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CBS Prime-Time Shows Honor Hillary
Townhall.com ^ | October 12, 2018 | Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

Posted on 10/12/2018 2:05:52 AM PDT by Kaslin

Hillary Clinton isn't president, but Hollywood is offering the biggest consolation prize it has: working her into TV plots where she can be toasted as wise and wonderful. Within the first two weeks of the fall season, CBS has done this twice.

On the Oct. 7 episode of drama "Madam Secretary," terrorists send a rocket-propelled grenade into the White House during a signing ceremony for an India-Pakistan peace treaty. It turns out the terrorists are the Aryan Popular Force, white nationalists with a neo-Nazi echo.

In the last 10 minutes of the episode, fictional Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord meets in her office with actual former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell, and they all make noble minispeeches about reassuring the country.

Mrs. Clinton proclaims: "They attacked what has made America great, and still does, and that is our diversity. I mean, look at us." Powell adds: "And the attackers wanted to destroy that, to divide us." Diversity is three former Cabinet officials who all voted for Barack Obama and against Donald Trump.

Clinton continues: "So, you know, Elizabeth, I think what we're all saying is talk about what unites us. Even at this moment of peril, remind Americans of our nation's original motto, something that I think about a lot and which seems more important today than ever: e pluribus unum, 'out of many, one.'" Albright agrees: "Hillary, you're so right. Because we all, unified, depend on each other."

Then CBS's fictional leader speaks to the nation against hate, saying: "Nationalism, the belief system held by those who attacked us, promotes the idea that inclusion and diversity represent weakness, that the only way to succeed is to give blind allegiance to the supremacy of one race over all others. Nothing could be less American." In this heavy-handed civics lesson, patriotism was all about "embracing our diversity."

This is how Hollywood's distraught Clinton voters keep campaigning, screenwriting shows that imply that President Trump is soft on neo-Nazis. They would have never tolerated the argument that President Obama was soft on radical Islamic terrorism -- as he studiously avoided the term.

But wait, this transparent propaganda can be even more unwatchable. On the Sept. 27 premiere of "Murphy Brown," Brown, played by Candice Bergen, now has a morning show at a CNN-ish cable network, but there is an ongoing joke that she can't keep a secretary.

Clinton arrives to enthusiastic applause and wide-eyed gawking from Murphy. The bad joke here is that this isn't really Hillary Clinton but a look-alike with just one "l" in her first name. If there's a lamer excuse for a cameo, we can't think of one.

So there's an awkward job interview full of bad jokes. Murphy says the secretary job is demanding. Hilary says: "I'm not afraid of hard work. I'm qualified. And I'm ready on day one." Murphy asks about her previous secretarial experience, and Hilary says, "For four years, I was the secretary ... of a very large organization." Murphy asks about her computer skills ("Emails, hmm. I do have some experience with emails") and her ability to be a part of a team ("It takes a village"). Murphy says she sounds overqualified. As Hilary leaves, she gives Murphy her business card with the email "Hilary@YouCouldaHadMe.com."

After all of the sexual harassment embarrassments at CBS, from Les Moonves at the top to Charlie Rose and Jeff Fager circling the drain, is it some kind of strange feminist penance to promote Hillary Clinton at this late date? Or is the real world just so hard to handle that liberals have to dwell inside a Hollywood fantasy bubble of What Should Have Been?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
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1 posted on 10/12/2018 2:05:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
You haven't seen anything yet. Next week Hillary will be on "Spongebob Squarepants."


2 posted on 10/12/2018 2:13:57 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Kaslin
Gee, I missed both of these episodes. 😂
3 posted on 10/12/2018 2:23:01 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Umfortunately Trump let us get too far down the road without investigating and prosecuting Clinton crimes.


4 posted on 10/12/2018 2:25:34 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing unusual here. Last week I saw a show on AHC that honored Dutch Schulz.


5 posted on 10/12/2018 2:27:59 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Kaslin

Its amazing, she still hasn’t conceded the election and it’s been 2 years!!!


6 posted on 10/12/2018 2:28:52 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Kaslin
That photo at top with the soft lighting, cheery atmosphere, and pancake makeup on both is far too flattering. Here's the real Hillary. Even old Adolf himself never looked so evil and deranged... on camera anyway.



7 posted on 10/12/2018 2:31:57 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Kaslin

They don’t call it See BS for nothing.


8 posted on 10/12/2018 2:41:07 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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To: SpaceBar

She is genuinely scary.


9 posted on 10/12/2018 2:59:19 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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Hillary needs to shut the hell up. Voters didnt want her as president. She needs to live with it. We're sick of her bloviating.

America's historic motto: e pluribus unum, 'out of many, one'....means One Nation, One People, One Goal.

It NEVER meant the monstrosity of "diversity" foisted on us by power-mad Democrats, the greedy Clintons and the know-nothing Obamas....

Diversity is anti-American.

Its a bunch of self-serving hyphenates separated into factions with Third World mentalities.... ..destroying the unity and oneness that is America.

10 posted on 10/12/2018 3:32:24 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

Q for CBS affiliates: Had enough yet?


11 posted on 10/12/2018 3:33:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Kaslin

For the sake of fairness, did they ever honor Al Capone?


12 posted on 10/12/2018 3:54:00 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Kaslin

They attacked what has made America great, and still does, and that is our diversity.

I am SO sick of this “diversity” horseshit.
You know who made America great?

WHITE MALE EUROPEANS, THAT’S WHO.


13 posted on 10/12/2018 3:54:43 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Kaslin

She will NOT be ignored Dan! Seriously, I haven’t had cable TV for over a decade, but that dialogue appears to have been written by an overwrought 7th grade girl.


14 posted on 10/12/2018 4:20:10 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Kaslin

Sickening just plain sickening


15 posted on 10/12/2018 4:39:33 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

I am still confused what it WAS that she actually got done as Secretary of State, or even as New York Senator. What accomplishments or milestone decisions were taken that changed the world.


16 posted on 10/12/2018 4:41:52 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Kaslin

She played a Hillary look alike? Maybe it WAS her look alike.


17 posted on 10/12/2018 4:43:08 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: Kaslin

So, how much is “free prime-time TV” hours on multiple networks worth to a 2012-2016-2020 Presidential candidate?

Oh wait.

Trump DID get contributions-in-kind to HIS Presidential campaign when his lawyer paid a bimbo off with the lawyer’s own money! According to the liberals on ABCNNBCBS.


18 posted on 10/12/2018 4:48:47 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Kaslin

They keep trying to ‘re purpose’ her... ain’t gonna happen


19 posted on 10/12/2018 4:56:00 AM PDT by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Kaslin
Don't forget: Bill Clinton's presidency was so bad they had to create a program (The West Wing) to show what it would be like if he wasn't such a miserable failure.

The problem with current attempts to rehabilitate Hillary's image by CBS is that it's the wrong kind of rehab for her.

20 posted on 10/12/2018 4:58:59 AM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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