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The weekend MSNBC show AM Joy always has a few guests pick their "winner of the week" on Sundays. Joy Reid also gets a pick, and she chose "the ladies of The View", and gave kudos to Sunny and especially Abby, a former co-worker at MSNBC, who she said, "...is one of the loveliest people ever; she don't get mad often", and played two clips of them questioning DJTJr.

Oh, I'm so sorry. I guess I didn't check carefully when I cut and paste it. And thanks for letting me know, so I could go back and fix it.

I'm wondering if the day of hot topics on Wednesday and Friday is in case ABC decides to show live coverage of the impeachment hearings ( so far there's no information about this one way or the other). eta - I just found this -

Oh, I agree that's what Joy meant. Meghan was the one who brought up age, saying, "so if you're old you get a pass?", and I assume the person she was saying got a pass is Tlaib, and I was just pointing out that it made no sense because Tlaib is younger than Kennedy. I guess Meghan could have been calling Tlaib old 😆 (even though she's only 8 years older than Meghan), but if she thought Joy was saying age made a difference, then presumably Joy would have been okay with Senator Kennedy's comments as well, and the whole topic was based on the idea that his comments weren't okay. It was probably just one more example of Meghan speaking without thinking.

I wonder if all of Meghan's friends have to be acquiescent towards her, like Abby is, since she equates someone calmly disagreeing with her with being "nasty" to her.

If it was the reverse, and Abby did this to Meghan, there would be hell to pay.

At least during that, only one person was screaming at a time (as far as I can remember), and there were only two people involved; plus, it was relatively brief. Yesterday there were seven people (really only six, though, since Meghan chose, on that day of all days, to be dignified for once), basically talking/shouting at the same time, and it lasted the entire 3 or 4 segments. With all the press they got, I hope they don't try to recreate it anytime soon They're still milking that "...most important political tv show in America " headline the NYT magazine gave them last May.

Here's an article that includes the clip - yahoo.com

Well, that's not unusual for Meghan. But it really didn't make sense, because Rashida Tlaib is 25 years younger than Senator Kennedy, and she's the one Joy was excusing.

Unfortunately, like I said, I only caught the last 6 minutes of it, and while Wednesday's show was available OnDemand on my tv yesterday, last night's episode is not available today, and it doesn't look like it's available online either. If I had known that would happen I would have recorded it. Anyway, all I can really recall is that they were both very complimentary towards the hosts.

General Days, you explained the blackface issue so well here. I also agree that the producers kind of threw their own co-workers to the lions by having those two on, and while the hosts emerged relatively unscathed, it was otherwise a less than useless spectacle.

Since she was wearing all black two days in a row, I wonder if Meghan does the dressing in black for mourning thing, that people hardly ever do anymore, even for funerals. One of the bleeps was explained above, and the other one wasn't actually needed. I forget what Meghan was quoting at the time, but when I was watching, I anticipated what she was going to say, and so did the person doing the bleeping, but the two word phrase that was bleeped ended up not needing to be because Meghan censored herself. The first word was okay anyway, and then she said "blank" for the other word.

And giving her mother no credit for liking older men.

One thing occurred to me as I was watching them replay on CNN this morning the segment where she first asked Don Jr. a question. Her demeanor was very similar to what it was when she spoke at her father's funeral. Afterwards, there was a lot of praise for her in the press. I thought she was behaving the same way during yesterday's interview because she knew it would receive a lot of coverage, and she wanted to show that same side of herself that many in the general public, who were otherwise unfamiliar with her, admired so much last year. I hadn't even thought of her being medicated, but after reading your two posts, I think that's right. Remember how much she was sobbing at the pre-funeral events? But she made it through the eulogy without crying. Now, I suspect she was medicated then as well. She may be one of those people who gets very weepy over the death of anyone she's close to. I bet she was medicated yesterday so she could make it through the show without crying.

(I got to an ad and thought I had scrolled to the end of the page, so I missed seeing the earlier posts answering this question.)

I don't know how many people will see this, but Ana and Tara Setmayer were both on Don Lemon's show talking about The View. It began at some point towards the end of the first hour (I wasn't watching then), and went over into his second hour for 6 minutes. His show is repeated from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. ET.

In reading some of the many, many articles about today"s show, a couple of them quote Whoopie saying this -

Of course Drudge is wrong as well. Anybody who discloses the name is wrong. But a tweet by Jr. will get a lot more attention than The Drudge Report, even though he tried to imply that it's a major media outlet. You know that old saying - "Two wrongs don't make a right".

She seemed perfectly normal back then. I don't know if she shared similar political beliefs as her husband, who was mayor of San Fransisco during most of their marriage. Maybe they had a Mary Matalin/James Carville or Kelly Ann Conway/George Conway type of relationship. On tv, she was what Sunny used to be, a legal analyst. Her Wikipedia page says she joined Fox News in 2006, so I guess that's where she became more political.

Oh, good. Thanks for posting it. It told the tale well, and with humor. I highly recommend it. The hosts are all positively portrayed. The only thing it doesn't really capture is the whirlwind of back and forth and on top of one another talking.

Thanks for this. Now I wish somebody had pointed out the irony of him making that statement. I hope there's an article online somewhere with lots of quotes. It was impossible to follow all the crosstalk, and I'm not sure a rewatch would help.

Yep. That was the first question asked, by Abby, believe it or not.

Exactly! Although, maybe he does associate criticism with enjoyment. (I do wonder if the title of his book (and can you believe that title, the whole thing?) is the reason Meghan called both Tulsi Gabbard and herself "triggers" the other day.) There is definite SNL potential as well.

I do wonder, like you implied, if the interview was ended early. Meghan said to Kimberly Guilfoyle that she works in the White House, so why doesn't she bring civility back? Even if KG is a Trump campaign consultant, I wouldn't say she's in the White House, either literally or figuratively. She lives in NYC, doesn't she? Meghan really seemed to believe KG could do something about it.

She used to be much prettier, back when she was married to Gavin Newsom. She's an example of "bad plastic surgery". An example of "good plastic surgery" - Jane Fonda.