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McCabe and 60 Minutes Avoid Discussing Why Russia Factored in Comey’s Firing (National Review)
Andrew McCabe is a good witness and he made a favorable impression, at least on me, in his 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley. Pelley and his editors did a great job highlighting McCabe’s down-to-earth likability. Unlike Jim Comey, a career prosecutor and corporate lawyer before he became FBI director, former deputy director McCabe is a career agent; his relation of events smacks of the Bureau’s “just the facts, ma’am” ethos. And McCabe’s account of Trump telling him to ask his wife what it was like to be a “loser” (after she lost a Virginia state senate race) is devastating, precisely because it sounds just like something Trump would say. [Read More]
Celebrated biographer Craig Shirley tees up Washington’s mother (Washington Examiner)
Washington-based biographer Craig Shirley has teed up another winner for publisher Harper Collins.
The author of four books on former President Reagan, one on former Speaker Newt Gingrich and also of the acclaimed “December 1941,” is going way back in American history with his “Honored Madam.”
It’s about Mary Ball Washington, the mother of George Washington. “She’s either described as Mother Theresa or ‘Mommy Dearest,’” said Shirley. [Read More]
The anti-Trump mainstream media and many top Democrats uncritically pushed a dubious — and since-discredited — account of a “MAGA”-backed homophobic and racist attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett. [Read More]
Patrick Caddell, 1950-2019 (PJ Media)
Patrick Caddell, the political pollster who helped send an obscure peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter to the White House, later became disillusioned with fellow Democrats and finally veered to advise supporters of Donald J. Trump, died on Saturday in Charleston, S.C. He was 68. His death, from complications of a stroke, was confirmed by a colleague, Prof. Kendra Stewart of the College of Charleston.
Patrick Hayward Caddell was born on May 19, 1950, in Rock Hill, S.C. His mother was Janie (Burns) Caddell. His father, Newton P. Caddell, was a Coast Guard chief warrant officer. Patrick grew up near various Coast Guard stations, spending most of his youth in Falmouth, Mass., and Jacksonville, Fla., where he attended parochial high school and also began taking his first public opinion surveys. [Read More]
As Smollett Story Unravels, ABC Defends Robin Roberts’ Softball Interview on GMA (NewsBusters)
ABC’s Good Morning America team went into full damage control mode Monday, after news broke over the weekend that actor Jussie Smollett had allegedly paid two men to stage his assault. Just last Thursday, anchor Robin Roberts had given the actor a softball interview, even refusing to call his story of a Trump supporter assaulting him, “alleged.”
Leading into the report, Roberts finally did call the quickly unraveling story “alleged:” [Read More]
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