Wednesday’s CNN presidential town hall in New Hampshire proved one thing — and proved it beyond a reasonable doubt, which is more than can be said of the countless trumped-up (no pun intended) charges brought against the event’s star. President…
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters,” Donald Trump famously said in 2016. If he realized the truth of an opposite phenomenon, he did not vocalize it. Affirmation that…
Recently, CNN filed its response to former President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit. It is not surprising that CNN’s attorneys seem to have the stronger legal argument. After all, the controlling precedents make it notoriously difficult for a public figure to…
Six Degrees of Tucker Carlson, a Washington parlor game now played online by journalists, tasks players with linking the Fox News talker to very bad things. The rules allow for tenuous connections — nonexistent ones, even. They call for proving…
It wasn’t long ago that no one — regardless of how prominent — could survive a front-page evisceration by the New York Times, America’s “newspaper of record,” like the one unleashed against Tucker Carlson. Those days are over, though, and…
The following is an excerpt from James O’Keefe’s new book, American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century (Post Hill Press). Please join The American Spectator for a special conversation with James on March 4 at noon EDT. He will discuss…
“Media Running Scared From Durham,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, February 15, 2022.
It has now been over a year since the tyrants at Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat shamefully banned former President Donald Trump, depriving him of reaching an audience of roughly 150 million people. But that is about to change on…
The 2024 presidential race has begun and Donald Trump comes spoiling for a fight. Trump drew the battle lines when he spoke to over 50,000 Texans for 80 minutes Saturday night at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds outside Conroe, Texas. I…
Screw it. Those are not my words. I do not speak or write that way. Rather, Jonah Goldberg began with those words as he penned a passionate polemic in “The Dispatch” explaining why he recently quit Fox News. His last…