Apples to Apples

Amanda (the McCarrington's adopted daughter), after playing dress-up and dreaming of her wedding one day, decided to research the family history. She was shocked to learn that Krystle's father (the reason Blake, as Amanda thinks, is a spoiled rich guy), a convicted felon that used his organized crime connections to obtain illegal liquor licenses to launch the business that created the $100,000,000 estate that Krystle inherited, had been lured out of his first marriage by a devious home-wrecking hussy, still somewhat known to the family...


as "Grandma" (Krystle's mother).

This, of course, helped her understand those rumors that her father Blake had similarly been stolen from his first wife, by a trollop (named...Krystle!) who Blake, after living with her for the better part of a year, married literally one month after his divorce from Alexis was finalized.

Amanda also learned that both grandparents had two daughters (each had one from previous marriages), but only Krystle was the daughter of them both - and Krystle now goes around claiming to be an only daughter. Does this make Amanda suspicious that Claudia (the McCarrington's only birth daughter) might similarly heartlessly and cruelly cut Amanda herself, Claudia's own (although not "full") sister(!) out of any inheritance?

In the meantime, Steven feels Blake is acting cold and distant because Blake went an entire day without mentioning that he is a former POW. Steven also wonders why, on their trips together, Blake is refusing to come to the back of the bus and hang out. It's to the point that Blake won't really even speak to him at all. At their last interview, Steven even cried out "Do I know you?" when Blake was prickly and cold towards him.

Little does he know that Dex McDexter (McCarrington's campaign mananger) is forcing Blake to restrict his access because he is terrified of Blake's increasing confusion. Some senior party officials are saying that Dex even secretly refers to McCarrington as a doddering old dinosaur.

Claudia!

At a recent BBQ that Blake and Dex McDexter threw for Steven at the multimillion dollar 20-acre Sedona compound (part of a trust and a limited partnership controlled by Krystle since individuals in America pay taxes, and Krystle ain't about paying taxes, I'll guarantee you that!), complete with a 4,000 sq. ft. main house, three to five additional guest houses, and a man-made private lake built for Blake so he could go fishing (which Steven characterized as "rustic" and "a weekend cabin" in his later "reports"), the McCarrington's birth daughter, Claudia Blaisdel McCarrington, wondered whether Steven and Dex might be in some sort of a sick sadomasochistic relationship, when Steven blurted out, "I feel so dirty, but dammit, I want to be used!"

Claudia, wisely, simply passed him a napkin, for the white "BBQ sauce" all over his face.

When Claudia graduated from an elite, private, "ivy-league" East Coast college - in fact, one of only two universities in the United States to have been founded by royal charter, her parents bought her a $700,000 condo - in cash (or Amex Black Card, same dif) - that has an interior that looks like a spaceship furnished by West Elm. She blogs there, and on the family private jet, Trollop One, for Blake's campaign.

Steven McCarrington catch(er!) up!

Steven McCarrington is an intrepid national news reporter that Blake used to spend lots of time and attention on.

Well, Steven was so smitten with Blake that he constantly built Blake up as a “maverick” when in reality Blake, even by his own admission, votes conservative party line 95% of the time.

Possibly because Blake was once a POW (in case you hadn't heard) Steven has also buried or deemphasized reports/stories that might harm Blake or Krystle, including such doozies as Krystle’s drug addiction, which led to her stealing drugs - from her charity for sick children! (Yes! She is only worth $100 MILLION!)

Or that Blake is the only donor to a million dollar “family foundation” that Krystle runs, which gives “donations” primarily only to their own childrens' exclusive private prep schools.

Or that Krystle went around claiming that Mother Teresa herself "implored" the McCarrington’s to adopt Amanda, which, of course, must have been a drug-fueled delusion, since everyone knows that certainly isn’t true!!

While Steven has not recently made any mention of Blake's manly smells, he is still probably a closet case. So, you don't have to worry about that.