The View: Chris Matthews, Busy Philipps, Dan Abrams, Kirsten Gillibrand, Dennis Quaid, Regina Hall
Panel is Whoopi, Joy, Sunny, Sara, and Meghan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy0VVbdhtRQ
More behind the cut
Hot Topic Today Commemorating Tulsa
A century after the Tulsa race massacre that killed approximately 300 Black Americans, Biden was the first president to acknowledge it as part of American history. Plays clip. Sunny feels financial accountability is warranted. The only business that was compensated with property insurance was a white man who owned a gun shop. Sara feels it should be taught in schools and we need to learn about it, she only learned of it a few years ago. So much of American history has been forgotten because it’s not taught to new generations. Joy feels it was good that finally a Potus is officially recognizing and talking about it. White supremacy is on the (overt) rise again (thanks to T45). Segues to other countries where authoritarians are taking democracies and turning them (back into) fascist regimes. Me-again was pleased to see Biden going in person and supports Sunny’s case for reparations and surprisingly doesn’t say anything both-sides awful.
Hot Topic Today Chris Matthews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRQaYg_72XQ
Chris Matthews is promoting his book This Country: My Life in Politics and History. He resigned from MSNBC Hardball after reports that he made sexist remarks about a female journalist, which he says the reporting was true, so he left. He claims he took ownership of his inappropriate behavior at MSNBC, he talks about the Capitol insurrection as a former Capitol Police officer, he rants about more political topics. Welcome to the start of this guy’s redemption tour.
Hot Topic Today Google Diversity Chief is Not Diverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5dtSPAtpYA
Google’s Head of Diversity Kamau Bobb made a blog post where he says Jewish people have an -insatiable appetite for war-. Yikes. Whoopi continues to butcher pronouncing other people’s names. Me-again MyGreatGrandfather™ fought in WWII and so on. Whoopi wonders why Google hasn’t acknowledged his remarks and take action. Sara expands on his remarks and how inappropriate they were. [Sidebar quite a bit of blurring lines between his remarks about “Jewish people” vs the “geo-political conflict between Israel-Palestine”]. Sunny points out the continuing conflict in middle east should be addressed by the experts, because it’s not anti-semitic to call out the military action from Israel. Whoopi puts all that aside and goes back to how Google missed this, they shouldn’t have been blindsided, should’ve done their homework on recruitment.
Hot Topic Today Busy Philipps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hurUhz03oU
Not to be confused with Bijou Phillips, or is it only me who gets their names mixed up?
Busy Phillips is promoting her show Girls5Eva on Peacock. She talks about motherhood, Naomi Osaka and mental health remarks, surprising her mom in Arizona for mother’s day (plays video). All episodes are streaming now.
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Hot Topic Tuesday Naomi Osaka Drops Out of French Open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=634Jiqx6qJA
Sunny felt Osaka was doing what was right for her, but also taking a stand against the media who doesn’t consider the health and wellness of the athlete. Reminds that the French Open wouldn’t let Serena wear a suit that helped prevent blood clots. They seem to want to control and own the athletes and it’s shameful. Sara thinks the media remains a double edged sword, where they run it as a business with no regard to players, but also call out inequalities which bring resolution because of the media attention (like the basketball facilities for women vs men). Foreign sports press is bad, moreso than American media. [I may have missed it but Roland Garros is horrible to athletes, particularly women, and poc]. Joy talks about the difference in press for entertainment vs athletes, when all they do is attack the player for what they did wrong. Meghan is wearing your mom’s Sunday church jacket.
Hot Topic Tuesday NYC Pride March Bans Uniformed Officers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKKSwVuXchw
Sara doesn’t like it because it affects those who’ve made strides to become an out and proud police officer, don’t hate something so much that you become it. Joy feels they’re trying to send a message to police to stop mistreating the LGBT community. We’ve come a long way from Stonewall, but there are still issues. Sunny reminds of the backlash and backslide that happened during T45 era and recommends @NYT op-ed by Roxanne Gay why NYC police aren’t welcome at Pride Parade.
Hot Topic Tuesday Dan Abrams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxeDWVkdAqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ab3sHl-Zw
Dan Abrams is ABC Chief Legal Analyst and he’s promoting his book Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination Conspiracy and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby. He talks about the T45 Family Crime Syndicate, police reform and ending qualified immunity, Live PD being pulled from TV and whether it would-should come back.
More details about his book, eg Jack Ruby who shot Lee Harvey Oswald who shot JFK, lots of unknown or forgotten stories of Ruby’s trial, more on the JFK conspiracy, Sheba the beloved dog story.
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Friday & Monday shows were repeats due to holiday weekend
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Hot Topic Thursday San Jose Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNdy4k38IE
Plays clip of Gov Newsom. San Jose mass shooting is the 232nd mass shooting THIS YEAR IN 2021. The panel says the same things that are always said. It’s a health crisis. 183% increase in mass shootings with assault weapons after the assault weapons ban (during Clinton era) was allowed to expire (during Bush43 era). Nearly every mass shooting is /metaphorically or literally/ Guy With Weapons and Female Issues Kills People. Sidebar, but if the gun industry and manufacturers were regulated like the car industry, there wouldn’t be these mass shootings anymore. Required training (classroom and practical), license renewal, mandatory gun owner liability insurance, financial culpability on behalf of gun manufacturers for use of their weapons in homicides, etc. Me-again, who is wearing a picnic tablecloth for a jacket, notes the astronomical increase in gun purchase over the last year (during pandemic) without acknowledging it’s a direct result of TRE45ON rhetoric.
Hot Topic Thursday Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgIwsU5q3xw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_zfBWw6uyI
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about >>> the tragedy in San Jose, more about gun control measures, how military handles sexual violence, working across the aisle with Insurrectionists Hawley and Cruz, whether bipartisanship is a worthless cause because the GQP votes in lockstep against every Biden initiative. Me-again talks about her imaginary friends.
More talk about sexual misconduct, re/Franken, Cuomo, Gaetz, the inconsistencies on purity tests between parties.
Hot Topic Thursday Dennis Quaid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8wP5Wwuq0E
Dennis Quaid is promoting his two movies Blue Miracle on Netflix and Reagan (release 2022). After a first brief marriage, he wed America’s (then) sweetheart Meg Ryan and they had son and new gossip blog fave Jack Quaid. Then Meg (married) made a mediocre film with Russell Crowe (single) and they proceeded to have a not at all secret affair, which precipitated her divorce from Quaid. Dennis went on to date and marry 4,345 more times and has just recently married his 4th wife. Meanwhile Meg’s career never recovered but she went on to date rocker John Cougar Mellonheadcamp off and on for however long. That concludes today’s gossip about 60-somethings because you know you’re not going to watch either of his films!
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Hot Topic Last Wednesday Tr/mp Criminal Laundry List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps2W9m46bG4
Manhattan NY District Attorney is convening grand jury to review criminal charges against T45 for his litany of crimes. These are state level crimes which can’t be pardoned by a Potus. 95-99% of cases brought before the grand jury result in indictments. Some are cynical and jaded, nothing every seems to stick with him. Weisselberg the CFO of T45 organization is going to plea bargain away everything, so T45 and his lecherous family should be worried. Me-again has an unattractive headband.
Hot Topic Last Wednesday Covid Origins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaz_ntxtDiM
Clickbait title of video clip and the news media framing. It was always said, and still believed, that covid-19 originated by natural transference between animal to human, but it remains necessary to fully investigate the origins. This includes possible lab accident even though the epidemiology community feels that’s an unlikely conclusion. China is being cagey which only furthers the conspiracy speculation. Regardless of investigation, it will be highly politicized due to racist and incompetent bungling of former admin and is a direct correlation to rise in anti-Asian hate crimes.
Hot Topic Last Wednesday Do You Hide Your Snacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IERD6KKmoeI
Sara has been hiding snacks since Christmas 1983, tells story. Sunny went from only child to family with house full of people and if she doesn’t hide them, then her family eats them, tells story. Joy says her husband is like a drug sniffing dog, tells story.
Hot Topic Last Wednesday Regina Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wNyOtOJe0U
Regina Hall is promoting new season of Black Monday on Showtime. She was one of the last studio guests before shutdown. She talks about covid time, turning 50 yrs old (!!), the video she made for her bday, making Scary Movie from 20 yrs ago, more conversation about this season of her show, possible sequel to Girls Trip,
Hot Topic Last Wednesday 2x Survivor of Brain Tumor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXvfdCEhT8
Whew leaky eyes alert, she’s very brave
Molly Oldham survived brain cancer 2x by age 19. She tells her story with remarks from her mom and doctors. Music is joy to her and she relied on music and singing throughout her diagnosis and treatment. Ben Platt surprises her, invites her to be his guest at the Dear Evan Hansen film premiere later this year. Her favorite professor at UNCG (UNC-Greensboro) announces the Chancellor is giving her a full scholarship for her remaining 2 years at college.
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More behind the cut
Hot Topic Today Commemorating Tulsa
A century after the Tulsa race massacre that killed approximately 300 Black Americans, Biden was the first president to acknowledge it as part of American history. Plays clip. Sunny feels financial accountability is warranted. The only business that was compensated with property insurance was a white man who owned a gun shop. Sara feels it should be taught in schools and we need to learn about it, she only learned of it a few years ago. So much of American history has been forgotten because it’s not taught to new generations. Joy feels it was good that finally a Potus is officially recognizing and talking about it. White supremacy is on the (overt) rise again (thanks to T45). Segues to other countries where authoritarians are taking democracies and turning them (back into) fascist regimes. Me-again was pleased to see Biden going in person and supports Sunny’s case for reparations and surprisingly doesn’t say anything both-sides awful.
Hot Topic Today Chris Matthews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRQaYg_72XQ
Chris Matthews is promoting his book This Country: My Life in Politics and History. He resigned from MSNBC Hardball after reports that he made sexist remarks about a female journalist, which he says the reporting was true, so he left. He claims he took ownership of his inappropriate behavior at MSNBC, he talks about the Capitol insurrection as a former Capitol Police officer, he rants about more political topics. Welcome to the start of this guy’s redemption tour.
Hot Topic Today Google Diversity Chief is Not Diverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5dtSPAtpYA
Google’s Head of Diversity Kamau Bobb made a blog post where he says Jewish people have an -insatiable appetite for war-. Yikes. Whoopi continues to butcher pronouncing other people’s names. Me-again MyGreatGrandfather™ fought in WWII and so on. Whoopi wonders why Google hasn’t acknowledged his remarks and take action. Sara expands on his remarks and how inappropriate they were. [Sidebar quite a bit of blurring lines between his remarks about “Jewish people” vs the “geo-political conflict between Israel-Palestine”]. Sunny points out the continuing conflict in middle east should be addressed by the experts, because it’s not anti-semitic to call out the military action from Israel. Whoopi puts all that aside and goes back to how Google missed this, they shouldn’t have been blindsided, should’ve done their homework on recruitment.
Hot Topic Today Busy Philipps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hurUhz03oU
Not to be confused with Bijou Phillips, or is it only me who gets their names mixed up?
Busy Phillips is promoting her show Girls5Eva on Peacock. She talks about motherhood, Naomi Osaka and mental health remarks, surprising her mom in Arizona for mother’s day (plays video). All episodes are streaming now.
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Hot Topic Tuesday Naomi Osaka Drops Out of French Open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=634Jiqx6qJA
Sunny felt Osaka was doing what was right for her, but also taking a stand against the media who doesn’t consider the health and wellness of the athlete. Reminds that the French Open wouldn’t let Serena wear a suit that helped prevent blood clots. They seem to want to control and own the athletes and it’s shameful. Sara thinks the media remains a double edged sword, where they run it as a business with no regard to players, but also call out inequalities which bring resolution because of the media attention (like the basketball facilities for women vs men). Foreign sports press is bad, moreso than American media. [I may have missed it but Roland Garros is horrible to athletes, particularly women, and poc]. Joy talks about the difference in press for entertainment vs athletes, when all they do is attack the player for what they did wrong. Meghan is wearing your mom’s Sunday church jacket.
Hot Topic Tuesday NYC Pride March Bans Uniformed Officers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKKSwVuXchw
Sara doesn’t like it because it affects those who’ve made strides to become an out and proud police officer, don’t hate something so much that you become it. Joy feels they’re trying to send a message to police to stop mistreating the LGBT community. We’ve come a long way from Stonewall, but there are still issues. Sunny reminds of the backlash and backslide that happened during T45 era and recommends @NYT op-ed by Roxanne Gay why NYC police aren’t welcome at Pride Parade.
Hot Topic Tuesday Dan Abrams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxeDWVkdAqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ab3sHl-Zw
Dan Abrams is ABC Chief Legal Analyst and he’s promoting his book Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination Conspiracy and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby. He talks about the T45 Family Crime Syndicate, police reform and ending qualified immunity, Live PD being pulled from TV and whether it would-should come back.
More details about his book, eg Jack Ruby who shot Lee Harvey Oswald who shot JFK, lots of unknown or forgotten stories of Ruby’s trial, more on the JFK conspiracy, Sheba the beloved dog story.
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Friday & Monday shows were repeats due to holiday weekend
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Hot Topic Thursday San Jose Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNdy4k38IE
Plays clip of Gov Newsom. San Jose mass shooting is the 232nd mass shooting THIS YEAR IN 2021. The panel says the same things that are always said. It’s a health crisis. 183% increase in mass shootings with assault weapons after the assault weapons ban (during Clinton era) was allowed to expire (during Bush43 era). Nearly every mass shooting is /metaphorically or literally/ Guy With Weapons and Female Issues Kills People. Sidebar, but if the gun industry and manufacturers were regulated like the car industry, there wouldn’t be these mass shootings anymore. Required training (classroom and practical), license renewal, mandatory gun owner liability insurance, financial culpability on behalf of gun manufacturers for use of their weapons in homicides, etc. Me-again, who is wearing a picnic tablecloth for a jacket, notes the astronomical increase in gun purchase over the last year (during pandemic) without acknowledging it’s a direct result of TRE45ON rhetoric.
Hot Topic Thursday Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgIwsU5q3xw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_zfBWw6uyI
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about >>> the tragedy in San Jose, more about gun control measures, how military handles sexual violence, working across the aisle with Insurrectionists Hawley and Cruz, whether bipartisanship is a worthless cause because the GQP votes in lockstep against every Biden initiative. Me-again talks about her imaginary friends.
More talk about sexual misconduct, re/Franken, Cuomo, Gaetz, the inconsistencies on purity tests between parties.
Hot Topic Thursday Dennis Quaid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8wP5Wwuq0E
Dennis Quaid is promoting his two movies Blue Miracle on Netflix and Reagan (release 2022). After a first brief marriage, he wed America’s (then) sweetheart Meg Ryan and they had son and new gossip blog fave Jack Quaid. Then Meg (married) made a mediocre film with Russell Crowe (single) and they proceeded to have a not at all secret affair, which precipitated her divorce from Quaid. Dennis went on to date and marry 4,345 more times and has just recently married his 4th wife. Meanwhile Meg’s career never recovered but she went on to date rocker John Cougar Mellonheadcamp off and on for however long. That concludes today’s gossip about 60-somethings because you know you’re not going to watch either of his films!
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Hot Topic Last Wednesday Tr/mp Criminal Laundry List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps2W9m46bG4
Manhattan NY District Attorney is convening grand jury to review criminal charges against T45 for his litany of crimes. These are state level crimes which can’t be pardoned by a Potus. 95-99% of cases brought before the grand jury result in indictments. Some are cynical and jaded, nothing every seems to stick with him. Weisselberg the CFO of T45 organization is going to plea bargain away everything, so T45 and his lecherous family should be worried. Me-again has an unattractive headband.
Hot Topic Last Wednesday Covid Origins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaz_ntxtDiM
Clickbait title of video clip and the news media framing. It was always said, and still believed, that covid-19 originated by natural transference between animal to human, but it remains necessary to fully investigate the origins. This includes possible lab accident even though the epidemiology community feels that’s an unlikely conclusion. China is being cagey which only furthers the conspiracy speculation. Regardless of investigation, it will be highly politicized due to racist and incompetent bungling of former admin and is a direct correlation to rise in anti-Asian hate crimes.
Hot Topic Last Wednesday Do You Hide Your Snacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IERD6KKmoeI
Sara has been hiding snacks since Christmas 1983, tells story. Sunny went from only child to family with house full of people and if she doesn’t hide them, then her family eats them, tells story. Joy says her husband is like a drug sniffing dog, tells story.
Hot Topic Last Wednesday Regina Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wNyOtOJe0U
Regina Hall is promoting new season of Black Monday on Showtime. She was one of the last studio guests before shutdown. She talks about covid time, turning 50 yrs old (!!), the video she made for her bday, making Scary Movie from 20 yrs ago, more conversation about this season of her show, possible sequel to Girls Trip,
Hot Topic Last Wednesday 2x Survivor of Brain Tumor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXvfdCEhT8
Whew leaky eyes alert, she’s very brave
Molly Oldham survived brain cancer 2x by age 19. She tells her story with remarks from her mom and doctors. Music is joy to her and she relied on music and singing throughout her diagnosis and treatment. Ben Platt surprises her, invites her to be his guest at the Dear Evan Hansen film premiere later this year. Her favorite professor at UNCG (UNC-Greensboro) announces the Chancellor is giving her a full scholarship for her remaining 2 years at college.
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