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 Something's up.
Take top Democratic donors, Stephen Bochco(Kerry Campaign & DNC) and Rod Lurie. Add Gena Davis and Donald Sutherland as top stars. And you have 'Commander In Chief' --a new ABC TV series, already dubbed a weekly 'infomercial' for a Hillary Clinton presidential bid.
The show also features as consultants/writers: 1) an ex-Clinton era social secretary to Sandy Berger. 2) Al Gore's Chief of Staff Ron Klain 3) Hillary Clinton's former Deputy Communication Director Steven Cohen. Something's definitely up.
Now, carefully note that another "Commander" writer is Stuart Stevens --the GOP media strategist who happens to have advised both Bush campaigns.
Oh Yeah....
Something is up.
It's the G8 NWO all over again.
And they will own President Hillary just as much as they have owned Bush.
Iron Fist, Velvet Glove.
Same ol' Dictatorship....
New Tits.
 To know what is really going on,
you need to read the news article below
and listen to our related audio:
'Exit Bush, Enter the Dragon'
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ABC Series with Woman President May Soon Reflect Reality
By Melissa Charbonneau, White House Correspondent CBN.com
WASHINGTON - Could a new hit television series about a woman in the White House be a warm-up act for a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign?
Academy award winner Geena Davis is Mackenzie Allen, the nation's first female president in ABC's new series "Commander in Chief."
This fictional presidency raises the real-life question: Is America ready for a woman in the White House?
Newsweek author Eleanor Clift said, "It no longer is preposterous."
Clift said that polls show nearly 80 percent of Americans would vote for a lipstick-clad candidate.
And books out by Susan Estrich and Dick Morris are fueling speculation about a 2008 presidential face-off between two female candidates - a Democratic senator and a Republican secretary of state.
"It's not an abstract notion,” Clift said. “You can attach the idea to specific women, and it's not hard to imagine either Hillary Clinton or Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office."
Davis plays a married, working mom and former congresswoman tapped as vice president to a Republican president. When the President dies in office, Mackenzie Allen steps in.
"She's almost too good to be true. You have to remind yourself this is television, this is fantasy,” Clift said.
A feminist fantasy, says Carrie Lukas with the Independent Women's Forum.
Lukas said, " It's not -- 'Oh, if only we had a sensible woman in office, this could be fixed in one command’ -- It's much more complicated than that."
Standing a commanding six feet tall, Davis defies a feeble feminine stereotype, showing she is unafraid to send in the troops.
Actor Davis, as President Allen, states in the series, "I want to know what the risks are if we go in before nightfall."
"She's wielding military power,” Clift said, “but it's always to good end. So you could be the biggest pacifist in the audience, and you would be cheering bringing the Marines in."
Carrie Lukas said the show has a political message with "Clintonesque" undertones, like the episode when President Allen launches a humanitarian assault to stop the stoning of a Nigerian woman.
"She was sending in the military without the consent of Congress,” Lukas complained. “It basically was a ridiculous scenario, but [it was there] to show that a woman can be as tough as a man."
Producers insist that the show is balanced, that Allen is independent, and even backs some conservative views like abstinence education.
Clift asserted, "She's not partisan. I think Americans are really looking for politicians who are independent, and I think Geena Davis fits that mold. She could be Democrat. She could be a Republican.”
But Lukas said the show perpetuates a liberal Hollywood myth, "which seems to be, once again, that conservatives are evil and need a good, liberal, independent person to come and teach us what's right…I've never heard her say anything independent of the Democratic line. So far, she's been in lock-step with what I consider a Democrat."
In the series, Allen's disgruntled daughter is the first family's token conservative, who wants her mother to step down.
Allen tells an aide that her daughter would “rather see Pat Buchanan in office than her old lady."
Allen's Republican nemesis is the smirking speaker of the house, played by a diabolical Donald Sutherland.
Sutherland’s character observes, "Three resignations, and if you think that's embarrassing, wait and see what happens when she tries to get her nominees for those positions confirmed."
"The Speaker of the House is portrayed as a scheming, corrupt, backstabbing man trying to bring down this woman," Lukas says.
Clift explained, "I think Donald Sutherland is the portrait of Washington corrupted power. He could be in either party.”
Democratic donors dominate ‘commander's’ cast and crew, starting at the top, with Producer Stephen Bochco and Creator Rod Lurie.
Davis gave thousands to the Kerry campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the pro-choice Emily's List.
Co-star Donald Sutherland bashed the Bush-Iraq policy on the BBC, calling the administration "inept, liars who care more about profit than the Iraqi people or the families of dead soldiers. "
The show has made some hires on the right. Guest star Bruce Boxlietner, is a Republican contributor, and writer Stuart Stevens is a GOP media strategist who advised both Bush campaigns.
But Clinton-era consultants outnumber conservatives, from an ex-Clinton social secretary to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, to Al Gore's Chief of Staff Ron Klain -- and Hillary Clinton's former Deputy Communication Director Steven Cohen, a top writer for the show - connections that sparked conservative charges that commander is a weekly ‘infomercial’ for a Hillary presidential campaign.
"I think they're just trying to make good television," Clift remarked. "Hillary Clinton, if she runs, will have to prove herself over and over again in debates, in campaign appearances -- and she's going to have to win over people in the more conservative states. No television program is going to do that for her.”
Lukas said, "I don't think it was part of a plot to get Hillary in office…I think it shows Hollywood is an echo chamber. Everyone there is pretty liberal. And so this is, I think, their view of reality, which is just so far from where the American people are."
Whether it helps Hillary or not, this Hollywood drama is getting Americans used to the idea of a first woman president and proving television still has power to shape the public mind. Link
COMMANDER IN CHIEF
Airs: Tuesday 9:00 PM on ABC (60 mins)
New Series Premier September 27, 2005
Tagline: This Fall a woman will be President.
Plot Outline: MacKenzie Allen becomes the first woman American president after she ascends to the job following the death of president Teddy Bridges.
This series will examine not only the shock of a first woman president, but the issues she will face. Not only will she take charge of a grieving nation, but also the care of her own household. More on IMDB
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 Mackenzie Allen (Academy Award-winner Geena Davis), the 45-year-old Independent Vice President of the United States, is about to venture into territory no woman has entered before. While at an official ceremony with husband and Chief of Staff Rod Calloway (Kyle Secor), she is informed by the President's Chief of Staff, Jim Gardner (Harry Lennix), and the Attorney General that President Bridges is about to undergo emergency brain surgery for a tumor.
Mackenzie is stunned when Gardner tells her that, in the event the President does not recover, the party doesn't want her to succeed him. Instead, she's asked to step down in order to allow the Speaker of the House to assume the post, as he shares the party's ideals.
Mackenzie's doubts are confirmed when she visits President Bridges at the hospital and hears from him directly that he wants her to resign. Bridges dies before transition plans are finalized, however, and after sitting through an insulting and sexist conversation with Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland), Mackenzie decides to forge ahead and assume the presidency, despite the obstacles that lie ahead.
Aside from the challenges Mackenzie faces, husband Rod has his own hurdles to overcome, as he finds himself being ushered into a pink and feminine office by the first lady's aide. Her children, six-year-old Amy (Jasmine Anthony), as well as twins Horace (Matt Lanter), one of the most popular kids in school, and Rebecca (Caitlin Wachs), a rebellious teenager with raging hormones, must also learn to deal with their mother's new role as leader of the free world.
Meeting with a saddened Congress and addressing a stunned nation, Mackenzie delivers an inaugural speech with the help of press secretary Kelly Ludlow (Ever Carradine), which manages to unite a grieving country, quell the critics who feel she's not up to the task, and look to the bright future which lies ahead, led by the first female President of the United States.
Commander In Chief airs on Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network.
Commander In Chief stars Geena Davis as Mackenzie Allen, Donald Sutherland as Nathan Templeton, Harry Lennix as Jim Gardner, Kyle Secor as Rod Calloway, Ever Carradine as Kelly Ludlow, Caitlin Wachs as Rebecca Calloway, Matt Lanter as Horace Calloway and Jasmine Anthony as Amy Calloway.
Commander In Chief was created by Rod Lurie. Steven Bochco, Dee Johnson, Rod Lurie and Marc Frydman serve as executive producers. The series is produced by Touchstone Television in association with Steven Bochco Productions.
http://abc.go.com/primetime/commanderinchief/summaries/overview.html
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