Thursday Hillary Bash - The film must go on!

It looks like all of those cancelled Hillary Clinton biopics scheduled for 2015/2016 releases that got cancelled were too much for liberal Hollywood to bear and a biopic is back on.  Oh, Hurrah.

NBC and CNN had both cancelled their biopics in September due to public pressure.  That didn't stand for long with progressive Hollywood.

Lionsgate is in early talks to make Rodham, Temple Hill's and The Arlook Group’s biopic of the former first lady, New York senator, secretary of state and possible presidential candidate, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

James Ponsoldt, who last directed the acclaimed indie flick The Spectacular Now, is on board to direct the drama, which was written by Young-Il Kim.

The script, which was on the 2012 Black List, portrays Rodham as a young lawyer on the committee involved in President Richard Nixon's impeachment, as well as shows her juggling a diverging career path with her unresolved feelings for future president Bill Clinton.

That's right, Hollywood wants another liberal presidency.  Hillary Clinton fits the bill (pardon the pun).  Putting some flattering biopic out there showing how Hillary can juggle a bunch of difficult things at once, and having some young actress portray her is Hollywood's attempt to Whitewater whitewash her image and put voters into a positive frame of mind about her, right in time for election season.

That's their right, but it's undue influence among low information voters and is a distasteful effort to sway the election with their bias.

The lesson from this that conservatives keep forgetting to mind, is not that politics is unfair, but rather that politics is dirty and often takes distasteful decisions to win. Sad but true.

Thursday Hillary Bash - biopic 'followup' edition

Earlier this week I had to briefly comment on the news that a Hillary Clinton biopic was in the works for a release in 2016 during the run up to the presidential election.  Breitbart also had a list of things you wouldn't be likely to see in the biopic.

You won't see her portrayed in the way she looks in this picture either.  From Benghazi to Whitewater to talking to ghosts, she will be getting all of the slobbering and fawning to be expected from a liberal press, and none of the unpleasantness a 'fair' biopic .

She is destined to get glowing treatment in her biopic, but she is not destined to be president.

The last time a candidate who lost the nomination and was nominated the next time around George McGovern who pseudo-ran in 1968 and was nominated when he ran a full campaign in 1972.  Of course he lost the election to Richard Nixon.  That's been a while.  Historically it has been Republicans who gave the next-in-line a turn as they did in 2012 with Mitt Romney.  He lost.  Democrats could be picking up a losing trend by selecting Hillary this time around. I'm sure that most Republicans and conservatives would be comforted by that fact if it were not for a media that has already started slobbering over her they way they were with Obama in 2007 and 2008.

 

That prospect is frightening for conservatives.  Another Democrat victory would herald a big Republican problem, just as not being able to defeat Obama in 2012 appeared to have done.  But this would be worse.  It would mean that since Bill Clinton won in 1992, 1996 and Obama won in 2008 and 2012, and Hillary in 2016, it would mean 5 of the last 7 presidential elections have been won by Democrats, and 1 of 2 Bush's wins was not a very strong win.  That's what's called a rout.  On the other hand a GOP win would make the score a little more even 4-3 for Democrats.

 

Liberals in the media are doing their best to ensure that rout happens.  A biopic right before an election is the farthest thing from fair one could imagine, but we will have to imagine it nonetheless.