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In December 2016, Musk had a private meeting with Trump, during which he was “baffled” by the then-president-elect’s comments about Tesla and NASA. “He seems kind of nuts,” Musk said after the meeting, according to Isaacson, “but he may turn out okay.” On the contrary: Musk “concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate,” Isaacson wrote. “The buffoonery was not just an act.” “Trump might be one of the best bullshitters ever,” Musk told Isaacson. “If you just think of Trump as a sort of con-man performance, then his behavior sort of makes sense.”...

These Orthodox rabbis aren’t even Jewish, according to a newly released investigation.Michael and Calev Isaacson, a father-and-son pair who live in Phoenix, Ariz. — and who have spent some 12 years performing sacred Jewish rituals, including marriages and writing holy scrolls — are now accused of being evangelical Christians.

The NFL will continue to jam social justice messages down the throats of fans this season. In 2020, the league allowed players to wear social justice message decals on their helmets and the fields featured messages about racism. Well, the NFL has apparently still not learned that fans just want to focus on football because the messages are sticking around. According to The Associated Press, players will still be able to wear social justice messages on their helmets and fields will be painted with “It Takes All of Us” and “End Racism.” NFL senior vice president of social responsibility Anna...

Walter Isaacson is the king of the blockbuster biography. The former CNN and TIME executive has written the definitive histories of iconoclasts like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Steve Jobs. Isaacson was slated to headline the Mississippi Book Festival to discuss his latest nonfiction bestseller The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Though the annual event was cancelled for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic, plans are underway to present author talks later this year. Isaacson’s book spotlights Jennifer Doudna for her role leading the...

<p>James O’Keefe and Project Veritas released a new undercover video on Tuesday showing left-wing activists with the “DisruptJ20” effort plotting to stop Donald Trump’s inauguration by chaining D.C. Metro trains and blocking roads. The video adds a layer of deep detail to a story by Ryan Lovelace in the Washington Examiner earlier this month, “How protesters plan to wreck Donald Trump’s inauguration,” which first reported the efforts of “#DisruptJ20.”</p>

Wednesday morning, August 27, between 11 am and 1:30 pm EST or 9 am and 11:30 am mountain time, I'll be chairing a New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force event in Denver at the Colorado History Museum. The keynotes are Senator JOHN KERRY (D-MA), Obama National Security Adviser GREG CRAIG, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School Dean ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, former Congressman and Obama Adviser MEL LEVINE, former German Foreign Minister JOSCHKA FISCHER, and Aspen Institute President (and former CNN Chairman and CEO and TIME Managing Editor) Walter Isaacson. Our panel will be former Israeli negotiator and New America Foundation Senior Fellow...

Identity Crisis Continues for CNN By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:10 a.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- This week marks an anniversary the people at CNN would prefer be observed quietly -- very quietly. It was one year ago that Fox News Channel first beat CNN in the ratings, toppling the network that invented cable news and had enjoyed a monopoly for most of its existence. The pecking order not only hasn't changed since then, Fox's lead is wider. This month's unexpected resignation of CNN Chairman Walter Isaacson and the exit of six correspondents has people asking, once again:...

Little Orphan CNN by Jason Gay In disembarking from his wild, bumpy, year-and-a-half-long ride in television at CNN, Walter Isaacson steps off a second-place cable news network that’s a little less discombobulated, a little more coherent and—though they got spanked when they said this about new hire Paula Zahn—a little more sexy than it was when the former Time managing editor marched into a weary Atlanta in the summer of 2001. But Mr. Isaacson, 50, who announced on Jan. 13, in the also-departing Steve Case’s wake turbulence, that he would vacate the chairmanship of CNN this spring to take over...

Apparently, it has never occurred to Isaacson or any of these other chaps that what they're seeing is not a failure of the messenger but of the message itself. It is likewise evident that the one thing Isaacson did not see fit to pay attention to was news content, the selection of newsworthy events, that is, events (and opinions about events) that viewers were interested in learning about. He and the others have disconnected with a significant proportion of America. Beyond this, CNN, like the political Left it represents, just isn't fun. The lack of joy on the Left has...

Wowee, Walter Isaacson resigned the top job at CNN, to be effective after the fall of Saddam expected early in the spring. So what, you say. It's important to me, his resignation, because here's a guy with an immense reputation, former managing editor at Time, prestigious biographer, clearly a man of achievement, ability, and yet he couldn't figure out what to do with a thoroughly professional world wide news organization in order to meet the competition of Fox News Channel. There doesn't seem to be any question that during his two years at CNN, Isaacson was looking down his nose...

Baghdad revisited By MATT KEMPNER Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer CNN news-gathering chief Eason Jordan is pointing to a recent satellite image of downtown Baghdad and the faint outline of the Al Rashid Hotel, where his reporters may again be broadcasting news of war. It's been 11 years since CNN's "Baghdad Boys" huddled in the hotel by candlelight, holding a microphone out a window to pick up the sounds of U.S. bombs and Iraqi anti-aircraft guns. The trio of Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman made the Atlanta-based network the media star of the Gulf War and an icon of...

CNN's Begala, on reports that GOPers are boycotting "Crossfire": "I have a message for the nameless, gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at 'Crossfire' actually present both sides of the issue. Every single night, we welcome the leading lights of the Republican right on to battle against their ideological foes. Carville and I make no apologies for being tough, nor do Tucker and Bob. That's what makes this show different. Look, if you want namby-pamby one-sided arguments go to Fox. But if you're tough enough and you're smart enough to go toe-to-toe with people...