Israel courts MAGA influencers amid Gaza backlash (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

We Found It! The Flimsiest MAGA Conspiracy of All Time. (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Well, invented it, actually.

Bombshell New Report Casts More Doubt on Trump’s Epstein Claims (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Epstein Survivor: Would Be ‘Huge Error’ to Pardon Maxwell

First lady Melania Trump puts Hunter Biden on $1B notice over ‘false, defamatory’ Epstein comments (Brooke Singman/Fox News)

Oversight Chair: Bill Clinton Is “Prime Suspect” In Epstein Investigation  Surprising no one.

Jeffrey Epstein battle set to reignite in Congress (The Hill)

Trump Privately Dismissed Epstein Victims as ‘Democrats’ (Rolling Stone)  And therefore pro-pervert and presumably down for Epstein’s degeneracy.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a Voice of the Crust.

Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security’s X account appeared to reference an antisemitic dog whistle. And it wasn’t the first time that happened this summer.

“Which way, American man?” the department’s official page posted Sunday, over a political cartoon from 1936 called “Uncle Sam at the Crossroads.”

The post, a recruitment ad for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alluded to the phrase “Which way, Western man?” — the title of a 1978 book steeped in antisemitic conspiracy theories and explicit threats against Jews. As a social media meme, the phrase has been used to ridicule the “woke,” feminism and immigrants.

In its own X post Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League called the “Which way” reference “the latest problematic ICE recruitment post from the X account of the Department of Homeland Security.” The ADL cited several problems with it, including the reference to the 1978 book by William Gayley Simpson, whom the organization calls a “white supremacist and antisemite.”

Somehow, only Woke journalists can hear these ‘dog-whistles’. Doesn’t that make them the dog?

Bloomberg.

Note the weasel being a weasel.

• No “US” criminal records? How many have non-U.S. criminal records? A bunch, I’ll wager.
• “Criminal records”? Anybody who is here illegally is a felon ipso facto and liable to deportation, “criminal record” or not.

The Narrative Media take such hair-splitting pettifoggery to absurd levels, in the sure and certain knowledge that their moronic mobs will take it and run with it. “Burn the witch!”

Trump Weighs Marijuana Policy Shift as MAGA Allies Push Back

MAGA rails against “pothead” culture as Trump weighs weed reform (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

Maga’s boss class think they are immune to American carnage

Trump Nemesis Is Bringing Epstein Victims to Capitol to Push for Files Release (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Cuomo Denies Mamdani Accusation of Having Had Connection to Epstein

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CNN is a seemingly endless fount of dumb ideas.

Yesterday, we caught a CNN correspondent recommending that if Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist, instead of killing him, the IDF should have asked Al Jazeera to fire him!

Today, it was CNN contributor and former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s turn. Criticizing Trump’s use of federal agents to supplement DC police, Garcia-Navarro said the real solution to “girl brawls” is to have “better social media policies and better money for schools.”

So, limit teens to 15 minutes a day on TikTok, perhaps? Yup, that’ll bring girl brawls and other crime by the city’s ‘yuts’ to a screeching halt! Assuming you could even enforce such policies: “Sergeant, we just tracked a girl at Union Station who’s been on TikTok for 27 minutes. Get a SWAT team over there: STAT!”

As for spending “better money for schools,” in 2022-23, guess which school district ranked #1 in the country in per pupil spending? Yup! And the returns on that lavish spending have been dismal. In 2024, two-thirds of students failed to read at grade level, and almost 80% failed to reach grade level in math. Entrusting even more money to the tender mercies of the teachers’ union isn’t going to fix the problem.

The New York Times, paper of record of the Deep State.

Sure you can–Democrats do it all the time. California and Illinois come immediately to mind.

Newsbusters.

They’re on a roll.

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Like ‘people of color’ (good) rather than ‘colored people’ (bad).

The PBS News Hour aggressively, almost amusingly avoided the term “illegal” to describe illegal immigrants in Friday’s story on President Trump’s call for a new U.S. Census that would not count illegal immigrants, a move that would change the recorded population of various states and perhaps result in fewer members in the congressional delegation of some states with high illegal-immigrant populations.

How D.C. crime became a symbol — and a target — for MAGA and beyond (Washington Post)

Trump Wants a Bureau of MAGA Statistics (Dominic Pino/National Review)

House Panel May Need DOJ to Compel Epstein Interviews

Massie, Khanna bringing Epstein survivors to Capitol (Emily Brooks/The Hill)  Leave no tear unjerked.

Comer: Bill Clinton ‘prime suspect’ in Epstein investigation (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A visual timeline (CNN)

Newsbusters.

Talking heads on CNN and MSNBC are convinced President Trump has some shadowy ulterior motive for assuming federal control of policing in Washington, D.C. In addition to citing cooked crime statistics to slam President Trump’s federalization of policing in D.C., panelists on the liberal cable networks have begun offering up wild theories for what Trump’s “real” goal was.

One popular theory pushed by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude, among others, was that the President hoped to “distract” Americans and the media from Jeffrey Epstein.

EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! The one-note orchestra.

The New York Times, paper of record for the Wokerati.

Lauren Southern is not a ‘TradWife’, any more than Ashley St. Clair. She is a promiscuous grifter who has been riding the ‘TradWife’ meme for profit ever since she hit puberty. She is a ‘right-wing influencer’ only in the eyes of people like Michelle Goldberg, who wouldn’t know ‘right-wing’ if it bit her on the foot. Which I hope it does.

Brett Cooper is legitimately a TradWife. Look her up on YouTube.

Amy Dangerfield will legitimately be a TradWife, once she settles down, which I hope she does soon. Look her up on YouTube as well.

San Francisco Chronicle, a Voice of the Crust.

Find a ‘city’ that isn’t ‘black led’. Go on; I’ll wait.

The distinction to be made here is that Trump is ‘targeting’ Democrat-‘led’ cities, because Democrat politicians (an amazing number of which just happen to be black-‘led’) aren’t doing their jobs.

The first job of elected officials is to ensure that their constituents are safe. The first job of ‘black-led cities’ appears to be ignoring crime and wasting taxpayer money (when it isn’t just stolen).

I read somewhere recently (can’t remember where) that there are no Blue States, merely Blue Cities. That sounds about right.

Vance Tries to Convince Americans That Trump Wants ‘Full Transparency’ in Epstein Case (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Rep. Comer: Clintons Must Testify on Epstein Saga After Subpoena

GOP Lawmakers Left Washington to Escape the Epstein Issue. It Followed Them Home. (Riley Rogerson/NOTUS)

Newsbusters.

Audie Cornish must have the keenest hearing in the liberal media.

Sure, many liberals claim to hear supposedly racist Republican dog whistles. But Cornish can detect a dog whistle before it’s even pronounced! Call it a double-secret dog whistle on probation!

Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Half of GOP Would Still Vote for Trump If Implicated in Epstein Crimes (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s Vile Take on Teenager’s Rape Goes Viral as Epstein Woes Deepen (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

Who Is the Heir to the MAGA Movement? Trump Keeps His Options Open (Wall Street Journal)

Trump suggests “MAGA” stock listing for mortgage giants Fannie, Freddie (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

The New York Times, paper of record of the Wokerati.

Guess they’ll have to raise their wages to attract people other than illegal aliens. Like, say, Americans.

You know, what they ought to have been doing from the beginning, rather than ‘outsourcing in place’.

“It’s a wipeout,” said Gary Rohwer, the owner. “We’re building back up from ground zero.”

These are the very people that the Woke usually delight in trash-talking for ‘exploiting the poor workers.’ But because the Woke are Democrats, and Democrats need illegals to keep their numbers up, nary a word will be said in the Narrative Media.

The Times (UK).

Small boats and fateful decisions on asylum have shifted polite opinion firmly to the right. It risks moving further if the tap isn’t turned off.

Note how ‘shifting right’ is automatically characterized as being a ‘risk’. (Oh, no, we don’t want to shift right!)

On Tuesday morning, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, went on the BBC’s Today programme to be interrogated about the government’s new “one in, one out” plan to deport illegal migrants back to France. It is the “right principle”, she said, that people who arrive on small boats should be returned.

Amol Rajan, the host, pressed Cooper. “The trouble is, a year on from being in power, the numbers are going up, not down,” he said. “Don’t you think, if you said … ‘we hope to return 5,000 a year through this scheme’ it would help win the public over?”

You could hardly hope for a better encapsulation of just how far the liberal consensus on migration has shifted in this country. Neither the Labour home secretary nor the Today show host interrogated the assumption that illegal migrants should be deported; it was merely a question of how many and how fast.

Reality is what hangs around even if you don’t believe in it.

Media Freakout Over ‘Horror’ of Dictator Trump and His MAGA Supporters

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

The watchdog group Democracy Defenders Fund, led by a former Obama administration ethics official, has formally requested a federal investigation into the Pentagon’s acceptance of a Qatari luxury jet on behalf of President Trump.

According to a memo obtained by CBS News, the group asked the Department of Defense’s inspector general and the Government Accountability Office to probe whether the Pentagon broke laws and engaged in impropriety by accepting the gift on Mr. Trump’s behalf from the Qatari royal family. The memo was sent to the inspector general and GAO on Friday.

The Democracy Defenders Fund is a nonpartisan advocacy group founded by Obama ethics czar Norm Eisen. Its memo said the agencies should investigate whether the Defense Department had improperly invoked its authorities to accept the jet aircraft and to reportedly transfer $934 million in funding from a nuclear missile program to help retrofit the aircraft.

As is obvious, this group is not a ‘watchdog group’ but rather a bunch of Democrat activists looking for some way to cause trouble for Trump. CBS calling it a ‘watchdog group’ is a transparent attempt to paint it with a level of credibility to which it is obviously not entitled. This is a constant theme with the Narrative Media: Any clump of Democrat activists is a ‘watchdog group’; any Republican group, of whatever nature, is a bunch of ‘conspiracy theorists’. (Instead of calling them ‘conspiracy theories’ we ought to call them ‘spoiler alerts’.)

White House Did Have Secret Talks on Epstein Crisis (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)

Trump administration faces first lawsuit to force release of Epstein files (April Rubin/Axios)

Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the Epstein files are failing (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)

MAGA world swallows a difficult truth: Arresting Trump’s opponents is easier said than done (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Trump, Vance: Epstein Meeting Reports ‘Hoax,’ ‘Fake News’

Rep. Comer to Newsmax: Committee Is Serious About Epstein Case

VP Vance meeting to discuss Epstein fallout canceled, source says (Nandita Bose/Reuters)

Congress doesn’t want to talk to Alex Acosta, Epstein’s ‘sweetheart deal’ maker (NBC News)

Drinks, Apps, and an Epstein Coverup to Go (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Why don’t Republicans want to talk to the prosecutor who made Epstein’s ‘sweetheart deal’? (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

The House Moves on Epstein

Top Trump officials discussed Epstein at White House meeting Wednesday night (Kristen Holmes/CNN)

JD Vance Denies Meeting To Discuss Epstein Files

MAGA Antitrust Agenda Under Siege by Lobbyists Close to Trump (Wall Street Journal)

Trump pushed major change to Medicare after $5 million donation to MAGA, Inc: report (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)

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Well, this is going to become a little awkward…

While some on The Fed believe that tariffs will unleash the worst parts of stagflationary hell on the average American (and therefore they should not cut rates), it appears the ‘Americans’ themselves are far less concerned.

This morning we heard Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic reiterate that there are reasons to be skeptical that the inflationary effects from tariffs will be temporary.

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday, the Associated Press’s Bassem Mroue and Sarah El Deeb published an article that highlighted the survivors of Israel’s explosive pager attack on the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah. Though the highly advanced strike was designed to reduce unintentional casualties to a minimum, there were a few civilian injuries and casualties. While it is important to show sympathy for the unintended victims of the attack, the AP seemed to forget there was a difference between that and sympathizing with a terrorist group.

 

MAGA expectations soar after DOJ orders Russia grand jury probe (Axios)

Trump Suggests Vance is MAGA Movement’s Heir Apparent (Enjoli Liston/New York Times)

MAGA Hopes Soar After Russia Grand Jury Probe Ordered

Prosecutor who negotiated Epstein’s sweetheart deal left off subpoena list (Axios)

How Trump blunted the far-right furor over Jeffrey Epstein (Washington Post)

Ghislaine Maxwell told Justice Department she never saw Trump do anything concerning with Epstein, report says (Kelly Rissman/The Independent)

Vance expected to host Epstein strategy dinner with Bondi, Blanche, Patel (Katherine Faulders/ABC News)

Vance, Bondi, Patel to huddle at VP residence for Epstein strategy meeting (Fox News)

Trumpworld Knows Epstein Is a Problem. But They Can’t Solve It (Jake Lahut/Wired)

Alan Dershowitz: ‘No Credible Evidence’ From Epstein Accusers

The Foundry.

There’s something funny in scandal politics when people accuse each other of pushing a “distraction.” So if President Donald Trump tries to change the subject to Russia collusion-hoaxing, it’s a “distraction” from the media’s energetic Jeffrey Epstein obsession.

All this really proves is that the liberal media elites get unhappy whenever anyone tries to offer a different topic than the one they demand we all be magnetically focused on. The networks don’t want any contrary new information added to their narrative on how Trump won in 2016 with Russian assistance—if you’re not going to accept their original accusations of collusion.

Their framing is presented as the only acceptable framing, the one based in “reality.” The public is always supposed to be focused on Republican scandals. They’re the only ones that matter. Democrat scandals are reflexively dismissed as “no evidence” nothing-burgers, a smelly wastebasket of “unsubstantiated” junk.

It’s transparently partisan “news judgment.”

Epstein victims blast Justice Department over lack of transparency (NBC News)

Epstein Was Still a Member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Long After He Was Indicted (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)  The Daily Beast and the Rolling Stone are going ot beat that dead horse until it’s fertilizer.

Comer subpoenas the Clintons, Trump’s DOJ in House Oversight’s Epstein probe (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)

Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published (Anna Betts/The Guardian)

Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyers Oppose Unsealing of Epstein Transcripts  I’ll just bet they do.

Never-Before-Seen Photos Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Creepy Mansion

Comer issues subpoenas for DOJ’s Epstein files, depositions with former officials (Politico)

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Jim Acosta, the former CNN hack who President Trump notoriously said “YOU are fake news” to at the White House is now LITERALLY living up to the description after he put out an ‘interview’ with an AI generated avatar of a deceased Parkland shooting victim as a way of pushing gun control.

You can’t make this stuff up.

UPDATE: Acosta Ghoulishly Chats with A.I. Zombie of Dead Parkland Student

Poll Shows Widespread Disapproval and Suspicion of Trump’s Handling of Epstein Files (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Charlamagne Tha God: Trump Should Focus on Economy, Epstein And what’s-his-name should focus on whatever it is that he does and leave politics alone.

Epstein Victims Express Disgust, Fear at Handling of Files (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)

Victim in Epstein case decries ‘political warfare’ in effort to release grand jury transcripts (Casey Gannon/CNN)

The simple way Democrats should talk about Trump and Epstein (Peter Rothpletz/The Guardian)

Trump Rages About Claim He Killed Epstein: Author (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

New York Magazine Grumbles that Media Epstein Overkill is Ineffective

Prince Andrew and Donald Trump’s Sick ‘P***y’ Conversations Revealed (Tom Sykes/The Daily Beast)  Apparently the Duke of York, like Trump, is one of the New Hitlers that Narrative journalist devote their time to tracking down.

Trump Lashes Out at Charlamagne Tha God Over Epstein Comments (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)

You know who loves the Epstein scandal? President-in-waiting JD Vance. (Rex Huppke/USA Today)

Trump Is Very Mad at Charlamagne Tha God for Talking About Epstein (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

The New York Times, paper of record for the Deep State.

Of course, “the attack on higher education” is Narrative-speak for “telling the truth about the schooling of the Crust”. The author, Vimal Patel, is an imported Person of Color (because, as we all know, we don’t have enough domestic Persons of Color who can actually read and write English) who is serving his apprenticeship in the Halls of Narrative in order to virtue-signal his way into the Crust.

The New York Times, paper of record for the Deep State.

Especially the ones who give welfare recipients instant cash back (at a significant discount, of course) for fake purchases in a common money-laundering scheme. It’s free! Just swipe yo’ EBT!

Mysterious Orange Figure Spotted Outside Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell Night Before His Death: Report  Possibly the Ghost of the Deep State Yet to Come.

2028 Republicans pick sides on Epstein Files (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos (Allison Gill/The Breakdown)  And I am so important that they will snap right to it.

NPR, the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Nothing useful. Not one goddamned thing.

Same as every other day.

At YOUR expense.

Newsbusters.

The PBS News Hour’s bizarre post-October 7 enmity toward Israel has blared bright the last few days, eager to portray Israel, fighting for existence against a soulless enemy, Hamas, as a cruel invader purposely starving Gaza’s infants. This is the “public television” that claims to be a public service.

PBS’s coverage of late has been guilty of bias by omission, spewing phony figures and hunger anecdotes from the Hamas-controlled “Health Ministry” entity — while usually leaving out the Hamas affiliation. References to the hostages still cruelly held by Hamas were sparse.

One would think the New York Times publishing mortifying misinformation (a front-page photo on Friday of a “starving” child in Gaza who was actually suffering an unrelated medical condition) would inject a little humility into the legacy press’s assumptions of starving children in Gaza.

Guest host Lisa Desjardins opened Saturday’s News Weekend by leaving off the fact that the terrorist group controls the Gaza Health Ministry while skipping mention of the twenty or so hostages assumed to still be alive, being held by Hamas.

TDS TikToker Asks For Tips On How To Be Unattractive To “MAGA Men”, Gets A Simple Answer…

How Epstein and Maxwell Used Trump’s Fame to Groom 13-Year-Old Girl (Michael Daly/The Daily Beast)

Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre wanted files released before her death, family says (NBC News)

Trump’s Options for Dousing the Epstein Fire (Ankush Khardori/Politico)  More accurately, the Epstein smudgepot.

Why Epstein has Trump crashing out (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files (Jason Leopold/Bloomberg)

The rich and powerful go unpunished: Julie K. Brown on the scale of the Epstein scandal (The Contrarian)

Ghislaine Maxwell is quietly moved to cushy new Texas prison as she pushes for deal to tell all on Epstein, his associates (Ben Kochman/New York Post)

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is transferred to a prison camp in Texas (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)

Antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein are proliferating — and going mainstream

A MAGA Attorney Hired Epstein’s Lawyer for His ‘Valuable’ Experience (Shane Harris/The Atlantic)

Please, Mr. President, Keep Talking Epstein (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Senate Democrats try to force DOJ’s hand on Epstein files (Jordain Carney/Politico)

How Does the Epstein Scandal End? (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

Trump’s explosive new claim about Epstein at odds with past statements (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  As twisted by the Narrative Media, of course.

Democrats invoke rare Senate rule to force release of Epstein documents (Josephine Walker/Axios)

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Worsens as Dems Suddenly Find Big New Weapon (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

Mysterious ‘Orange Shape’ Raises More Questions About Epstein Footage (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

LIVE: Epstein files news conference held by Senator Chuck Schumer

LIVE: Democrats Announce Update on Epstein Files

Corporate Media: DNI’s Russiagate Doc Dump ‘Baseless,’ ‘Distraction from Epstein’

The antitrust war inside MAGA Powerful lobbyists are battling populist reformers (Sohrab Ahmari/UnHerd)

MAGA Champion Who Said Trump Would Fight Child Predators Is Arrested on Charges of Being a Child Predator (Jack Silvers/The Daily Beast)

Gaza starvation widens MAGA’s rupture with Israel (Axios)

MAGA is turning on Israel over Gaza, but Trump is unmoved (Politico)

The Only MAGA That Counts Is Trump’s (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Chicago Tribune.

Fembot ‘journalism’–start with an endearing anecdote, then try to stretch it into ‘data’ that supports the agenda you started with.

Skip the first eight paragraphs to get to the actual news.

Less than a fourth of Illinois farmland is owned by the farmer who works the land, according to data from the Illinois Farm Business Farm Management, a nonprofit association that helps farmers make management decisions. The rest is leased to farmers by individuals, family trusts and, increasingly, businesses.

The Tribune is launching a series of special reports analyzing the hurdles many farmers face in trying to be good stewards of the land as climate change intensifies. Among the challenges are fewer opportunities for farmers — and would-be farmers — to own their land.

And there you have it: CLIMATE CHANGE! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Newsbusters.

Years after the Black Lives Matter protests and attendant vandalism, looting and burning, the PBS News division is suddenly worried that masks….help people get away with crimes! Why the sudden interest? Well, it’s a way to indirectly fault ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for criminals impersonating agents. Sunday’s NewsHour Weekend segment carried the online headline “Rise of ICE agents wearing masks creates opportunity for imposters to conduct crimes.”

For years conservatives have pointed out that Antifa and other left-wing mobs took advantage of masking (supported by the liberal media’s bizarre mask fetish) to hide their criminal behavior under the guise of preserving their health or hiding their identity for safety reasons. Those rules apparently don’t apply to ICE agents, who must apparently go maskless and risk doxxing from the vengeful online left.

Read it.

The Times almost certainly knew the provenance of the photos it published and didn’t care. The paper has its agenda.

Newsbusters.

n the latest installment of what is shaping up to be an ongoing series, the CBS Evening News Plus ran an item on Texas redistricting. And we continue to struggle to remember when such items ran relative to gerrymandered redistricting in Democrat states.

Newsbusters.

Another explosive Russia Hoax revelation was revealed to the public today. And, as predictable as the Sun rising in the East, the legacy media completely avoided the story.

The report goes on to note that some of those documents reveal that the intelligence community discovered, through foreign intelligence sources, that the FBI was going to play a role in spreading the collusion narrative, which we refer to as the Russia Hoax. Furthermore, the report notes that these document-laden burn bags were found in a Secure Compartmentalized Intelligence Facility (SCIF) that was known only to seniormost FBI personnel and hidden within the Hoover Building.

No time was accorded to this issue on any of the legacy newscasts airing the day of the report (July 30th), to wit: ABC, CBS, NBC. We even took a look at Univision and Telemundo. No dice. Not a single second was given to the discovery of a potentially explosive and heretofore hidden trove of documents.

ABC was so devoted to suppressing the story that they didn’t even run the customary White House roundup! No Mary Bruce or Rachel Scott! Nothing out of DC whatsoever!