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‘Madame Secretary’ Is Not Good for My Blood Pressure
So, Mother is visiting and last night she wanted to watch the season premiere of “Madame Secretary.” This is the bizarro Hillary Clinton show that CBS has been using to rehabilitate the historical figure these past years. This episode featured as stuntcasting Colin Powell, Madeline Albright, and HRC herself as three former secretaries of State who were called in to advise “Madame Secretary” with their wise counsel. Stop laughing.
Now in the historical record, these three are remembered for: (1) absolutely nothing, (2) a fine taste in hats, and (3) setting North and East Africa aflame with ham-fisted meddling. In the world of “Madame Secretary,” they are wise persons who advise MS to denounce Nationalism and to press Diversity as the solution to all our problems. This set me off on the following rant:
Diversity is not a strength of America. Diversity is not a weakness of America. Diversity is irrelevant in America, and that is the whole point. Diversity is a symptom and by-product of the principle that anyone who comes to America and lives by our principles becomes an American. We literally do not care where you came from, what station you were born to, or what you look like.
Anyway, so the bad guys were the usual white supremacists who accidentally delayed the peace summit, where MS solved the Kashmir conflict, by attacking the signing ceremony at the White House with Soviet weaponry. No, I’m serious, that was the actual plot. Aaron Sorkin should sue for plagiarism. There was also some nonsense where Chelsea Clinton told a lifelong Washington career staffer that her entire life’s work meant nothing unless she was the representative and not the employee. Given that the Libs are the deep state, I was puzzled by this development. The old lady died in the RPG attack, so I guess Chelsea can take up the family seat in the Senate and be important or whatever.
I think family happiness will be better served if Mom goes to her sister’s to watch “Dancing with the Stars” and “Madame Secretary” next time. It will certainly be better for my blood pressure.
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Thank you for the synopsis. I will very carefully avoid watching. And just for the record, Chelsey Clinton makes me want to barf.
So obviously true and beautifully written.
And the lefties claim to be against torture. Glad your torture ended having to listen to those three bozos.
This cannot be true. Is this really true? I can’t stop laughing.
I’m afraid so.
Sorry, can’t help you there.
I never watched the show, but I saw the ad with HRC and laughed. What was her wise counsel? Blame it on a YouTube video?
Hey, don’t sell Ms. Albright short! She’s also remembered for her dance number with Kim Jong Il.
Madeleine
AllHalfbright was a piker when it came to hats. She had nothing on Bella Abzug (showing my age):Or even on the most young, insignificant and non-entitcal (?) members of the British Royal Family (photograph is of the interchangeable Beatrice and Eugenie. No idea which is which):
I bet the one on the left (whichever she is) has a pet rabbit, though. I’m never wrong about that.
Ah, Bella…loved her hats. And her attitude. Politics were a mixed bag, but she had integrity. Sadly missing in politics these days.
About that other photo, pay no attention to the man behind the hat!
I live in Japan, so I’m not sure whether the OP is genuinely describing an actual network TV drama back there in the US, or whether I’m not in on some semi-elaborate inside joke.
I’m hoping it’s the latter — please tell me it’s the latter… Please?…
It’s an actual vomit inducing network TV drama. Sorry.
The progressives who produce these television shows are so self unaware they have no idea when the public sees HRC doing a cameo it is just assumed to be some sort of joke because Hillary Clinton is the one person on the planet who could lose a popularity contest to Donald Trump.
This is a gold star statement.
To quote from The Orville: “I think I plagiarized like nine different things”.
We don’t watch “Madame Secretary” at my house. In fact, just the commercials for it send my spouse into a long winded rant against all things Clinton, all things Elite TV producers and all things Tea Leoni.
Hope you survive the visit. And bless you for letting her watch it.
Does Chelsea Clinton star in this drama? Or just some character that a reasonable person would assume is modeled on Chelsea?
Hillary’s friends in Hollywood have been busy giving her work. Evidently she was also on the premiere of the return of Murphy Brown. I only know this because people on Twitter were laughing that Hillary must be upset because the premiere was upstaged by, I think, something Kavanaugh.
Stopped watching that show two years ago when they arrested an assistant to the President for treason. What was his crime? He was attempting to support the people in an uprising against the Mullahs in Iran. They may not have been portrayed as Mullahs…but that’s what was inferred. If their ever was a blatant conspiracy by Hollywood to endorse a candidate by a TV network, that is the show. All the costs of production should have been considered campaign donations. But they were for Democrats, so it doesn’t count.
I diversity is irrelevant, why is it a strength?
I remember No Agenda taking apart the whole episode where they invoked the 25th Amendment to take out a crazy president. Subtle programming the public to accept it in there minds.
But did I read right that Hillary got capped in the episode?
The one on the left looks like a Valley Girl preparing to make a withering remark in a painful accent.
Probably the most unrealistically positive example of plot and character development.
My wife and I used to watch this show for a couple seasons. What I found funny about it was that it was always a vehicle for propping up Hillary, yet the characters in the show were carefully designed to have none of Hillary’s actual flaws.
Hillary is a lawyer who married her way to power. Madame Secretary is a CIA agent who just kind of got dragged into it when her former boss became President.
Hillary married a politician who was corrupt, dodged the draft for Vietnam, and also engaged in all sorts of sexual misconduct. Madame Secretary married an ethics professor who previously volunteered as a US Marine, and has been faithful to his wife.
Hillary has a single daughter, who seems to have been conceived for the sole purpose of creating a political dynasty. Madame Secretary has three children, who are largely unambitious, who were conceived by writers to portray Madame Secretary as a caring mother struggling to achieve a normal work-life balance.