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The whole thing was disgusting and cynical. Headlines and optics coming out of the event are going to be of him stirring up race drama about Kamala Harris, the divide and conquer he loves best (and which the press is happy to play along with - they now have an opportunity for endless "is she seen as black" and "is she just an opportunist" stories) and his cult seeing their tough leader sparring with a black female reporter who in their minds needed to be put in her place. This is what he has done over and over and over - stigmatizing women, often black women, because it drives up his base and distracts from his problems. It repulses us but it pays off for him. And whoever at the NABJ greenlit this must have been happily complicit.

There's nothing to let go. There's nothing to sink in. This isn't some type of mass delusion. We already know that even if any footage survives most of that footage starts from 1979 on. They know, we all know, that we will all likely be long gone before anything that ever is available from P&G, if anything is, comes around again. They are just saying they do not believe the archive is gone and have not seen enough evidence yet to change their mind.

Good for Stacey. Vance seems like such an unlikeable person - he really must have pissed Harry Enten off at some point. This is the third or fourth clip of Enten dragging him.

RIP Francine Pascal, writer on The Young Marrieds. Francine Pascal Dead: 'Sweet Valley High' Creator Was 92 (variety.com)

Oh I know but it reminded me of some of the other 2008 similarities. Unfortunately, Israel isn't the only concern going around about Shapiro. https://www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-vp-frontrunner-josh-shapiro-accused-of-sex-harassment-cover-up I could see them being torn between him and Kelly. Not sure what the final pick will be of those two (and Walz with an outside chance too).

Thanks for all the tweets @Vee . Those Vance clips are genuinely hilarious, even if I know nothing about this is a laughing matter. 2008 and the Jay Z flap did come to mind when I saw all the reaction to the twerking at the Atlanta rally, with "Hoes for Harris" already trending. I guess this will just give the old white people who were voting for Trump another reason to do but hopefully won't affect anything else. Her first choice of city post-VP announcement is leading many to assume Shapiro will be the choice. I hope not.

Most of the writers from the glory days are long gone. The few who are left are just cashing checks.

This organization pulled a stunt at the last minute to get Trump in and have Harris Faulkner moderate for him, not allowing Harris to have a virtual interview (she is attending Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's funeral). The orchestrator has locked her Twitter account. Some smarmy LA Times reporter tried to turn the framing around by saying this is very "weird." You can tell how much they are smarting as the support for Harris was very organic and bypassed the Beltway, which was hoping for a Trump landslide.

Trump Media Made Deal Involving GOP Donor James E. Davison — ProPublica A long look into the deal that bailed Trump out financially.

I think a number of fans liked Cutter. In '94 SOD asked JFP about a Cutter/Tangie pairing, telling her they had fan support. She sidestepped (clearly not wanting to say that she thought he was beneath what she had expected Tangie to be with viewers). In a way I'm glad they didn't try to make Cutter bigger and ruin him, but he was a charismatic, believable presence. It was Charissa Cree Chamorro's character, Sophia. I agree Levy was a very good support character.

I think this may be Donna with her sisters. Gorgeous performances.

Adam McKay along with various conservative black accounts on social media have all been pushing the line of how this is identity politics and shows how broken the party is and so on, which probably means they are worried over the success. Speaking of which: I'm glad that Democrats are not as terrified of being seen as anything but serious at all times as they used to be. Yes, this has to stop at some point, and clearly it will, but this is the world Trump, and the media who would sell every organ in their body for a moment with him, created.

@wonderwoman1951 Thanks. I'm wary of both publications to be honest. @Vee I do think some of the efforts at shaming and forcing backlash will work but luckily, they don't have near as much influence as they once did. Speaking of Faux News:

I don't think it hurt Margo as much until Ellen Dolan just became so sour to watch in general, but with Harley it did take away a lot of the character's spark for me very quickly. And knowing now the choice was some type of JFP fetish (she did the same on AW and OLTL - a young heroine joining the police force and hooking up with an older male cop) makes it even weirder for me.

I wonder if this is due to how poorly received the whole Terese/Toadie/Mel/Paul story was. That's not his fault but you could tell just how much the material was ill-suited for him. You could see a big shift in the original story when you had Mel telling Toadie last week that they never should have been together. I suppose budget reasons may be at play too.

It's that time again. The Beltway doing what they do best - chastising any Democratic voters who have any hope (they never ever do that with Republicans). And the New Yorker, which I believe had the infamous cover of "black power" Michelle and Barack Obama, dishes out an incredibly degrading cover to humiliate the Democrats. They're already doing their best to engineer a backlash against the party - they must be very upset.

Gowdy Doody (remember when he was another hope of the future for the GOP) looks more like an Aeon Flux character than ever. Some on the right are gleefully trying to double down on what their favorite shiny new fascist said, but even Gowdy knew better. Speaking of fascists, you can see how much Thiel is puppeteering Trump again, not only with the disastrous VP pick, but also Trump very, very belatedly endorsing Blake Masters, one of the worst candidates of all time. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/07/28/trump-giving-blake-masters-abe-hamadeh-total-endorsement/74578406007/

@slick jones Lovely tribute to Richard. It took me a while to understand what he meant to people as he was so often treated as a joke. I'm glad I saw little or none of his NB return.

I think K&A was better than Family Ties - I never thought the cast on that clicked. I preferred Night Court as a kid, but I agree Newhart is underrated.

Anything I've seen of their ATWT run bores me to tears, although I appreciate them giving Ellen and David more prominence and I think the Montgomerys were hugely important to fresh blood and dynamics for the '80s. I am not a huge James Stenbeck fan but I do appreciate Anthony's suaveness and good looks and he did manage to make the whole international/lavish era work for the show better than some soaps managed. Some aspects of their era work better on paper than onscreen, although nothing about Brad works on paper or onscreen. If the show had not been in such a malaise, it might have managed their style and personality better. I don't know.

You're right. I think he just pops up again for a few months before Julianne's Sabrina leaves, then for even briefer periods. She may not have remembered him as he wasn't on the show as long, but Colleen wasn't averse to a few feuds in that era (allegedly). I imagine he was let go because he didn't fit the Dobsons' idea of dynamic younger leading men. He was more along the lines of the men who were cast on the show in the '70s.

HSB was more of a soap alongside a drama, and then Miami Vice was the type of sleek, atmospheric drama that various soaps (especially DAYS and GH) saw themselves as being in the same world as. GL and ATWT were never along those lines (although they tried at times), but I guess they still decided to build up that presence. I don't think GL ever really found a successful version until Harley and Mallet (successful to viewers, not me - I never wanted Harley to be a cop and similar to Margo on ATWT I wonder if that's one of the reasons the character became so dour).

@Skylover So sorry to hear this. I'm not as up on old Neighbours as you and many others but any time I see Lyn in the old episodes she's a real spark plug - and she also feels like a character who was designed for Neighbours, rather than a generic figure.

Likely Hill Street Blues and later Miami Vice.