David Shuster

Lindsey Graham’s tribute to his dear friend Joe Lieberman broke every rule—because laughter was the only way to hide his broken heart. If you’ve never seen this before, it’s mush-watch material 👇🏻👇🏻

.@CNN hedged and refused to believe @ScottJenningsKY was telling the truth. Now, with photographic proof McConnell is alive and breathing on his own. CNN owes Jennings an apology. That’s how f’d up CNN is these days… What a disaster.

Yet another example of why so many people have lost faith in legacy media and its rapidly disappearing journalism standards. In the last couple of days I've reported on a NYT editor admitting the paper's own news section wouldn't have run Nicholas Kristof's inflammatory, unsourced column on rape allegations against Israel. I've reported on the Washington Post altering direct quotations to recast what Trump actually said as anti-Israel. And now this. Three hours. That's how long that ABC (Australia) knew a claim was false before it put it on air anyway. In May 2025, UN Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher told BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme, on air, in his own words: "There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them." That was false. The actual UN data behind it was an IPC report projecting the possibility of 14,100 severe malnutrition cases over an 11-month period, not a 48-hour death toll. Even the longer prediction model turned out to be wrong. Fletcher later said he "really regretted" the claim and denied it was deliberate. The BBC and ABC both ran with it. ABC aired it on News Breakfast at 6am on May 21. Under questioning at the Bondi royal commission this week, editorial director Gavin Fang admitted it had already been publicly known for three hours before the show even started that the figure was wrong. The correction didn't air for ten hours until 4pm, on a different program. A general written correction wasn't posted for a week. ABC's own ombudsman, Fiona Cameron, later found it breached the broadcaster's accuracy standards — and told the commission plainly, "at times the ABC is slow to correct and clarify." This wasn't a wire-copy typo on page six. It landed at the most inflammatory point of an already inflamed war, on one of the country's most trusted public broadcasters. Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal told the commission that ABC is "marking their own homework," pointing out its ombudsman is appointed by and answers to the same board she's supposed to be checking. Segal insisted on an independent regulator, but ABC refused. Here's what makes the three-hour gap harder to wave away: just months before this aired, the director of ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation — its domestic spy agency, roughly the equivalent of the FBI's counterintelligence/counterterrorism division) told an Australian Senate committee that antisemitism had become the agency's number one domestic threat priority for the first time in history — and he specifically warned Australians to avoid "inflamed language" around the Middle East. ABC had that warning. It had three hours' notice the number was wrong. It aired it anyway. I am not claiming a direct causation from the ABC broadcast to the murders at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah gathering seven months later. But when your own national security agency is telling you the country is primed to combust over exactly this kind of claim, three hours of advance warning that the claim is false stops being a footnote. It becomes the whole story. Against that backdrop, it's not a coincidence worth ignoring that violent antisemitic incidents hit a record over the last year in Australia. An admission dragged out under subpoena, a year later, isn't accountability. It's what accountability looks like when you've run out of ways to avoid it. And it is another prime example of why so many people are disgusted with the mainstream press.

Saddened to hear of Lindsay’s death though we so regularly disagreed. But he was a good friend and an amazingly effective Senator. Also, the funniest. One Christmas break I told him my family was going to Puerto Rico. He said, “Do two fundraisers. One for those who are pro-statehood and one for those who are against it. They never talk to each other.”

This is how the left should do it. open.substack.com/pub/robertreic…

Lindsey Graham and I had a complicated relationship. Before Trump, we were friends. We traveled together on congressional trips around the world, including visiting Syrian refugee camps where we met children whose lives had been shattered by war. Those moments reminded us why public service mattered. After Trump, we went in very different directions, and we eventually stopped speaking. I never hid those disagreements, and I won’t rewrite that history today. But death has a way of putting things in perspective. I choose to remember the man I knew before our paths diverged—the one who cared deeply about America’s role in the world and wasn’t afraid to see suffering up close. Rest in peace, Lindsey. My prayers are with his family and all who loved him.

Lindsey Graham's parents died within 15 months of each other when his sister Darline was 13. He became her guardian and raised her. He was a military lawyer, a Judge Advocate General (JAG), after getting his psychology degree. He once served as head prosecutor in Europe in USAF. He retired as a colonel and earned a Bronze Star. He also served in the Guard and Reserve. He was a constitutional law scholar, and when asked a question about legislation, would frequently speak at length about the constitution. He had a wicked sense of humor. He loved his state, the military, and his country. He loved his sister most of all.

MAGA Host ERUPTS On Scott Jennings Over McConnell Call youtu.be/ikXXoAn2nfI?is…

🇺🇸🇧🇦 US journalist Ana Kasparian: "You have the US team battling it out between these two smaller countries" (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

People who shriek about the lack of humanity in our world and then publicly celebrate death. @AnaKasparian how does this help your cause or credibility? Seriously.

After the Harris debate in 2024, I walked up to Lindsey Graham outside the spin room, he immediately laced into me for how I had turned on the GOP. He was red-faced, spittling as he ranted. A heated back and forth ensued. It petered out and I started walking away. He followed me, made a wry remark about Trumps debate prep team being a disaster. I turned around. He told a funny old story from the 2016 campaign. We laughed. He gave a pat on the shoulder and pretended like he might come on the podcast. That encounter was Lindsey in a nutshell. Wish things had been different the last ten years. Alas. Will have more tomorrow. RIP.

Lindsey Graham’s policies and pursuit of power/influence were controversial. However, I always found him personally engaging, likable, and humorous. I’d like to think we can disagree vehemently with policies while appreciating somebody’s personal kindness.

Turkey just blocked 1,900 tourists from docking because the cruise was for LGBTQ+ travelers. Now, Egypt has done the same.  It's stories like these that remind us it’s more important than ever that the United States upholds freedom and equality for every visitor to our great nation. As a world leader in equality, we must also support our democratic allies and call out hate from other nations around the world when it arises.  washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/07…

Have they figured out how to blame the Jews for Muslim countries refusing to accept gay cruise ships yet? I feel like Queers for Palestine must have a working subcommittee to figure this one out.

the one conspiracy i believe is that this place is full of bots programmed to say insane, incendiary things and they're funded by foreign organizations who want to divide americans and destabilize US society

Holy shit who did this? 😂😂😂

If CNN can not trust or does not trust Scott Jennings assertions about his own conversation…why is CNN putting him on the air to opine on anything? Good grief. If you can’t believe your own paid analyst, WTF?

I was in London during an England match. I jumped into a taxi and said, “Come on, mate, it’s coming home.” The British Muslim driver replied, “I hope not.” I’m back in Dubai, and that answer still shocks me. How can you live in a country, build your life there, and still hope its people lose their moment of joy? So tonight, from the Dubai to that driver: mate, turn the volume up. It’s coming home. Come on, England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #England

Raskin BASHES Reflecting Pool Charges As Trump Saga Gets WEIRDER! youtu.be/C_cuR54LhyI?is…

Today I was debating a MAGA, and I was certain I was going to win. I had facts on my side. I had receipts. I had video evidence. And then, they reached deep and found the most remarkable comeback I've ever heard. "TDS!" they said. "You have Trump Derangement Syndrome." Apparently, TDS is this disease where you disagree just because Donald Trump bombs boats on the high seas, commits war crimes, starts random wars, bombs schools with little girls, protects rapists and pedophiles, was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted of 34 felonies, was found liable for sexual assault, posted racist pictures of the Obamas as apes, tore down half the White House, startd a trade war with the entire world (including an island of penguins), supported genocide, started a war that drove up inflation, cut health care for poor Americans, took the food from hngry children both in America and around the world, sold pardons to cartel leaders and people who laundered money for them and human traffickers, tried to ammend the Constitution with an Executive Order, called soldiers who died in war "suckers and losers," quoted Hitler on multiple occasions, made a man who cuddles with severed racoon road kill peises in charge of our health, said he loves inflation, threatend to invade Greenland mulitple times, pissed off Canada (how do you piss of Canada?), literally turned Washinton DC into a swamp, made billions of dollars off of being President, ran around naming things after himself, made the 250th Anniversary of the country about himself, violated the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments, as well as Articles I, II, III, and IV of the Constitution in many and varied ways, has had more judicial rulings against him than any President in history, tried to overthrow the contry, tried to make it illegal to charge him with a crime while prosecuting people for such infractions as posting pictures of seashells, humiliated us on the world front numerous times, including a fantasy AI shot of the Prime Minister of Italy giving him googly eyes, ruind the World Cup by trying to rig it, and spawned the likes of Donald Jr. and Eric. But incredibly. With just three letters, all of that just MAGICALLY goes away. Poof. Like it never happened. Apparently, this is caused by a combination of immersing oneself in something called "objective reality" and reading things called "books." If you do those things, you might wanna get yourself checked for this "TDS" thing. Fortunately, it's very easy to diagnose. All you have to do is open your eyes. If you're not staring at the inside of your own colon, there's a very good chance you have it. The treatment is a steady diet of Fox News. The treatment works better if you have the volume turned all the way up. If you start realizing that colleges are teaching people to reject Starbucks cups that say "Merry Christmas" and that you should only accept the "Happy Holidays" ones, then the treatment is working. If that doesn't work, slamming your head in the door multiple times might beat the sense out of it. If you know someone affected by TDS, please share this post.