to gather her equipment on time, not because @JDVance exists.
That’s literally in the story. That’s quoting her own coach. More typically spectacular work from the brave truth tellers… https://t.co/o41ixNpPsW pic.twitter.com/CsYG8Tz63p
That’s literally in the story. That’s quoting her own coach. More typically spectacular work from the brave truth tellers of the regime media.
Clearly, the Washington Post has failed to fire enough people.
Ed: As I said at the end of last night's Final Word: No lessons will be learned.
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Sports Illustrated: Last year’s Super Bowl between the Eagles and Chiefs drew 127.7 million viewers for Fox. It set a new record for the most watched telecast in television history.
My guess is that NBC won’t come close to topping this on Sunday, despite Nielsen using a new viewership measurement system that has seen big increases across the board for most sporting events in recent months.
For one reason, last year’s Super Bowl aired on Fox’s free streaming service, Tubi. This year’s Super Bowl will air on Peacock, which is a paid service. Tubi has 97 million active users. Peacock has 44 million subscribers.
Another big reason why this Super Bowl won’t be watched by as many people as last year’s is because of who is here and who isn’t here.
Ed: Jimmy Traina's talking about the teams, but this won't lag because the Kansas City Chiefs missed the playoffs. It's not like the KC metro TV market is the biggest in the country; Kansas City ranks 33rd, far below both New England/Boston (8th) and Seattle (13th). Yeah, Travis and Tay-Tay won't be on the tube, but the Super Bowl did pretty well before their romance too. It's going to lose traction because the NFL went back to being woke with Bad Bunny, and you can expect the NFL to broke. Well, broke-ish, anyway.
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Bad Bunny told Americans they had 4 months to learn Spanish if we wanted to understand the Super Bowl halftime show.
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 9, 2025
No thanks. We'll just have our own. Enjoy your low-rated halftime show. pic.twitter.com/VjGkNrjS00
Ed: I attend a friend's Super Bowl party every year, but we pay zero attention to the halftime show anyway.
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Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media: The greatest evil visited upon us by the non-fans who have taken over the Super Bowl is the halftime show abomination. The NFL rulebook states that, "Between the second and third periods, there shall be an intermission of 13 minutes." Again, that's from the official rules. Because the Super Bowl has very little to do with football, the rules are tossed out the window in order to appease the television network programming wraiths whose offices are in the ninth ring of Hell. The Super Bowl halftime show finishes a few minutes before Opening Day in Major League Baseball. A slow learner could get an associate's degree during the Super Bowl halftime.
No true fan wants there to be extra time between the action of a football game. Oh, and we don't care about the party cuisine either. Get the Lipton's onion soup mix, make some dip, and get your idiotic commercial-loving butt away from the TV.
Since I don't believe in coincidences, I read a lot into the rise in popularity of the Super Bowl and its attendant parties happening concurrently with the wussification of the game of football. Within ten years, I swear that the defenders will have to seek verbal permission to come in contact with the offense. In an effort to bring more fans to football, the NFL apparently believes that gutting everything that's good about the game of football is the key. Roger Goodell (told you I didn't like him) probably dreams of the day that NFL scores look like NBA scores.
Ed: At least Major League Baseball made some attempts to speed up the game to something shorter than the director's cut of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.'
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#BREAKING: The US Air Force says that the F-22 Raptors have been pulled from tomorrow’s Super Bowl flyover due to increased operational demands. #SantaClara \ #California
— OC Scanner 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 (@OC_Scanner) February 7, 2026
Well that’s one hell of a development to wake up to https://t.co/GBSL99Krp3
Ed: If the NFL wants to go political, they'd better get used to politics.
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John Schindler at Top Secret Umbra: In April 2021, I told Mike’s story, explaining what we know – and don’t – about the secret weapon behind the AHI attacks, while pointedly asking: How many American spies have to die before the U.S. Government starts telling the truth? Just days later, I reported that the Senate, particularly its intelligence oversight committee, was unhappy with the Biden administration’s efforts to cover up the ugly truth about AHI. “The public deserves the truth about what happened to them – including where and how – before more Americans succumb to these attacks,” I added.
Several TSU reports followed detailing the Biden White House’s robust endeavors to mask what was really going on, and by whom, regarding AHI. For reasons we don’t officially understand, President Joe Biden and his spy leadership, up to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, decided that AHI didn’t exist: it was the figment of overactive, perhaps hypochondriac imaginations. In April 2024, I explained that CIA obsequiously followed the Biden DNI line, in effect telling its workforce to “drop dead” by continuing to pretend that it simply didn’t know what AHI’s cause is. That same month, I denounced the “corruption and cowardice” of the Biden administration with its callous lies about “Havana Syndrome” as Americans suffered and died from it, explaining that such top-level mendacity had made me an unlikely “Deep State dissident.” A few weeks later, as it became evident that Biden’s DNI and IC were implacably committed to official dishonesty regarding AHI, I pronounced that “the greatest threat to American spies is their own leadership.” In related analysis, I elaborated that Team Biden wasn’t really fooling anybody, since Moscow had already admitted that it was working on the technology behind the “Havana Syndrome” decades ago, back in the days of the KGB. In another column, I explained that the AHI cover-up amounted to “the greatest scandal in the history of American intelligence.” That signaled the official end of my invites to Georgetown cocktail parties.
I found myself in far superior company on Monday, at Mike Beck’s funeral.
Ed: I meant to include this in yesterday's Final Word, but overlooked the tab. Be sure to read it all. There is something very suspicious around the Havana Syndrome cases, and it's long past time to do right by Mike Beck and its other victims.
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Status: “Last month, just ahead of the devastating layoffs at The Washington Post, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached Post publisher and chief executive Will Lewis with a proposal: Would the Jeff Bezos–owned paper consider spinning off its local and sports sections and…
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) February 7, 2026
... and selling to them?
Perhaps some type of deal could have been worked out where the property was jointly branded and operated, such as when CNN partnered with Fortune and Moneymagazines on CNNMoney.
The interest was there, but the group never received a response.”
Ed: If this deal made sense as a sale for Bezos, why wouldn't it make sense as a start-up from the same investor group? All these investors have to do is hire WaPo sports and local reporters and build a new website. That sounds a lot less expensive than paying Bezos for a "partnership." Perhaps Status explains this after the jump on its paywalled article to which Josh links, but I suspect that the deal involved Bezos putting some capital into it as part of the "partnership."
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NY Post: Freestyle skier Hunter Hess ignited the firestorm Friday after telling reporters that wearing the American flag doesn’t mean he backs everything “going on” in the US.
“It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now,” Hess said at a press conference ahead of competition.
“It’s a little hard, there’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of and I think a lot of people aren’t,” he added. “Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.”
The remarks quickly ricocheted across social media, where critics accused the Olympian of trashing the country he’s supposed to represent and vowed to boycott the Games.
Ed: I'm getting very comfortable with never watching sports at all these days. I'll stick to the party tomorrow night, and I will continue to ignore the Olympics in the same way I ignore the Oscars. And for the same reason.
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Hunter Hess US snowboarder saying he doesn’t represent his country but his family and friends. Then don’t put on the USA uniform maybe just put for family and friends some athletes just don’t get it
— MIKE ERUZIONE (@MERUZIONE) February 7, 2026
Ed: It's been 46 years since the Miracle On Ice, which is a much better story than Elitist Wannabes On ICE. Thanks again, Mr. Eruzione, for that moment in 1980 and the class act you've been ever since.
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