Posted on 09/20/2013 9:35:50 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
Here is a clip (less than 2 minutes) from a television movie called, 'The Contender' (2000). It is about a woman, Senator Laine Hanson, (played nicely by actress Joan Allen) who has been appointed by the President to replace his Vice President who had passed away a few weeks earlier. In this clip, Hanson is testifying before the Senate during her confirmation hearing.
The movie is a liberal Hollywood producer's wet dream of the way big government should operate, and it is a dead-on window into the mind of today's typical liberal Democrat. In this brief speech, the nominee lays out exactly what liberal Democrats lust for in their hearts but can never say out loud. (By the way, notice also that Senator Laine Hanson stops twice to take a drink of water):
My church is this very chapel of democracy.
Sounds like the TV series “Scandal” were the VP was a bible quoting Christian who turn out to not so Christian.
I think it was actually a theatrical release.
Gary Oldman actually criticized the editing of the movie, saying it was cut to advance a liberal agenda. Though one has to wonder how he could expect anything else?
In the movie, Oldman plays the evil Republican Senator who is out to destroy the compassionate, sympathetic Hanson. Oldman thought his character was actually the hero of the story.
Yes, you are correct - - it was a theatrical release. But I am pretty sure it did much better in the DVD aftermarket than it did in the theaters. Barry Soetero said President Jackson Evans was his favorite fictional president.
When the movie The Contender was released, the review in the magazine Elle — not as dopey a publication as you’d expect — wrote, “This is a film intended to elicit screening room ovations from Rob Reiner.†I still laugh when I think about that.
Watched that tripe yesterday. Its like a Liberal porn movie.
Of course Obama loved that movie.
It was on TV again?
yes....its like a pimple.....
Rob Reiner - - now there's a name I haven't seen recently. Didn't he once make a movie about a fictional liberal president?
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