September 5, 2026

JUDITH MILLER: The Day That Terrorism Became a Global Spectator Sport.

Dec. 7, as most members of the so-called “greatest generation” know, is the day that Franklin Roosevelt declared would “live in infamy” when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, belatedly drawing America into World War II. Similarly, most Americans, even those too young to have seen the Twin Towers collapse or smelled the stench of burning metal and flesh, know that Islamic terrorists changed history on Sept. 11 by killing over 3,000 people in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Within Israel and for Jews everywhere, Oct. 7 will long be remembered as the day that Hamas and other Palestinian enthusiasts slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took 251 people hostage in coordinated incursions from Gaza.

What about Sept. 5? That date rings few memory bells, even for Americans who were able to watch television or follow the news in the fall of 1972. Some may dimly recall that on that day eight Palestinian terrorists from the militant Black September group infiltrated the Summer Olympics in Munich, killing two members of Israel’s national athletic team and taking nine others hostage. On Sept. 5, terrorism itself became a spectator sport.

That terrible event has now been rescued from obscurity by Tim Fehlbaum, the Swiss director and cowriter (with Moritz Binder and Alex David) whose film about ABC’s coverage of the attack more than deserves its sole Oscar nomination for best original screenplay. Fehlbaum’s September 5 is a claustrophobic newsroom thriller. The film compresses the 22-hour-long ordeal into a taut, gripping 94 minutes. It not only chronicles an early terrorist milestone, but also explores with skill and subtlety the strengths and failures of broadcast journalism, the still evolving ethics of TV news, and the beginning of a new, harsher era of mass media.

As the film tells us, Sept. 5 was the first time that an act of terrorism was broadcast live around the world. Some 900 million people watched it unfold on TV, a quarter billion more people than those who saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon three years earlier.

From me, last year: September 5: Chilling Recreation of the First Live TV Broadcast of Terrorism.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

JUST ABOUT THE MOST UN-AMERICA THING ANYBODY EVER SAID:

Posted at 12:55 pm by Stephen Green

WHEN PEOPLE TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM:

Earlier: The Assassination Fan Base.

Posted at 12:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

NORMAN JEWISON DIDN’T INTEND FOR ROLLERBALL TO BE A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR 21st CENTURY SPORTS:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE LONG COUNTER-MARCH:

Read the whole thing, but this last point stands out: “Play the fifty-year game. The march took from 1968 to roughly 2015 to complete. Anyone expecting a decisive victory in one electoral cycle will quit in disappointment, which is itself part of why the other side won. Choose things that compound: skills, institutions, children, reputations.”

I’d also add that conservatives largely checked out (or were forced out) of the arts — and that was every bit as damaging as any political or economic losses.

Posted at 12:22 pm by Stephen Green

ALANIS MORRISETTE, CALL YOUR OFFICE:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ACTRESS LOSES THE PLOT: John Nolte: Jane Fonda’s Rant Against Extending Human Lifespans Is a Bizarre Jumble of Slogans.

Jane Fonda is 88 years old, and her recent rant against the “global elite” looking to extend the human lifespan was so disjointed and bizarre, maybe it’s time for a wellness check. Sure, she’s always been wrong about everything, but she’s also been pretty articulate.

Let’s look at her answer to a question about “longevity” on Thursday while she was honored at something called the DVF Awards.
Fonda was asked, “Within the global elites, longevity seems to be all the rage. What are your thoughts on that?”

Here’s her full answer with my editorial interruptions…

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The big problem is — and this has never happened in the history of humankind — if this was happening at any other time, you could say: “We’re going to win in the end.” But because of the climate crisis, we don’t have that much time. You know, there’s a point where if it gets too hot, then there’s no going back.

Okay, Grandma.

It’s like she memorized five talking points: oligarchs, billionaires, robots, trad wives, and global warming, only to get them all jammed up in her head. Then she just vomited them out in a shower of incoherence.

Most baffling is her opposition to longevity. Jane Fonda is a role model for longevity, no? She’s kept herself in marvelous shape, and now she’s 88 and still going strong.

What we have here is more proof that there is no intellect or logic on the left anymore, just the thoughtless, knee-jerk spewing of emotions.

“But because of the climate crisis, we don’t have that much time.” And that clock is ticking — in January of 2020, she babbled to Stephen Colbert that “the scientists were saying we have 10 years before it’s going to go so far over the cliff that there’s no turning back. The environment and climate will unravel, and there’s nothing we can do.” Wow, if only there wasn’t a massive campaign against nuclear power in the late ’70s and ’80s. Who was its spokeswoman?

Incidentally, later that year she called Covid “God’s gift to the left.”  Maybe she really does have a grudge against longevity.

Posted at 10:14 am by Ed Driscoll

WHY PEOPLE DON’T TRUST THIS STUFF:

Posted at 9:26 am by Glenn Reynolds

LET’S HOPE THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR REPEATS AS FARCE, NOT TRAGEDY:

Posted at 9:01 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE DEMOCRATS REALLY CAN’T FIND NORMAL GUYS: “It’s been a solid minute since Graham Platner burnt up on entry, so let’s check in on Democrats and their “trying super hard to be normal” guy candidates. Today we’ve got several fake gym rats, pole climbers and hot dog gobblers, and a guy I’ve decided to dub Roboslop.”

Regular guys don’t want to be Democrats. And if any did slip through, they’d be unacceptable to the rabid wackadoos who control the Party.

Posted at 8:58 am by Glenn Reynolds

I THOUGHT THEY WERE JUST GOOD FRIENDS. I DIDN’T REALIZE HOW FAR THE RELATIONSHIP HAD PROGRESSED:

Posted at 8:45 am by Ed Driscoll

PUSHBACK IN BRITAIN:

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:36 am by Glenn Reynolds