Scott McKay

2 days ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

I’ve got four predictions about serious things (and one about something not quite that serious) that I’ll throw your way in this 5QT entry. That’s all the introduction you’re going to get. It’s all you need. 1. CNN Isn’t Going To Make ItI don’t know exactly when or how it’ll end, but at some point in the relatively near future, CNN will close its doors and either disappear from the cable dial altogether or it’ll be re-branded as something else. (RELATED: CNN’s Credibility?

2 days ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

There is surely a long list of candidates for the title of worst election in American history, but Tuesday night’s mayoral race in New York City would have to merit notice. In terms of sheer destructive capability, Zohran Mamdani’s seven-point trouncing of Andrew Cuomo in the Democrat primary might put it fairly high on that list. New York has had three straight calamitous mayoral terms.

5 days ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

At the risk of upsetting whatever fickle deities of fortune may govern current events, as of Monday afternoon we can take some relief from the fact that the response of the Iranian regime to this weekend’s large-scale air attack on its nuclear weapons sites by B-2 bombers dropping Massive Ordinance Penetrator bunker-buster bombs and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles has been… not much.

6 days ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

A quick prelude before I dive into the substance of this column: the regular readers of items in this space, and much of my other writings, will recognize that I often return to what I call the F0urth Era theory and revivalism in describing the political world. This column is about that subject. But what the people remember is that two days after Cassidy voted to declare the post-presidential impeachment unconstitutional, he voted for the unconstitutional impeachment.

1 week ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

He isn’t relevant anymore, as he’s gone from CNN’s White House correspondent and primetime host to a Substack blogger over the past six months, but Jim Acosta still managed to irritate a large number of Americans by casting folks in rural flyover territory as mindless rubes hoodwinked by the Trumpian far-right:Former CNN host Jim Acosta claimed on Tuesday that farmers are being “led astray” and voting for “far-right” candidates in U.S. elections.