'Madame Secretary' just a Hillary promo
The CBS TV show "Madame Secretary" is a 60-minute Hillary Clinton campaign ad. Bernie Sanders and the stable of GOP hopefuls should demand equal time.
Like a predecessor show, West Wing, its purpose of beyond making money for the show's producers and network seems to be the promotion of Liberal/Leftist/Democrat-Party agendas.
The method is typical: depict protagonists as brave and smart and antagonists as weasels. The show is decidedly pro-Obama and pro-Clinton from its main characters getting "wet-your-pants/junior-high-school giddy" over recognition of Cuba's Communist tyrants to Madeline, "special place in hell for women who don't support other women" Albright making cameo appearances.
The show features Téa Leoni as the title secretary of state character. She spends much of her time fighting the wars ballyhooed by Hillary, those waged against women, immigrants and the poor and powerless. She usually succeeds in her gender and class warfare tinged spats with the entrenched and powerful, outwitting and outmaneuvering them in grand, show-boating style.
Most recently she "schooled" an anti-illegal-immigration senator from a southwestern state who happened to be a Cuban-American. What a coincidence. Take that Ted Cruz! Hollywood's fake Hillary shows up fake you.
Of course, TV's fake Hillary has advantages over real Hillary. Leoni's baloney is sliced and served by professional mythologizers, the show-biz scriptwriters who completely control both story and characters. Hillary's must compete with other deli meats in a real market where baloney is often despised and at the mercy of butchers with sharp knives, not affectionate scriptwriters.
Regardless, Hill has a pal and valuable campaign asset in Leoni's carefully crafted fictive character. But don't look too close. Fake Hillary's fake husband is a decent, moral, principled and faithful spouse and father. Real Hillary's spouse? Well, is it too late for a rewrite?
Les Lopinot
Oswego