Why ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" is a Condi Rice clone

ABC | 8.28.05 | Mia T

[Mia T]

That's not being cheap. That's being a good father. :)

[pcottraux]

Computers don't die, they just sort of faaaaaaade awaaaay......

[beyond the sea]

perhaps Laura makes Hillary look so bad in comparison that they refuse to mention Laura..

SO VERY RIGHT!

[pcottraux]

Does anyone else think Geena Davis isn't nearly as hot as she used to be?

Must happen with age.

With Geena, and with (I hate to say it) the "new" Christie Brinkley comeback to CoverGirl, these women just don't look hot like they once did. Christie and Geena both look just a little fuzzy, and out of focus, and hard to really look at good. Or is it just me?

[beyond the sea]

That's two nights in a row you've posted this. Are you fixated on Condi now?

You're observant but incorrect.

[beyond the sea]

That's ten minutes of my life I'm not willing to give up.

Reading your comment was a few seconds of my life not well spent.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

I'm not sure this theory is accurate, interesting though it is. I watched my taped version just tonight, and I was surprised at the snide little digs it took at Hillary. The First-Lady Handler (or whatever her title was) kept saying things like, "Mrs. Clinton always did so and so ... and it didn't go over very well."

I did find it interesting that they didn't say anything about Mrs. Bush. Too early to tell what that means.

I still maintain that the whole premise of her being asked to step down simply because she is a woman is silly. No politician in his right mind would ask someone to be his running mate if he didn't think he/she was up to the task (in addition, of course, to pulling some key constituency). OTOH, maybe that aneurism was pressing on his brain even then ....

I'll give it another week to see if it gets any better. The show *did* have a loud and clear liberal message when Geena Davis said she wasn't going to condemn the Nigerian woman to death just for having sex. Well, that's fine, but that's not really the best way she could have said it. Most of those Muslim women who have been in similar situations were actually raped, but because of the stringent requirements to prove rape in that culture, it was officially adultery. She could easily have said instead that she wouldn't condemn the young woman to death for being raped. Little different message there.

[beyond the sea]

I'm cheap and that's why my kid's get to go to a good school

Excellent.

[defenderSD]

Ern, I'm using dial up too, mainly because I'm going to be moving again in about 8 months so it isn't worth the effort to get DSL at this location. But anyway, my connection is at 45.2 kbps and it only took me 2-3 minutes to download the graphics on this post. All dial-up services are not the same. I won't mention any names but one service that I tried a few years ago was really sloooooooooooowwwwwwwww compared to my current ISP. I have a new computer running at 3.2 ghz and that has speeded up my modem communications compared to my old PC. But you may be able to get more speed with a different ISP.

[Cincinna]

Great post once again, Mia.
I can't understand why this show was #1 in ratings.
BTW , as if I had to add, Slickette ain't no Dr. Rice.

[Mia T]

The hillary 'digs':

The purpose of the 'digs,' as I see it, were to provide demonstrable 'proof' that, silly us, this show isn't a homage to hillary (even as it pays homage to hillary and her Friedan wing, i.e., the 'digs' included 'complaints' about hillary's occupation [commandeering!] of the West Wing with its tacit rejection of the traditional First-Lady role.

Although she baked no cookies, didn't do illicit land or cattle deals and stood by no man, hillary clinton starred in the triple role of the Cook, the Thief and his Wife. Her lover was played at once vaporously and in workmanlike fashion by the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt, with Janet Reno, between her stints rendering intermittent injustice for the Husband, as the reliable stand-in. Sidney Blumenthal was the stand-in for the Cook and Craig Livingstone the stand-in for the Thief. The last-minute addition of Christopher Hitchens as the snitch was a stroke of absolute genius notwithstanding its cerebral accident, its predictable-if-perfect pitch and its facile alliteration.

Although Act I had no rating, the new clinton soccer-mom directive will require a photo ID for any viewer without independent proof of illegal alien DNC <-> DNA sequencing.

 

 

In Act II, rabid anti-clinton voters, roughly 33% of the U.S. populace according to as-yet-unpodded pollsters, become increasingly aware that they are disappearing in droves and being replaced by alien pod replicas which have their physical attributes but lack all anti-clinton affect.

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

Mia T
THE ALIENS
June 1999
HILLARY: NIXON-PLUS (BEWARE THE SYNERGY)

COPYRIGHT Mia T 1999

[Spruce]

Sister, Your posts are gold. Thank you.

[Mia T]

Most of those Muslim women who have been in similar situations were actually raped, but because of the stringent requirements to prove rape in that culture, it was officially adultery.

Sounds like what the the clinton do to women, right here in America.

deconstructing clinton… "just because I could"


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FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME! 

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

[papertyger]

It takes ten minutes to load up for all us still on dial-up. That's ten minutes of my life I'm not willing to give up.

Hate to tell you this Ern, but we're quickly moving into a world where "pleading dial-up" is going to get you more contempt than commiseration.

[L.N. Smithee]

With all respect due another veteran Freeper, you're nuts.

Knowing how you feel about Hillary, I get the impression you don't believe that no series heroine could be based on her. I think what you mean, deep down, is that the qualities in the character that longtime pro-abortion Democratic Party donor Geena Davis plays in Commander are those that you recognize in Secretary Rice, and find lacking in Senator Clinton.

Series co-creator Rod Lurie has already gone on record as saying that the character's inspiration was not Hillary, but a female executive at ABC he previously worked with. That doesn't pass the smell test, even before you know that he was also the writer and director of the 2000 movie The Contender, in which Joan Allen plays a Democratic politician selected to replace the Vice President and must face revelations about her sexual history from bloodthirsty Republicans. Respected British actor Gary Oldman, a co-star of Contender and a political conservative, complained that the final cut of Lurie's movie made his character and Republicans seem worse than he had been led to believe would be the case.

It seems to me that ABC is trying to do what NBC did with The West Wing; enlist a screenwriter to create a TV series about the President with themes similar to that of motion picture they wrote. The Contender's Rod Lurie is ABC's version of The American President's Aaron Sorkin...minus the crack addiction, we presume.

[L.N. Smithee]

I get the impression you don't believe that no series heroine could be based on her.

Sorry about the double negative. Either subtract the "don't" or replace the "no" with an "a," and you'll have what I was really thinking.

[Caipirabob]

BTW - I thought many of your posts were coming up faster.

Also, my response is that they had to use Dr. Rice as a model for the show, because if they used Hillary, they would have had to hire that "Fat Actress" chick...

[imintrouble]

You have managed to regress this good forum to the level of a twelve year old - take your graphics and your weird stuff to a teen site please.

[zlala]

I can't understand why this show was #1 in ratings.

I was hoping someone would post this. I hadn't heard how it had done. I wonder how manipulated that rating is....

[Rutles4Ever]

I just picture you sitting in your basement twisting the heads off of Victorian dolls and practicing voodoo in front of a continually looping tape of the Ken Starr testimonies, with the sound cranked to "eleven".

(shudder)