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Personally, I don't think Sarah Silverman went far enough when she told the Berniebots and the other far-left nuts at the DNC that they were being ridic. If you ask me, someone should just tell them to have a Coke and a smile and STFU. (Especially those who are all "Up with Socialism!" these days. GMAB, we don't need no damn socialists to fix this country. We just need people who know what the hell they are doing.)

I don't say good. I say DAMN good. "The Talk" doesn't need that woman anyway. In all the years that that show has been on the air, I've never heard or read anyone say they tune in specifically to watch her. TT (and BB) could continue on w/o her and hardly anyone (not even the "fans" who called her "Chenbot," which CBS and Chen herself idiotically took to mean as a term of endearment) would gaf. I know we're talking about a woman here, but...bye, trash.

The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings should have been a teaching moment for all Americans, young and old. It's one thing to tell a woman, "Sorry, we just don't believe you." But when a woman -- and a black woman at that -- is both crucified and vilified, even by other African-Americans, simply for coming forward -- which, people tend to forget, she didn't want to do in the first damn place! -- what does that say about us as supposed Judeo-Christians in an ostensibly democratic society? I'm with the anonymous woman with whom Mr. Ali has been in contact for over a year regarding her own sexual assault allegation. When you see how your average person responds to these women, it's no wonder why most never come forward. Instead of giving the victim(s) the benefit of the doubt, we'd rather believe the male perpetrators are being needlessly persecuted as we cower behind the "innocent until proven guilty" axiom.

All of a sudden, this is turning into an episode of "Law & Order"...and I'm loving it.

On the one hand, I'm proud she has come forward. She's right: if anyone should tell her story, it should be her. But, OTOH, I feel bad for her, because I can only imagine how she has felt, struggling between doing her duty as a citizen and notifying the authorities about Kavanaugh, and protecting her loved ones and herself from the harshness of media and public scrutiny. Even now, after re-reading the piece, I come away with the impression that part of her still wishes she had remained anonymous -- there's even a statement from her, saying, essentially, what's the point of doing this, if it won't make a difference on his SCOTUS confirmation?, which breaks my heart -- and that she's only coming forward now, with tremendous reluctance, because the letter has been leaked to the media. Damn, I wish we hadn't put her in this tough position -- it's almost like being assaulted again, if you think about it -- but I'm still proud of her (and of all who have come forward with their own stories of sexual assault and harassment). Who knows? Maybe other women out there -- not necessarily anyone else who's been victimized by Kavanaugh specifically, but who've been victimized by men -- will recognize in CBF's story their own misgivings about coming forward; and maybe they will see, too, that if she (and others) can summon the courage to come forward and tell their stories anyway, so, too, can they. At the very least, I wish there were some way to let these women know that they have tremendous support from all sections of the public (well, except those from "Trump Country"), and that we have their backs, no matter what.

I wish I had written for THE DOCTORS, because, even as a viewer, I really wanted to save Dr. Dan Allison; and in fact, I had mapped out in my head just how to do that.

I shouted with my feet.

Wow. What an interesting nod to history.

She isn't a perfect choice, but I'd choose Nina Tassler.

Yep. I don't blame her either. Even as we're outing sexual predators left and right, women still live in fear of having their careers, reputations and even lives ruined simply by coming forward with the truth.

I had a feeling that letter would contain a sexual harassment allegation. Unfortunately, Brett Kavanaugh could murder a black Baptist preacher in the middle of town on a hot afternoon, and he would still get confirmed by the GOP. But, I hope no one brushes aside this woman's allegation, because where there's one, there's always more. IOW: party at marceline's pad, seven o'clock, B.Y.O.B.

I agree. And if they don't, then I am officially done with CBS. I won't pretend to gaf about her. You want to stand by your man, Julie? Fine. Take your man, and your money, and get the [!@#$%^&*] out.

It's like what we always say about voters, especially those on the left and far-left, engaging in some ridiculous "purity Olympics" (tm @marceline?). No candidate, I have learned, will ever be perfect. But picking off every candidate with even the slightest flaw is what got us where we are now w/ Trump.

I wish Bernie and his contingent would stop trying to make their revolution happen. It's not going to happen.

I wouldn't expect any less from Les' highly paid mistress.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........

IOW, he'd fit right in (again) with the current soap climate. "Travis Schuldt IN at DAYS!"

"Yeah, there were deaths, but there weren't THAT many!" There is so much wrong with that line of thinking that I don't know where to begin. (ANY deaths, whether three or three thousand, is a blow, okay? Especially when those deaths could, and probably should, have been avoided.) But, what do you expect from a "leader" who tossed the citizens of Puerto Rico a roll of paper towels as if it were a cleanup on aisle four?

It seems to me that Les (and Jeff Fager) isn't the only person who needs to be purged from CBS' ranks.

Thanks, YRfan, for uploading the 1975 episode! It was certainly a treat!

It doesn't surprise me one bit to know he tried to buy the woman's silence with a job offer. Anything to keep their mouths shut, right, Les? You know, the more I read about this mess, the more it reminds me of the late James Aubrey, a.k.a. "The Smiling Cobra," who once ran CBS (and MGM), and was just as predatory toward females as Moonves has been.

Good God, what a mess.

D'oh! I forgot about "Judging Amy"! Thanks, Carl! It might well have been Kramer or Gless, but there's so much vague and conflicting information that we might never know. (Either way: Angie, baby, I'm-a need you to come ouchere and set this record straight that it wasn't you, lol.)

You know what's also sad about this? We read the excerpts and several of our minds said "Sharon Gless" and NOT "Tyne Daly." Now what does THAT say about us, boys and girls, lol? LMAO! I'm fine, thank you! That was part of it (officially, anyway). I also recall hearing at the time that Kramer wanted to focus more on music. In retrospect, however, all that might have been just smokescreen.

Here's why I'm not sure it's Sharon Gless: 1) As I've mentioned before, "Cagney & Lacey" was done (save for the four TV movies) by the end of the 1987-88 season, long before Moonves took over the network; and the way LBT words it -- "coming off the cancellation of her iconic detective show" -- it sounds as if the series in question was cancelled either during Moonves' regime, or immediately before. 2) Gless starred in one other series that I know of -- "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" -- that ran on CBS after C&L. However, Rosie was an attorney, not a detective (or a cop); and it, too, was already dead-and-gone by the time Moonves arrived at CBS, in '95. However, it'd make sense to assume it was Gless, since C&L was and is an iconic show; and it and DW once shared the same night (Monday) at the network. No, it wasn't. Moonves wasn't at CBS when Barney Rosenzweig replaced Meg Foster with Sharon Gless -- who, by the way, had been his original choice for the role from the start, going all the way back to the original, two-hour TV movie -- nor was he at Orion/MGM, which owned the show. AFAIK, Moonves was still at 20th Century Television. Remember, though, that "Hunter" was on a different network (NBC); and in fact, it wasn't cancelled until the year AFTER Kramer had left the series (remember when GL's Robert Newman played her new husband, who spirited her out of town and away from the force?) and had been replaced as Fred Dryer's sidekick with Darlanne Fluegel (and later, "The Nanny"'s Lauren Lane). And to this day, I've no idea WHY Moonves would allow that to happen -- unless, not doing so would have resulted in enormous penalties for the network -- when he was so eager to kill the series by moving it from Sundays, where it was still a top 10 series, to Thursdays, where it was killed in the ratings by "Friends."