A couple of days before the WHCD Jimmy Kimmel “joked” that Melania looked like an “expectant widow.” In light of events that subsequently unfolded there is not one single ounce of funny in that. I get it, it’s a joke, but then again, it wasn’t. The shooter’s “manifesto” makes plain this character has imbibed regularly and deeply of what has become far too common rhetoric. Sure that rhetoric is hyperbolic, but turns out it is not. But that said, bad jokes and hyperbolic rhetoric is not the heart of the matter.. . .
Little is known about last night’s volley of fire at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner other than the shooter is in custody and there is little in his background to indicate he would...
In recent weeks a picture is emerging out of Southern California that is actually quite disturbing. I have assumed that all the anti-ICE, open borders nonsense was simply reactionary – that...
It is extremely difficult here in East Tennessee to get people to understand just how nuts California was during covid. I tell stories and they simply look at me in disbelief. I keep trying to...
Everybody with any common sense whatsoever knows that there is nothing real about “reality television.” It may be unscripted, but that does not make it real in any reasonable meaning of...
OMB Director Russ Vought joined Hugh to talk about President Trump’s proposed budget for FY 2027 which includes a proposed $1.5 trillion in Pentagon spending. Transcript: HH: We start with OMB Director Russ Vought. Now not a lot of you will know this. There is the A.G., there’s the Secretary of State,...
Majority Leader Johnb Thune joined Hugh today to discuss the ongoing debate on the SAVE Act, the battle with Iran, and the confirmation prospects for Senator Mullin to be Secretary Mullin. The transcript: HH: If you’ve been watching C-SPAN for the last day and today, you’ve seen Republicans standing up demanding...
Hugh discusses Iran and the WHCA Dinner shooting, and talks with Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery (USN, ret.), Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, John Sununu, New Hampshire...
Hugh discusses the WHCA Dinner shooting and Iran, and talks with Bret Stephens, op-ed columnist for “The New York Times,” Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, Intelligence Committee Chair, and Salena...
Hugh discusses the WHCA Dinner shooting and talks with Abe Greenwald, Executive Editor, “Commentary.” The post H1: 04/27/26: President Trump “60 Minutes” Clips, DOJ Clips, Abe Greenwald...