Authors

Melissa Mackenzie

Melissa Mackenzie is Publisher of The American Spectator. Melissa commentates for the BBC and has appeared on Fox. Her work has been featured at The Guardian, PJ Media, and was a front page contributor to RedState.Melissa commutes from Houston, Texas to Alexandria, VA. She lives in Houston with her two sons, one daughter, and two diva rescue cats.You can follow Ms. Mackenzie on Twitter: @MelissaTweets.
by and | Jun 2, 2023

In this week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, Melissa Mackenzie (publisher of The American Spectator) and Scott McKay (American Spectator contributing editor and publisher of both RVIVR.com and TheHayride.com) talk about BIG things — or, perhaps better put, THE big thing.Namely, that we’re in the…

by and | May 18, 2023

This week on The Spectacle podcast, The American Spectator writer David Catron joins Scott McKay (American Spectator contributing editor and publisher of both RVIVR.com and TheHayride.com) and Melissa Mackenzie (publisher of The American Spectator) to talk about David’s piece on the media hyping former President…

by | May 17, 2023

James O’Keefe and his new OMG business, O’Keefe Media Group, exposed Fox News brass via one of their producers, who claims that Fox News got rid of Tucker Carlson as part of its Dominion settlement. Fox denies this, and Carlson…

by and | May 11, 2023

In this episode of The Spectacle podcast, Melissa Mackenzie (publisher of The American Spectator) and Scott McKay (American Spectator contributing editor and publisher of both RVIVR.com and TheHayride.com) have on a special guest: The American Spectator’s editor, Paul Kengor. For…

by | Apr 23, 2023

Dear readers, I gave ChatGPT this prompt. My goal is for you to go through the piece and see if you find errors. Was the writing interesting and informative? The first thing I’ll note is that the AI is disobedient….

by | Apr 21, 2023

Twitter pseudo-elites are crying because their blue check mark has been taken from them, and they’re offended that, like the plebes, they must pay for the privilege of being verified now. Whatever is smaller than the world’s tiniest violin is…

by and | Apr 20, 2023

In this episode of The Spectacle, Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discus Biden, default, the Anheuser-Busch boycott, and Dylan Mulvaney and transgenderism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ywR7puf1kA Listen to The Spectacle with Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on Spotify. Watch The Spectacle with Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on YouTube. 

by and | Apr 13, 2023

This episode of The Spectacle podcast isn’t about politics, though Melissa Mackenzie, publisher of The American Spectator, and Scott McKay, American Spectator contributing editor and publisher of both TheHayride.com and RVIVR.com, are always going to touch on that subject when…

by | Apr 5, 2023

Eighty miles west of Austin, Texas begins. Twisting country roads lined with exploding colors of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush wildflowers, and passing by pastures filled with content longhorns lazily grazing, wind up and out of the bustling capital city. It’s…

by and | Apr 5, 2023

Scott McKay and Melissa Mackenzie discuss what it all means. Was Trump right to make this a public spectacle? Other topics include Marjorie Taylor Greene, the silence of the pathetic Republicans, the women’s NCAA basketball championship and sportsmanship, and a…

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