Thanks for the PING
Posted on 09/27/2005 9:46:14 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
ABC insiders deny there's any connection between real-life presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and their new TV show "Commander-in-Chief" - where Geena Davis makes her debut tonight as America's first woman president.
But it turns out the show's lead writer is a longtime Clinton campaign insider who held a top job in Hillary's press office.
"Writer Steve Cohen used to work for her in the 1990s, serving as the then-first lady's deputy communications director," reports the Village Voice.
"I have no doubt she is capable, qualified, and ready to be the president of the United States should she choose to run," Hillary's scriptwriter tells the paper.
In fact, Mr. Cohen goes all the way back with the Clintons to their very first presidential campaign.
"I was Governor Clinton's first campaign volunteer in 1991, fresh out of college, took that journey to the White House and spent two years working for President Clinton in his press office," he told National Public Radio last year.
The "Commander-in-Chief" writer followed that gig with a three-and-a-half year stint as Mrs. Clinton's deputy communications director.
In fact, Cohen is so tight with Hillary's top brass that he once shared an apartment with the top Democrat's chief fundraising coordinator, Patti Solis Doyle.
In an interview with Newsweek in 1992, Cohen marveled at the exalted positions he and Doyle had achieved.
"You're doing the scheduling for Hillary Clinton and I'm flying around the country with a person who could be the next president of the United States," he recalled telling her. "Give me a break!"
Despite Cohen's deep Clinton ties, "Commander-in-Chief" creator Rod Lurie tells the Voice that he modeled his female president not on Hillary, but on Susan Lyne, the former head of ABC who now runs the Martha Stewart empire.
As for Cohen, he insists: "We support the notion of a female president from either side of the aisle."
Anyone up for online Scrabble? =)
Just my luck, hockey season hasn't started yet either, so I guess it's surf the net or watch my "Kung Fu, season 1" DVDs.
Hey wait a minute, you may be on to something there. If he stole 2 elections as the DUmmies claim, he was never really elected was he? Bush/Cheney in 2008!!!
So far, it has been hyped to the hilt for so many months now, it HAD BETTER be superduper fantastic or else even the die-hard leftists won't be able to stay awake through a whole episode. Actually, the leftists are probably pretty worn out by now after years of "The Left Wing". The mythical Washington depicted by that bunch is sort of "ho hum" by now.
LOL. I think I'd rather go fold the laundry that is calling my name than watch that show.
I wonder what's on the Game Show network. I'm a Match Game junkie. My parents would never let me watch it when I was young because it was too riské.
How funny is that?
Mine wouldn't have "Three's Company" on in the house. Too many double entendres and the lead character was pretending to be gay. For liberals they weren't very open minded.
Like I've said before, a vote for Hillary! for President is a vote for armed insurrection within 4 years.
Al Michaels had this beeyotch on during halftime last night. I know Michaels was going thru the motions for ABC, but he gave her way more time than she deserved.
Same here and I never watched 60 Minutes or any of the other so-called news shows...lol.
We are just now starting to see the Hildabeast make significant grasps at the all powerful 'ring'. The ring that rules them all. The ring she once held. When we saw the Katrina MSM coverage shift on a dime to 'Bush kills blacks in New Orleans', we saw what the Hildabeast can do on the fly. Fax out the talking points, and there is perky Couric reading the fax live on the air. Apparently this new ABC serial was planned in advance to help Americans get over their 'female in charge' phobia. One has to wonder what else the Hildabeast has planned with her MSM disciples. She has been scheming and plotting now for quite a few years.
Agreed. A year from now, no one will even remember it.
Any takers'?
Scariest thought there is!
LOL, can you stuff a foot in that mouth, or something?
Oh wow - I forgot about that O'Donnell melt down. What a pathetic loser.
His son Kiefer seems like a good dude, though. Done some really interesting work and really doubt he's a flaming liberal.
Under this amendment, Calvin Coolidge could've been President another (4) years. Instead, he said no and Hoover ran.
Coolidge was a great President. Truly believed in limited federal power.
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