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Still beautiful. I'd give anything to see OLTL back and honoring her. She can skype in her performance like Warren Frost on Twin Peaks!
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"Each time we have gotten closer to those ideals [the] status quo pushes back," Barack Obama said as he referenced opposition to "our collective responsibility to care for the sick" and to protecting natural resources. pic.twitter.com/Z1ud9204RE
— POLITICO (@politico) September 7, 2018Obama: "To make democracy work we have to be able to get inside the reality of people that are different...hope we can change their minds, and remain open to them changing ours."
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 7, 2018
But GOP says, "We'll be polite until you disagree with us...That's not civility.""The definition of civility: 'We will be polite as long as we get 100% of what we want & you don't call us out on it when we're sticking it to people.'... That's not civility, that's abdicating your responsibilities." -President Obama
— Jessica (@JessicaGoldstei) September 7, 2018Obama "Better is good. That's the history of progress in this country. Not perfect. BETTER...Do not let people tell you the fight's not worth it because you won't get everything you want." I LOVE THIS MAN
— Dr. Catherine Prendergast (@cjp_still) September 7, 2018Obama: Common ground exists. I have seen it. I have lived it. I know there are white people who care deeply about black people being treated unfairly. I have talked to them and loved them. I know there are black people who care deeply about the struggles of white rural America
— Lisa Mirando 🇺🇸☕️🌼🙏👀 (@LisaMirandoCNN) September 7, 2018"I know there are black people who care deeply about the struggles of white, rural America,” Obama says. "I’m one of them, and I have the track record to prove it."
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) September 7, 2018Obama nods to the thousands who died in Hurricane Maria: "I know there are Republicans who believe government should only perform a few minimal functions but that one of those functions should be making sure nearly 3,000 Americans don't die in a hurricane and its aftermath."
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) September 7, 2018Obama: "The antidote to a government controlled by a powerful few, a govt that divides is a gov't by the organized, energized, inclusive many. That's what this moment is about. That has to be the answer. You cannot sit back and wait for a savior."
— Kate McGee (@McGeeReports) September 7, 2018"You cannot sit back and wait for a savior.. We don’t need a messiah. We need decent, honest people.” —Obama
— Touré (@Toure) September 7, 2018"You cannot sit back and wait for a savior, you can’t opt out because you don't feel that inspired by this or that particular candidate," Obama says. "This is not a rock concert, this is not Coachella. We don't need a messiah."
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018"If you think elections don't matter, I hope the last two years have corrected that impression," says Obama. This feels like one of the lines we'll be hearing a lot from him.
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018"If you don't like what's going on right now, and you shouldn't. Do not complain. Don't hashtag. Don't get anxious. Don't retreat, don't binge on whatever it is you're binging on. Don't lose yourself in ironic detachment. Don't put your head in the sand. Don't boo. Vote" — Obama
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) September 7, 20180 -
OBAMA on TRUMP: "Appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people order & security will be restored if it weren't for those who don't look like us... that's an old playbook. It's as old as time. And in a healthy democracy, it doesn't work." pic.twitter.com/INcHHo6MTw
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 7, 2018"The claim that everything will be ok because there are people inside the WHite House who are not following the president's orders ... that is not how democracy is supposed to work" Obama says, mentioning the op-ed
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) September 7, 2018Obama on the NYT op-ed:
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018
"That’s not how our democracy’s supposed to work. These people aren’t elected...They’re not doing us a service by actively promoting 90 % of the crazy stuff that’s coming out of this White House, and saying, ‘Don’t worry, we’re preventing the other 10%.’”"Appealing to tribe, appealing to fire, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren’t for those who don’t look like us or don’t sound like us, or don’t pray like we do, that’s an old playbook. As old as time." - Obama
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018"What happened to the Republican Party?," asks Obama. Their former organizing principle in foreign policy was anti-Communism, he says, "now they're cozying up to the former head of the KGB."
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018Obama: "Even if you don’t agree with me or Democrats on policy ... I’m here to tell you that you should still be concerned and should still want to see a restoration of honesty and decency and lawfulness in our government."
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018"It should not be Democratic or Republican — it should not be a partisan issue — to say we should not use the Attorney General or the Justice Department as a cudgel to punish our political opponents," Obama says.
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) September 7, 2018Obama: "How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad?"
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018"I complained plenty about Fox News. But you never heard me threatening to shut them down or call them enemies of the people." –– @BarackObama
— John Haltiwanger (@jchaltiwanger) September 7, 20180 -
Obama: "Every one of us as citizens of the U.S. need to determine just who it is that we are ... As a fellow citizen, not as an ex-president, but as a citizen, I'm here to deliver simple message and that is that you need to vote because our democracy depends on it." (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/Tti5UhQlVg
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 7, 2018First time Obama's said Trump's name since leaving office:
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018
"It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause.".@BarackObama says @realDonaldTrump is the symptom not the cause - he's simply capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years @MSNBC
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) September 7, 2018Obama on the economy: "Let's just remember when this recovery started. I'm glad it's continued, but when you hear about this economic miracle that's been going on... suddenly Republicans are saying it's a miracle."
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) September 7, 2018Obama says Trump and others are practicing "exploitation" and have "no compunction and no shame of tapping into America’s dark history of racial and ethnic and religious division"
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018Obama: W/"electronic versions of bread and circuses…demagogues promise simple fixes to complicated problems. They’ll promise to fight for the little guy ..They’ll promise to clean up corruption even as they plunder away. They’ll appeal to racial nationalism that’s barely veiled"
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 2018Obama: Neither party has had a monopoly on wisdom, neither party has been exclusively responsible for us going backwards than forwards; over the past few decades.. politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican party
— Lisa Mirando 🇺🇸☕️🌼🙏👀 (@LisaMirandoCNN) September 7, 2018Obama: "None of this is conservative. I don't mean to pretend I'm channelling Lincoln now, but that's not what he had in mind, I don't think when he formed the Rep Party. It sure isn't normal. It's radical. It's a vision that says our protection of our power is all that matters."
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 7, 20180 -
Obama is about to go live with an expected 'major address':
Today I’m at the University of Illinois to deliver a simple message to young people all over the country: You need to vote, because our democracy depends on it. I hope you'll tune in at 11am CT: https://t.co/34WjNaVAcU
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 7, 2018‘We Know How To Fight, We Know How To Win’: How Black Women Are Organizing For The Midterms https://t.co/sVeVlxbLYF via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 7, 20180 -
16 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:
I never saw any of those others get 'punished' with the same venom as Janet.
I agree.
If The Talk practices what it tries to preach - and they have in the past, sometimes at least (I surprisingly found their discussions a refreshing alternative to The View more than once) - I don't see how Sara Gilbert and co. can avoid addressing this.
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For me it was less about Janet herself and more about how at the time there seemed to be a ton of raunchy public stunts at the MTV Awards, etc. to keep viewership up and eyes on folks pre-Twitter, and frankly neither Timberlake nor Janet seemed above it around then. It seemed of a piece with a lot of other lame look-at-me stunts of the period. But it turned out to be an honest mistake. Even when I wasn't sure, I never liked how she was treated while JT got off.
And that clip of Julie - wow. Not sure how The Talk weathers this.
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Entirely too glued to the Reva post-partum storyline on YouTube. Weren't Curlee and Demorest involved in HW work at this time with Long, or was it all Long?
Why they never brought Samantha Marler back is beyond me. I don't dislike the actress. I loved Chris Pennock on Dark Shadows and he seems a decent Justin recast, but they never seemed interested in this side of Phillip's family for long.
I actually don't think Beth Chamberlin is bad as the 'normal', pre-Rauch pre-hyper neurotic Beth. She clicks well in light humor scenes with Phillip and Rick, though she definitely has a more refined Barbara Hershey vibe. But I also warmed up to her a lot in GL's last years. I've seen a fair amount of Kimberly Simms' Mindy with Alex, Roger and Nick over the years but never with the Four Musketeers before - it's a little strange for me so far.
Hot take: If GL came back today on streaming I would try to land Sherry Stringfield as Blake. She seems game for anything work-wise and even after all these years, I just find any other Blake far more interesting than Liz Keifer.
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I liked Cecily, but I can't remember a single thing about her second stint (the only one I saw) other than some dumb computer dating subplot. She made zero impact.
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I hate to say it, but I personally believed at the time that it was an intentional stunt. I had expected something like that.
I loved Janet growing up - worshipped her - but I thought her albums had gotten (and continued to be after the Super Bowl) increasingly desperate after the failure of The Velvet Rope, an album I loved. She went light and tacky afterwards - I didn't need fifteen tracks about her lady parts interspersed with five different "interludes". That being said, today it seems clear it was an accident, and I never liked that she was bashed and ostracized while Justin was absolved. So I'm glad to see it made official.
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This one's for you, @DRW50:
Exclusive: Multiple sources tell me that after the 2004 Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction, Les Moonves was intent on destroying @JanetJackson's career to the point where he was talking about it years later and sharing how he was exacting his revenge. https://t.co/h6eygMwGKM
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 7, 20183. Janet Jackson, according to what Moonves told my sources, never apologized in a similar way which infuriated Moonves. Her music and her music videos were banned from all Viacom outlets (this part has been reported before) just as her new album was coming out.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 7, 20185. This reminds me so much of what happened to @MiraSorvino and @AshleyJudd for years they couldn't' figure out why their careers were suffering, until they found out last year that Weinstein was blacklisting them the whole time. https://t.co/h6eygMwGKM
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 7, 20186. There's no doubt that Janet Jackson's career suffered after the 2004 Super Bowl...some reasons that may seem obvious to some (although still unfair)...but this may help explain why she didn't get certain opportunities for years. https://t.co/h6eygMwGKM
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 7, 20180 -
A government photographer edited official pictures of Trump's inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents reported on by The Guardian. https://t.co/NWIxZ5gLo9
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 6, 20180 -
Very damning. Miranda sends Kavanaugh very detailed info that Miranda clearly says came from "confidential" Senate Dem documents, being distributed only among Dem counsels, and tells Kavanaugh to handle that info with great secrecy. https://t.co/tvYAbnTPFO
— David Burbach (@dburbach) September 6, 2018Folks I'm beginning to think Susan Collins does not actually support Roe v. Wade. She should just be honest about it. #mepolitics https://t.co/ROsnsrJew5
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) September 6, 2018Folks from @NARAL now occupying Susan Collins’ office peacefully. pic.twitter.com/4pzIxA91nK
— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) September 6, 2018Sen. Jeff Flake said he’s still inclined to support Kavanaugh even though Kavanaugh wouldn’t answer his questions about investigating a president.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 6, 2018
But he added: “I wish he could be more forthcoming on something like that.”0 -
Mark Lawson (Brody, OLTL) stands with many other soap stars behind Geoffrey Owens:
I didn’t work for 5 years after my run on One Life To Live. In that time I’ve had three kids and been blessed to be very involved with them. Acting will always circle back as long as you keep it alive inside you. But in the meantime, a man has to eat. https://t.co/Ep8D9Bw17T
— Mark Lawson (@lawsonsforge) September 2, 20180 -
Some of the public will care.
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The news comes months after Terry Crews publicly named Adam Venit as the Hollywood executive who sexually assaulted him at a party last year https://t.co/6Y2J2V0tqK
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 6, 20180 -
Lindsey Graham is going all the way:
Graham asks where is the authority for the Supreme Court to block Congress from banning abortion [basically]
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018
Graham asks if the only way is through constitutional amendmentGraham now turns to 9/11 and makes the case that the war on terror means that America is a battlefield [ie rules of war not constitutional due process] should apply
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018Graham ate his Wheaties this morning and is here to go all in for a christo-fascist nation
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 20180 -
Kavanaugh recommended him personally for the 11th Circuit
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018Meanwhile, still in 2018:
For those of you asking for the identity of the anonymous coward: pic.twitter.com/RpWYPHa6To
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) September 6, 2018After "compassionate conservatism" and the Tea Party and now "economic nationalism," the GOP is laying the groundwork to disavow Trump and come up with another light rebranding of the same policy agenda. https://t.co/6FV9aooFof
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 6, 2018CSPAN has posted the entire nearly 8-minute exchange between Kamala Harris and Kavanaugh on the Mueller probe. It is worth your time. pic.twitter.com/ezJVEuDeUK
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 6, 20180 -
Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation isn’t going as smoothly as Republicans had hoped https://t.co/BQh18e7CcJ pic.twitter.com/4jfNLHVgnE
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 6, 2018These are the docs Rs don't want you to see—because they show that Judge Kavanaugh wrongly believes that Native Hawaiian programs are Constitutionally questionable. I defy anyone reading this to be able to conclude that it should be deemed confidential in any way, shape, or form. pic.twitter.com/yj31vDNGia
— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) September 6, 2018Booker has followed through on his pledge to release Kavanaugh emails about racial profiling that were designated as committee confidential, here they are: https://t.co/C37VJjtcAi Earlier: https://t.co/21tnqdbK9f pic.twitter.com/N8IrsWsyO8
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) September 6, 2018Kavanaugh has said TWICE, under oath, that he first learned about the warrantless surveillance program when the NYT reported it in 2005.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 6, 2018
Here is an email about the program that he wrote in 2001 to John Yoo, the legal architect of the program https://t.co/wSrtHIO3ks.@SenFeinstein questions Judge Kavanaugh on Roe v. Wade being settled law: "We have an email that was previously marked confidential but is now public…" pic.twitter.com/KfRY0RZKJL
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 6, 2018Leahy laying out each instance of previous false testimony by Kavanaugh on these points
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018
*remember the evidence is now part of the record because Leah just introduced themLeahy goes in for the kill
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018
Days before the Priscilla Owen confirmation hearing Kavanaugh gets copies of emails marked 'highly confidential' on Democratic strategy on the Owen nominationKavanaugh was in possession of a GOP email that ... and I'm not making this up... has "spying" in the subject head
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018
What was it about? Having a mole in the Dem caucusLeahy "I find it hard to believe" that you didn't know you were in possession of stolen information and used it but testified differently
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 20180 -
Political showmanship or not, it is the right thing for him and all of them to do. I'm very proud. Between this and the NYT leaks, Collins and others have run out of room to maneuver on Kavanaugh.
Sen. Cornyn reads Senate rule about potential expulsion for releasing committee confidential documents.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 6, 2018
Sen. Booker responds: "Bring it. Bring it. Bring it. Apply the rule and bring the charges. Bring it." pic.twitter.com/ueHobWo9un0 -
Dick Durbin to Cory Booker: "I concur with what you are doing. Let's jump into this pit together ... If there is going to be some retribution against the senator from New Jersey, count me in. I want to be part of this process." (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/4x9FW84L10
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 6, 2018“Count me in, too”: Sen. Hirono at Kavanaugh hearing says she’s also releasing committee confidential document pic.twitter.com/h4cl78AoUD
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 6, 20180 -
I'm just amazed he is being ousted at all. I thought he and CBS were determined to try and ride it out.
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The NYT has many, many issues but the NYT didn't write this editorial. However self-serving, the author won't remain hidden for long. What matters most IMO is we're in an unprecedented situation where the president's senior staff are now openly invoking the 25th Amendment and removing him "one way or another" in one of the biggest press in the nation. And if you think it does nothing you're wrong, because Trump has been in even more freefall numbers-wise since McCain. Eventually, saying any public statement "just helps him" is ultimately self-defeating and untrue.
It's I Am Spartacus time:
Grassley jumps in and is nervous about all this. Really doesn't want the documents leaked or to have to censure Booker.
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018Feinstein jumps in to say that in previous nominations where documents were marked committee confidential was done through a bipartisan fashion and agreement
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018Lee jumps in to defend the process and Bill Burke as a document shepherd
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018Feinstein said she offered to work with Grassley on a bipartisan process as in the past but he refused
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018Durbin names the Republican members of the committee as collaborators with Burke to keep Kavanaugh's record secret
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018Now Klobuchar. Notes she's been on many committees where documents are marked confidential and says it's never like this.
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018Apply the rule, bring the charges Booker says
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018
Blumenthal says they are all ready to face expulsion0
OLTL Tribute Thread
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My pet idea was always to tie the Grays/Halls so tightly into the lore of the show that you could never extricate them again. Have Carla's grandson or daughter come to town (with her waiting in the wings, assuming Holly would appear) with the truth - that Victor Lord stole the family's land or money or something. Maybe a bit tame, but I rejected the obvious idea of claiming Victor had, say, slept with Sadie Gray bc I thought it was an old racist trope and not something she'd have done. (It also limits the potential to pair Viki's family with Carla's.)
The wildest variation was to claim the Lords were actually an ancient offshoot of the Grays, but I'm pretty sure nobody on this planet's ever gonna buy that Erika Slezak was mixed.