HotAir Daily Express 04/27/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Let’s face it, the media would be in raptures over Obama if this Korea summit were happening during his presidency]( 4/27/2018 11:21:53 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Every now and then a media double standard is so glaring that even people not associated with the right feel obliged to acknowledge it. Let's get real. The press would be in the midst of a collective orgasm if this Korea summit happened under [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mattis: You’re darned right I ordered the Code Red on Russian mercenaries]( 4/27/2018 10:41:14 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Yesterday’s testimony by the Secretary of Defense provided a genuine Mattisism for the ages, but also some nuance over the destruction of a reported Russian mercenary force in Syria. James Mattis addressed the issue in response to a question from [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What A Single Diet Soda Does]( Nucific SPONSORED New Study Reveals What A Single Diet Soda Drink Does [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Winter chill? GDP settles for 2.3% growth in Q1]( 4/27/2018 10:01:10 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s a comedown in one sense, and perhaps a pickup in another context. The US economy expanded at a decent clip of 2.3% in the first quarter, albeit less robustly than the previous quarter’s final revised annualized growth rate of 2.9%. It [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Not me too? Brokaw denies sexual-harassment accusations]( 4/27/2018 9:21:25 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The focus of #MeToo has swung back around to NBC News, and this time it has landed on its former top news anchor-turned-eminence grise. Two women have accused Tom Brokaw of groping and other inappropriate behavior during the time he led the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Comey double down: I didn’t leak — I just instructed my friend to talk to the NYT]( 4/27/2018 8:41:01 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments When is a leak not a leak? James Comey sat down with Bret Baier to promote his book A Higher Loyalty last night, having already taken an unexpected beating from Anderson Cooper on the same point in a CNN town hall on Wednesday. John wrote about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The longest running war in modern history is over… sort of]( 4/27/2018 8:01:24 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You would have to be at least 67 years old to remember (or at least been alive for) a time when North Korea and South Korea weren’t at war. Technically, the active battle ended in July of 1953, but the two nations have remained in a state of war [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Confirmed: Transformers are real]( 4/26/2018 10:01:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments One guess which country is responsible for this. Here’s what it means to get old and die inside. Thirty years ago, this would have been not merely the coolest thing I’d ever seen but the coolest thing my young mind could imagine. Thirty years [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bipartisan: Senate Judiciary Committee advances legislation to protect Mueller from Trump]( 4/26/2018 9:21:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Fourteen votes in favor of the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, seven against. The yays: All 10 Democrats on the committee plus Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis, and Trump’s old buddy Jeff Flake. The nays: Orrin Hatch, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [James Comey still not sure who funded the Steele dossier]( 4/26/2018 8:41:20 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Bret Baier’s interview of James Comey is already being described as a disaster for Comey by some on Twitter. Having watched the first half, I think Comey was doing okay for the first few minutes or so but he went completely off the rails when asked [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pruitt: “A lie doesn’t become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper”]( 4/26/2018 8:01:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Ronny Jackson decided to retreat. Scott Pruitt decided to man the barricades instead. Appearing before a House subcommittee on the environment, Pruitt got grilled on the environment within the EPA and his office as Democrats hammered him over recent [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“You have no sense of humor, that’s your problem”: Meghan McCain and Joy Behar blow up over the Trump marriage]( 4/26/2018 7:21:43 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate. This takes me back to the golden age of “The View,” when the panel’s young conservative politico would spar regularly with its brassy left-wing comedienne from New York. They won’t fully recapture the old [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Broward Deputies vote ‘no confidence’ in Sheriff Scott Israel]( 4/26/2018 6:41:55 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week I pointed out this vote was coming. Today, a union representing Broward County Sheriff’s Deputies announced the results of their “no confidence” vote in Sheriff Scott Israel. Those results were overwhelming, with 85% saying [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ken Bone: My son was suspended from school and the police are investigating because he went to the gun range — with me]( 4/26/2018 6:00:37 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You remember Ken Bone, don’t you? Sure you do. I admit, I was skeptical of Kyle Kashuv’s claim the other day that he got in trouble with the powers that be at Stoneman Douglas High for going to the range with his own father. Even with the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are you ready for the #MeToo Comeback Show, starring … Charlie Rose?]( 4/26/2018 5:21:50 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Who’s up for a show focusing on the damage that sexual harassment and worse has done to the … harassers? Tina Brown divulged that plans are afoot for a series about the redemption of people like Matt Lauer, Louis C.K., Mario Batali, and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Investigation of Harvey Weinstein to become a feature film]( 4/26/2018 4:41:12 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Brad Pitt’s production company has purchased rights to a film based on the investigative work of two female reporters at the New York Times who brought the Harvey Weinstein story to light last year and helped kick off the #MeToo movement. From [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Guilty: Bill Cosby convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in 2004]( 4/26/2018 4:01:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If you’re of a certain age, as I am, the realization that Dr. Huxtable is highly likely to die in prison is world-shaking. “America’s Dad” is now a convicted sexual predator. The verdict is gratifying not just on the merits but in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Jackson’s retreat, Pruitt’s defense, the $18 Billion Prize, impeachment’s folly, and more!]( 4/26/2018 3:21:37 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s muted, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Judge rejects Berkeley’s request to dismiss free speech lawsuit]( 4/26/2018 2:41:37 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A judge has rejected UC Berkeley’s request to dismiss a lawsuit against the school claiming it discriminates against conservative speakers. From Reuters: A federal judge rejected the University of California at Berkeley’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Anderson Cooper grills Comey: Let’s face it, you’re a leaker]( 4/26/2018 2:01:58 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments One of the many surprising presidential admissions in Trump’s bananas “Fox & Friends” interview this morning was that he caught the Comey town hall on CNN last night — and thought Anderson Cooper did a good job! Watch four [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Breaking: Pompeo breezes to confirmation, 57-42; Update: Grenell confirmed 56-42; Update: Pompeo sworn in]( 4/26/2018 1:28:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments What had appeared to be a cliffhanger a week ago turned into an anti-climax at the end. The Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State with room to spare after several red-state Democrats crossed the aisle to support him. Each of them, with the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [HuffPost: This Joy Reid hacking claim looks unlikely (Update: ‘I don’t care because I like Joy Reid’)]( 4/26/2018 1:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments HuffPost is a progressive site so you might think they’d be tempted to pull punches in their piece on Joy Reid’s old blog posts. Instead, they make a pretty convincing case that her claims make no sense. Especially worth noting is that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How bad is antisemitism getting in Germany?]( 4/26/2018 12:31:49 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments You probably didn’t hear too much about it in the American media, but there was a significant protest over in Germany this week. Thousands of people of all faiths gathered in Berlin and several other cities to don a kippah and show their solidarity [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Alfie Evans father: Hospital is holding my son hostage]( 4/26/2018 12:01:25 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The parents of Alfie Evans met earlier today with hospital officials in an effort to get the 23-month-old released into their home care. It apparently didn’t go well. Tom Evans asked Pope Francis to come to the UK to free the child at the center of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] NYT [Lawyer who met with Trump Jr: I’m an informant for the Russian government]( Bret Stephens [Bush 41, Trump, and American decline]( NYT [“People are not people to him, they are instruments of his ego”]( Frank Furedi [Loneliness can’t be “cured.” We must learn to find value in solitude]( Katherine Timpf [The problem isn’t just the GOP, Mr. Comey]( Alia E. Dastagir [Incel rebellion, Alek Minassian, and the dangerous idea of being owed sex]( Ramesh Ponnuru [Why aren’t U.S. liberals outraged about Alfie Evans?]( THOMAS FULLER [Genealogy websites were key to big break in Golden State Killer case]( Wagmeister, Setoodeh [Tom Brokaw accused of sexual harassment by former NBC anchor]( Kevin Poulsen [Claims by Joy Reid’s cybersecurity expert fall apart]( JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS [FBI letter casts further doubt on White House’s Rob Porter timeline]( Donald Trump [Comey is either very sick or very dumb!]( CNN [Video: North, South Korean leaders vow to formally end Korean War]( David Marcus [Celebrating British royalty is anathema to America]( Pew [The changing profile of unmarried parents]( J.J. McCullough [Trump’s friendships are America’s asset]( Jeffrey Toobin [The DNC’s lawsuit against Russia and the Trump campaign isn’t a bad idea]( Rich Lowry [Judges for the #Resistance]( Andy McCarthy [Is “guilty until proven innocent” the new standard for Trump?]( Vann Newkirk [The “dragon energy” of Trump and Kanye West]( Amar Shah [To many Indian Americans, Apu is offensive. To me, he’s my dad.]( Matt Bai [Can you rein in the president without weakening the presidency?]( Jack Goldsmith [Sympathy for the deep state]( NYT [Time’s not on their side as GOP gripes about Senate slowdown]( WaPo [A gunman held up a butcher shop. He didn’t count on a man in a cowboy hat.]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? You can get your own free subscription to the #1 blog delivered to your email inbox early each morning by visiting: This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. 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