Are you smarter than a college student? This was the favorite tactic Fox News’s Jesse Watters employed on Bill O’Reilly’s former show. Watters would go out and embarrass college students to show how smart he was and how dumb they were with man-on-the-street interviews. Mediaite caught Watters, who is now a featured desk man on The Five, falling for an internet hoax of a photoshopped shark swimming down the freeway. At least he didn’t fall for the T-Rex that was recently spotted in Houston on that very same stretch of highway, because that would have been really embarrassing.
“I’m not sure that was water …” In all the tragedy we’re seeing in Texas, a moment of humor: An anchor on KRIV Fox 26 in Houston was commenting on the teamwork of volunteer rescuers on boats in Houston, enjoying a moment to share water from the cap of a dark blue glass bottle, about 750 ml. If that sounds strange to you, her co-anchor stepped in to help: it wasn’t water. Spoiler: They also had water. The brave souls helping rescue stranded Texans deserve a shot of SKYY, if you ask me.
"I'm not sure that's a water bottle…" pic.twitter.com/KoaYDMVGgz— Jim Swift (@JSwiftTWS) August 29, 2017
A great new Ricochet podcast: Michael in the Morning. Associate editor Ethan Epstein joins frequent contributor Michael Graham on his new AM show over at Ricochet.com, Michael in the Morning to discuss just what the heck Kim Jong-un is doing. If you’re a lover of our TWS podcasts, you’re probably aware they’re also streamed on the Ricochet network. But there are lots of great other podcasts that you can discover there, too. Including Graham’s great new show. If you love podcasts from a right-leaning perspective, you should definitely join Ricochet today. (Also don’t miss Graham’s most recent column in the Boston Herald, on how the antifa are destroying free speech.)
“Email intrusions, hacking and impostors in social media”? Oh my! Andrew Kaczynski’s KFile team over at CNN unleashed a bombshell report that found accounts tied to William Bradford, whom Trump picked to run the Energy Department’s Office of Indian Energy, said some terrible things about President Obama, which are not fit to reprint here. Bradford, for his part, is denying making the comments: “I cannot comment on an ongoing federal investigation into multiple cyber attacks and Internet crimes committed against me over the past several years, to include email intrusions, hacking, and impostors in social media.” Bradford, though has publicly suggested he, like both Trump and Arpaio, is a birther, and has apologized for those comments. But he was totally hacked you guys…
The moral conscience of our time? At the New York Times, frequent TWS contributor Jamie Kirchick has a brutal no-holds-barred takedown of the media fascination with Chelsea Manning: “It would be hard to find a less convincing advocate for transgender military service than someone convicted of violating the Espionage Act. The cognitive dissonance required of L.G.B.T. activists in celebrating Ms. Manning while denouncing Donald Trump’s transgender military ban is considerable, not least in the case of Ms. Manning herself, who simultaneously condemns the ban while also tweeting that “we need to dismantle the military/police state,” without appearing to recognize the contradiction. (Ms. Manning is a prolific Tweeter whose blithe, emoji-laden missives read like the doodles of a freshman peace studies major and belie her portrayal as the moral conscience of our time.)”
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