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Friday’s Final Word – HotAir

December 19, 2025
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And all the bloggers say, I’m pretty fly for a tab guy …





Ed: Only by willfully refusing to look. 

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WSJ: Charlie Kirk built Turning Point USA into one of the nation’s most powerful political groups on his belief in open debate. His “prove me wrong” events—the invitation to take all comers in dialogues he set up on college campuses—often went viral online and drew thousands of young voters to the conservative cause.

Now, three months after Kirk was shot and killed at one of those events, his commitment to open debate is at the center of a bitter fight within the MAGA movement over the rise of antisemitic ideas and conspiracy theories. On Thursday, that fight was on display at the biggest annual event of Kirk’s own group, in front of 31,000 of its most enthusiastic supporters.

Ben Shapiro, a popular podcaster, kicked off the annual Turning Point conference with an attack on Tucker Carlson, one of the online right’s biggest media stars, for conducting what Shapiro said were softball interviews on his podcast with several fringe figures, including Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier.

Ed: This is the wrong take. The issue here isn’t free speech, but the willingness to USE free speech to oppose extremists and trolls on the Right as well as the Left. Platforming anti-Semites and promoting nutty conspiracy theories should provoke a market reaction that disincentivizes lies and delusional commentary. That’s not an irony of free speech; it’s the responsible use of it. 





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He is disgusting and this has been exposed for all to see. 

With that said: 

America is beautiful.

Tucker is disgusting . 

I side with. 

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Ed: That’s what free speech does – it exposes people for what they are. Tucker and Candace Owens own their own platforms, and they live off the clicks and off support from others. That’s as it should be. But it’s incumbent on others to point out their extremism and worse. The notion of “no enemies to the Right” is not just foolish but dangerous, as history has shown ever since its adoption “to the Left” in the French Revolution. 

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Bill Glahn at Power Line: Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar are all documented as having close ties to the fraudsters, taking meetings with them, taking campaign donations from them, and having other interactions with them, both in private and public.

All three have made public statements claiming to have known about the frauds, during the time the frauds were occurring. But no evidence exists in the public record that any of the three took any actions at the time to stop the frauds.





I’m working to coin the phrase, “at some point, gross incompetence becomes indistinguishable from active sabotage.” While they looked the other way, $10 billion (that we know about) was stolen from taxpayers.

Ed: At least we have three years to let the Department of Justice investigate these Democrat corruptocrats without interference. The upcoming statewide elections in Minnesota should be very, very interesting – especially if this fraud extends into voting. Which would not surprise anyone in the state at this point. 

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Ed: Someday, there will be an accounting for those who willingly consigned children to be mutilated just to get into the trendy cocktail parties. Hopefully, that reckoning will come sooner than later, both politically and socially, as well as financially. 

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Mediaite: Taylor Lorenz got into a war of words with an official from former President Joe Biden’s administration after describing a White House meeting she attended while slamming “aggressively pro-censorship” Democrats.

Lorenz, a former columnist for The Washington Post, joined The Hill’s Robby Soave on his show The Rising on Thursday, where she knocked many Democrats and their policies towards social media. While discussing Section 230 — a statutory provision that shields social media companies from liability for user content — Lorenz described attending a White House summit for content creators where she said Biden likely “didn’t know what room he was in,” and then-senior advisor Neera Tanden allegedly got the room excited by pushing for ending “anonymity” on the internet.





The problem is Tanden said the event in question never happened.

 Ed: In a fight between a cry-bully and Biden’s autopen, who do you root for? Can both of them lose? Let’s hope so … although Lorenz does appear to have brought receipts. 

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Ed: Let’s hope this leads to real electoral accountability in the midterms and beyond. 

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NY Post: Former President Bill Clinton shocked his own aides ahead of Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s 2002 wedding by demanding to bring two unrelated plus-ones — the now-notorious Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — to the royal nuptials, The Post has learned.

Clinton, who had earned goodwill in the North African nation by attending the funeral of the king’s father, Hassan II, while president three years prior, beamed with Epstein, Maxwell and his daughter, Chelsea, in a group photo shared exclusively with The Post for this story.

“[Clinton] brought them as guests to a king’s wedding. I mean, it almost sounds made up,” said one source familiar with the matter.

 Ed: In fairness, this was well before Epstein’s trafficking came to the attention of law enforcement. However, this is exactly the kind of out-of-context data that will end up circulating as political and social attacks as a result of the exposure of the Epstein materials. Get ready for a lot more of this. 





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Ed: This is a disappointing sop to class warfare and the politics of envy. The problem isn’t a lack of taxation among the high-income classes; the problem is massive spending that has outstripped revenue for decades. If we confiscated all of the wealth in the billionaire class, it wouldn’t cover three years’ worth of deficit spending, and might not even cover one year. 

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Politico: The Department of Justice will not be releasing all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by Friday’s deadline, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday morning.

In an interview with Fox News, Blanche said the department would “release several hundred thousand documents today.”

But he acknowledged Friday’s release would not encompass all of the DOJ’s documents for the investigation into the late financier.

“I expect that we’re going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks, so today several hundred thousand and then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more,” Blanche said. “There’s a lot of eyes looking at these and we want to make sure that when we do produce the materials we are producing, that we are protecting every single victim.”





Ed: Democrats plan to go to court to challenge this, but it seems very doubtful that a judge will intervene, or could do anything about it. The same law that set today as a deadline also required redactions to protect the victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking. As long as the DoJ is releasing significant amounts of this material, courts will likely recognize it as good-faith efforts to comply with the law. 

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Ed: I hate to say I told you so, but … naah, I love to say I told you so. 

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Ed: Be sure to watch it all!


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