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Today on Twitter Meghan defended using the word "fuck" and said she's an "Arizona woman." If memory serves, she admonished someone not too long ago for using bad words. She's go a different moral compass and explanation every time she's challenged. It's like trying to pin down Jell-O.

Thanks, @Lizzing! Weird that they are all in new shows, but not the same one. Oh, well, more to watch. I've pretty much had it with all the screaming from the dudebros on Ghost Adventures.

I liked it, but I found Grant's explanation a little disingenuous about "everyone from the original team is already on TV with their own shows." Except for Kindred Spirits, I can't think of anyone original who's on TV. If I'm missing Jason, Steve, Tango, etc., I'd love to know. (Chris from Ghost Hunters Academy is on Haunted Towns, but he was barely a blip on GH.)

My mom, who I miss every bit as much as Meghan misses her father, died on New Year's Eve. Yet, despite that, I can't tell you how many days it was (and it would be easy to glance at a calendar any time I wanted to know, given the date of her passing). I replied to Meghan on Twitter to tell her that I celebrate my mom's life. She loved parties, so it's perfect that she died on the biggest party night of the year. I ask all my friends and relatives to lift a glass to her during their NYE celebrations. On my mom's birthday, I go to her favorite restaurants and celebrate for her, since she can't be here to do it. I was trying to let Meghan know that there are ways to honor and remember the dead without wallowing in sorrow. I was in deep grief for my mom for two years and this is the first year I'm starting to come out of it. But I loathe people looking for pity. I try so hard not to be that person. But I'm afraid that Meghan will be stuck being that person forever.

Thanks for the info, @Quilt Fairy! Setting my DVR up now. An aside: My good friend is a die-hard White Sox fan. When the Cubs won the WS, she told a mutual friend that she didn't want to live in a world where she had to endure the Cubs being champions. Then Election Day came...

Sherri has been on a lot of the "evening game shows" this summer. She's been pretty enjoyable. Last night she was on To Tell The Truth, and I think she was on The Match Game a couple times, too. I like her in small doses.

Can someone fill me in on the new show? What it's called, when it will air, etc.? This makes me happy!

I was told to leave it on the pillow, but that felt icky. 😉 I usually have square Post-Its in my purse (I'm a compulsive list maker), so I usually just slap it on a five on the dresser and say, "Thank you to Housekeeping!" (Yes, I'm cheesy IRL.)

I appreciated Sunny mentioning to tip each day because you probably get a different housekeeper each day. And I was PISSED to have Whoopi be so rude and act like she was dying of boredom as Sunny said it. I learned something! I knew to tip and I always leave a tidy room, but I didn't realize about tipping daily.

I must say.... I thought Meghan looked nice today. An age-appropriate dress, and a neckline that didn't make her look like an off-duty nun. Please let this be her last week on the show. Ever.

Then it's not obvious. Sunny shading her is subtle. She responds to Meghan, she doesn't start shit with her. She was told not to look at her, and she's literally NOT LOOKING AT HER. She's doing exactly what Meghan herself told her to do. Meghan cannot possibly object without looking like more of a clown than she already does. And the great thing is, most viewers -- such as yourself -- don't even notice! I will continue to love it. #teamsunnyofthefineandrighteousshade

I generally don't watch The View, in that I am usually doing something on my laptop and have it on like a radio. So I didn't notice Sunny freezing out Meghan until I read it here. But, like "don't think about zebras!," it's now all I can concentrate on. I love it! (Why, yes, I am a Scorpio, why do you ask?) It's such an effective passive/aggressive way to throw shade at Meghan without saying a word. Sunny can threaten legal action for what Meghan is doing to her, accusing her -- without any basis that we know of -- of malicious slander. What makes Sunny's freezing out of Meghan so delicious is that there's not a damn thing Meghan can do. "She's not looking at me during the shows!!!" "She's answering my questions, but won't make eye contact with me!" Yeah, honey, try claiming harassment about that. 🙂 Meghan is such a drama queen who can't play the long con. She is wholly incapable of any introspection or of taking a moment to think things through. Meghan's quick-trigger personality makes her completely unable to do what Sunny is doing to her. Like I said, I love it.

Oh, yes. Do I notice? Never! Are they compelled to tell me that they "corrected" it? Of course! (Don't even get me started on the former friend who completely rearranged my house the summer my mom was sick and I was with her in another state while my friend stayed at my place and cat-sat. It's funny now, but also very Single White Female scary.)

I do that. I'm kind of appalled I do the same thing Meghan does. People in my family have Very Strong Opinions about which way the TP goes on the roll. I have had guests switch it from front to back, and then have another guest switch it from back to front, ad nauseum. I can't think of a more pointless thing to have a strong opinion about. My putting it **neutrally** on the roller is my way of opting out. 😉

Who stopped her? LOCK THEM UP!

I've been around a ton of daily hard drinkers, and you can tell. Check out Melanie Griffith in Working Girl for an example of a super-skinny girl with a bloated face, which was obvious despite all the hair and makeup and "movie magic." As soon as that movie came out, I told my BIL she was heading to rehab. And I was right! I don't doubt Meghan likes her liquor, and likes bragging about drinking even more. But she has to get up early for the show; she's never been photographed stumbling drunk out of a car or bar; she mentions drinking when she does drink, something daily drinkers usually don't because it's just a given; and she is consistent in how she posts on social media. All those things -- as well as her non-bloated appearance -- tell me she's not a daily hard drinker. I can't say she's not an alcoholic because the term is so subjective, but I seriously doubt she's drinking a fifth of Jack Daniels every evening.

I find it ironic that the same woman who proudly said "No man speaks for me!" today decided that Kellyanne Conway needs to be stricter and put tweeting restrictions on her husband. She also has, I assume, no problem with her own husband posting racial and homophobic attacks because they are, ostensibly, defending Meghan. Her problem doesn't seem to be offensive tweets, but that George is (in her opinion) attacking Kellyanne by opining negatively on the morals and ethics of the person for whom she is spokesperson. Meghan honestly doesn't know how to see shades of grey. Like Elisabeth, you're either "all in" or "a hater."

My Facebook memories came up today, and ON THIS DAY in 2013, I wrote: "The future is just a little brighter because Elisabeth Hasselbeck is no longer on The View. No longer will I have to hear her word salads, see her argue points she doesn't understand, or be subject to her bratty teenage behavior. Free, I am FREE!" 2019 feeling: same.

That's one of the problems with Meghan's worldview. She can't differentiate between regular folks and leaders. When someone says on the panel, "The Republicans are looking the other way," in reference to Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz (just an example), Meghan goes ballistic and completely derails the conversation by shrieking, "I don't feel that way!" and then it's a free-for-all where everyone has to explain that they don't mean her and she gets to feel picked on and then Whoopi goes to break. Ditto for today, when Whoopi was saying that no evangelicals (meaning evangelical leaders) have publicly stood in support of Epstein's victims, and Meghan again derailed the conversation by making everyone know that her in-laws are Evangelicals and how they feel. Again, meaningful point and ensuing conversation was completely lost because of her inability to understand basic conversational shorthand. Someone needs to have the "not all" conversation with her, and make her realize that The View is not there to talk about private individuals, but mean "the leaders of a movement" when they reference "The Republicans" or "The Conservatives" or "The Evangelicals." No wonder she thinks "The Democrats" walk in lockstep with one another. She can't tell the difference between the electorate and the leaders.

Why on earth did Whoopi have to say that they weren't allowed to speak about the allegations of child rape against Jeffrey Epstein? Who is being protected by that decision? If there's anything that everyone should be able to unite about, it's that having sex with kids (in other words, raping kids) is a bad and disgusting thing.

I think the opposite. People resist programs aimed at changing their behavior because they don't want to hear there's a problem (that they are usually very aware of) or face that they may be responsible for said problems.

It was nice to see Joy looking like herself and not a Corleone widow. I had to laugh when Sunny was speaking about Biden, and all you could hear were little half-syllables as Meghan desperately, desperately, tried to interrupt!

I saw her on some show on Election Night years ago - and she was a stone bitch to the people with her. Later she came back on and apologized and said she was running on no sleep and she had been snippy, but that nasty attitude really stuck in my head. I can't remember the show or the occasion, but that awful personality trait won't go away. I see it has flourished on The View. I wasn't surprised, to be honest.

I don't think it was about his language. Meghan luuuuuuvvvves the NRA. She waxed rhapsodic about Dana Whatshername, who lost her job when NRATV closed (and threw in a compliment for Mr. Whatshisname while she was at it). David Hogg has certainly "moved the narrative" much further than Meghan could dream of doing. I believe it was primarily his doing, and that of the other Parkland students, that caused NRATV to dismantle itself.

I think the reason Meghan self-identifies so strongly with external organizations, people, and symbols (the Republican party, the flag, the military, Arizona, guns/NRA, her father's legacy, her husband) is that she has nothing internal to talk about. She doesn't seem to have a strong moral code, or hobbies, or volunteer activities, or anything that she can talk about that comes from within. It's all identification with things/people that exist outside of herself. I wonder if she has any sense at all of who she is.