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

ABC | 8.28.05 | Mia T

[Covenantor]

bttt

[DCPatriot]

You're getting really creepy, IMO.

[jscottdavis_for_48th_district]

Outstanding presentation! And I couldn't agree more. Head-to-head, Condi would landslide Hillary just as Reagan landslided Carter. Condi is really an experienced and intellectual woman. Hillary just seems out of place as a politician and ,yes, lacks charisma. Opposites attract and we don't need Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton back in the oval office in any manner where he can prey on young interns.

No, I'm not related to Geena Davis (lol).

~Scott~

[Joe_October]

The hard core left votes for anyone named Hillary.

The right will never vote for Hillary.

The center won't vote for the true Hillary, so we make up an image here (or help her foster the one she has been creating).

It's that simple.

[YaYa123]

I couldn't bear to watch the show, but I'm happy to read what other folks who did, think of it. I was listening to local Atlanta radio talker, The Kimmer, and he couldn't get over what a humongous head Davis has. "biggest head on the planet" he said. (Maybe I will click in next week, just to see that global orb for myself.)

As for: "the "Commander-in Chief" head writer (being) a veteran of clinton campaigns and hillary's press office, because the show has been perfectly positioned to desensitize the electorate to the notion of a woman president just in time for hillary", it could be no other way, could it?

I mean Hollywood writers only come in one size: Hillary Heavy!! The joke is remembering a pre-season interview with Geena Davis who promised her show wasn't going to be political.

[Mia T]

(Before answering, I must say I'm surprised that you would stoop to ad hominem. So unlike you.)

Of course, the series is ALL about hillary.

But do you see hillary's flat affect? Her physicality? Do you see the harridan we've all come to know and love?

No. What you see is a Condi "shell."

You see a President Allen who is idealistic, is accomplished in her own right, does not crave power, has a nonpartisan streak, is an intellectual, was plucked from the chancellorship of a great university, speaks with a quiet strength. (Sound like hillary to you?)

You see a President Allen who even looks like Condi Rice. The strong bone structure, the wideset intelligent brown eyes, the full lips, the brunette, retro flip, (aka 'power flip' post-Condi), the great figure. And perhaps definitively, the legs.

 

So why is this? It would be naive to think that this wasn't a precise clinton calculation, what with her main man the lead writer 'n all.

At first I thought it was a feint. If "Commander-in-Chief" is a too-transparent hillary infomercial, ABC's agenda will certainly backfire. Perhaps that was the initial reasoning and explains why, for example, gorgeous Geena Davis and not some squat bottle-blonde matron, was cast in the lead.

But in the end, in my view there are two reasons for the Condi shell, (corresponding to the two relevant cities, Hollywood and DC).

The first is that Hollywood typecasts. Condi is presidential and hillary is a fishwife.

And the second is the thesis above, that hillary clinton and her agitprop machine have determined that missus clinton, the construct, (missus clinton, "as is,") is unelectable, and so they will

1. desensitize the electorate to the concept of a female president, (using a highly qualified exemplar, the Condi-Rice clone because they have determined that a hillary exemplar would be rejected, that, indeed, given the post-9/11 realities, Condi Rice is perhaps the only female exemplar that would work.)

    

2. bait and switch; conflate the highly qualified, electable Condi-Rice clone with the highly unqualified, unelectable hillary clinton.
   
   Indeed, the clinton conflation ploy to make hillary acceptable to the voter is already a clinton SOP, e.g., missus clinton's address to the Democratic Leadership Council in Columbus, Ohio on 7.31.05.
   

   Their second ploy is to conflate "bill" and "hillary." "The clintons" become a single construct. Missus clinton arrogates bill's "bridge to the 21st century " as "theirs." And, by lifting the lyrics straight from Pinocchio, she becomes "the man from 'hope'."
   

   The danger here for missus clinton is that with the bridge and the hope come the abuses and the utter failures.

   SCHEMA PINOCCHIO
   how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor
   by Mia T, 8.03.05
   

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[exile]

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

Old Father Time is a real bugger, and he has a sick sense of humor. After a few years, if Geena decides to leave, they could recast the character with Bea Arthur and no-one would notice.

[imintrouble]

Where do you get off using all this web space supplied by Free Republic - why don't you get your own website to post your important messages?

You stun everyone's computer too it would seem....

You have a lotta nerve using another's "residence" to hold your Hyde Park soliliquies.

[FlyVet]

Hillary rolls out of bed, scratches herself, yawns, and heads to her computer.

"What is that Mia T saying about me today? When I'm President, this hate speech will stop!"

[NaughtiusMaximus]

We'll know for sure when the first "Arkancide" happens. Until then, I'm watching something else.

[Mia T]

Would that I could.
A voodoo solution has a simplicity and poetic elegance
unmatched by 3-d modeling, lip-syncing and flash. ;)

What makes me shudder,
and what should make you shudder,
is the thought of the clintons back in the Oval Office.

his astounding grasp of global affairs

--BILL CLINTON, MESSIAH. Second Coming
New Republic | 9/27/05 | Michael Crowley

Politicos and reporters are not rocket scientists . . .

Professions tend to be self-selected, intellectually homogeneous subgroups of Homo sapiens. Great intellects (especially these days) do not generally gravitate towards careers in the media or politics. Mediocre, power-obsessed types with poor self-images do.

Thus, clinton mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media mediocrity. ("Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from the same Latin root (medius) for no reason.) Insofar as the clintons are concerned, the media confuse form with substance, smoothness with coherence, data-spewing with ratiocination, pre-programmed recitation with real-time analysis, an idiosyncratic degeneracy with creativity.

Mia T
Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy

WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?
by Mia T, 8.18.05

(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
thanx to jla and Wolverine for the audio

DISCUSSION

"I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My God, a second plane has hit the tower.' And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.' that's the first thing I said. He said, 'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because only bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this and they [the Iranians] wouldn't do it because they have a country in targets. Bin Laden did it.'

I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well placed and I was full of regret that I didn't get him."

bill clinton
Sunday, Sept 3, 2002
Larry King Live

"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan.

We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].

At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.

So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

bill clinton
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer

WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?


BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE


Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power
REASON 1: SHE HIRED JAMIE GORELICK


sandy berger haberdashery feint
(the specs, not the pants or the socks)


THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans


pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
WHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA


The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

 

[Mia T]

Do you control your computer... or does it control you?

[Mia T]

;)

[airborne]

Please show some respect.

Mia T has been here for nearly 7 years, while you have been her since yesterday.

[smith288]

I really gotta give you credit for the work you put in but must give constructive criticism about the methods at which you deliver...

Your message is getting completely outdone by the weird graphics and odd use and combination of fonts/sizes.

I know its your copyright and what you do but I seriously recommend you alter the presentation to a more aesthetically appealing display so that we can take in your message rather than get hit in the head with chaotic images.

Call me dense or suffer from ADD but I stopped reading.

I hope this helps because you really look like you put lots of work into the content and I would hate to see more like me bypassing the message because of the presentation.

[airborne]

I like you! 8^)

[imintrouble]

I doubt your query to me was original - it is weak and a poor retort having nothing to do with what I am trying to impart to you.

Either you rely heavily on chemical assistance to see your world as it is, or you are having a psychotic break. How about calming your manic voodoo down and writing like a regular person... or is that not superior enough for you?

Do you feel it is necessary or even imperative for you to write on this logical forum as if you are flying in some Cirque du Soleil? To gain attention over and above the crowd perhaps???

I have completely dumped the content of your message because your delivery was so ridiculous. If you can't compose personal essay and thought in paragraph and sentence, you must be screaming to be noticed as if your
thoughts are the only ones viable.

There are hundreds of more intuitive thinkers on this forum that your childish pranks.

Stop clobbering us with comic book storytelling.

[Mia T]

Your criticism is certainly valid;
I actually consider your very points often.

My rationale for virtual hillary, etc.

Thus far, this format has been quite successful getting the message out (as measured by Google position and longevity on page one, etc.).

This is not to say I shouldn't consider your points and do a parallel B & W version.
In fact, that's a really good idea.

[Mia T]

My point (original and on point) is simply that you can choose not to open my threads.
If you take control of your computer, I suspect the "clobbering" will cease. Try it.

As for the rationale and efficacy of the style, see my response, above.

[Mia T]

Did Geena Davis really say that? ;)