Posted on 01/25/2007 9:15:40 AM PST by jdm
Hillary Clinton may have expected a return to the kind of support enjoyed by her husband when he ran for President last decade, but she discovered yesterday that a key source of energy for Bill's campaign may not support her at all. Hollywood seems more taken with Barack Obama than in another triangulist, and they have begun to put their money where their mouths are:
Is Hollywood abandoning Hillary?
On Wednesday morning, hundreds of Hollywood's movers and shakers received an invitation that they may find hard to refuse.
They've been invited to come meet Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party's new superstar. He already has the buzz, but can he bring home the prize?
Movie moguls Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg want their Hollywood peers to join them at a Feb. 20 fundraiser the three are throwing for Obama.
This presents a huge problem for Hillary. A large segment of the Left takes their lead from such Hollywood power brokers, and the early support for Obama gives the freshman Senator a significant boost in credibility. The Dreamworks trio do not waste their time flacking for also-rans, and this signals to the entire Democratic Party that Hollywood wants an alternative to Hillary.
Jeff Katzenberg has already endorsed Obama. Spielberg and Geffen prefer to remain uncommitted at the moment, and Spielberg said he may hold fundraisers for more than one primary candidate, including Hillary. That's small comfort to the one candidate who has been running for more than six years for a return to the White House. It also represents a change in thinking for the moguls; after all, they have contributed heavily to Hillary's past Senate campaigns. Given that those have been little more than Trojan horses for the 2008 Presidential race, one could be forgiven for thinking that Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen had already jumped on the bandwagon.
Why have they begun edging away from the presumptive front-runner? It can't be the triangulation. Bill practically invented it, and he spent most of both terms governing from the center, a position that comes less naturally to Hillary. They probably have started to question her electability, and see Obama as the candidate that best represents the collective wisdom of Hollywood.
If I were Obama, I'd sue for defamation.
I should note the end of another Hillary outreach to the center. The Clinton campaign bought blog ads on my site, as well as several other prominent conservative blogs (Power Line, Hugh Hewitt, and so on). Abbi Tatton reported this on Tuesday's Situation Room:
ABBI TATTON, CNN INTERNET REPORTER: Wolf, when you're on a conservative blog like this one, Captain's Quarters, it's not unusual to see an advertisement or blog ad, like this one for Republican Rudy Giuliani.
What is unusual is the one directly underneath it, this one for Hillary Clinton, directing people to her Web site, where there is a series of Webcasts this week, where people are invited to send in their questions online.
Now, the adverts are all over the place on Web sites, blogs on the left, in the middle, on the right. But it's those placed on the right that are getting the attention -- a writer at the conservative Town Hall Web site suggesting that it's wasteful, saying none of their readers there are going to be supporting Hillary Clinton.
We spoke to the Internet director at the Hillary Clinton camp. And they said that the blog ad buy was big and it was diverse. They wanted to reach out as widely as possible. It's about starting a conversation with people that might agree and with people that might disagree.
I spoke briefly with Abbi about this topic, and she asked me for my reaction. I told her I briefly considered rejecting the ad, but accepted it. I figured that if the Clinton campaign wanted to throw its money around, they could throw some at me. I also told Abbi that advertisements represent an endorsement of Captain's Quarters, not an endorsement by CQ. I have no intention of going easy on any political candidate just because they buy a blog ad. Believe me, I don't come that cheap.
I don't think it was a waste of her money, at least not altogether. The campaign wanted to make a splash with their video conversations this week, one of them inexplicably scheduled on the same night as the SOTU speech. They were hoping to find the widest possible audience, and that means they need to attract people from the Right as well as the Left.
Now, however, the ad should be gone. The campaign canceled them last night after the final video conversation, and that makes sense. If Hillary or Obama or Kucinich want to buy ad space in the future, I won't object. In their own small way, they're helping to fund the publication of conservative thought, and I'm satisfied with the irony.
"best represents the collective wisdom of Hollywood."
thats just about the worst insult I've ever heard.
Hollywood cares only about looks and style, not substance. It shouldn't be a surprise that they pick Obama and dump Hillary (not that she has much substance, well aside from her cankles but I digress...)
Here is the delima Hitlery has going on right now. Soros and the Hollywood left are funding Obama and will continue until the love affair stops.
If Hitlery and Co. get the political machine out of the closet and dust off the controls, they will do everything in their power to destroy anyone who gets in their way. The problem is, if the majority of the big donors fund Obama and he is destroyed by Hitlery, who will be willing to fund Hitlery.
It was detailed yesterday that each candidate in both parties can expect to spend up to $500M each.
Hillary won't win because nobody wants dirty old Bill running around with nothing better to do.
Bob and besides, as soon as Al Gore picks up his Oscar, he is going to run,and well Al Gore is not much of man,but he is still a better man than Hillary.
Can you hear the chanting at the Oscars now? Run, Al! Run Al! He'll be up there pumping that statue in the air, wearing his tux. How can he resist?
Al will have the attention of every liberal in the country via TV land on Oscar night, and the crowd will jump up and give Al a standing oviation and then Hillary will hire a hit man to take out Al.
If/when Hillary extends the run to 2012, the streak will be old enough to run for president itself...
and then she could still try 2012... of Jeb might step in for a few cycles... making it a 40-or-more-year run for Clinton or Bush.
Al knows, he knows..he is in on it.
I should recieve an Oscar for a performance a week ago at the cold-cut counter at a supermarket. A nice woman bumps into me and says "I'm sorry". I said "If we make a sandwhich together you will no longer be sorry". I got the funniest short-circuited brain look yet:) That's what should be filmed. Funny stuff:)
Yet another article touting the greatness of Hillary.
You are SO right! Hillary cannot speak off-the-cuff. If she doesn't have a scripted speech in front of her, she just flails around saying, "like, um, er, like," ad nauseum. The MSM has thrown her softballs, and she has so far dodged any REAL questions, but I don't think it will last throughout the entire campaign.
If Hillary hadn't married Bubba, she'd just be another hairy legged, left wing lesbian with Rosie O'Donnell posters on her bedroom wall, cranking out lawsuits against any man that pops into her crosshairs.
I am sick of the 2008 election already. I hope all of these front-runner-early-bird candidates peak, then disappear. Maybe two unknowns will end up as the candidates.
The two term limit should be extended to immediate family members from here on out as well. After all, wasn't she the "co-president" anyway? She has already done her terms.
What I like better, and have been saying it, is "2008, give us a Bush/Clinton break". I have supported this president, but let's take a Bush break. And hopefully, no more Clintons will ever be elected to run our country again.
I've listened to 2 of Hillary's "webversations" this week.
I will say one thing, she's not playing the "centrist" "Blue Dog" or whatever Democrat ruse any more like Bill did.
She comes right out and embraces socialism.
nationalize health care
more taxes on the "rich"
etc etc etc
At least everyone who listens will know what to expect.
Damn funny!!!!
I couldn't agree more!
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