After Francesca Hong lost despite a big polling lead, my new @townhallcom VIP column is more on-poinththan ever!
“Here’s why I don’t trust the polls, besides my decades of experience watching politics. It’s because when a weird phone number comes up on my phone, even one that doesn’t say “Spam Risk,” I give it some major side-eye. Now, I usually have to answer unknown numbers without a spam risk alert because I get lots of calls from people not already in my contact list — the booker for Geebo and the Boner’s Morning Zoo on KDUM radio in Bumtouch, Idaho, and that sort of thing. After all, that’s my business. And I always answer with a grunt because I don’t want AI taking my voice and using it to tell Irina that I’m trapped in Nigeria and she has to send $700 to get me freed from captivity. But if there’s a slight pause, or I hear a lot of voices in the background from the boiler room in Bangladesh, I hang up. Yet, occasionally, a normal voice comes on, and if they say, “I’m from Something Something Polling,” I am out of there.
I don’t know about you, but if you’re statistically like every single one of my conservative friends, you never ever ever ever talk to pollsters.”
Ignore the Poll Dancers https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/08/12/ignore-the-poll-dancers-n2681021
My new @townhallcom VIP column demonstrates that everything from Hollywood doesn’t suck, just a lot of it…
“Is Hollywood suddenly getting based? Well, probably not, at least in the macro. Hollywood is still stuck in a morass of politically correct failure thanks to the cadre of unmarriageable females, militant minorities, and gender-weird diversity hires left over from Woke I who dominate the scene. That the industry is drowning is no surprise. At one time, Tinseltown was focused solely on making money, and the way you made money was to make things the audience enjoyed. Now, for the most part, we are condemned to endure the personal psychodramas and fetishes of a bunch of people trying to work out their daddy issues on our screens. No thanks. But there’s an exception to every rule, and he’s making hundreds of millions of dollars, proving that there is a market for entertainment that doesn’t hate its patriotic, normal audience.”
Hollywood Wins When It Is Based ...
My @townhallcom counterpoint to the people who think justice should be done behind closed doors…
“Murder is a crime, as much as many of the critics don’t care about it. They can summon up all sorts of outrage over criminals being executed, but they don’t know the names of any of the dead.
I do. One of them was a former fellow California Army Guardsman who was serving on active duty at Fort Hood. I didn’t know him well – he was down in San Diego while I was in Los Angeles – but I had met him and he was a good guy. That piece of crap who had wormed his way into the rank of major took a gun and shot Captain John Gaffaney to death because Captain Gaffaney was serving the United States of America in a conflict against the traitor’s seventh-century, goat-loving savage friends. So yeah, I say shoot the b*****d and let everybody see.”
Shoot Him Live https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/10/12/shoot-him-live-n2684469
