[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.

[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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