![]() So, my question for Lurie is this: so, you hired conservative writers - to do what? Fetch coffee? No doubt this is yet another Hollywood attempt to exert influence on American politics, and unfortunately, it is biased towards the left. Republicans are the political equivalent of Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine and the evil Empire. Yeah, that sounds like a plot that red-state viewers would certainly get behind. Last year he told the Baltimore Sun that "the world has become so partisan-and I'm as guilty of this as the next guy-that there is always a dark side of the force." President Allen, meet Darth Vader. But even he acknowledges the temptation to tug left. Lurie recognizes that his show should stay "centered" to have the best chance at commercial success. The movie was released a month before the 2000 election. conservative slime-ball" genre that Gary Oldman, one of the movie's stars, called it "a piece of propaganda" designed to help Al Gore. This movie was such an egregiously crude version of the "virtuous liberal vs. Lurie acknowledges that his TV series is a direct descendant of his film "The Contender," which starred Joan Allen as a Democratic senator who becomes a piƱata for conservatives during her confirmation hearings to replace a deceased vice president. Lurie says are conservative, like abstinence education-although even Hillary has endorsed that one. For balance, the new President Allen will supposedly have a few views that Mr. (Right, that would happen.) A member of the vice president's staff says that the speaker stands for "the return of book burning, creationism in the classroom and invading every Third World country." The statement is not meant as a compliment. Davis) so that a malevolently conservative House speaker can take over. ![]() Suffice it to say, for now, that the first episode involved an effort by the dying (Republican) president to shunt aside the vice president (Ms. Idealistic to some, stereotypical to others. ![]() It is not encouraging for those who are not Democrats: So, what does the first episode look like. Not that a balanced approach was evident at last week's series-celebrating parties, in Washington and New York, hosted by the feminist White House Project. He admits that he "can't write to a belief system that I can't swallow myself," but he says that he has hired some conservative writers to make up for his deficit. Lurie insists that red-state viewers need not shun the show. Instead she is an independent who landed on a Republican ticket in order to offset a conservative candidate's low approval rating among women. The creator of "Commander in Chief," Rod Lurie, is apparently trying to broaden the show's appeal by promising that he won't be using it as a soapbox for his admittedly liberal views. The series pits Academy Award-winner Geena Davis against the patriarchal world of national politics until her "You Go, Girl!" attitude puts to rest the doubts of her many detractors. According to the creator of the show, conservatives need not be afraid of the show: Many on the right have complained that the series is, in fact, a Hollywood project to soften Americans up to the idea of a woman President in anticipation of Hillary Clinton's run for President in 2008. ![]() John Fund's column today concerns the new "Commander In Chief" series.
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