Hillary’s $100 Million Hollywood Makeover

Key Speakers At The Clinton Global InitiativeThe 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. Her obvious unspoken thought was that the scene of Hillary doing her best Khrushchev imitation while self-righteously covering up the brutal murder of four Americans would have gone much better if someone else had been playing Hillary.

Hillary isn’t very good at playing Hillary the way that Obama was at playing Obama. The Obama character was a charming rogue who could always find the right put down to dismiss criticisms of his inexperience and extremism. No one could have played the fake Obama better than the real Obama.

Hillary’s liberal supporters wish that she could play the Hillary of their imagination as well as Obama portrayed their imaginary Obama. Two years before the Hillary campaign, they recruited Geena Davis to be Hillary’s human face in Commander in Chief. Now they know that they can’t count on more than a season of Hillary TV so they waited this long to debut Tea Leoni as Hillary in Madam Secretary.

Hillary Clinton isn’t the first Clinton to get an airbrushed fictional Hollywood substitute. Rob Reiner and Aaron Sorkin debuted a fictionalized version of Bill Clinton’s sex scandals with The American President. Not only did Michael Douglas class up the Clintons by playing Bill, but he was conveniently enough a bachelor romancing a liberal woman of his own class. It had as much to do with the reality of Bill’s groping frenzies as Madam Secretary’s take on Benghazi has to do with Hillary shopping for bad art while leaving a band of unpaid Islamic terrorists to “protect” the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.

The American President, like Madam Secretary, understood that it had to get rid of Hillary.

The Democratic Party has once again built up an elaborate pageant around a candidate. Gender will be swapped in for race. It’s a massive production that began with Hillary receiving virtually every award known to man and is meant to end with her political coronation that will secure the party’s image as progressive barrier-breakers. But Hillary doesn’t seem to know her lines and neither do her stand ins.

A professional actress playing Hillary could do better, but even Hillary substitutes don’t come out that much more popular than Hillary.

The Hillary Clinton book, written by someone else, was a flop. The Hillary Clinton book tour to sell the book was also a flop. The reviews are in for Madam Secretary and the word on the critic street is flopsville. No one really likes watching propaganda infomercials that take no risks and offer no rewards.

Commander in Chief went through three showrunners and barely one season. Madam Secretary will try to wring as much sympathy as it can out of her confrontations with the mean Dick Cheney substitute, scenes of her shoveling horse manure (all-too appropriate) and trying to balance work and family, but there’s only so much Hillary cynicism that even liberal television critics seem to be able to stomach.

The Huffington Post describes Madam Secretary as “contrived, predictable and seemingly allergic to ambiguity and subtext.” That’s also a really good description of Hillary Clinton. The two fictional Hillary Clintons, played by Tea Leoni and Hillary Clinton, have that much in common. They’re shallow creatures who would rather fish for sympathy votes and ratings than actually stand on their own merits

At press events, Tea Leoni insists that her Hillary lookalike is really based on Henry Kissinger. Hillary Clinton launched a book tour with stops at the Hamptons by claiming to have been flat broke. There’s something about being Hillary that makes one snap and tell crazy lies because the truth is just too awful.

The truth is that CBS, whose boss was a big Hillary donor last time around, is dropping a fortune on an illegal campaign commercial for a mediocre candidate who has never held any public office that she didn’t receive based on her husband’s political connections. The truth is that Hillary Clinton’s politics are both radical and boring and covering them up along with her corrupt dealings has made her paranoid.

The biggest threat to the creators of Hillary infomercials has been Hillary. Hillary Clinton disapproves of experiments to create a Hillary with a human face the way that Moscow disapproved of efforts to create Socialism with a human face. Like Brezhnev, Hillary responded by sending in the tanks.

CNN tried to develop a Hillary documentary. NBC wanted to air a Hillary Clinton miniseries which would have tasked Diane Lane with giving Hillary a human face. CNN and NBC were forced to abort after threats from David Brock, Hillary’s paranoid Media Matters attack dog, ended the Hillary Spring.

As the temperatures fall and the leaves die on the trees, CBS’s Madam Secretary is all that’s left.

Charles Ferguson, the leftist hack behind the CNN doc, attempted to reach Hillary to speak with her. ” He was told, “Over my dead body.”

That’s the real Hillary and it’s why she so desperately needs a human face. The real Hillary isn’t a mother figure. She’s the lawyer who laughed about how she freed the rapist of a 12-year girl who had been beaten into a coma. The real Hillary isn’t the open box thinker of Madam Secretary; she’s a hack who did her best to stay under the radar during her time as Secretary of State to protect her political ambitions.

Hillary is a creature of masks because what is underneath is both banal and evil. Socialism with a human face from the Communist Party didn’t fix Communism. Sticking Tea Leoni, Geena Davis or Diane Lane’s face on Hillary Clinton won’t make her human. It makes her an inhuman Hollywood Frankencreation.

Obama could play Hollywood’s idea of a fictional president. Hillary Clinton just freezes up and her smile turns into a grimace as she sits waiting for an assistant to feed her the next scripted line.

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  • truebearing

    “Hillary is a creature of masks because what is underneath is both banal and evil.”

    The evil Left has harnessed the creative capacity of an industry that lies for a living to make Hillary likeable. They fail to realize that you can’t use visual media trickery to make ice feel warm. People react to Hillary on a visceral, intuitive level — such is human nature in the presence of evil.

    There are three categories of professional liars that have joined forces to deceive America: leftist politicians, the leftist media, and leftist Hollywood. They barely attempt to conceal their collusion anymore, though it appears that at least some in the media have just barely enough professional self-respect to refuse giving this crap a good review. It must really be awful — like lipstick on a pig.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      I suspect if Hillary talked further to the left, they would have slapped more lipstick on the pig.

      • truebearing

        They don’t dare put too much on. It could raise accusations of Hillary appearing in “red-face.” Or it might trigger hostilities with genuine indians, like Elizabeth Warren.

      • Nabukuduriuzhur

        Maybe she could run as “Charlotte’s Candidate”?

    • Nabukuduriuzhur

      This is the fourth year in a row that 9 of 10 movies lost money. One wonders how much money Hollygunk has left to throw away on leftist propaganda.

      • truebearing

        They are so desperate they’ve had to resort to movies about the Bible.

  • larry and the cigarettes

    The fact that this phony is still fooling half the nation is the strangest thing ever seen…

    • stevethird

      It speaks to the effectiveness of the Left’s destruction of our education system.

      • Jane Wegener

        Well said and tragically true. Our nation of young people are truly clueless. It is sad to watch. Our universities are nothing but propaganda machines used to further indoctrinate. Many if not most of the people today do not know what they don’t know. Also with Obama bringing in hundreds of thousands illegals and by giving them amnesty will be the Trojan Horse that will “Fundamentally Transform America” the only promise he has kept.

    • http://www.hubpages.com/profiles/maven101 LarryConners

      We have a president that is still fooling half the American public…twice…

      • Nabukuduriuzhur

        With three weeks of constant election fraud stories after Nov 2012, I doubt he did.

        my state declared Romney the winner when the votes had been counted, then 15 minutes later, the numbers had been adjusted to give obama 54%. Nothing was done about it. Might as well have had no election commission at all.

    • Cogitoergosum

      Is half of America truly being fooled? Or is it the leftist, or progressive, media that censors itself to ensure that negative, likely accurate, reports never see the light of day, and thus half of America remains blissfully ignorant?

    • scottish Girl

      The same can be said for Obama….

  • Biff_Maliboo

    Sid and Marty Krofft did this 40 years ago.

    http://p2.la-img.com/930/17693/5965992_3_l.jpg

  • kasandra

    It worked for her husband. Clinton friend Harry Thomason produced the TV show “Evening Shade” that starting airing two years before the 1992 election. It centered on a fictional town in Arkansas that was a virtual Mayberry or Lake Wobegon and full of wonderful and sympathetic characters.

  • ron44

    hAHAHA..I avoided this crap on cBS last night because i had a feeling this is what this was going to be presented. The mSM and HOLLYWERID never miss a bet when it comes to pushing communists philosophies and beliefs while leaving out the facts on how inhuman and evil they are. The Hearings in the fifties on HOLLYWOOD ties to communists were totally right and media along with Hollywood lied about what the truth was. Now you see it coming out.

  • ADM64

    Will Senators Udall, Reid et al see this as an illegitimate expression of First Amendment privileges (not rights, one must note) and, as good opponents of Citizens United, attack this blatant election propaganda for what it is and demand it be removed from the airwaves?

  • http://www.hubpages.com/profiles/maven101 LarryConners

    Hillary will be a shoo-in if the RINO’s continue to put up losers like Dole and McCain…Palin shot her wad, Huckabee is a conservative Hubert Humphrey, and Romney cannot carry the Christian Right or energize the conservative vote…Who do Republicans have on the horizon that have the name recognition, MSM support, and passion to inspire voters..? Where are the serious-minded conservative women that could challenge this Alinsky acolyte..?

    • Christopher H Fromme

      You are correct on point 1Hidlabeast would beat Jeb, Fatboy + Rand
      Wrong about Sarah, she is just warming up and can beat the Clinton Machine in a landslide

      • http://www.hubpages.com/profiles/maven101 LarryConners

        Chris, I wish it were true…Sarah is a bulldog and doesn’t suffer fools or a biased media…She has that most valuable of political assets; she inspires…But the constant drumbeat of character assassination ( as a VP candidate she was vetted and discussed more than the presidential candidates, indicating just how much liberal/progressives were terrified of her) has sunk into the political consciousness of the American voter (most believe she actually said “I can see Russia from my house”, an SNL comic’s line )…A lot of Americans are submerged in a Pop Culture that glorifies celebrity, encourages narcissism, and blunts any critical thinking…Where is John Galt or Dagny Taggart when we need them…

    • Cogitoergosum

      All those Rs mentioned and other potential candidates not mentioned, are extraordinarily intimidated by the media. Plus, a Republican with across-the-board appeal (like a Reagan) and a convincing message won’t be given the time-of-day from the biased media journalists. The Republicans need another, more charismatic, Newt Gingrich . . . someone not afraid to go toe-to-toe with the media, someone who will receive media attention because of the incredible, fantastic, but marvelous, ideas he expresses.

    • Hank Rearden

      Allen West

  • steve b

    THERE IS NOTHING THAT ANYONE CAN DO TO CHANGE THAT UGLY FACE.

  • ratonis

    This is for the “Harry Potter” generation young people who might be inclined to vote for her. Please note: Hillary Clinton is the “Dolores Umbridge” of real-world politics. Maybe it will ring their bell at bit and wake them up.

  • ArizonaPaul

    I’ve seen so many commercials for this show, which I don’t have any desire what so-ever to watch. Hope it crashes and burns.

  • bob e

    wow .. the glazov interview & this essay are both sizzling .. wow !!
    keep takin’ it to ‘em dan ..

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      thanks

  • Libslayer

    I predict this show will go over like a lead balloon.
    No one buys the premise.

    • CowboyUp

      It’s a safe bet, they’re getting the same thing from the msm news and commentary, so it’s redundant right off the bat. But, for a lot of people, that phrase has come to mean, “It certainly could happen.”

  • WVSlim

    I’ll bet the Nobel Prize committee is scrambling to find some way to award Hillary the next Nobel Peace Prize. The trouble is that they cannot find any accomplishments by Hillary that are even close to being worthy. However, that was not a problem when they gave it to Obama, so Hillary still has a shot.

  • mcbee555

    Cosmetic changes won’t do, beneath them is the same, old, Madame Secretary, the “cover-up” queen of the Benghazi tragedy.
    It could be possible that a Lobotomy may help her, it may relieve her dependency on Bill, but she definitely shouldn’t waste the USA’s resources and time running for President. With all the crooks the Democrat Party can have their PR people “make” into a candidate, why Hillary?

    • bigjulie

      She’s only a figurehead for Bill’s Third Term!

  • John Davidson

    I am glad someone besides myself spotted this obvious political ruse.

  • jarien21

    The way they talk about her on the news, it’s evident she will become the new president for 2016. And absolutely no theory (http://bit.ly/1uyd1hE) will tarnish her campaign.

    • bigjulie

      Sorry, but you are WRONG!! MSM does not control the internet yet. So much negative and true information about the hildabeast is now known and fact-checkable that no amount of “PIG LIPSTICK” will change her appearance to voters. She will always be a no-talent, slow-witted, homely old woman better suited to pushing mops in a restroom than pushing more Alinsky propaganda intended to move us all to a “Socialist Paradise”!!

  • cree

    This obvious propaganda effort reminds of the Goebbels/Himmler machine that duped most of the German people. The danger then with Hillary is the younger electorate who are more insulated from the hag’s past. Of course, a dupe ignores any age limit as too many older will swoon her run for all the right utopian reasons.

    I still wonder at the narcissist motives of statist leaders. What becomes predominant in them is that conceit drives them to become historic. The true nature, true colors are hidden by lies and the illusion propaganda creates.

    Obama was all illusion with too few knowing his true self. The duped became intoxicated. The Frontpage choir cringe to the likes of Brennan, Kerry, Reid… the list would take up to much space. The hag is on that list.

    All leftists even fool or deny themselves as to their real abilities to be effective for the good of the people. In other words, ideology trumps the people; failure and unintentional consequences are ignored (Detroit etc.) Leftists self elevate themselves to elitist, exactly the opposite of what people need: integrity in ability but with humility of being commonly human with fellow man. Two come to mind: George Washington, Ronald Reagan.

  • Cogitoergosum

    “They’re shallow creatures who would rather fish for sympathy votes and ratings than actually stand on their own merits.”

    Merits?? What merits?

  • scottish Girl

    the best person to play Hillary would be Garafolo…….she even looks like a young Hillary….and certainly her political view matches.

  • gram78

    I hope they don’t forget the episode about how she sends our people into harms way, leaves them there when all other countries and the Red Cross have pulled out, ignores their pleas for more security and, when they are attacked and ask for help, refuses to give it to them. Then, when their dead bodies arrive in the US, she stands over their caskets and lies to their families about why they died. That’s a particularly compelling story.

  • AbsolutelyRight

    Madam Secretary? Ha ha ha Hillary Benghazi Clinton is more like the Mayflower Madam.

  • http://www.hubpages.com/profiles/maven101 LarryConners

    You can add Trey Gowdy to that list…A serious, no-nonsense conservative that IS the smartest guy in the room…

  • ricpic

    Remember Maureen Stapleton? She would’ve made a believable Hillary in the looks department. Tea Leoni, Diane Lane, Geena Davis: talk about inflation.

  • Nabukuduriuzhur

    The terrible irony of Dubcek’s “socialism with a human face” is that after WWI, the Italian branch of the communist World Worker’s Party started calling themselves “Il Facisti” and you can guess what word we get from that.

    Dubcek was trying to reform his nation, but it resulted in the the 1968 invasion.

  • bigjulie

    This will be absolute proof that our move to totally eliminate TV from our household 8 years ago was purely brilliant!

  • USARetired

    She is too far gone for any type makeover!~

  • robert clark

    BIll + Hillary = Chelsea = once

  • Servo1969

    She’s worse than Obama.
    Obama is a lazy fop who just wants to play and be adored. He is not interested in work and lets other people make decisions whenever he can.
    Hillary is a pitbull Marxist who remembers the name of everyone who has crossed her in the last 50 years. She is the kind of person who would personally order someone destroyed and ask to be updated on any progress.

    Obama is a narcissist. Other people really don’t cross his mind.
    Hillary is truly a nasty, mean person.
    She’s known to scream the F-word at Marines and SS Agents.
    An often repeated story is she once threw her coffee in a Marines face when he
    told her he wasn’t allowed to leave his post to go get her a refill.