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Hillary’s $100 Million Hollywood Makeover (CBS's "Madam Secretary")
Front Page Mag ^ | September 22, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 09/22/2014 11:03:18 AM PDT by Dave346

The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia described the reforms which resulted in the Prague Spring as “socialism with a human face.” The New York Times calls Madam Secretary, CBS’s extremely expensive prime time contribution to the Hillary campaign, “Hillary with a human face.”

A network series can cost between $3 and $4 million an episode. Assuming that Madam Secretary runs even one season, instead of being canceled ignominiously like Commander in Chief, the 2005 attempt at giving Hillary a human face, it will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million.

That’s double the $46 million that Hillary’s campaign spent on TV ads against Obama and it gives the Hillary 2016 campaign over 20 hours of prime time network unpaid ad space. If the series lasts long enough to run through the whole campaign that will double to $200 million. But the Hillary 2016 campaign is expected to cost around $2 billion. CBS’s $100 million donation is only a drop in a big bucket.

There’s more than a whiff of Kim Jong-Il, Stalin and Saddam Hussein about needing so many actors to portray a current politician. But Madam Secretary reeks of political insecurity. A similar series about Obama would have been worshipful. Madam Secretary is nervously revisionist. It’s desperately trying to glue an appealing human face over the Hillary mask that Hillary Clinton wears over her real face.

Hillary won’t be able to get anyone to play Hillary Clinton once she actually runs for office. Lori McCreary, the executive producer of Madam Secretary, said that she was inspired to create the $100 million Hillary infomercial by watching the Benghazi hearings.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbs; entertainment; piaps; prime; tv
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1 posted on 09/22/2014 11:03:19 AM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

I doubt it will last the full season............................


2 posted on 09/22/2014 11:04:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Dave346

Co-Produced by Morgan Freeman.....


3 posted on 09/22/2014 11:06:35 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Dave346

What difference at this time can it possibly make?


4 posted on 09/22/2014 11:06:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Red Badger
I doubt it will last the full season............................

Not if they go just by ratings. I fortunately will never know if it's entertaining or not because I plan never to watch it.

5 posted on 09/22/2014 11:09:14 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Dave346

I wanted to hurl the minute I saw the promos. Yee Gawds.


6 posted on 09/22/2014 11:10:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Dave346

I really think it actually hurts her, although I guess they just6 can’t see it. The woman playing the part is young, good-looking, smart, witty, looks competent and seems friendly. None of those things apply to Hillary. None of them.


7 posted on 09/22/2014 11:10:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Jim Robinson

HA! I probably would have watched it if they had called it: “What Difference Can It Make”. As it is, I’d rather go to Walmart and watch people than watch anything even remotely supports that Alinsky leftist.


8 posted on 09/22/2014 11:11:00 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

And the production is so deceitful that they introduce the program by claiming it is non-political! The media are the open filth of the fifth column destrotying the Republic.


9 posted on 09/22/2014 11:11:29 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Red Badger

Madam Suckutary....will be touted as the next “hit series” if anyone even watches it...it wll go off the air with little fanfare if no-one watches beyond the first few episodes.

On cannot cover for her criminality, or outright nastiness.


10 posted on 09/22/2014 11:12:02 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: MHGinTN

attack the advertisers.

it is that simple.

no ads= no show.

who is the shows advertisers?

who has paid for product placement?

Do they have a facebook page?


11 posted on 09/22/2014 11:13:01 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Dave346

Hillary is about power for power’s sake. She hides behind the cackle, outright lies (the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, descending into Bosnia under fire, named after Edmund Hillary, the list is almost endless),, select self-righteous anger (What difference does it make?), and playing the victim card when questioned about her husband. It’s hard to juggle all those techniques over the constant glare of almost 18 months of a campaign. No matter how sycophantic the press is....

As for the show, I predict a bomb that lasts four episodes.


12 posted on 09/22/2014 11:13:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Dave346
"It’s desperately trying to glue an appealing human face over the Hillary mask that Hillary Clinton wears over her real face."

HAHAHA!

13 posted on 09/22/2014 11:14:12 AM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: from occupied ga

I doubt if the series will be cancelled before November 2016 no matter how bad the ratings all. The TV networks are going all out to get Democrats elected. BTW, that is why there is so much coverage of the 4 NFL players who are wife beaters. It is part of the “war on women” get out the vote meme.


14 posted on 09/22/2014 11:16:30 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Dave346
The Hillary Clinton book, written by someone else, was a flop. The Hillary Clinton book tour to sell the book was also a flop. The reviews are in for Madam Secretary and the word on the critic street is flopsville. No one really likes watching propaganda infomercials that take no risks and offer no rewards.
15 posted on 09/22/2014 11:18:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: forgotten man
I doubt if the series will be cancelled before November 2016 no matter how bad the ratings all

I'm sure you're right, and I'm equally sure that is all the producers really care about.

16 posted on 09/22/2014 11:19:23 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Dave346
At press events, Tea Leoni insists that her Hillary lookalike is really based on Henry Kissinger.

ROTFLMAO!!!!

17 posted on 09/22/2014 11:21:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Dave346

I painted the bathroom of the mobile home last night and watched the pain dry . It will last a lot longer than Hitlery or her series...this is so transparent its laughable
Freegards
LEX


18 posted on 09/22/2014 11:21:40 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Red Badger
I doubt it will last the full season.

It'll be cancelled after the first Tuesday in November.

19 posted on 09/22/2014 11:23:56 AM PDT by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: Dave346

First episode got 14 million viewers but the only new content it went up against was Sunday Night Football (which got 18 million).

The official fall TV season begins tonight (it always begins on a Monday and ends on a Wednesday).


20 posted on 09/22/2014 11:24:35 AM PDT by Dave346
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