June 7, 2026

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

THURSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM: ‘How Is This Real?’ Scott Pelley’s Post-Firing Instagram Pic Sparks More Than a Few Eye Rolls.

UPDATE:

Flashback: CBS’s Scott Pelley Loses a Fight Rigged in his Favor.

Mike Cernovich: [Hillary] had a seizure and froze up walking into her motorcade that day caught by a citizen journalist.

Scott Pelley: Did you, well, she had pneumonia. I mean –

Mike Cernovich: How do you know?

Scott Pelley: Well, because that’s what was reported.

Mike Cernovich: By whom? Who told you that?

Scott Pelley: Well, the campaign told us that.

Mike Cernovich: Why would you trust a campaign?

Evergreen:

 

Posted at 11:30 am by Ed Driscoll

TWO-TIER BRITAIN:

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Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

OF COURSE HE MEANS THE JEWS:

That’s who guys with Nazi tattoos always mean.

Posted at 9:49 am by Stephen Green

WARNING TO BRAGGING CON ARTISTS: If you are defrauding the U.S. government and bragging about it on social media or instructing others on how to do it like you do, then there are some folks at the Department of Justice and the FBI who will soon be having a word with you. Check it out in my latest news story for The Washington Stand.

Posted at 8:45 am by Mark Tapscott

50 YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN, THE TURBO-LASERS FALL SILENT: Welcoming the death of Star Wars. 

Some of us cinephiles are breathing a sigh of relief. “Finally,” we think, “we may be free of this thing.” We know that, in the end, Star Wars was a blight on American cinema, a 50-year disease that killed the last golden age of movies and polluted the art form for what seemed to be forever.

I do not say this with any happiness. Like most children of my generation—the tail end of Generation X—I adored Star Wars as a child, and when I watch the original film, I still feel some of the youthful joy I first experienced at the age of three.

But when I became a man, or simply a teenager, I put away childish things. I realized Star Wars was, in the end, a fairly shallow children’s film, and there were works infinitely greater to discover, from The Godfather to The 400 Blows to Citizen Kane to DW Griffith’s Intolerance and Buster Keaton’s masterpieces. There was all the vast history of the art form, yet for so many, its richness had been buried by Star Wars and the empty blockbuster industry it founded.

This was no better illustrated than by the fate of the era from which Star Wars emerged: the great and fleeting moment of the 1970s New Hollywood. Kicked off by Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, this era moved us through The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and numerous other masterpieces before its brutal last gasp with Martin Scorsese’s transcendent Raging Bull. In that era, movies were daring, ferocious, and above all, better than anything that had come out of Hollywood since its previous Golden Age of the 1930s and ‘40s.

Though they sowed the seeds of their own destruction, as James Lileks wrote 20 years ago:

And what an ending, eh? Han Solo — Harrison Ford in his first great relaxed performance, and his last — conquers his selfishness and redeems himself. Luke uses the Force — which is sort of like magnetism, plus ethics — and blows up Peter Cushing and his Death Star, along with untold engineers, support staff, kitchen workers, etc. The movie could have ended there, but no: It concluded with an awards ceremony. At the shank end of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate, Carter-era malaise and ennui, Lucas filmed a movie that ended with a princess giving medals to heroes.

After a generation of movies with tortured antiheroes who couldn’t order a sandwich without making A Statement, it seemed remarkably fresh.

It saved science fiction. You could argue that “Star Wars” saved “Star Trek” as well; the success of the movie had everyone greenlighting space operas now, and the first Trek movie — a long, serious film by the director of “West Side Story” — was released a while later, leading to three more decades of Trek.

Fast-forward to 2026. As Will Jordan, aka the Critical Drinker, told an interviewer from GBNews recently, “I don’t know where [Disney goes] from here. ultimately they might be better off just trying to sell off the [Star Wars] IP to someone else because they’re not turning a profit from it.”

On the other hand, there’s one more cash grab left for Disney, and I’m eagerly looking forward to contributing to their coffers: “Disney has announced that it will be releasing the original theatrical version of the original Star Wars in theaters once again on February 19.”

Posted at 8:45 am by Ed Driscoll