Posted on 04/19/2006 3:09:26 PM PDT by naturalman1975
SO much for the first female president of the United States. She faces the sack not a year after winning power.
Last year, America's ABC network unveiled its latest hot series -- Commander in Chief, starring Geena Davis as the president the US deserved.
It got rave reviews, of course, because which journalist wouldn't love such a leader?
Many also salivated at what it meant for the female politicians of their choice.
So Bob Kunst of hillarynow.com, a website promoting the candidacy of Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton, wife of president Bill, enthused to Vanity Fair: "Hillary must have friends at ABC."
Indeed, her former deputy communications director was a scriptwriter on the show. Her husband's former social secretary was on the crew, too.
And so 17 million viewers watched the first episode to see what the fuss was about. And how quickly they turned off -- just 10 million are still watching, and the show seems doomed.
It was much the same story here for Channel 7. The first show, hyped in part by chatter that Labor's Julia Gillard could benefit in her tilt for Labor's leadership, screened in March and was watched by 1.7 million people.
Six weeks later, just one million were still turned on.
So what happened? It seems unlikely the public couldn't cope with the idea of a female leader, given its initial interest.
The real problem seems to be the kind of leader that notoriously Left-wing Hollywood yet again fed them -- one too "nice" to be true, or even safe.
Let's see. This is a woman who is too decent to bother even running for elections, being picked instead as an replacement vice-president by a Republican president trying to go for the women's vote. She only gets his job because the old devil promptly drops dead.
And she gets to work. Faced with a war with a foreign dictator, she solves it all by pleading for his people to revolt. Why didn't George Bush think of simply asking nicely?
When a terrorist is arrested en route to bombing a US primary school, the president is faced with a choice -- to torture him for more information or raid a terrorist camp for clues. She raids the camp, foils the plot and sacks the underling who naughtily tortured the terrorist when she wasn't looking. Why didn't Bush act so gently?
On it goes. The president prevents a nuclear war with North Korea just by saying sorry. She ends a hostage crisis by talking to the terrorists.
I suspect most viewers figured this kind of president was so unreal as to be dangerous if she ever got her hands on true power. Click.
And I have no doubt Julia Gillard and Hillary Clinton know that, too.
Female politicians who want to be taken seriously can't afford to live up to this debilitating stereotype of "feminine politics". The ones who succeed in the West tend to take the world as they find it -- tough and hard. List them: Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi and the great Margaret Thatcher.
So, yes, impeach Geena Davis. She failed not because she was a woman, but because she was as wet as a typical Hollywood activist. We prefer the Right woman for the top job.
Oh, but they did. For eight years. /s?
"Sure, you can have a copy of the transfer order, Danny. I'm here to help in any way I can."
"Thank you."
"You do believe that, don't you, Danny, that I'm here to help in any way I can? Corporal'll take you by the office, and...you can have all the transfer orders that you want."
"Thank you."
"But you have to ask me nicely."
"Say again?"
"You have to ask me nicely. See, Danny, I can deal with the bullets and the bombs and the blood. I don't want money, and I don't want medals. What I do want is for you to stand there in that faggoty white uniform, and with your Harvard mouth, extend me some f**king courtesy.
"You have to ask me nicely."
/Col. Jessep
Ouch! That smarts... Good one.
In Hollywood, "wet" has an entirely different connotation.
I think he means "absurd."
Last year, when the program first aired, my wife and I were spending a few days at a bed and breakfast inn with some friends. We were in the "rec room" of the inn on the night "CinC" aired, playing cards, and another couple came in to watch the show. With the program on in the background, I couldn't believe the drivel that passed for dialogue. At one point, Madame Pres. came storming into the Situation Room, and said, "I have a serious question for all of you...", to which I finished her thought for her, "...Does this dress make me look fat?" Our party cracked up; the other couple just glared.
Isn't that interesting that when it comes to producing a program that depends upon ratings for success, the Hollywood left realizes they can't put up one of their own, they have to reach back to a specie of Democrat that is, frankly, extinct today.
On target. That's the best the left can do...put up someone who pretends to be president.
Before there was a woman CEO in a corporatin I used to work for, everyone (especially women and girly men)said it would be so great with a woman at the helm. But when we finally got one we almost went down with all hands in less than two years.
And she gets to work. Faced with a war with a foreign dictator, she solves it all by pleading for his people to revolt.
Adding the threat of a US airstrike a week until they do as encouregement.
The real problem seems to be the kind of leader that notoriously Left-wing Hollywood yet again fed them -- one too "nice" to be true, or even safe.
What show was Ancy watching? For the first weeks is was what foreign nation can Mack tick off this week? 1. Nigeria 2.Columbia. 3. Russia. 3 Lebanon.
And here's why CiC failed. The Right didn't watch in the first place because they belived Mack Allen was a Hillary clone. The Left quit when she wasn't.
I think the saying is, "Everytime you drown a kitten, a left-wing television show dies."
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