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He's a hatemonger who has been lauded to no end by the press as an "optimist" and as the ideal. Never forget, unless you are a rich white person (ideally a man, ideally a straight one on top of that), the media hates you and wants you dead. People fall for this every time. Hate and bigotry in different wrappings sell well, no matter what. It's hard to even get through each day knowing that. I admire anyone who can or does.

The media adores Ryan Murphy, as he hates many of the same people they do, so of course they will cover for his failures... I saw this morning that Peters is good friends with Steve Bannon. Says it all. And this is what the NYT sees as the ideal.

Oh that liberal media: And here is a NYT piece using a far right operative as a "Hillary-Biden" voter. I will never forgive the media in this country for what they have done to us and continue to do to us. They are beyond soulless. They are beyond scum.

I'm happy for them both.

It looks like Mark Warner, one of the senators who hides behind Manchin, is already blaming a possible gubernatorial loss in VA on progressives not passing the bill, so I have a feeling we've got a lot more can-kicking in store. If Macauliffe does lose, there are many reasons (a rusty campaign, hysteria over "save the children from liberal brainwashing," the inaction and decay of the Democratic Congress, a media that worships his opponent - who fulfills the hatred of women and queer people that they crave and also their never-ending daddy issues), but I'm never going to forget the crass, stupid publicity stunt from the Lincoln Project people. These types of things only work when they are done to benefit Republicans, because there are zero standards for the GOP. They want us to die, and the media praises them for their bravery and clarity.

I think Eileen has a lot of resentments surrounding the Kristen character, namely that it's the role which really made her huge and even won her an Emmy, unlike Ashley, which she seems to love playing and has much more of a history with. I sometimes wonder if her so naturally playing such a cold and often unsympathetic figure also bothers her. Either way, I don't even know if she would have returned as often as she did if she hadn't had such a long relationship with Sony. Eileen is Kristen and it's just about impossible to ever replace that, although if a deeply untalented, woman-hating, egocentric hack was not headwriter, that would help.

It is the definition of busy work. And many efforts to be involved in "action" are little better, like idiots here in the US who are having a hunger strike outside Biden's office, when there's nothing he can do. SCOTUS is soon likely to rule in a way that will make it impossible for Congress to do anything against big business on environmental issues. When you're a kid and you hear the "plant a tree" song on TV over and over, you don't ever understand just how many people are fine with the planet dying as long as they get some money to wrap their coffins in.

Did you ever wonder what happened to Aaron Coleman, the beloved of Ryan Grim and Glenn Greenwald? You can guess:

@DeliaIrisFan The more I think about it the more I agree that asking whether the character should be de-aged (if they did) is offputting, and really tells you where the mindset of the soap press and industry was. Much as we may all take lumps off soap fans for some of their views, they were usually very upfront about wanting to see older characters - so much so that when soaps began chasing young faces, their ratings dropped en masse and never recovered. The refusal to respect older characters, who were loved by viewers of all ages, was one of the greatest nails in the coffin.

September 9, 1994. I haven't seen the wording of the original question, but they may have just asked for other suggestions, rather than giving specific names as choices. If I have it I'll see what the question was.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CViGXJqAXPU/ Sorry if that doesn't work. She said in another video that she sent food or catering when Todd, Marlo, lost family, so I guess she had expected the same.

I saw that Nene was berating Cynthia for not being at Gregg's funeral and berating the ladies in general for sending a $200 bouquet together. I guess that bridge is well and truly burnt.

Not on a show that has plenty of murderers. The character has a lot of ties and Blake Berris is a good actor - there's no reason they aren't keeping him around. It's just because Ron is not getting a boner for him the way he does for the cardboard cutout who plays Ben.

That's sad about Susan and her daughter. I hadn't thought of Liza in such a long time, I thought you meant Liza Minelli. Minaj is just absolute scum. She is also a good fit for Andy Cohen, and for the general way that he, and Bravo, treat women.

They should bring Blake back for good.

Jason Sudeikis had a (very good) Mitt Romney impression in his last years on SNL. I think that is the reason Mitt has been doing this. I am happy to ignore millionaire cosplay, but Sinema being involved, especially at this moment, really shows her contempt for the public and her desperate need for attention. As for Virginia, I don't believe that poll is accurate. Northam did win by a bigger margin than polls expected, but this year I think is going to be very close, similar to 2013. I know many would say Macauliffe should not have run again, but the media is desperate for a Republican comeback and landslide - Yougnkin was going to be a frontrunner no matter what.

@te. Thank you for finding that episode. I think saynotoursoap once had an episode with Patricia Breslin's Meg up, unhappy in her marriage to Lee, but I'd never seen this one. She seems so happy here, and it's a bit of a heartbreaker contrasting that to the sorrow from Lee and Jessie. I know Jessie was long-suffering, but Emily McLaughlin plays her material in such a mature, restrained manner that you can't help caring for Jessie and feeling everything she is feeling. Indeed, this episode is full of people who behave like adults and look like adults, rather than middle-aged overgrown children. For most of the years I've watched GH, that has not been the case - even by the end of the '70s, that was no longer true. Whenever I watch episodes from these years I remember what Chris Schemering wrote about how much more effective, experimental, and entertaining GH's organ music was compared to the other soaps. I would tend to agree.

I suppose he's hoping it will be seen as something of an event.

Thanks for finding those.

Robin made the right choice. Other than Justin Deas, who got 15 years of steady employment and a chance for Margaret Colin to get to not have to take anything going, most of JFP's big hires at GL did not have a happy ending.