Hillary's losing Hollywood (resorts to threats)

The Australian ^ | March 3, 2004 | Robert Lusetich in Los Angeles

[Cincinatus' Wife]

...While many Democratic movers and shakers in the film industry felt they owed Clinton their loyalty, there was a gnawing feeling that it would be no simple task to get one of the most polarising political figures of our times back into the White House.

....Of more concern for Clinton's campaign, her prospects against the likely Republican opponents have grown bleak. Less than a month ago, she was running in a virtual dead heat with the leading Republican, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has yet to declare his candidacy. The Rasmussen and Zogby polls taken last weekend have Giuliani ahead by as much as nine percentage points.

.... Since 1989, Hollywood has given more than $US100million ($127 million) to Democrats for federal campaigns alone; this is on par with what the oil and gas industry has raised for Republicans in that time.

Some Obama supporters have noted that Clinton's fall in the polls coincided with last week's slanging match instigated by Hollywood billionaire David Geffen, a former Clinton confidant who is now backing Obama. Geffen, who is openly gay and a contentious figure himself, was scathing in his criticism of the Clintons, questioning Bill Clinton's moral compass and saying he believes the Republicans see Hillary Clinton as the easiest candidate to defeat.

...Clinton's campaign was outraged that Obama got in first - though Clinton will raise at least that much at a fundraiser next month - and word around town is that her supporters are being told that there will be no tolerance for spreading the wealth to other Democratic candidates. One insider says people are being warned that ambassadorships go to those who were there from the beginning and didn't waver in their faith.

But such warnings don't appear to have stemmed the tide.............

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Shelly Winters as Ma Barker

[unkus]

I would tell Hitlery to kiss my a$$. What arrogance.

[gridlock]

Frankly, I think Algore and Newt are just waiting, keeping their powder dry, waiting for the early announcers to burn themselves out.

This is the smart strategy, IMHO. Nobody can maintain interest for over a year before the initial primaries. It is going to be a sprint to New Hampshire in the Fall. Fresh legs are going to be worth a lot.

[kevkrom]

I don't know why everyone is so upset by who hollywood backs.

"Since 1989, Hollywood has given more than $US100million ($127 million) to Democrats for federal campaigns alone"

Money and free publicity go a long, long way to making people care.

[Parley Baer]

Bwahahahahahahaha. I hope she totally implodes. She has been so used to getting her way.

[tcrlaf]

"A lot of people will distance themselves from her as this campaign goes on."

No, she won't....
After she buys the nomination, the entire left and the media will line behind her against the Evil McCain/Guliani/Romney/Player-To-Be-Named-Later...

Remember, POWER is what is most important here...

[Mia T]

Some Obama supporters have noted that Clinton's fall in the polls coincided with last week's slanging match instigated by Hollywood billionaire David Geffen, a former Clinton confidant who is now backing Obama. Geffen, who is openly gay and a contentious figure himself, was scathing in his criticism of the Clintons, questioning Bill Clinton's moral compass and saying he believes the Republicans see Hillary Clinton as the easiest candidate to defeat.

Hillary's losing Hollywood (resorts to threats)
The Australian ^ | March 3, 2004 | Robert Lusetich in Los Angeles

It was risible. Unintentional theater of the absurd: A chintzed-and-powdered villain, a soulless, angry, arrogant scold, oozing cloying, saccharine-coated evil, pulsating to the metronomic swing of stubby appendages--claws too short to grab its prey.

(Gesticulation is a dud's only sign of life... and then only if she has a speech coach to prod her.)

The performance was nothing if not humiliating: A direct measure of hillary clinton's hunger for power. Which reminds me... enough of that red Klingon power jacket already.

The fatal problem with the clinton machine's extravagant, fanciful and elaborate construction is not the absurdity, however. It is the architectonics.

A precarious 20th-century conceit, the hillary! construct totters on a crumbling foundation of clinton lies, abuses and betrayals.

It should have been no surprise that David Geffen's comments to Maureen Dowd would so easily topple it.

But to the average clinton lackey, it apparently was.

READ MORE

by Mia T, 3.01.07
HILLARY!
Can a chintzed-and-powdered villain win the White House?
LEADING INDICATORS SAY 'NO'
CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART SIX

more:

HILLARY CLINTON = 'GANGSTER POLITICS, DUAL MONARCHY AND THE MORAL CONSISTENCY OF A DOORKNOB': Pat Caddell
CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART FIVE


AL GORE, THE OSCAR, THE NOBEL, THE CLINTONS + DAVID GEFFEN
CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBOGLIO-PART FOUR


HEAR DENNIS MILLER: WHY GEFFEN DUMPED HILLARY,
WHY CLINTON 'DOES NOT WANT TO LOCK HORNS WITH DAVID GEFFEN'
CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART THREE (video and transcript)


CLINTON vs. GORE + GEFFEN: POST-OSCAR ANALYSIS
(HAS HOLLYWOOD DUMPED HILLARY?)
CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART TWO


WHY THE GEFFEN IMBROGLIO SIGNALS CLINTON'S END
'HILLARY'S STRATEGY--NOBODY GETS TO CRITICIZE HER' -- CHRIS MATTHEWS
with a WARNING FOR DAVID GEFFEN
CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBOGLIO-PART ONE


THE CLINTON MACHINE IS 'TRYING TO STRANGLE THE OBAMA CANDIDACY IN ITS CRADLE'
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOLLYWOOD


THE ABSURDITY OF HILLARY
(What the media and Dick Morris aren't telling us about Obama-clinton numbers.)


STALINIST RISING?
HILLARY CLINTON ABUSE OF POWER
(WHERE IS THE UNREDACTED BARRETT REPORT ANYWAY?)

[stuartcr]

True, but it must not matter that much to the voters or Democrats would be winning all the time.

[advertising guy]

not only trust but PURE FEAR. Hollywood knows the Clinton's kill or have killed .It's that simple...

[kevkrom]

True, but it must not matter that much to the voters or Democrats would be winning all the time.

Either that, or it's only the support of Hollywood, etc., that keeps left-wing nutcases "viable" enough candidates to even make a horse race of things.

[stuartcr]

Theresa Russell was much better to look at.

[Wings-n-Wind]

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Hillary sends her regards to David Geffen, et al.

[stuartcr]

Or some other reason, or all of them.

[unkus]

Power means NOTHING when you are fearful. No one would want to look over their shoulder wondering what Hitlery might do. Who would want to be obligated to someone like her. The Clinton's run things like the mob.

[Eagles Talon IV]

Have I missed soemthing? Has Giulliani announced he is running?

[Gritty]

I don't know why everyone is so upset by who hollywood backs.

They may be a bunch of preening airheads, but they have oodles of cash. For Liberals, cash trumps truth.

[unkus]

The Clinton's are Mobsters and no one wants to wake up with a horses head in their bed.

[harrowup]

Prediction: it'll happen by September, October at the latest.

November.

[advertising guy]

my sources( I know) said that very sentence