Hour 3: Open Lines

Stories:

Republican Wins Special Montana Congressional Election
Easily. If you followed the breathless coverage, you would have thought that everything pointed to a major Dem upset. Didn’t happen. Could it be that the media elites don’t have the influence they think they do? That’s not possible is it?
www.nytimes.com/elections/results/montana-house-special-election?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Hour 3: 11:30 Michael Walsh, political columnist for the NY Post and PJ Media. His latest best-selling book The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West is now out in paperback. We had him on for its hardcover debut.

Stories:

Mike Rowe Defends You, PragerU, Free Speech and Clear Thinking
Very eloquent.
https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMikeRowe/posts/1539569946053143

Hour 3: Michael Ledeen, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Stories:

Suicide Bomber Was Known ISIS Supporter
May have travelled to Libya multiple times. Hard to keep track of all the haters.
www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/manchester-arena-attack-ariana-grande.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-new…

Hour 3: Best of Ultimate Issues Hour

Stories:

Terror in Manchester
19 dead. 50 wounded as of this writing. More in the morning.
www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/world/europe/ariana-grande-manchester-police.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Hour 3: Open Lines

Stories:

Strassel: Can Mueller Be Objective about His Good Friend, James Comey?
And toward the man who unceremoniously fired that good friend?
www.wsj.com/articles/the-mueller-caveat-1495148845

Hour 3:

Stories:

Special Counsel Named
Since there’s no criminal investigation (at the moment), he’s not called a special prosecutor, but a special counsel.
www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/robert-mueller-special-counsel-russia-investigation.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&W…

Hour 3:

Stories:

Now It’s Comey Again
“I hope you can let this go” is an abuse of power? The President talks like a human being and the press wants to crucify him for it. The only question is whether Republican can be stampeded into a panic. I pray the answer is no.
www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html?_r=0

Hour 3:

Stories:

Michael Walsh: Comey Was an Incompetent FBI Director Who Needed Some Firing
His tenure has not been impressive to say the least. Why was his agency spending so much on a side show? There are real dangers out there.
nypost.com/2017/05/13/comeys-firing-is-a-gift-to-the-fbi/

Stories:

Henninger: A Better FBI Had to Begin with Comey Firing
All the rest is a media sideshow.
www.wsj.com/articles/the-james-comey-show-1494455612

WSJ: Trump Should Have Fired Comey in January
But at least he finally got around to it.
www.wsj.com/articles/rod-rosensteins-justice-1494458376