TheGreenKnight

I'd say Pirro was the unprofessional one there? She came on looking for a moment and when she didn't get one on-air, she threw a tantrum afterwards. As for O'Reilly, I seem to recall Joy and Whoopi were made to apologize... Was McCain made to apologize for the red carpet-length list of things she did to both co-hosts and guests, like cursing Joy and Brian out or chasing Abby off the show? Leaking to the press so she could then whine that there were leaks to supposedly make her look bad and self-victimize? Or Elisabeth with how openly rude she was to Kathy Griffin even? (Griffin enjoyed the drama of course, that doesn't mean it wasn't unprofessional on Elisabeth's end.) I believe she was made to apologize to Erin Andrews at least, but to be fair Elisabeth never did the kinds of things McCain did, although it was still always clear the producer favored her and Sherri had to act like they were friends for the camera the same way Sunny and Joy were told to do with McCain. I expect once Alyssa no longer works there, we'll find out that Sunny was forced to do the same with her. I don't recall things like that ever happening in reverse. Alyssa, Elisabeth, Candace, McCain always seemed allowed--sometimes encouraged--to show their disdain of the others openly. Paula and Abby were the only conservatives who were ever friendly to the others, largely because being nice / polite was their real personality.

I wouldn't say the current occupant learned anything from loss in 2020... The campaign in 2024 was almost exactly the same. Timing is all that really makes much difference in politics.

Jeanine Pirro had her full segment... Whoopi just told her to GTFO when she threw a fit with the behind-the-scenes people afterwards. From what I recall, Pirro was already angry before the interview because Joy wasn't there for her to attack the day she was on, lol.

Well, I don't think they plan to stop criticizing decisions made, but at the same time they probably know they don't really need to talk about it that much considering blowback will come in '26 and '28 with or without them having talked about it all as much as they could have. The show has already made the co-hosts bite their tongues in response to McCain's toxic, harassing behavior and then again when they hired someone who worked for Trump who helped him get re-elected by issuing out as much disinformation as possible with this show as her platform. Sort of funny this show is always labeled a "liberal" show, but the show is always coddling the conservative co-hosts, the conservative guests, asking the liberal co-hosts to play with kids gloves or put on a fake show of friendship, ignore the elephant in the room, and on and on. Iger probably would like to keep Disney out of any possible quagmire, but it's sort of pointless... A show that talks about politics daily can't exactly talk about politics without talking about the president, LOL.

Yeah, I think the only people who want Democrats to keep thinking about a politician who is no longer in politics now are people who want Democrats to continue losing. People like Alyssa who continue to twist the truth just so they have an excuse to criticize anyone but Trump, like how she said Biden didn't drop out this morning? Come again? I find it ironic that the same people (Sara and Alyssa) who whined and moaned every day until Biden finally did drop out are now the same people whining and moaning the loudest when Democrats inevitably failed because he did what they wanted. I think they have the least to add to the conversation, considering how things worked out by going their direction. Anyway, everybody knows in politics that looking backward is never a recipe to success, only failure.

Yay! The perfect winner this year, a perfect end to a pretty good season. I remember some worrying Carrie joining the judge's panel would slant the show a little too heavily country; thankfully that didn't end up being the case. I'll follow all of the top 3 + Kolbi and Gabby post-show. Anyway, I was thinking of the show's winners as the show was airing, and I believe Jamal would just round out my top 10 favorites. And it is pretty amazing, too, to see a Black guy win the show two decades in. I wasn't really sure that was even possible this far into the series, tbh! Happy to be wrong. :)

Brianna going third feels right. Aside from Kolbi, this was definitely a guy's year. Her "The Climb" was characteristic of her run on the show, as far as the performance began well, but just didn't take off the way you know her voice is capable of considering she has the pipes to do it. Both John and Breanna felt like they were being very strategic with their song choices and video packages, while Jamal just gave his usual good performances. I definitely think she could do well in Gospel--and I hope so. Hopefully Carrie could help her in some way in meeting the people who can help her to do that.

I have no doubt about Alyssa, she's just gross during these types of topics which tells you who she really is. Sara, on the other hand, I'm sure would never have voted for Trump. She's overall a decent person, she just comes across bitter when it comes to the whole age-related discussions. Probably for having been called ageist, I suppose.

Actually, that's one of the things that I find very likable about Jamal. He's not as drawn in by all the glamor of it all while everyone else is taking it so serious, it always ends up making me laugh. And the audience never responds well to anyone who wants to win too much.

The Biden conversation is always poisoned anyway because the truth is anyone pushed into the nomination at the last minute like that was not going to win. Alyssa and Sara want to rehash Biden of course, but they can't really because--as much as they will say Democrats supposedly didn't listen--Biden was not on the ballot. Because people in the media like them obsessed over it every day nonstop for months, Biden dropped out and there's no knowing what the numbers would've been if he had stayed in. Alyssa and Sara want to have their cake and eat it, too, as usual. I was glad Ana hammered the two of them at the end of the first segment instead of letting them steamroll everyone. I mean, comparing Biden's age to insurrection, those two are crazy as hell. Personally, I think it's that kind of insanity that is more responsible for the state of things anyway, but naturally they would like everyone else to "take responsibility" while they themselves never look in the mirror and take responsibility for their own role in getting us to this point.

I can believe they don't "fight"... I think it's more they probably go to their dressing rooms and ignore one another. Not like when McCain was there, she would pursue the others and continuously argue with them backstage. I can't remember exactly which, I think she was eventually pushed out of their pre-show meetings because if it, or maybe they made her do hair/makeup in a separate place? It was one of those. I'm sure Alyssa doesn't do that at all, but I don't believe the others besides Joy and Sara are overly friendly with her. Joy gets along with everyone though, I don't see her as being "close" to Alyssa like Sara/Brian are. I imagine Whoopi is polite, Sunny puts on a nice pretense (she did it with McCain, too, after a while because McCain's friends at the top threatened her place on the show if she didn't; I wouldn't be surprised if something similar's happened here), and Ana doesn't talk to her at all, LOL. As for Sunny specifically, I think she's learned it's best to sit back and let the trash take itself out, so to speak, rather than have "sparks" on the show. Sunny doesn't have quite the same level of name value to protect her that Joy, Whoopi, and Ana have, it's better to let them fight with the producer's pet since he can't push out big draws to the show that are critical to their ratings like those three for her sake. Anyway, Alyssa's already made waves in the media with her extreme defenses if Trump the past couple of months on her own, I recall seeing a People headline about her a few weeks back, so Sunny's smart to let the others fight those battles.

Loved Joy and Sunny on today's show. That's all. I'll have to finish the Grammar interview later.

I think John's cute and talented, that's the main reason I knew he would be a hard one for anybody else to beat. A male country contestant already has an advantage on shows like this even when they aren't talented or attractive, but when they have that on top of it all... Idol's only found a few male country voices I've liked over the years. Of those, I'd say I don't like John quite as much as Noah Thompson, but more than Laine Hardy (who had a good voice, but mostly picked songs I had no interest in) and Aaron Kelly. I liked Josh Gracin, too, but that was more based on his post-show material; he wasn't that great on the show itself. But I don't write off anybody's chances on the show these days. They've had quite a wide range of winners ever since the show moved to ABC, which is what makes the show more entertaining to watch. It definitely would be nice if Jamal somehow pulled off an upset win, considering I really only thought of Kolbi, John, and Brianna as the contenders back during auditions. For someone else to grow over the weeks and take it all instead would be fun.

A surprisingly wonderful end to the season they've had lconsidering they lost Kolbi earlier than expected. The two worst went, yay, so now whoever wins, they're guaranteed another good winner this year. Still pulling for Jamal, but I like John almost as much. I feel like Brianna has slowly pulled it back together these past three shows; loved her audition, but she lost me for a little while there. As far as repeat performances go for the finale, I'd actually say Brianna's and Jamal's was Reflection and Go the Distance, respectively (although Jamal has quite a few to choose from), while John's was the Elvis song, imo.

I wouldn't say not interested so much as the ones they had this year either weren't very good (Amanda, Mattie), were boring and struggled to emote (Brianna), or picked poor songs to showcase themselves with (Kolbi, Gabby). Anyway, it seems almost a lock that Brianna will be in the top 3 unless she really screws up and both Jamal and John have delivered strong vocals pretty regularly, so... Thunderstorm and Slater are the only two who are pretty poor vocally and even saying they don't belt isn't really true. Slater does attempt to belt pretty often, he just sounds pretty awful when he does, much like Zaylie or whatever the guitar girl's name was who also had a weak voice. Putting that aside, Slater seems nice and the Dylan and Reba songs he's done were actually alright some of the time. Same with Thunderstorm on the Adele song a week back. Thunderstorm reminds me a lot of MacKenzie from the last season on FOX.