Thursday's Final Word
Thursday's Final Word Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | July 16, 2026 AP Photo/Alex Brandon And I don't know if tabs are illusions, don't know if I see it true ... They’re virtue signaling because they’re all afraid of each other, in the same way Chancellor Hawgood is afraid to say men can’t have babies. Hawgood's idiotic testimony yesterday and how these ideological straitjackets have led Americans to distrust Academia, the media, and other institutions.
- ▪Thursday's Final Word Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | July 16, 2026 AP Photo/Alex Brandon And I don't know if tabs are illusions, don't know if I see it true ...
- ▪They’re virtue signaling because they’re all afraid of each other, in the same way Chancellor Hawgood is afraid to say men can’t have babies.
- ▪Hawgood's idiotic testimony yesterday and how these ideological straitjackets have led Americans to distrust Academia, the media, and other institutions.
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Thursday's Final Word Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | July 16, 2026 AP Photo/Alex Brandon And I don't know if tabs are illusions, don't know if I see it true ... They’re virtue signaling because they’re all afraid of each other, in the same way Chancellor Hawgood is afraid to say men can’t have babies. That’s all being in progressive media is - trying to avoid being dogpiled by your “friends.” https://t.co/QFA2A4Zj0q— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 16, 2026 Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Ed: Matt hit the nail on the head after someone ripped him for not talking about Palestine enough. He's exactly correct. I wrote about Dr.
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