About to discuss with John Campbell

Scariest number for Biden in the full ballot test, per NYT/Siena: He’s only at 30% (!) with RFK on the ballot.

I was unaware that PolitiFact had expanded to the U.K.

This hour: Jim Geraghty, John Campbell and the beginning of a long interview of Frank Bruni about his provocative new book “The Age of Grievance”: amazon.com/Age-Grievance-…

This is a fascinating polling dynamic in the new NYT/Siena MICHIGAN poll:

Trump up by 7 among registered voters…

but Biden *leads* among likely voters.

nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/…

UN Halves Its Estimate of Women and Children Killed in Gaza on.cfr.org/4btUfU1 via Council on Foreign Relations

When Umpire Scrooge and Umpire Grinch agreed on a merger, they became Umpire Duane Patterson. Story to follow next on the program.

Organizer Of Walkout Against Jerry Seinfeld Revealed buff.ly/44G7f6n

Redundant

Up next: Dan Senor

Well there’s an omen if you ever needed one to see which way the new college football playoffs and championship are headed.

There is no evidence Israel is violating international law.

Hamas bears sole responsibility for civilian casualties in Gaza, and Joe Biden should back Israel to the hilt instead of undermining them.

Also from this AM’s “News Items” (news-items.com/subscribe):

Four soldiers were wounded in northern Israel by anti-tank guided missile fire from Lebanon, medical officials say.

Ziv Hospital in Safed says four troops were brought to the medical center after being wounded in the attack near Kibbutz Yiftah.

It says three of the soldiers are…

From this AM’s “News Items” (news-items.com/subscribe) from EllisItems:

In a new “Call Me Back,” Dan Senor speaks with PM @Netanyahu as Memorial Day in Israel was about to begin, about conduct of its war and the hostages: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cal…

What a disgusting blood libel. To falsely accuse the victims of the Holocaust of committing genocide when they are in reality fighting a just war against real genocidaires is the height of perfidy.

But how the demonization of Israel was then instrumentalized to haunt a young…

Grieving is a part of being Israeli.

We mourn the loss of our friends, family and fellow soldiers who lost their lives defending the state of Israel or in acts of terrorism. Their stories will forever be a part of our history.

May their memories be a blessing 🕯️

From The Times of Israel: Another faceplant from Team Joe Biden as it tries to escape from disastrous arms embargo on Israel announced by President Biden Thursday. First the Israel Defense Forces has to win, has to destroy military capability of Hamas. Secretary Antony Blinken as confused as he was during Afghan debacle.

From a fine essay from ⁦Jonathan S. Tobin⁩ on liberal media and its blindness to the eruption of anti-Semitism in America on a scale not imaginable post 1945: jns.org/liberal-media-…