Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, the liberal idiot who lives in the ivory tower (no I am not biased) has written a little piece about the new ABC advertisement for Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House. The piece is a veiled message to Hillary Clinton telling her to start leading so she can take over before all women’s rights are taken away by conservatives (too bad Dowd’s mother did not make a pro choice decision). In addition, she gets to tell us about Geena Davis, who plays the President in the advertisement. Davis’ character is a moderate (to show the American public what a woman moderate can do) though in real life she is a flaming liberal. I’ll bet it will be hard for her to say some of the lines. Maybe not, she will whore herself out to make a buck.
The interesting part is where Dowd talks about Hillary Clinton and her run for the White House:
He told me he modeled his female president not on Hillary Clinton but on Susan Lyne, the smart, elegant former president of ABC Entertainment who is chief executive at Martha Stewart Inc. He said he wanted someone “of rather unimpeachable integrity, very kind, very calm.”
As Geena Davis was bursting into the Oval Office, and the other TV president, Martin Sheen, was dropping in on Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Hillary was plotting for real.
Her political activism began with her 1969 Wellesley commencement speech, when she slapped back a Republican senator, Edward Brooke, for criticizing the students’ Vietnam War protests. She praised “that indispensable task of criticizing.”
But now Hillary’s voice is often pianissimo on the current hot issue: how to get out of Iraq. Once we made sure Saddam was armed against Iran. Now we may have to arm an Islamic protégé of Iran if we want to pull out.
But Hillary’s not playing the vocal peacenik this time – she’s the cagey hawk. She knows if she wants to be the first woman president, she can’t have love beads in her jewelry box.
She has defended her vote to authorize the president to wage war, even though it was apparent then that the administration was snookering the country. And she has argued for more troops in Iraq, knowing it sounds muscular but there’s no support for it from the public – or Rummy.
She figures the liberals will stay with her while she scuttles to the center, even if they get angry when she’s not out front on stopping the war or preserving abortion rights. No one knows how she’ll vote on John Roberts, so this could be her own Sister Souljah moment – will she break with the hard-line left on Judge Roberts?
First of all the producer modeled this character on what he wants everyone to believe Hillary Clinton would be like. Secondly, he gives us an indication that Clinton is of poor character when he says he wanted someone “of rather unimpeachable integrity, very kind, very calm.”
Then Dowd tells us what the right has known and the left continues to deny and that is Clinton is moving to the center. The left will tell us, and has quite often, that Clinton was always a moderate. Right, and Michael Jackson was always a white guy. But Dowd has given the secret away, pretty much echoing some of the things Dick Morris said in Rewriting History and that is Clinton will move center to try and pick up votes figuring she will not offend the left enough to discard her. I am willing to now bet she will vote for Roberts (though I thought differently in the past) just to curry favor with the moderates and swing voters. Dowd also shows us Clinton is a liar because despite her protestations to the opposite, Dowd has basically confirmed that Clinton is running in 2008.
I have no intention of watching the program. I do not want to contribute to the hour long advertisement that Clinton is getting for free. They don’t need me to watch anyway because I am pretty sure this show will not be cancelled, regardless of ratings, until after the 2008 election.
You can read it here. It is entitled A Lipstick President and it is by a Dipstick Reporter.