Well put, donalsduck.

If anything interesting emerges during the DonnyDeutsch hour, and if I can keep myself awake, I'll post a report on the Media thread.

ETA: I was going to put this in the Media thread, but it might feed speculation about tomorrow night. Deutsch interviewed Trump for the first half-hour, and didn't ask him about Randal and Rebecca until the end. Trump claims that he still hasn't decided, that Randal has a great education and everyone loves him, and that Rebecca also has a great education, and he loves her loyalty. Then he mentioned Rebecca's bringing back Toral for the final task, and commented to the effect that Rebecca's loyalty is a good thing in some ways, and not a good thing in other ways. I should have written down his exact phrasing: perhaps someone else will recall it.

All of the firees were there except Alla and Josh. It's quite amusing because when Deutsch addressed individual people, the responses were clear, but once he started moving into addressing questions to the group, it became a bicker-fest. Hilarious. Deutsch did stick his foot directly in the muck by saying that from a media-watcher's perspective, Randal has a leg up in the final competition because he's African-American, and hiring an African-American candidate would be excellent P.R. for the show (God, Donnie can be a tool). After the sound of many voices died down a bit, Marshawn made an excellent point: the problem is that Randal is extremely well-educated, has run his own business, is respected by everyone, and yet the first thing Deutsch brought up as Randal's advantage was his race. And that bothered her, and rightly so. Earlier, Clay had made a related point by saying that what would bother him, if Randal doesn't win, is that Randal has a superior education, a superior track (win-loss) record in the competition, and is well-liked by everyone (which suggests that not everyone likes Rebecca). Toral, of course, supported Rebecca, as did Adam, but there was such a din of voices that it was difficult to hear anyone else. One thing most of the firees seemed to agree on was that Trump would do what he wanted to do, regardless of what others wanted him to do. When Deutschie asked them to write down their choice for winner, Randal was the overwhelming favorite. There may have

I don't remember verbatim, but he said that Rebecca was "loyal to a fault. Sometimes, that is a good thing, but other times that can be very, very bad." He also spoke a bit negatively about Randal as well, but I can't remember what he said. Rebecca's loyalty comments are what stood out with me.

That sounds about right, ghettofabman, or close enough for me. I didn't remember Trump saying anything strongly negative about Randal; however, I've hardly ever heard him say anything directly negative about Rebecca, and it really stood out that he made the remark after he noted that Rebecca had chosen Toral to be on her final team. It suggested that he had mixed feelings about that particular decision of hers.

CheekyCricket, can you write more about the Donny show? I was able to catch only the last 15 minutes. I cannot believe that I missed the previous similar shows, despite my being a big TA fan!

I think it is very interesting that he used exactly the same phrases on two shows today -- maybe rehearsing them for the finale?

What I found interesting was that despite the fact that Mark seemed a bit annoyed with Randal during the set-up fiasco, both he and Marshawn, Randal's employees, picked him last night...while out of Rebecca's three employees, only Toral picked her, despite Chris and James both saying that while they liked Randal, their job was to help Rebecca win.

Wallyhorse wrote in the Rebecca Thread