Posted on 09/29/2005 9:57:34 AM PDT by Cool Chick
Everything is wrong with ABC's new show, "Commander in Chief."
It's not just that the show about the first female President is a weekly hour-long campaign commercial for Hillary Clinton. It's not just that conservatives are mean and evil on this propaganda hour.
It's that this is what a female President will be like as brought to you by Oprah and the women of "Desperate Housewives"--and the legions of female fans who love them. Do you want them picking the leader of the free world?
I don't.
Here's why. Every presidential election year, Harvard's Shorenstein Center conducts 26 polls. Each time, the school finds that women didn't quite know what was going on. Men, on the other hand, were more likely, during the preceding day, to have thought about the elections, talked about it, and read or heard about it on the news.
The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center does a similar set of polls and studies each presidential election year, conducted by two women professors. The results of these studies are even more disturbing. Out of 25 questions on policy issues, women lag behind the men on most of them. In 2000, women lagged behind men in knowledge of all policy issues but one (on which they were equal).
The men knew more about the Presidential candidates' positions on taxes, weapons treaties, gun control, and even "traditional women's issues"--healthcare, education, and abortion.
Sorry, but I don't want "Thelma and Louise," Star Jones, and the women of "Desperate Housewives" picking my President. Keep them out of the ballot box and busy whining, crying, and obsessing over a broken nail and the handsome plumber next door, instead.
The women voters in these surveys bested the men on one issue: They . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at debbieschlussel.com ...
My local ABC station in NYC area was doing a man on the street interview about having a woman president. They of course were asking women...the answers were not surprising
" A woman President would change the colors of the rooms. No more blue etc..."
Are you kidding? That was the quality of their answers? Jeez. We gotta long way to go.
Schlussel needs to look up the word "relevant".
I didn't watch the first show, but heard the plot summary. Woman leftist prez threatens to send the Marines to Nigeria to rescue one Nigerian woman who may be stoned due to Muslim laws on raped females. Yikes, have our young Marines killed for no vital national interest is the Hillary foreign policy?
In the words of another FReeper: I'm going to have to pull his man card.
The Commander-in-Chief. See the resemblance to The Beast???
I thought my wife was the only woman who asserted as a general proposition that women voters were leading to the downfall of democracy.
I hate to sound sexist, but honestly... Back when Bubba was in, how many times did you hear women coo over him, etc...? Never mind what he did.
Women just decide things differently. They tend to trust their "instincts" on people. And some people (Bubba in particular) can play them like a fiddle. (eg. "Feeling" their pain, etc...)
This propaganda piece won the TV ratings war this past Tuesday night, but I think that's due to the fact that the debut was advertised with a fervor that one only sees in campaign advertising on the first Monday of November on even-number years; that, and the curiousity. I mean, a lot of people will stop and leer at a train accident. Let's see if the touchy-feely policy decisions of Geena Davis' president have the same draw in the weeks to come.
In the words of another FReeper: I'm going to have to pull his man card.
Kinda scary, isn't it?
Don't be surprised if this show actually backfires to some extent among those few people who actually end up regularly watching it.
The ditziness of the characters Geena Davis played in her movie roles comes through somewhat in her acting here, undoubtedly causing the occasional cringe now and then even in sympathetic viewers.
I watched the show and it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, although most of the episode dealt with the transition of power and one foreign policy action.
The one thing I did like was when the first lady's chief of staff was breifing the new president's husband and said at least 4 times something like "Hillary did X. It didn't work out well." I was expecting the show to be a big sloppy kiss for Hillary and it wasn't.
We ain't ever gonna' get there.
Uhh...the boa?
Debbie is hot!
She needs to allow a bunch more "PR Photos" to get out on the net..........
She's quite a babe, and her columns are top notch.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/bio.shtml
Schlussel, who speaks Hebrew, Arabic, French, and Russian, works closely with several Federal law enforcement agencies, consulting on fighting the domestic War on Terrorism, and has provided them with much useful information.
She has gone undercover, infiltrating many Muslim organizations in the Detroit area (the heart of Islamic America), exposing their radical nature and support for terrorism.
Schlussel continues to represent a very valuable Muslim confidential informant to several federal government agencies, who has been responsible for putting hundreds with terrorism connections behind bars.
She also represented several whistleblowers who exposed terrorist operations now under investigation.
You sound like my son, also a FReeper. I'm an accomplished, educated woman who tried to raise my son to appreciate women in expanded roles in society (some latent feminism left over from the 70s, probably).
But every now and then he comes out w/some crap like, "Women shouldn't be allowed to vote. They are just effing up the country."
I don't know where I failed. : )
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