June 7, 2026

TRUMP STORMS OUT OF MEET THE PRESS INTERVIEW:

The exchange started to unravel when the topic of election integrity came up. Trump made clear that he views the media’s handling of these stories as part of a larger systemic problem, one that the press has deliberately chosen to ignore. He told Welker that her network actively works against him and that he had the receipts to back it up.

“You play right into their hands with this stuff,” Trump said. “You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they’re rigged. Do you know that I won an election in a landslide and I got 94% bad press.”

Welker tried to redirect the conversation toward acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, but Trump wasn’t having it. Every time she jumped in, he pushed through it. He insisted the evidence of problems with election integrity runs deep: “You have more evidence, there’s more evidence than ever presented.”

“Your elections in this country — we’re like a third world country,” he said. “Your elections are crooked and you’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked.”

He didn’t stop there. “And so is ABC and CBS and CNN,” Trump continued. “You’re a one-sided crooked network.”

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Meanwhile America’s Newspaper of Record might to revise and extend its remarks:

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: David Lammy told JD Vance ‘you’re wrong’ after Henry Nowak case intervention.

David Lammy has told JD Vance he was wrong to link Henry Nowak’s murder to immigration and warned him the intervention on social media was “not helpful”.

The Deputy Prime Minister said he challenged the US vice-president in a “robust” phone call on Saturday after Mr Vance appeared to blame the killing on a “mass invasion” of people into Europe.

The 18-year-old student was handcuffed by police who ignored his pleas that he had been stabbed as he lay dying after his British-born killer, Vickrum Digwa, claimed to have been the victim of a racist attack.

Sir Keir Starmer’s deputy, who shares an unlikely friendship with Mr Vance despite their different political backgrounds, said the two had disagreed about the details surrounding the murder.

Mr Lammy, who is also Justice Secretary, told Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: “I spoke to the vice-president yesterday and I wanted to emphasise a number of things.

“The first is that our democratic process is working well. This young man has been convicted. There is an investigation into the police by the independent police complaints authority.

“There is an investigation into Hampshire Police by the inspectorate. The AG (Attorney General) is looking at the sentencing in relation to this. The national police chiefs are looking at the guidance in relation to this.”

He added: “The second thing was I disagree with him – this has got nothing to do with mass migration.

“This young man (Digwa) was a Brit. Let’s be… clear about that, and I said, ‘Look, Mr vice-president, you’re wrong about this’, and it’s also the case that actually murder is coming down in the United Kingdom.

“So, we had an agreeable conversation, but we disagree.”

Related: The article is behind a subscriber-only paywall, but the London Times’ headline on this story is: David Lammy: JD Vance was wrong to intervene in Henry Nowak case.

Curiously, Lammy’s boss didn’t mind intervening in American politics in 2020: George Floyd death: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer takes a knee in support of Black Lives Matter movement.

UPDATE: Pure, Cold Rage: What Henry Nowak’s Murder Says about the State of Britain in 2026.

Posted at 5:42 pm by Ed Driscoll

THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE REASONS AND ALSO SHUT UP, RACIST:

Posted at 5:14 pm by Stephen Green

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: HelloFresh Crosses Line With Repulsive Pride Month Ad. It’s Sickening.

Meal-kit delivery giant HelloFresh is facing backlash after publishing a Pride Month advertisement that many critics described as vulgar and unnecessarily sexual.

The company, which delivers pre-portioned ingredients, recipes, and cooking instructions directly to customers, posted the ad on social media Thursday as part of its Pride Month marketing campaign.

“We know that eating isn’t always a top priority this month,” the company wrote. “We respect that. But for those of you who are … prepping … we have an extensive lineup of high-fiber recipes available. Happy Pride.”

The post is a reference to anal sex and preparation for sexual activity. The company further amplified the “joke” by using a suggestive promotional code from a commenter. “Use code BOTTOMSUP for a Pride Month discount,” the company wrote.

Exit quote: “The advertisement drew sharp criticism on X, where users questioned why a food company was making explicit sexual jokes as part of its Pride Month promotion.”

50 years ago, Saturday Night Live had a ‘Weekend Update’ joke that went, “Brought to you by Hershey Highway: the candy that’s turned America’s taste around for fifty years.” Today, Hello Fresh is basically using that as an actual slogan. Welcome to Weimar America.

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT ISN’T A RACE THING — EXCEPT FOR THE DEFENDANT AND HIS SUPPORTERS:

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green

LESSONS LEARNED: Lost at Sea. Replace your lithium batteries! Also, the importance of Starlink.

Plus: “Whatever the cause, the final journey of Magic Bus proves that things don’t have to happen suddenly to develop into an emergency. The crew had plenty of time – right up until the point when they didn’t. And then it was down to good preparation, good seamanship, and great rescue services that got them safely home.”

Posted at 1:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SCOTT PELLEY BREAKS DOWN, COMPARES 60 MINUTES FIRINGS TO ‘FAMILY’ BEING MURDERED IN LUDICROUS NEW INTERVIEW:

Jobless news veteran Scott Pelley broke down in tears as he claimed the hysterical tirade that got him fired from “60 Minutes” was a response to the “murders” of his “family” in a “Black Thursday massacre” at the show.

Pelley, 68, broke down several times during an interview with the New York Times as he discussed for the first time being axed from CBS News after nearly four decades at the network.

He conceded that he had been hyperbolic to accuse new network boss Bari Weiss of murdering “60 Minutes” — just to go even further, claiming it was the staff themselves that she murdered.

“It’s like your spouse being murdered,” he said at one point of the rejigging of staff with newcomers in to take charge at the show.

“No one saw the Black Thursday massacre coming,” Pelley told the paper of the network laying off senior staff, including executive producer Tanya Simon.

“The night before, Tanya and I were at the Emmy Awards, and we won two Emmys. Within hours, all of those people have been wiped out, and one-third of our correspondents have been fired,” he said.

“My colleagues and I have worked together 10, 20, 30 years. We travel together. We dine together. We go into literal combat together,” Pelley continued.

“So, these bonds are pretty tight, and when somebody wipes out, murders, a large number of your family members, people are desperate for some explanation, and as you and I sit here today, there still has been none,” he said.

Here you go, Scott: Bye-Bye Scott! The Worst of CBS 60 Minutes Correspondent Pelley.

Pelley on Iranian Dictator: “Genuinely Humble” “No Fancy Clothes, Fancy Cars” “Absolutely Incorruptible” 

“He [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] is genuinely religious, genuinely humble, there are no fancy clothes, fancy cars, he lives with his wife and his three children. They live in an apartment in Tehran. He is a very modest man and said to be absolutely incorruptible as well, he’s a fascinating character.”
— Scott Pelley discussing his interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on CBS’s Early Show, September 24, 2007. 

Republicans Just Like Timothy McVeigh

“In April, terrorists tried to kill them. Today, politicians stopped their paychecks. In Oklahoma City’s Social Security office, they’re being ordered to work for nothing.”
— Correspondent Scott Pelley reporting on the government shutdown on CBS Evening News, January 2, 1996. 

 Meanwhile, here’s Pelley himself. Biased? CBS News? What on earth are you talking about?

As Glenn wrote in his latest Substack: Scott Pelley Is Out. So What? “Pelley was a big shot in the media world when he sat atop a big CBS operation. But even then he mattered a lot less in the real world than he thought. He will no longer be such a big shot anywhere after he’s gone. Just ask Keith Olbermann. If you can find him.”

UPDATE:

Tweet concludes, “To act as if this claim about bias is controversial, let alone inaccurate, shows that he’s either a liar, an imbecile, or so deeply incurious and tunnel-visioned that you don’t belong anywhere near any job involving information discernment. But he’s got that familiar anchor voice, so we’re supposed to act like he’s not being a complete clown. Give me a break. You people are a mess.”

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SWAMP CREATURES:

Maybe elected office ought to be treated the same way treason once was — no officeholder’s descendants may hold office for three generations.

Posted at 1:05 pm by Stephen Green

SUSAN COLLINS: HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTER!

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Send Me A Car: New NYC dating demand has men and women at war: ‘No ride, no date.’ “’One of my rules is, if a man doesn’t at least offer to send you a car for the date, whether you take it or not, no date!’ said Savannah Pagnozzi, a Big Apple lifestyle influencer, in a viral vid. ‘No. Absolutely not. We don’t do that.'” Her picture doesn’t suggest that she’s well-positioned to be so demanding.

My favorite response: “Send you a car? What are you, Princess Diana?”

Posted at 12:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds