Lucent in Tenebris

This conversation occurred in DC last fall, as we saw in the news:   “Do you have any information regarding the president of the United States accepting any bribes?” Chris Stewart (R) asked. “No,” Ms. Yovanovitch, former Ambassador to Ukraine, responded. “Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that he has been involved with at all?” the Utah Republican continued. “No,” she said. The day previous, Ambassador Taylor and George Kent, State Department Ukraine expert, were both asked to point out an impeachable offence the president committed. Neither man said a word in response to the challenge from John Ratcliffe (R). Yovanovitch was dismissed from her position in May, months before the July 25th phone call. Neither Taylor nor Kent have anything but second or thirdhand hearsay information. Neither have ever met Trump, or spoken with him on the phone. Since then, documents have been released that show that the ambassador lied during much of her testimony regarding her

 As I sat watching the Tony Bobulinski interview on Tucker Carlson tonight, I realized that I was sharing the moment with hundreds, if not thousands, of fellow journalists, most of them sitting at home in the suburbs of Washington DC and New York. At the same time, I also realized that while I would shortly be writing about what I saw and heard, most of them would be shaking their heads in dismay, knowing that if they were to write the truth they were watching, their editors would spike the story. They knew that insisting that what Tony B was saying was news, important news, could cost them their careers.  Normally, after any "bombshell" interview, the internet is flooded with comments from competing outlets. That's how media works - it's a pile on - usually. In this case, 45 minutes after the close of the interview, only four media stories about it were extant - Yahoo! News , Newsweek ,  MSN and a story from the NY Post , which broke the Bobulinski story in the firs

 Back in 2017, Sean Hannitty and dozens of other prominent conservatives, plus millions of everyday Republicans, declared President Trump to be innocent of any collusion with Russia, as claimed by democrats, the New York Times, Rachel Maddow and every other liberal you can think of. As conservatives, we endured the screeching, the calumny, the outright lies that the left and its media rained down on our heads over our support of President Donald Trump. I don't know about you, but there were times my faith was kinda shaky. Let's be honest, when everyone, including people who we thought were conservatives (but weren't) are all singing from the same page, it's tough to be resolute, to stand against the haters. But we hung in there, and today, our faithfulness has been rewarded. Oh yes, has it been rewarded. Before I get to that, let me back up a bit. Remember the Devin Nunes 'scandal', when Nunes started finding things out and was forced out of play for a short whi