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Hillary’s $100 Million Hollywood Makeover (CBS's "Madam Secretary")
Front Page Mag ^ | September 22, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 09/22/2014 11:03:18 AM PDT by Dave346

The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia described the reforms which resulted in the Prague Spring as “socialism with a human face.” The New York Times calls Madam Secretary, CBS’s extremely expensive prime time contribution to the Hillary campaign, “Hillary with a human face.”

A network series can cost between $3 and $4 million an episode. Assuming that Madam Secretary runs even one season, instead of being canceled ignominiously like Commander in Chief, the 2005 attempt at giving Hillary a human face, it will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million.

That’s double the $46 million that Hillary’s campaign spent on TV ads against Obama and it gives the Hillary 2016 campaign over 20 hours of prime time network unpaid ad space. If the series lasts long enough to run through the whole campaign that will double to $200 million. But the Hillary 2016 campaign is expected to cost around $2 billion. CBS’s $100 million donation is only a drop in a big bucket.

There’s more than a whiff of Kim Jong-Il, Stalin and Saddam Hussein about needing so many actors to portray a current politician. But Madam Secretary reeks of political insecurity. A similar series about Obama would have been worshipful. Madam Secretary is nervously revisionist. It’s desperately trying to glue an appealing human face over the Hillary mask that Hillary Clinton wears over her real face.

Hillary won’t be able to get anyone to play Hillary Clinton once she actually runs for office. Lori McCreary, the executive producer of Madam Secretary, said that she was inspired to create the $100 million Hillary infomercial by watching the Benghazi hearings.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbs; entertainment; piaps; prime; tv
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To: Talisker

LOL I loved it and I loved watching West Wing when it was on until Rob Lowe left. I am a visual person and rarely remember the politics but did learn who does what. I love the humor and the architecture.

I did catch an article about the red carpet showing and Madeline Albright was there.

It is just a show. NCIS is my favorite show and it is liberal, plus I love Criminal Minds. Haven’t tried to kill anyone yet.


61 posted on 09/22/2014 3:25:59 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Dave346

Lipstick on a pig.


62 posted on 09/22/2014 3:49:32 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: surrey
Ok, perhaps 'avowed' was over the top. Geena Davis, is a Democrat. Not an obnoxious one on par with Martin Sheen or Meryl Streep.
However, Davis also admits to favoring some conservative positions.
63 posted on 09/23/2014 7:16:55 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (EveryoneÂ’s got a plan Â’til they get punched in the mouth.)
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To: PhilDragoo

They will try to put “lipstick on a pig”.
It’s gonna be a big job, haha...


64 posted on 09/23/2014 1:19:13 PM PDT by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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To: potlatch
When you digitally remove the profanity, the lies, a set of luggage under each eye, one hundred seventy-five pounds of dogma in a pant suit can be adorable.
65 posted on 09/23/2014 11:46:33 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: Red Badger

Read Ben Shapiro’s book Primetime Propaganda

Hollywood and Media don’t mind bleeding cash for an agenda

And will kill a moneymaker with wrong message

They hate what we cherish.

And will lose money to win.

Damnedest thing..... the canard its all about the money is wrong


66 posted on 09/24/2014 12:05:33 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: wardaddy
And will kill a moneymaker with wrong message

Yes, they did.............

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulworth

67 posted on 09/24/2014 6:24:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

I always liked Beatty’s style and swordsmanship but unusual for a Virginian


68 posted on 09/24/2014 11:52:25 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: PhilDragoo; ntnychik
A PIAPS with a black soul is 'deplorable', only a heart and soul transplant could make her 'adorable'! ;D


69 posted on 09/24/2014 12:50:49 PM PDT by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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To: small business owner
I have no doubt you would be influenced to vote for her...

LOL, even Hillary got a laugh out of that one.

70 posted on 09/25/2014 9:51:57 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker
CBS' Madame Secretary Update...

It is now Nov 15, 2015.
I have just watched my last half episode of this blatant free Hillary campaign propaganda for the final time.

They managed to skirt the mindless "progressive" blatant propaganda for a long time, but I could not stomach tonight's blatant twofer : glorifying the "Secretary of State" position, and the "Black Lives Matter" support.

They finally dropped the PC "Progressive" evenhanded pretense.

71 posted on 11/15/2015 8:18:17 PM PST by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: small business owner
For you perhaps,, I have no doubt you would be influenced to vote for her, for me it was entertainment without a political message.

Sure you stuffed enough lies into one statement, or do you want to try again?

72 posted on 11/15/2015 10:49:18 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Rusty0604
I think I am smart enough not to be brainwashed by a stupid TV show without nannies or censors telling me not to watch it.

That's because you don't understand how brainwashing works. Bet you think you can drink poison safely, too, as long as you know its chemical formula.

73 posted on 11/15/2015 10:51:57 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: huldah1776
It is just a show. NCIS is my favorite show and it is liberal, plus I love Criminal Minds. Haven’t tried to kill anyone yet.

Yet.

But hey, you're right - Hollywood spend billions on movies without any thought whatsoever towards influencing how people think or behave.

74 posted on 11/15/2015 10:55:37 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s on season 2 now.


75 posted on 11/16/2015 12:11:00 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And she has a faithful husband, good m marriage.


76 posted on 11/16/2015 12:12:39 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Dave346
Far too many people see through the smokescreen the left is and has been laying for quite sometime. I predict that Hitlery, if she escapes the FBI email investigation, will be "damaged goods".. if she even gains the nomination she'll pull no better a percentage of voters than Walter Mondale did in 1984.

Reagan's 525 electoral votes (out of 538) is the highest total ever received by a presidential candidate. His showing ranks fourth by percent electoral votes received (97.58%) out of total available electoral votes, just shy of the 523 out of 531 (98.49%) received by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Mondale's 13 electoral votes is also the second-fewest ever received by a second-place candidate, second only to Alf Landon's 8 in 1936.

The greater part of the American voting public has had enough "Democrat" for quite awhile.

77 posted on 11/16/2015 12:27:51 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Talisker

besides giving the ones capable of murder fresh ideas on how to accomplish the task without a trace.


78 posted on 11/16/2015 6:15:31 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776
besides giving the ones capable of murder fresh ideas on how to accomplish the task without a trace.

Well we find what we are looking for, don't we?

79 posted on 11/16/2015 10:41:24 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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