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I responded to the guy trying to subtweet me for critiquing Chavez's acting. Take it up with him. Or don't! I don't care either way.

There's always been some mythology about how Marland had X, Y and Z 'in his bible' years after his death - I always wondered about the claims re: Carly and others on ATWT. I can believe he created them, but there's a lot of people who also claim ownership of the Carly on GH. For example Claire Labine, I believe, explicitly said she created Carly Roberts/Benson, but I'm not so sure how much the Guza team after her would agree with details of that. I often wonder if Marland or Labine creating certain later characters on their respective shows goes to the original vague concepts and not much else.

That's his gig, not mine. Yours is reposting your tweets in giant type!

Oh, just @ me next time since most of your years of posting history is calling out the entire forum and threatening to call their manager when they disagree with you. Be shocked all you like! Call a cop. He's green! But he's got good chemistry with people and charisma and he works in the role. It's not that serious.

Kelly had a lot of work done last year and has looked especially rough since.

The middle is not going to care for long, and those polls will recover from last weekend's images. As others have said, it's still strong approval for leaving and will bump right back up. Wringing our hands over every single poll and automatically assuming 'the GOP wins again!' is pointless when it often simply is not happening.

I dunno about all that, but I did know you get excited by any little thing you see online and jump with it like it's real. It's not! How many times do you have to do this to yourself? Who's the next Jeff Webber aged 48-75, John? I'll wait!

Nobody onscreen is Kiki's twin or Ryan's daughter, it's a random henchman, move on with your lives lol

It's fine if someone is a Kiki fan, but a random under-five with shady eyes =/= Kiki, friends.

And for those of us who do not have Facebook: Here

Where is the evidence that a random under-5 is "Kiki"?

It's sweet they did this. Was this Anne and Jeremy's exit? I keep forgetting Jeremy grew up to be one of the teen hunks in the legendary late '80s horror flick Night of the Demons - I never recognize him at all. (His character went as a doctor in scrubs to their doomed costume party, which knowing that film I wonder if it was a deliberate gag)

I think the right will seize on it simply to be anti-Biden, but Wallace is right - it's not going to work for most of the public. I don't think it will ever be 50/50 on Afghanistan.

Nicolle Wallace, who has no small share of her own sins re: the building of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, is brutally honest about the media here:

I get the impression there was a lot of used car salesmanship re: the Afghan army from both our people and theirs, but mostly ours trying to shine on the White House and the press over the long years. Which again goes to how the Beltway press are so easily led and coaxed by their social relationships with the brass.

This is a very strong, candid speech and the media will hate it. But the public will be good with it.

Having been divested of many of its key reporters (Sherman, etc) who decamped to the equally bad Punchbowl, Politico now faces buyout from a German right-wing media magnate to go mask off:

Most of the Beltway never admitted they got rolled on Iraq, nor have most admitted fault re: Trump. They're all rewinding back to 2001 warhawk mode over this, it's pretty amazing to see them behaving like they did in the days when Rumsfeld, Cheney, et al were the supposed sworn authorities on the Middle East and not global punchlines for deceit and shame. This'll blow over in about a week IMO. It's one of those unique media things, like New York journos obsessed with the local races or Beltway folks trying to make Rubio or Pawlenty happen, that never quite resonate in the real world because it is about them and their deep relationships with their sources inside Defense. They think they can make this happen, but the polling isn't going to go with them and that's just going to infuriate them more. So from now on you'll see backhanded, grudging references in media to "Biden's failure in Afghanistan" for the next four years which we'll all call out and they'll do nothing about even though their audience doesn't care, because the first rule of Beltway journalism is Listen to the Generals when they talk off the record. I think the refugee situation is important to get onto in any way possible at this point, but as for media takes on Afghanistan this is pretty much where I tune them out for the next week or so. They'll sulk as they realize the public still doesn't care and the above will become the new status quo.