I have to admit, I’m mystified by the conservative reaction to a new TV show, which will debut in the fall, called “Commander-in-Chief.” The ABC show, starring Geena Davis, will focus on a woman vice president — and political independent — being elevated to the Oval Office after the elected president dies of a massive stroke.<\/p>\n
The right isn’t happy. Jonah Goldberg<\/a> said a “whole season of ‘I am woman hear me roar’ plotlines will dull the pants off people, and undermine feminist arguments to boot.” Kathryn Jean Lopez<\/a>, Warren Bell<\/a>, and John Podhoretz<\/a> have similar concerns.<\/p>\n Here’s a conservative blogger<\/a> (via Peter Daou<\/a>) who sees a broader conspiracy afoot.<\/p>\n [A] lot of people (OK, me) are saying that this show is a nefarious plot to advance the notion of a Hillary Clinton presidency. The thought is that if we, the submoronic television viewers, get used to seeing a woman president on TV, we’ll be more inclined to vote for one in 2008. This is what the TV industry thinks. They don’t view us as being rational actors, able to vote for a President based on our own reasoning, but instead as sheep to be herded and trained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The same blogger suggests a co-star on the program resembles Barack Obama, which may be part of a plot to prepare the electorate for “the junior senator from Illinois as the Vice President.”<\/p>\n James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, in its daily alert to supporters, said yesterday that Geena Davis’s character’s name, Mackenzie Allen, “sounds remarkably, poetically like” Hillary Clinton, which apparently is proof that the show is conspiring to help HRC in 2008. (I don’t hear the similarity, but Dobson’s allies are probably better at these things than I am.)<\/p>\n I suspect there were network execs who thought the idea of a show featuring a woman president wouldn’t cause too much consternation with 21st century conservatives. Guess they underestimated today’s right.<\/p>\n The big winner? ABC, which has to be thrilled to get this much publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have to admit, I’m mystified by the conservative reaction to a new TV show, which will debut in the fall, called “Commander-in-Chief.” The ABC show, starring Geena Davis, will focus on a woman vice president — and political independent — being elevated to the Oval Office after the elected president dies of a massive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}