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Theres this unassuming pub on the corner of 70th and Second thats a dovecote for that rarest of birds: the right-winged Manhattanite. Its called the Beach Cafe. Cindy Adams comes here. Theres a burger on the menu named after Roger Stone ($16, egg on top). You pop in for an afternoon Guinness and theres Eric and Donald Trump Jr. having lunch with their aunt Elizabeth Trump. The New York Post columnist Miranda Devine its something of a Post hangout will throw a party here soon for Laptop From Hell, her new book about Hunter Biden.

This is like our Elaines, says Ann Coulter, sitting to my left one evening and sipping Sauvignon blanc. Or like Cheers for Rupert Murdochfriendly Establishment types. Its where everybody knows their name. (And nobody wants to defund the police.)

Its not that there arent Republicans in the city; we all know that. Its just that on most corners of this island, theyre outnumbered eight to one. But not at the Beach, as they call it. It doesnt try to be chic. Theres a lifeguard stand out front and a six-foot hammerhead shark above the bar. The banquettes are Kelly green. The food is whatever, though the burger is on par with the one at J.G. Melon. And unlike at J.G. Melon, you never have to wait outside.

The Beach opened in 1966, three years after Elaines and long before Tribeca got luxe, back when nobody who was anybody would live very far into Brooklyn. The Upper East Side was the happening place. Arthur Miller, George Plimpton, and Frank Sinatra used to come. As the city changed around it truth be told, maybe this corner of the city less than most the Beach Cafe became a mainstay. The neighborhood is conservative in the purest sense of the word: Its the opposite of cool. To move here which I did recently is to step back in time.

Stone, talking on the phone from Florida, calls it an oasis of red in a sea of blue. He used to live near the Beach Cafe and would go often during Trumps first campaign to dine with, among other people, Corey Lewandowski. That he regrets, however. I had not yet realized he was a congenital liar and a scumbag, says Stone. Hes watching news footage of Steve Bannon surrendering to federal authorities and muses about his old comrade: Somebody should rush him to a dermatologist and a haberdasher immediately. (A few days later, Stone would be subpoenaed by the same congressional committee, which is investigating the Capitol riot.)

A Nixon Republican and Roy Cohn disciple Nixon lived on Fifth Avenue, and Cohn on East 68th Stone says he loves New York but hasnt returned to the city since the FBI raided him in 2019. When he is here, he claims the Upper West Side is no longer safe for him. People who dont share my political point of view might verbally and sometimes physically attack me, he says.

Donald Trumps various manias didnt make things any easier for city Republicans, who traditionally have been more sensible pro-business types. The GOPs recent good showings have given some hope for a future beyond Trump. I predicted he would fade like Palin gone in three years. Now I think hes gone even faster, says Coulter. How did we win in Virginia? How did we almost win in New Jersey? By keeping him out of it. She is sharing her bottle of wine with Jon Levine, the Post gadfly who recently scooped that AOCs Tax the Rich dress designer is herself a rich tax cheat. He hangs out here so much that, on a wall in the center of the dining room, there is a massive framed photograph of him dining outside on Second Avenue in a blizzard. Coulter owes him a steak because she made a bet Glenn Youngkin wouldnt win in Virginia. Shes down a rib eye but ecstatic nonetheless.

Its liberals who cant let go of Trump, she insists. Fifty years from now, well all be dead, and theyll still be running against Trump. Unlike some people who come to this bar, she accepts the results of the 2020 election. Oh, the fraud, she laughs, using air quotes. Hes a big fat loser.

Coulter has not watched Impeachment: American Crime Story. I hear the actress does a great job sounding like me, but every single fact Ive heard about the show is totally, 100 percent false, she says. Exhibit A: Laura Ingraham didnt introduce me to Drudge; I knew him long before she did, she says. Idiots seem to think that Laura and I are like Blair and Serena, sharing clothes and gossiping, but we fill the same conservative girl niche, so wed rarely even be in the same room. She adds, They should have used Isikoffs book. Toobin knew nothing.

R.E.M. is playing on the stereo. Former chief judge of New York Jonathan Lippman stops by the table. The conversation turns to Rikers Island. I dont understand why they cant just knock it down and build a new one, Coulter says to the judge. For one thing, it sits atop a landfill, he tells her. I love landfills, she exclaims. Shoreline Stadium, where the Grateful Dead played thats on a landfill!

At the bar, theres a banker from JPMorgan Chase discussing how he voted for Curtis Sliwa. Coulter spots an old friend a few seats down, an ber-preppy she knows from the Hamptons. (Theres something very Hamptons about the Beach.) Coulters brother, a lawyer, frequents this place, too. He has dined here with former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, whose parents lived around the corner. Representative Carolyn Maloney (shes a Democrat, but hardly a trendy one) comes here. As does Woody Allens second wife, Louise Lasser. John Gottis lawyer Bruce Cutler is a regular. So is Linda Fairstein, the controversial prosecutor best known for her involvement in the Central Park Five and Preppy Murder cases. She helped keep the place in business during the long years of the Second Avenue subway-line construction. You could be sitting in the Beach and there would be blasts underneath and dust all around outside, remembers Fairstein.

It was founded and owned for many years by the White family. For a while, it seemed the restaurant might one day pass into the hands of Bill White. He became a president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and a major Democratic Party fundraiser who had David Boies officiate and Aretha Franklin perform at his same-sex wedding. Then White went full MAGA. The about-face scandalized liberal Manhattan and infuriated Clintonworld. He relocated to Atlanta and is now leading a carpetbagger campaign to try to get his wealthy white suburb to secede from the city. Today, the restaurant is owned by Dave Goodside, who began working there in 1984 and bought it in 2005. I dont think hes had a day off in five years, says White. Hes a warrior.

Stone says the main reason a scene coalesced at the Beach Cafe is due to Goodside: Dave is a saloonkeeper in the tradition of Toots Shor. Hes very discreet, he knows a lot, he sees a lot, he puts people together, separates people. Hes introduced me to some people, and hes warned me when other people are there and I shouldnt come in. Such as? Certain writers with low IQs like Molly Jong-Fast. My father said to never trust anybody with three names, says Stone. (Jong-Fast says, If Roger Stone is trying to avoid me, then I must be doing something right.)

Goodside says hes neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Im more interested in sports and music, he says. In 2017, he began hosting cabaret nights in the little dining room. Performers including K.T. Sullivan and Karen Akers would turn up. The critic Rex Reed would get on the mic, too.

Still, Goodside must realize most New York restaurateurs would not name a menu item after Stone. I got a chance to really spend a lot of quality time with Roger, and I like him, Goodside says, shrugging. What about Uday and Qusay Trump? People may watch TV and read the papers and think of them however, but they are the nicest people that come in here, he says.

What does Cindy Adams like about the place? Im fond of the owner, she says, who keeps sending me gifts of chili which I dont even want.

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Why such a sourpuss, Joy-Ann? On the whole, life and MSNBC are treating you pretty well. And yet, over the last 10 years, you have complained pretty much nonstop about how badly you, and people who look like [you], are treated in America.

I will take on faith, Joy-Ann, that your life up to age 16 spent in the racist hellscape that was 1980s Denver, Colorado was practically a maelstrom of cross burnings, Night Riders and segregated water fountains.

Lets focus on the recent past.

You were admitted to Harvard with SAT scores that would have gotten an Asian kid disowned by his parents.

You manage to keep your show at MSNBC with ratings that would get a white person canceled.

People try harder to laugh at your excruciating jokes than they would for a male of any race.

Plus, I have it on good authority that no one at MSNBC has pestered you about touching your hair.

Your brief daytime show on MSNBC made ratings history, garnering only 38,000 viewers in the demo its first day on air the lowest for the entire network! That inched up to 56,000 viewers two days later, the second lowest for the network. Ronan Farrows show debuted the same week. But while he was quickly cashiered for poor ratings you were promoted, even though he is white and you are Black. Dodged a bullet there!

You werent prosecuted for making a false FBI report when you claimed that right-wing saboteurs had hacked your blog, planting long, venomous threads about gay people. It seems your go-to attack for celebrities and Republicans is to accuse them of being gay. (For example, you described Dick Cheney topping off Sean Hannity and repeatedly ran your Top 5 totally not gay celebrities of the year.)

Nor were you fired for your preposterous, and quickly disproved, lies about having been hacked when it was you who mocked people for being gay including Oprah.

Your many, many blog posts sneering at gays were written just 10 years earlier, when you were an adult and a professional journalist. Meanwhile, teenagers even white ones! are being thrown out of college for the stupid things they said on Snapchat when they were 15. But you came through like a champ, without consequence despite being Black!

Indeed, instead of firing you, MSNBC gave you a prime-time show. This is the network that canned Chris Matthews (astonishingly, another white male) for telling girls theyre pretty. And who took the humiliated Matthews time slot? YOU DID! Despite the fact that he is white and you are Black.

Actually, if you think about it, in a deeply racist, majority-white country, youve done pretty well issuing nonstop libels against white people. Here are three recent quotes:

Joy-Ann: Ill say it again: People on the right would trade all the tax cuts for the ability to openly say the N-word like in the good old days.

That comment, like many made by you, seems at variance with the facts, and not based in reality. But has your delusional hatred of white Americans held you back? Not sos youd notice.

Joy-Ann: Currently, most K-12 students already learn a kind of Confederate Race Theory, whereby the Daughters of the Confederacy long ago imposed a version of history wherein slavery was not so bad and had nothing to do with the civil war, and lynchings and violence never happened.

Were you taught Confederate Race Theory at your high school, Joy-Ann? You know, the high school in Denver, Colorado, in the 1980s? My heart wants to believe you, but my head is telling me, This woman is a lunatic fantasist.

Ill tell you why I say that. Just 10 years after you matriculated at Denvers diverse Montbello High School, a Nation of Islam minister was invited to speak, whereupon he told the assembly (all boys, no girls allowed) that, while Blacks were building the Egyptian pyramids, white people ate their dead and slept with animals. Even you have to admit, THAT wasnt racist.

Joy-Ann: (I love boxing because) its a sport, even at the turn of the 20th century, where a Black man could beat up a white man in front of an entire crowd and not get lynched.

Wow. People who are actually descended from American slaves Joy-Ann is not one of them dont hate white Americans that much. Yet, strangely, white Americans, despite being white, havent held that against you.

Your immigrant parents came here in the late 1960s, settling in Iowa. Perhaps you rank Iowa up there with Denver as a bastion of Jim Crow, but even you would have to concede it was a step up from Guyana and the Congo.

While having zero American slave ancestry, you have managed to elbow aside actual descendants of American slaves (DOAS), gobbling up the benefits earned by their ancestors suffering, and intended for them. That was a good deal for you!

Finally, notwithstanding the White Power Structure, you have a job that reportedly pays $1.5 million a year, which is more than 99.9 percent of Americans make even several white ones! All in all, that doesnt sound so bad.

Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist.

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It is the other major networks that lie, cover up or won't cover stories of the Democrats' misconduct and corruption. They lie about police shootings as well as the stories about Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandmann, claiming Rittenhouse was guilty of murder and Sandmann was abusing an innocent Native American man.

They will lie about the police shooting a Black man that has committed a crime or is wanted for crimes. They falsely claim the victim is innocent, unarmed and a pillar of the community. They do this no mater what the evidence is.

They lie, cover up or won't cover the stories of the sexual abuse by former President Bill Clinton, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Joe Biden. The Democrat politicians are afraid to tell the truth to their addled brained voters because they will lose their votes.

They continue to do this in so many other stories like the false claims of collusion between former President Donald Trump and Russia. The corruption committed by Biden and his son Hunter along with Hillary Clinton. They have been after Trump even before he announced his candidacy. They all laughed and thought it preposterous when Ann Coulter said Trump would be the candidate. So much for those brilliant minds.

They took Christine Blasey Ford's word as gospel and judged Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh guilty no mater what the other testimony said. They incessantly say the exact same words as their counterparts say. They all jump onto the next story and twist and lie to keep their sheep in the fold.

Now I will give Tony Bender a back-handed compliment. It was good to see him use some common sense, no mater how hard it was for him. There wasn't any other conclusion but innocent in the Rittenhouse case.

I want you to visualize this scenario. A Black man was accused and found innocent of raping and killing a young girl. Riots erupted and stores and vehicles were looted and burned. The protesters were joined by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Two Black youths were asked to help defend a friend's business. While doing this they were confronted by the mob. They were verbally abused, threatened with their lives and attacked. They defended themselves and were chased by several law-violating thugs. They shot three of them in self defense.

Now Fox News would be wrong to claim them guilty of murdering or trying to murder the three individuals. But that is what several major networks and talk shows falsely claimed Rittenhouse was guilty of.

So which networks are the most untruthful? I could list many other stories where these networks and major newspapers like the New York Times falsely try to convince their viewers of individuals being guilty of committing rape or other serious crimes. Fox News makes mistakes but they are angels compared to the other lying hypocrite networks.

I would vote for Trump again, but he would have to watch his mouth and use a lot more tact in his statements. Maybe, though, he has to fight fire with fire.

Darlan Fatland is a resident of Walcott, N.D.

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Ann Coulter, conservative commentator and author, described the left-wing subtext of Kyle Rittenhouses murder trial as a demand for conservatives to just stand there and be murdered when attacked by leftists.

We are supposed to just stand there and be murdered, Coulter said on Fridays edition of SiriusXMs Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. Thats our obligation, because the media decided they dont like us.

Coulter highlighted Rittenhouses presence of mind and skilled shooting during the events captured on video.

She remarked, There are a lot of people Kyle could have shot if its just, Oh my gosh, Im panicked, Im shooting! Oh no, he was very precise shooting someone who was about to kill him, to take his gun, kill him, kill others.I was thinking as I often do, as Im sure you and your listeners do thank God for cell phone cameras.

Coulter noted that Gaige Grosskreutz, a witness in the trial, was essentially forced to admit the truth of events due to existence of video documentation. She speculated that Grosskreutz would have lied about the events in the absence of video evidence.

There is no way that revolutionary the one who had his arm blown off as he was pointing a gun feet away from Kyle Rittenhouses head theres no way he would have told [the truth], Coulter said. I was sort of surprised watching his testimony, Oh my gosh. He keeps telling the truth, and then I realized theres a video of this.He cant deny that. He was pointing the gun at Kyle Rittenhouse from five feet away when Kyle fired.

Rittenhouses marksmanship in disarming Grosskreutz without lethality was praised by Coulter as noted how leftists regularly oppose their political opponents use of self-defense.

She stated, Thats some good shooting to shoot the arm holding the gun. Thats the crazy thing. Liberals are always saying after a shooting, usually [after] a self-defense, Oh, why couldnt you shoot him in the leg? People who know anything about guns know youre not going to get that precise.You are shooting to stop the threat. Youre lucky if you hit any place on the body and Kyle bam right through the arm holding the gun.That was incredibly impressive.

Coulter also highlighted some background of Joseph Rosenbaum, who was shot and killed by Rittenhouse.

Joseph Rosenbaum, the first one [Rittenhouse] shot he came out of a mental institution that day and was still carrying his little medical bag, she recalled. Hes been convicted of anally raping five little boys convicted, served time in prison for that. So, were dealing with obviously a very mentally ill person. There was a lot of video coverage of him screaming the n-word.

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In What It Takes, the Roy family goes to Washington, D.C. to crown the next Republican presidential candidateof course, after their own interference with coverage on their conservative news network, ATN, convinced the current, temperamental president not to run again. Its a pit of vipers, so naturally, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is in his element. But as the episode pokes at the unsavory underbelly of American politics, other characters find themselves taking to the environment, too.

Zoe Winters plays Kerry, Logans executive assistant, who has begun to assert herself at meetings, tossing off bold statements to the great delight of Logan and the great consternation of his children, who are worried that they might have to compete with an office flirtation for their fathers attention. Its a sudden move to the forefront for the character, who has been hovering in the background since the end of season two.

She joined at the height of the scandal in the cruise ship division, Winters tells Sonia Saraiya on this weeks episode of Still Watching. I have always been fascinated by the fact that she would choose to join the company at that pointshe would fasten herself to this dysfunction media dynasty as theyre facing this investigation. Winters, who also played a conservative operative in the buzzy Will Arbery play Heroes of the Fourth Turning, looked to operatives like Ann Coulter, Candace Owens, and Tomi Lahren for inspiration.

I really feel like Kerry has some terrifying political positions, Winters adds. She is obsessed with winning. The close relationship Kerry has with Logan stems partly from how dazzled the younger employee is of Logans success, ruthlessness and all. You can hear much more of the conversation with Winters in the episode below:

And of course, it wouldnt be a convention of conservative windbags without Connor Roy (Alan Ruck) doing the rounds. (A bewildered Shiv (Sarah Snook) comments that in a room full of Timothy McVeighs, her hapless older brother looks like a Roosevelt.)

Justine Lupe plays Willa, Connors girlfriend with theatrical aspirations, whose play last season was a dismal failure. The state of Connor and Willas relationship has been a bit of a mystery, but so far in season three, despite the general chaos around them, Connor and Willa have been an inseparable unitfrom holding down the Balkans to schmoozing in D.C. We spot her writing a play on her iPhone before fielding lecherous advances from organizer Stephen Root, whose attention, however unwanted, is good for Connors campaign.

Thats what we all run up against sometimes, explains Lupe. How do I float through this moment not allowing it to get too far, and yet making the other person feel calm? Willa, to her credit, knows her way around these situations. She was an escort. She went out with these guys. She knows how to be the easygoing best-date-ever kind of girl, Lupe adds.

Lupe also speculates with Still Watching on whats keeping Connor and Willa together. She doesnt think its ambition to be a political wife, or anything like that. Shes headstrong. And shes like, and she is protective of herself and shes and consequentially because shes tied to Connor. There is like a protectiveness of their thing together, Lupe says. And the level of denial that she has is so well-matched to Connors denial. I was so pleasantly surprised to see that shes still just like typing awaylike, okay, I have to be here, but Im going to be like working on my thing again.

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