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https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-originals/watch/-headliners-nancy-pelosi-mika-s-sit-down-with-the-speaker-61839429773

In the olden days each of the three hours was live/new and that's how Joey pitched it to Andy Lack. Depending on what was going on in the news, they did recaps during the second and third hours but the third hour wasn't a mashup like it is now. Now, it takes a big damn news day to get three live hours out of these two. Honestly? It seemed like the third hour changed when their affair was taking off. It was slow, it was incremental, it was business as usual during the first two hours but during the occasional third hour Mika changed her clothing or her hair was rearranged. She worked most of the third hour but he didn't and vice versa.* Then one week, it seemed like, bam - no more live third hour at all and after that there was no turning back. Now, it's rare enough that viewers notice it: "Hey, was the third hour live today? It seemed like it was." *This was during the time frame when it was leaked that they were sharing a dressing room. Before the divorces, before they went public.

This is funny, this never gets old, when Mika Thindy Brady got braytheth.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/russian-doll-renewed-for-season-2-by-netflix/ar-AACJES1

Or, "Asked and answered."

Rinna shared that her spawn has an eating disorder which led to Kyle doing cry voice and the others bowing down and worshipping Saint Kyle the Parent. All's well that ends well. She is so needy.

She spoke to this one time, can't remember if it was an interview or on the show. Alopecia is hair loss but it's not a stand-alone diagnosis here. This hair loss results from a condition (allergy-related IIRC) that causes intense itching and the meds that relieve the itching cause drowsiness.

She looks deranged when she does the 3/4 profile among three people who are posing straight on.

https://toofab.com/2019/06/04/tori-spelling-90210-bikini-photo-dean-mcdermott-clapback/

So glad to know that the ex-Mrs Hoffer is now married to the means of indulging her champagne taste. KHV* They do say "Marry the first time for love and the second time for money." *Know His Value https://www.oetkercollection.com/hotels/hotel-du-cap-eden-roc/

If that's how Rinna's family interacts when they are being filmed can you even begin to imagine what goes on when they are alone with each other? Eating disorder, schmeating disorder. Rinna's spawn are mean-spirited little harpies, just like her. I think that's exactly what Harry meant when he told Rinna it was all her fault.

Many moons ago there was a scene where Kyle said she hadn't talked with Kathy in months and LVP said "We had dinner with her last night." The look on Kyle's face was priceless.

It sounds like the decision to move on is a done deal but I think Lisa VDP should stay on the show and be filmed only with the 2-3 people she can stand/who can stand her. Then, those 2-3 people could be filmed while they repeat or exaggerate their conversations with Lisa to the rest of the cast. Then, those 2-3 could go back to Lisa and repeat/exaggerate what the others said. Lather, rinse, repeat. You know, business as usual, pretty much.

Where everyone sips from their CRS* mugs. *Can't Remember Shit

Well, she had to mention herself because the LA Times surely did not. Andy Lack "believed reporting should drive the dayside hours, with the nighttime serving as the home for more opinion-led content." Oh, really? MJ is dayside and driven by bombast. Island of misfit toys.

Hell, she doesn't even admit that there is something to throw under the rug.

Excerpts from some comments about an op-ed in today's NY Times. I only made it through a few of them before I had to quit reading. The last one is the one that did me in.

Sometimes, depending on how you were raised or other factors, it translates as being loved. The role is familiar and it feels right. People love you by treating you poorly and you love them by accepting it. She has mentioned being neurotic a couple times but the jury is out on how truly aware she is capable of being. He has snapped at, snarled at and belittled her in ways that absolutely defied what is acceptable, by any measure. In public!

Even if she's not pregnant I wonder if the reality of watching her own kids and keeping up a big ass house has changed her life in any way. Heh heh. Altho, because her LV home sold, I do suspect that a weekly housecleaning service is part of the "pitcher." If she's too purty to cook I bet she's too purty to wear herself out cleaning a mini-mansion. (It's about 7000 sf, right?)

A pattern in how people choose to self-identify is interesting because it sheds light on how they see the world and their place in it. Some people go with age and gender; some go with race and gender; some go age, race, gender. Other common identifiers are economic and marital status, orientation, political and religious leanings, education, health, and ability/disability. The combinations are not limitless but they are revealing. When people don't mention their orientation or race or religion it's usually because it doesn't significantly pertain to the conversation, the situation, how they see themselves, or their worldview. Disregarding the other qualifiers (not because they don't matter but because they don't "tell" others what I think they most need to know about me) I have always gone with gender first because females of every age, race, standing or persuasion are my tribe - and I can remember recognizing the "click" of that concept when I was a little kid. At recess in K-6 elementary school (during the '50s and '60s) whoever got to the baseball diamond first determined whether boys and girls or only boys would play. When groups of boys stopped the fastest girls (me and my bestie) from getting to the diamond first and tagging "open game for everyone" then only the boys played. We were willing to include them but they weren't willing to include us. Our standing was decided by whether we were boys or girls and when we complained to the teacher on yard duty because it happened all the time she told us to play jacks or four-square or tetherball instead. Gah!!! Many (most?) of Mariah's social media conversations concentrate on orientation so I have the impression that orientation is her primary identifier. Just an observation, I could be wrong. I think and I hope I understand where she's coming from, yeah, she's a hick - but she's been in the wide world (of academia, no less) for a few years now. I wonder if she ever realizes, or cares, that she puts herself in a small box when she limits her thinking and her outlook to a very narrow focus. Sexuality is not a person's defining characteristic. Maybe she'll grow out of it?

D-Day is a symbol of the war as a whole because it's the event that turned the tide that led to the end of the war. Among the Allied powers (which included the Axis-occupied countries) the US, the USSR, Great Britain and China were known as the "Big Four." USSR casualties have always been estimated as twenty to twenty seven million; China's casualties have always held firm at twenty million. Of the eighty million casualties worldwide, the USSR and China obviously paid the highest price. (Russia and the USSR not being the same thing, Russia is a country and the USSR was a federation of countries that "belonged to" Russia, because of coercion and outright force). Communism placed China and the USSR far beyond the realm of their WWII allies; China and the USSR ended their relationship because their interpretations of Communism were in conflict. The first Russian president to attend a D-Day remembrance was Yeltsin in 2004. Russian attendance is sporadic because of their bad acts, they're not always invited and China wouldn't attend if they were invited. Putin and Xi are hosting D-Day commemorations in Moscow this week/today. The world is a sad place.

(much more at link) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/d-day-normandy-75th-ernie-pyle.html?action=click&module=Editors Picks&pgtype=Homepage

Recipe for being called on your shit: On a public platform, add a classic imbalance of power and money to a dominant male-subordinate female workplace relationship. Serves two. Enjoy! Given the intention and sentiment in Mika's first two books, the very public evolution of their verbal slap and tickle since Week One, and the many personal interviews which layer by layer slowly revealed how "their love" came about - the hypocrisy and sense of entitlement is what chaps my hide. The perfect example is that they don't show up in the studio every week, let alone every day. Something is askewww (thank you, Lewis Black) when special dispensation of such magnitude is granted only to some of the show's personnel. WTH, why should anyone in the MJ lineup schlep into the city every morning? Why don't Willie, Kasie, Katty, Barnicle, et al work from home - in another state? Willie should do Today AND MJ from home. If it's acceptable for Him and Her to work from a remote location it should be acceptable for anyone in the MJ stable to work from a remote location. After going in numerous directions that never took hold, Mika's 20-year career was in the toilet, she'd been fired again, that time by CBS, and all she could get was doing the overnights at MSNBC. After 20 years in the biz she wasn't even working swing shift, she was on graveyard doing 60-second headline summaries and lead-ins to reruns of earlier programming. After 20 years of floundering from one market and one job description to another she found "success" while having a sexual relationship with her direct supervisor who was personally paying for her on-air wardrobe. It's your basic feminist nightmare. Is anything even remotely similar found when tracking the careers of others in TV network and cable news? Were there maybe a couple of publisher/reporter clutches over the years, altho minus the shameless plugging of side projects? That rings a bell. Someone posted recently about the show gelling because Mika came on board but that isn't accurate because the pre-Mika Scarborough Country had a successful four-year run at 9pm - with three+ years of it occurring before she was even a gleam in Joey's eyes. He jumped on the early morning slot after Imus fucked up and created a vacancy and he offered her the co-host slot the night before the debut of MJ. (After, according to him, watching her do headlines and lead-ins on his bedroom TV for awhile). BTW, he pitched it as a three-hour live show, not two hours plus a mashup. Ahem. She shrills shills an income-generating national platform exhorting women to Know Their (professional) Value while telling them to not even have drinks with their co-workers because it could be misconstrued. What was misconstrued when - while they both were married - he was buying the stilettos and sexy sheath dresses she wore every day? When for years they took those frequent weekend trips tied to "something" of interest on the his show? When they did the show in sunnies and hangovers and the previous night's attire on a lawn across the way from the WH? Is there another female on-air presence who went bare legs and stilettos in the air next to her fully clothed and seated male co-host, in a reputable national magazine? (Which VF was at that time). They're so far up their own asses that they did one show in pajamas and another one while they were residually amped and intoxicated. Who does that and expects to be taken seriously? Nicolle Wallace? Chris Jansing? Don Lemon? The hypocrisy displayed by these two is similar to finding out that prominent animal protection activists have been nailing cats with BBs and wrist rockets every weekend and now demands that everyone should just get over the revelation of their true inclinations.

Andrea Mitchel leads this morning with "They're protesting in London, in the rain." Watch out, Joey, she's stealin' your stuff!

We haven't seen the actual show yet. It will be solemn-in-stereo plus her cry-talk voice and her meaningful glances and off-the-beat pauses. We probably shouldn't get cocky and think we're already out of the woods. I'm pretty sure there's worse to come. The curdled icing on the snarling cake is how they milked a honeymoon (and seats for Liverpool?) out of this. Gah!!!