| Boat or Die White House pollster John McLaughlin confesses that the coveted "boater" demographic may not be enough to propel President Donald Trump to victory in November, but stresses that there are still the important segments like golfers, aviators, college and high school tailgaters, and other groups to consider.
At least, those are the things he's been telling Trump to, like a lot of people in the administration find themselves doing, try to make the president feel good about himself.
The Great Twitter Bluecheckout There was a gigantic, prominent, big-name hacking yesterday, resulting in spam tweets sent from the accounts of dozens of major, verified accounts, including Bill Gates, Kanye West, Elon Musk, and even former President Barack Obama
It caused a huge reaction, of course, and eventually resulted in the unprecedented locking of ALL verified users.
It could have been even worse. noted NBC's Ben Collins. In fact, it might have been, says Sen. Josh Hawley, who is demanding to know more.
Twitter denies it was an inside job. So far...
There's 'no editorial view here' at MSNBC
So says Chuck Todd, at least. The anchor and host bristled at the notion, from Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh, of a point of view on the channel's daytime programming.
"Just a reminder, for what it’s worth, there is no editorial view here on any of these newscasts on MSNBC in the daytime," he said in the contentious segment.
"if you are going to dish it out..." Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson sparred with Fox News Channel’s Harris Faulkner, Wednesday, over the controversial and very public resignation letter from now-former opinion editor for the NYT Bari Weiss.
"[Weiss] has been in there on Twitter throwing some — some punches herself at people she disagrees with," said Abramson at one point. "You know, if you are going to dish it out, you have got to be ready to take it."
She got a "wow" from Faulkner for the under-the-bus interview.
FNC's Special Report Scores Big Trump’s impromptu Rose Garden speech/pseudo-campaign rally powered Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier to a big ratings win on Tuesday and on the first night of Tucker Carlson’s vacation, his show still scored the best ratings in cable news in the coveted 25 –54 age demographic.
Those strong performances led Fox to sweep total day and primetime ratings on Wednesday.
Get the numbers and details, via Mediaite+!
950,000
Mary L. Trump’s tell-all book on her uncle President Donald Trump sold more than 950,000 copies in its first day of release.
NASCAR
NASCAR mandated masks for all-star race that attracted a socially-distanced crowd of about 20,000 people who "showed practically universal compliance" with the policy while waiting in line — although most of them then went maskless to watch the race.
And on the topic of policies and the ignoring of those policies, a Confederate flag was flown over the track - literally flown, from a plane - despite or in protest of the sport's policy prohibiting them. We're guessing it wasn't there just to open a garage door.
Smart Tattoos?
Google has been working on several new ideas that may impact our lives very soon, in a push spurred on by the needs of the "new reality" mid- and, later, post-pandemic. The company outlined some coming tech, including wearable gear like smartwatches, or eyewear like Google Glass, fantastic-sounding virtual reality devices and even things like wearable smart temporary tattoos. 6.5.0 | 
