What stories topped your priority lists this week? For Duane and me, only two stories qualified. “Trumpmas finally arrived,” I tell Duane, who laments in return, “It will be an OJ trial. It will be a daily national soap opera all the way into Iowa.” The two of us also do a deep dive into the Nashville mass shooting and the way the media has turned its transgender perp into a victim. And toward the end, I stumble onto a third top story — one that involves our friend Hugh Hewitt!
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Welcome to our new VIP feature for Hot Air as well as a members-only show in the Hughniverse! Duane Patterson and I now are doing a Week in Review show for Friday evenings, exclusive to members in both platforms. Duane has been the Generalissimo behind the Hugh Hewitt Show for more than two decades, and we have partnered on weekly commentary since 2007.
On the Alvin Bragg indictment:
- “I don’t think the intent of this is to try to do anything other than to make sure he is the nominee,” Duane posits, “and once he is the nominee, he is so poisoned. By the time we get to the general election. It is, it is the Joe Biden insurance policy.”
- “It’s so petty as to really question what the hell this is about,” I respond. “And it can’t be about the fact that the New York State is so concerned about business records … that this is the why they’re indicting a [former] president.”
On the Nashville shooting and the attempts to shift attention from both the media and the Biden administration:
- “There is no reason not to release that manifesto,” Duane declares. “For Merrick Garland to testify under oath to the Senate this week, and tell Senate Judiciary that we don’t have a motive in this thing, when his FBI has the blankety blank manifesto — That’s motive,” Duane argues. “He lied under oath.”
- The Daily Mirror ran a story, I point out, “that said, you know, Audrey Hale could have been a illustrator of children’s books. She had this childlike quality about her art,” the tweet and the article argued. “My tweet and response to that was — imagine what the three children that she murdered might have been in life. … And they finally got around to deleting the tweet, I add. “So the original tweet has been deleted, but there has been this whole, you know, sort of soft coverage of the shooter in this that you never see in the context of any other, any others.”
- On the manifesto, I predict, “So this is coming out, it’s going to come out. My guess is it’s got something like that in there. There’s a reason why she targeted that school and it’s not just because, oh, she just happened to know it, because she went there.” And that will force a discussion about mental illness and transgenderism, which is what the media desperately wants to avoid.
And on the third top story of the week, we need an assist from Twitter:
.@hughhewitt tells @ktumulty, “I am not worried about violence … I think that's a trope. But I do think the criminalization of politics is very bad." pic.twitter.com/hKfZYBqE7k
— Washington Post Live (@PostLive) March 31, 2023
Duane also gets in one last story as well, this one involving Kamala Harris. Be sure to watch it all, and join the conversation in the comments!
