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."
Thanks for the link!
Hey Mia, you can have fun with this one with your Flash/Dreamweaver skills :)
Why do I get the feeling that even if this show does terrible in the ratings, ABC may decide to keep it running for a couple of seasons to give it a chance to "build an audience"?
Well, the "Equal Time" rule no longer applies, but campaign financing rules do. If the show should run up to the election in Nov. of '08 and then cancel, regardless of the outcome of the election, I would think that an investigation into just WHO financed the show might be in order. If the show was a paid commercial money looser, but was sponsored by a Sugar Daddy and his organization like MoveOn, I'd say that campaign finance rules had been broken using the public airways.
And so it begins, America.....Hollyweird working with Dems & MSM to 'condition' you to accept Queen Hillary!
The Road to the White House 2008.....and they still claim no MSM bias.....gimme a break!
From the article:
"As for Cohen, he insists: "We support the notion of a female president from either side of the aisle.""
Oh please, spare me. Why can't these jerks just come out of the closet?
Pig In A Pant Suit
I'm not Hillary, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
I tried to watch The West Wing a couple of times and I couldn't stand it. It was just so phony to me considering all the stuff the REAL White House has had to deal with in the last 5 years. I was totally bored! I can't imagine this new one is going to be any different. Actually considering the negative, leftist, liberal, partisan slant to just about everything on anymore I can't hardly stand to watch TV at all.
Don't be so sure, that everything-basher Maher is still on.
Geena Davis, actress, is listed as donating $2,000 to Kerry for President 7-20-2004. Donald Sutherland has appeared at many DemLib fundraisers, is the "old lover and fellow peace campaigner" of Jane Fonda, and is quoted all over the websites of various moonbat groups such as "Refuse & Resist". Enough said.
I'd bet anything that Sutherland's character is the rascally Republican Speaker of the House (who would naturally assume the presidency if she resigns) or some other such high-up government critter. The previews show him to be a real back-biter, so it would only follow that Sutherland HAS to be a "right-wing fanatic".
Then she must be doing some impressive work in the casting office!
LOL! Thanks.
No! If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it probably is a duck!
No! If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it probably is a duck!
Ive been saying all along that this is the left trying to get us to snuggle up to Clinton. The RINOs in congress is going to make a CLinton presidency happen more than anything else. I am so sick of RINOs like Bush and McCain I am starting to wonder if having the true enemy like Clinton wouldnt be better...at least we could get back to fighting her and defining what being a conservative (and republican used to be) is all about.
By the way - where has that nut job been? Not that I really care but - I havent seen him on anything since his melt down and explosion.
Like we didn't know this was a thoroughly corrupt, Clinton-run enterprise from Day 1. Was there ever any other purpose for this show than to condition Americans to vote for Hillary?
I bet Sutherland plays his part like Bubba the dimwad, because they think they can kill two birds with one stone.
In addition to Cohen, Davis and Sutherland, "Chief" creator Rod Lurie is listed as contributing $2,000 to both the Kerry and Clark campaigns in 2004. Co-writer Anya Epstein is listed as contributing $500 to the Kerry campaign.
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