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They don’t even try to hide it anymore.Late-night hacks are now full-on DNC pitchmen in the days leading up to the midterm elections. The only thing missing? Door hangers and lawn signs.Imagine an agent handing a Hollywood star a script written by a prominent 'conservative influencer.' They might fire him or her on the spot.Maybe they’ll have them by 2028?Jimmy Kimmel threw softballs at Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) this week while gushing over leftist Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico.To quote Robert Plant, “Does anybody remember laughter?”And then there’s Jon Stewart, destroying his legacy in the grand Howard Stern style by going full Dem pitchman on his latest “Daily Show” monologue.“Send a message to this reckless s**tshow of an administration,” he barked on Monday, the only day of the week he now works. Stern, too, is down to a once-a-week schedule. The old Stewart might at least have found a way to make a pro-Democrat message funny ...Parrish the thoughtWait. I thought she was merely "Jenny from the Block"?Jennifer Lopez is throwing her weight around, according to reports tied to the upcoming Netflix film “The Last Mrs. Parrish.” Lopez and director Robert Zemeckis (“Back to the Future”) are butting heads on the project.Allegedly. Page Six has the skinny on the film, which the site says has tested poorly. Netflix, Lopez, and Zemeckis united long enough for share an official statement denying every aspect of that account.That's Hollywood these days. Another behind-the-scenes kerfuffle that could be more entertaining that the film itself ...Breaking snoozeWhen the Nazis rose to power in Germany, a few brave souls dared to resist. Sophie Scholl distributed anti-Nazi leaflets until the Gestapo caught her and sent her to the guillotine. Dietrich Bonhoeffer joined the resistance against Hitler and ended up on the gallows. Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb in Hitler's headquarters and was executed by firing squad.But where are such courageous citizens now that America has been crushed beneath the size 12 Florsheim cap-toe Oxford of Der Orange Man? Who among us will risk everything to take a stand? Kathy Griffin, that's who. At least that's how we imagine the thinking behind her latest unsolicited political screed, which equates voting GOP to keeping fascists in power."Can any of you guys not sleep because of fascism? Me too. I'm obsessed with it."May we recommend a glass of warm milk, Ms. Griffin? Believe us, nobody wants to deprive you of your beauty rest.Aaron can handle the truthIn Hollywood, we’ll take any sign of self-awareness. Enter Aaron Sorkin. The far-left filmmaker’s scripts are so smart and engaging even some conservatives praise his pen. Sure, “The West Wing” was pure Democrat fantasy, but it was snappy and fun.As a director? Well, let’s just say he’s a great screenwriter. Sorkin’s latest film, “The Social Reckoning,” came and went at the box office without leaving a mark. He wrote and directed the film, a not-so-subtle attack on both Facebook and President Donald Trump.Now, Sorkin is questioning his directorial chops."There are parts of screenwriting — important parts — that can be taught and can be learned, but there are parts that can’t be. And those parts that can’t be? That’s usually what we mean when we use the word 'talent.’ I’m very worried that the parts of directing that I’m not good at are those parts that you can’t learn.”Hey — admitting it is half the battle ...Rom-con?Hope Skydance asked for a receipt.The company formerly known as Paramount Skydance just completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing the fabled film studio and its valuable franchises under the same corporate roof. DC Comics. "Harry Potter." "The Lord of the Rings" saga.And potentially, a heaping helping of red ink.World of Reel reports (citing unnamed sources quoted by Page Six) that Warner Bros.' 2026 theatrical releases are projected to lose more than $800 million. Think major duds like “Digger,” “Supergirl,” and “The Bride!” Ouch. And more ouches may be coming next year.Upcoming titles like “Panic Carefully” and “Paris Paramount” (ironic?) arrive with massive budgets. The latter should be the most expensive rom-com ever made.Why would any rom-com break the budget? That’s Hollywood accounting, and Paramount is learning about it the hard way ...RELATED: FALLING STARS: Hollywood woke-erati on the outs as Skydance soars Bloomberg/Roy Rochlin/Mondadori Portfolio/NBC/Getty ImagesWrite wingImagine an agent handing a Hollywood star a script written by a prominent "conservative influencer." They might fire him or her on the spot.Or not?“Confession,” coming to select theaters on Nov. 11 along with the company’s streaming site, stars Rob Lowe, Nick Nolte, James Franco, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Dean Norris (“Breaking Bad”).The screenwriter? Ben Shapiro.The film is set in 1938, and Lowe stars as a professor accused of harboring anti-Soviet thoughts. His former student (Franco) is tasked with breaking his spirit.It’s no secret that stars are punished for having right-leaning views. Just ask Oscar-nominee James Woods, who hasn’t had a sizable film role in more than a decade.“Confession” could be a dud or a winner. It almost doesn’t matter. Seeing recognizable faces sign up for a project that spoke to them, ignoring the cultural fallout that might ensue, is a positive sign for the culture.

On October 26, National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher received the James C. Goodale First Amendment Award from Harper’s Magazine. The honor recognizes people who have demonstrated a consequential commitment to a free press and its constitutional protections. Apparently, demonstrating a commitment to those protections is easier when your own organization needs them.Harper’s applauded Maher for defending NPR against President Donald Trump’s attempt to cut off its federal funding. NPR challenged the executive order, and in March, a federal judge ruled that the government could not use its spending power to punish speech it disliked. The judge, not NPR’s lawyer, supplied that First Amendment language.The First Amendment is not a menu from which public figures may order only the protections that suit their politics.I agree that the government shouldn’t punish a news organization for its opinions. But I would like to know when Katherine Maher discovered the merits of letting people express theirs.In January 2021, after Trump was bounced from major social media platforms, Maher posted this little valentine to free expression: “Must be satisfying to deplatform fascists. Even more satisfying? Not platforming them in the first place.” She didn’t name Trump. The timing hardly required a decoder ring.Six months later, during an Atlantic Council discussion of online misinformation, she described the First Amendment as the “number-one challenge” to governmental regulation because it provides robust protection for rights. Imagine that: The Constitution was getting in the way of government action against speech.Maher also said those protections were important for platforms deciding what to carry. The problem is the ease with which she can celebrate keeping undesirable speakers off private platforms and then accept an award for defending speech against government interference. Different legal questions, certainly. But what a conveniently adjustable enthusiasm for expression.CYA takes on new meaning here. Who gets to designate “misinformation”? Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? And what happens when the people appointed to decide the truth have a habit of declaring their political opponents unfit to be heard?Sorry, but if Maher had renamed NPR “NPPR” — National Pol Pot Radio — after taking over in 2024, she might at least have spared the audience the pretense of ideological neutrality. NPR’s critics have long questioned the network’s political sympathies; she arrived with a social media archive that did nothing to reassure them.Then Congress invited the free-speech laureate to explain herself.At a March 2025 House hearing on public broadcasting, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) confronted Maher with a tweet asserting that America was “addicted to white supremacy.” She acknowledged the post and explained that her thinking had “evolved” over the previous five years.Evolved! How reassuring. Under congressional lights, old declarations become artifacts of a former self. For everyone else, an unwise social media post can remain an indelible mark of moral depravity.Gill also asked about her January 2020 post announcing that she had taken a day off to read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations.” Maher first said she didn’t think she had read the essay. Confronted with her own words, she said she couldn’t recall the post. He had the receipts. She had the amnesia.RELATED: Gavin Newsom makes damning admission about socialist takeover on undercover camera JP Yim/Getty Images for Clinton Global InitiativeIt recalled, with apologies to Hillary Clinton, the pink-pantsuit “I do not recall” tour: plenty of confidence when issuing pronouncements, less when an inconvenient statement comes back for an encore.Maher didn’t run NPR when it made some of the coverage decisions congressional Republicans criticized. She runs it now. That is reason enough to ask how the network treated Hunter Biden’s laptop, COVID-19’s origins, and allegations involving Trump and Russia — and whether a news organization so eager to scrutinize others welcomes the same attention.Of course, Maher can criticize Trump. She can call him names, cheer private companies that deny speakers a platform, and advocate tighter restrictions on “misinformation.” The First Amendment protects her right to make the case. It also protects the public’s right to notice the inconsistencies — and to ask why taxpayers should subsidize a network they regard as partisan.What makes the Harper’s award so delicious is the timing. One year she is in Washington explaining the evolution of her thoughts and forgetting inconvenient tweets. The next she is at a glittering ceremony receiving a prize for constitutional principle. If that isn’t a career arc worthy of a statuette, what is?Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009; two years later, his administration killed American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen. Apparently, once the medal is pinned on, the terms and conditions expire.RELATED: Liberal media bends over backward to avoid ‘misgendering’ gunman who murdered kids in church Chris Haston/WBTV/Getty ImagesMaher’s honor suggests an exciting new category of prizes for our part-time constitutionalists.Why not a “Silence Is Golden Award” for a prosecutor who complains that suspects invoking the Fifth Amendment interfere with convictions — and then invokes it himself when a police officer pulls him over for drunken driving? Surely the citation would be magnificent.Or a “Gun Violence Prevention Award” for a crusader against firearms who keeps a pistol by the bed and fires it at an intruder? An acceptance speech about the need for fewer guns would bring the house down.Perhaps Harper’s could create a special trophy for people who find the Constitution irksome when it protects their adversaries and indispensable when it protects their friends. Given the competition, it might need an entire banquet hall.The First Amendment is not a menu from which public figures may order only the protections that suit their politics. Maher can claim every one of those protections and good for her. But she cannot reasonably expect applause for her own freedom while escaping scrutiny for her apparent indifference to the freedom of those she dislikes.Someone might explain that to the lovely, vivacious Katherine Maher before she accepts her next award.

Is Bigfoot finally “debunked”?A newly enhanced version of the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film offers a much clearer look at the creature that has fueled decades of speculation — but BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t convinced.“The 1967 Bigfoot footage officially got debunked,” producer Kris Cruz tells Gray and co-host Jeff Fisher, showing them a video of a clearer image of so-called Bigfoot walking through the woods.“How does that debunk it?” Gray asks.“Now it’s clear,” Cruz responds. “You can see that it’s an actual human.”“He still has the fur,” Gray argues.“If one were to believe that was Bigfoot, you still are not debunking that that’s Bigfoot,” Fisher says. “But we know that the guy already came out and said it was him and his buddies, right? It was debunked a hundred years ago.”“I think it was, yeah,” Gray agrees. “But that is a much clearer shot of it.”However, Fisher points out that there’s another Bigfoot sighting that needs debunking.“What you need to do is debunk the Bigfoot in Boston on top of the building. We need that debunked,” he says.There’s also a video of “Bigfoot” that was taken from a moving train in the desert, where he appears to hide behind brush as he realizes he’s been seen.“I think that has been debunked,” Fisher says.“I think that’s a guy, you know, that does it on purpose for the train rides,” he adds.Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

America’s future depends on its children, but that future is only as promising as the world they inherit. What if they also inherited a piece of the company trying to take humanity to Mars? Elon Musk has floated the idea of giving every American child a share of SpaceX. If he follows through, the consequences could reach far beyond a child’s bank account.Consider the standard portfolio traditionally passed down to an American kid. Parents hand a child a dusty piggy bank rattling with pennies barely worth the trouble of counting, a couple of savings bonds with returns about as exciting as watching paint dry, and a national debt tallying over $40 trillion. Granting a share of a high-flying rocket company looks less like standard financial planning and more like dropping a real asset into a crib and giving a young child a stake in the future.It ties childhood financial hopes to something truly tangible: hardware soaring into the stratosphere.SpaceX’s valuation sits at over $2 trillion, with individual private shares trading, at the time of writing, near $148. The giveaway would cost approximately $10.7 billion. For 72 million children, that‘s a potential foothold in one of the most ambitious commercial ventures in human history. Yes, for Musk, whose personal wealth fluctuates by that exact amount on a bad Tuesday, it barely registers. But for a kid in Brooklyn or Ohio, it beats another set of plastic toys made overseas and destined for the trash by Thanksgiving.Wall Street hedge funds usually (and intentionally) keep ordinary Americans out of the biggest wealth-building opportunities, reserving them for the already well-off. Everyday citizens are usually invited to the party only after early-stage venture capitalists have had their fill, extracted every drop of private growth, and dumped the remaining husk onto public markets just in time for a crash. Directly distributing equity in a premier aerospace company to middle-class infants flips that script entirely. It turns toddlers into equity holders before investment banks can slap a 2% management fee on their futures.Traditional financial literacy programs in public schools spend semesters teaching teens how to balance a checkbook, an obsolete skill in an age of digital payments and endless inflation. Learning how capital ownership works in the real world hits differently when it's your name on the company share certificate in your hand. Watching SpaceX land a booster rocket on a floating drone pad in the Atlantic Ocean suddenly means more than any idea, slogan, or vibe. You start seeing technological breakthroughs personally, not as expensive magic tricks performed by detached billionaires.Obviously, minors cannot legally hold stock directly, so they would need custodial trusts, strict transfer rules, and safeguards against desperate parents liquidating shares for flat-screen TVs. A sudden flood of 72 million minor shareholders would create an administrative nightmare that could overwhelm traditional transfer-agent systems. SpaceX would have to pioneer new digital custody arrangements just to record newborn infants' ownership rights.The Musk-bashing brigade will argue that stock ownership carries real downside risk because private tech ventures can lose market share or fail at launch. Rockets occasionally turn into costly fireworks over the Gulf of Mexico, taking paper gains down with them. All of this is true, but owning a piece of a company pushing technological limits gives you a lottery ticket tied to real industrial output.RELATED: 'Defund Musk': Robert Reich calls for government takeover of SpaceX and Starlink — and Elon responds Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images American enterprise built the modern world through heavy manufacturing and ingenious engineering. Most importantly, its insatiable appetite for risk set it apart, leaving Europe in the dust. Somewhere along the line, the national economy pivoted toward trading complex financial derivatives and charging monthly subscription fees for phone apps. Handing tens of millions of kids a stake in sophisticated rocket engines, orbital satellite internet, and planetary exploration reconnects the national psyche with the American instinct to dream and dominate. It ties childhood financial hopes to something truly tangible: hardware soaring into the stratosphere.The government usually treats younger generations as future tax revenue destined to prop up underfunded entitlement programs until the system buckles. Musk’s proposal offers a refreshing, humane alternative to the slow economic slide conventional politics guarantees. If SpaceX successfully builds commercial infrastructure from low Earth orbit to the red plains of Mars, those individual $148 stakes could grow into meaningful college tuition funds or down payments on a home. If he fails, the kids still walk away with a front-row lesson in how American capitalism operates, warts and all.The country spent decades telling young people to trust the slow, predictable path of traditional savings accounts while printing money at a rate that eroded their purchasing power. A share in a frontier rocket business offers no smooth ride. It offers no guaranteed returns and plenty of volatility along the way. But that dynamic mirrors the real world far better than any outdated high school textbook. In the end, the takeaway lesson might be that wealth is built by backing ambitious ideas, not by hoping a few cents of interest can outpace inflation.