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I don't keep tabs on Anders Hove press, tbh. It wouldn't surprise me at all, especially the silly Felicia thing in the latter period which felt so shoehorned. The show had a lot of issues in '99/2000 but it was still miles and miles ahead of today and its daily writing team was second to none and could sell almost (almost!!) anything. Not Luke/Felicia and Faison's fascination with her, though. I always found Jean LeClerc very dashing, hot and charming to watch on LOV, but I agree Jeremy does feel very shoehorned into the show when revisiting the material in more recent years. I remember some promos - I don't know if they were from '93 or '94 - when they explicitly tried to sell Ava as an Erica Kane analog in Jeremy's life, his new Erica. Ava was of course created as another Erica avatar by Nixon, like many of her heroines/antiheroines, but this was much more on the nose and they were mentioning/showing Erica outright IIRC. I thought that was Guza's team, but I may be wrong.

It's hard to tell with Wasserman how much of it is excitement over trying to find some way to save face and ego for the last few weeks of bad predictions or GOP boosterism. Either way, it is functionally the same.

FWIW:

Ron always gets on this kind of stuff late and thinks the gay audience loves it. It feels retrograde, not daring like he believes. Same with the coy threesome hints on a show that won't do it (not just this one, but GH too).

....Anyway:

Mark my words: He's going to 'run,' take a lot of money and endorsements but not actually do anything. It will tear them apart.

And now, a good time.

Guest starring the corpse of Adam Carolla:

A positive piece about Abrams, but I'd like to know more about the skullduggery hinted at here.

They may try, but press smell a loser eventually. We don't hear much about Tim Pawlenty or even Rubio anymore, and even Paul Ryan is mostly hailed by them in the manner of a Jedi Force Ghost on the sidelines at this point. McCarthy is not as skilled as even that squad. He'll fade. As for what media want for a Republican narrative, this cycle is another proof that increasingly doesn't matter. Dave Wasserman is skilled at what he does but needs to leave his ego out of it. Some of these guys want to cover for their bad predictions and getting caught up in the Republican-cheering Washington vibes, and that's what leads to this stuff. Others (probably Silver) are irredeemable.

Becoming Speaker of a tiny margin in the House will expose McCarthy and leave him a shell of what little he is. His career will be functionally over after. It's also shattered the dreams of the many access journalists who ran fawning puff pieces about McCarthy as the new "social animal" of the Capitol, hoping to get in good with him in what they believed would be a giant new Republican House.

This is pretty remarkable:

A legend. RIP.

Eh, it doesn't get me down that much. We've had an incredible midterm and if they take the majority they can't function at these margins.