TV provides poor signal for Hillary

Pollitico ^ | July 23, 2007 | David Paul Kuhn

[Always Right]

When Hollywood producer Rod Lurie created fictional president Mackenzie Allen in 2005 for the show “Commander in Chief” he made no mistake about one of his goals: tilling the soil of popular culture so that it would soon be easier for a real woman to take root in a nonfiction Oval Office.

At least he is honest about it. Most blatant propaganda attempts by the liberal TV producers are denied.

[weegee]

So does this mean a “fairness doctrine” would’ve required the network to offer a second series where Ann Coulter became president?

[samtheman]

To Clinton’s benefit, her demeanor may be closer in character to Close than Davis.

Actually, I think Clinton's demeanor is closer to that of Krusty the Clown.

[BenLurkin]

Ohhhh....

Chris Matthews.

[cubreporter]

I would vote for a good, strong, intelligent, credible woman for President. That woman however is NOT hillleree.

[Erasmus]

Ugh—Rush talking now about the next season of 24...a woman president! Is this a network setup for Herself? Rush asks—will this president show cleavage?

When she turns out to be a traitor, it does make you wonder what methods Jack will use to interrogate her.

[HHFi]

It was obvious from the get-go that "Commander In Chief" was a love letter to Hillary designed to soften up Americans to the idea of a "Madame President." That's not only why it got onto ABC, but why the MSM went ape promoting it. For awhile there, it was everywhere you looked as they tried to shove it down our collective throats with millions of dollars worth of free publicity.

I only happened to pay special attention to that because it was opposite my favorite TV show, "House," and it would infuriate me to see media outlets like "Entertainment Weekly" put "CIC" on the cover while trying to bury "House." One year, Hugh Laurie won the Golden Globe as Best Actor on TV (voted by foreign journalists who weren't in on the "elect Hillary" conspiracy), yet EW's Entertainers of the Year issue lauded Geena Davis and didn't even mention Hugh. It was only after "CIC" was finally cancelled that they even began to put "House" into their weekly TV listings.

Of course, quality eventually won out. "House" is now the #1-rated scripted show on TV, and "CIC" is but a bad memory. It gave me hope that there actually are limits to the brainwashing abilities of today's mass media (Al Gore's 2000 vote total notwithstanding), and that maybe we Great Hairy Unwashed in flyover country aren't as gullible as the Bi-coasters think we are.

[COUNTrecount]

“House” is my favorite too.

[normy]

In the pilot episode of “Commander in Chief,” the first executive act of President Allen was to send special forces into Nigeria to free a persecuted woman from execution. But some felt these compensatory gestures felt forced and overdone.

So the first act of this woman was to send highly trained and extremely expensive super soldiers to save the life of one woman being executed unfairly in Africa? Was this supposed to show how tough she was? Send SF into a meat grinder to save the life of one African woman convicted of a crime worthy of death according to the laws of a sovereign nation.

Maybe the writers and actors of this show were just morons.

[Lou L]

If we could find somebody like Margaret Thatcher, it would be a good thing.

Surely, if our country ever elects a woman President, it will be a conservative woman--to test the waters of how a woman will do as Chief Excecutive--as opposed to some far-left nutcase like Hilary.

[Sloth]

Davis never conveyed the gravitas of actresses such as Meryl Streep or Glenn Close, who once played a vice president. To Clinton’s benefit, her demeanor may be closer in character to Close than Davis.

That's ridiculous. The Glenn Close role they're talking about was in Air Force One, and she played the Veep -- who was effectively acting as President -- as cool, competent, loyal and principled. Nothing like Hillary.

[Lou L]

it does make you wonder what methods Jack will use to interrogate her.

He'll make her watch The Golf Channel or ESPN News? My wife hates those channels!

[subterfuge]

I flipped through the boob tube and caught that guy Carlos Mencia on Comedy Central doing his “Man In The Street” thing, where he asks people questions.

He must have asked 10 or 12 women if they’d vote for a woman for POTUS and he was astonished that they all said NO! He couldn’t find any women to answer the way he thought they should. He made a sexist joke about it and moved on.

[Political Junkie Too]

The results undermine calculations by ABC and CBS that placing accomplished women in roles traditionally owned by men would be a ratings hit because of the number of female viewers drawn to one of their own.

You mean this hasn't been their plan since "Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman" and "Murder, She Wrote"?

-PJ