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.............

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[AU72]

The Hollywood swells must ahve been stocking up on garlic.

[stuartcr]

I don't know why everyone is so upset by who hollywood backs. If they were that powerful, I doubt Mr. Bush would be president.

[Hildy]

I think it's high time we do away with patronage Ambassadorships.

[twonie]

Looking more like Shelley Winters every day. She's running to catch up to Helen Thomas.

[Baynative]

[ShawTaylor]

"I don't know why everyone is so upset by who hollywood backs. If they were that powerful, I doubt Mr. Bush would be president"

Exactly.
The Hollyweirdos backed both Algore and Hanoi John, very strongly, including making anti-Bush movies, concerts and whatnot's before those elections. President Bush still clobbered both suckers but good.
Still it's great to see these buffoons bashing each other.

[stuartcr]

We're surrounded by buffoons.

[unkus]

No one trusts Hitlery. She will use and abuse anyone she can. A lot of people will distance themselves from her as this campaign goes on.

[noname07718]

Has that Baldwin brother left the country yet?

[Corin Stormhands]

Somebody with more editing skills than I needs to do a spoof of Hillary from the Faith Hill meltdown video...

[JennysCool]

What irony! Hillary! is finding out what generations of Hollywood actors and actresses have found out: You have a limited shelf-life. To the Tinseltown set, she's yesterday's news.

[gridlock]

Hollywood probably can't pick the President, but they can sure shootin' pick the Democrat(ic) nominee.

[bassmaner]

Of course, when the current toast of Hollyweird Algore jumps in, Obama will be left crying in the swingset, too. Prediction: it'll happen by September, October at the latest.

[Elsie]

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.

BRIBERY!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

". . . last week's slanging match instigated by Hollywood billionaire David Geffen . . ."

I thought Wolfson of the Clinton camp instigated the slanging.

[gridlock]

PERCEPTION in politics, as the truism goes, quickly becomes reality. And Hillary Clinton - who a few short months ago was the darling of the film colony - suddenly has perception problems in Hollywood.

The only thing going on right now is stupid polls, and in order for Hillary! to win, she has to maintain her front-runner status. A sense of inevitability is her only strength. Once that is gone, she does not have the talent or the personal appeal to win the voters back.

[rod1]

I am sensing we might have a third party challenge this election.

Hillary and McPain, after plummeting in the polls sufficiently, may end up as candidates on the EGO party ticket.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

[SuperSonic]

[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

[advertising guy]

also not lost here is Hillary's comment about taking the oil companies profits..Hollywwod heard that and (rightly) assumed she could do the same at Hollywood....You know she would love some of that $$$$$$$$4 from PASSION OF THE CHRIST.

[Churchillspirit]

The Clintons run things like the mob

Drum roll....

[NickatNite2003]

I can see the news story now:

Yesterday morning, David Geffen,
reputed head of the infamous
Hollywood Gay Mafia "Family",
awoke to find the severed head
of his prize winning sheep in
bed with him....

[hdstmf]

He's not worried. He still has the rear part.

[unkus]

There is no honor amont thieves and Hollywood doesn't want to be ripped off either. You have it exactly right.

[sauropod]

review

[gridlock]

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

Oh, puhleez!

Ask 100 people on the street if Giuliani is running. About 20 will say "Julie Who?", 79 will say "Heck, yeah!" and 1 will say "I'm Rudy's Mom, and he hasn't said anything to me yet!".

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"I don't think that another incredibly polarising figure, no matter how smart she is and no matter how ambitious she is - and god knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton? - can bring the country together," [Geffen] told The New York Times. "Everybody in politics lies," he said about the Clintons. "But they do it with such ease, it's troubling."

Should be repeated loudly and often!

She is SUCH a dangerous, power-hungry beotch! Loathe Him, despise Her.

[advertising guy]

I know an actor and a special effects man who told me Hillary scares the hell out of them...

[Eagles Talon IV]

My point is he won't peak early if he doesn't announce early., The speculative fever will only grow and if he times it properly he can go into the primary season with a huge, HUGE lead in the polls.