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EILEEN Deep in some quality broadcasting. RICHARD Good. Stay off your phone. Night.
Richard hangs up. Eileen’s wheels are spinning. “The Left.” She PICKS UP HER PHONE, she can’t help herself. She starts scrolling, reads. EILEEN “Liberals must stop eating their own. The General is one of us.” (Shaking her head) Yeah, if by “us” you mean a crook. She’s getting sucked in. She sits up, more scrolling. EILEEN (CONT'D) (To the Tweet) Because you didn’t read the whole article, you putz. If you did... She starts typing, replying to the Tweet. She’s in. INT. EILEEN’S BEDROOM - EARLY MORNING It’s RAINING outside. 4:30am on the clock. Eileen’s asleep when her phone rings. She wakes, grabs it. EILEEN
I still have ten minutes. Morning Joe’s first up and it’s at six. RICHARD
We canceled it. We’re getting blow back on the piece. Social media is leaning hard into the race aspect. EILEEN What race aspect? RICHARD You were on Twitter last night. EILEEN A bit. Let me defend my story. RICHARD Come on in and we’ll discuss. Click. Eileen sits up, confused and pissed.
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