WASHINGTON, June 19, 2007
Hillary Spoofs "Sopranos"
With Nod To Tony Soprano's Swan Song, Clinton Announces Winning Tune For Campaign
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Hillary And The Sopranos
CBS News RAW: In a spoof of "The Sopranos" series finale, Hillary and Bill Clinton meet in a diner to discuss what her presidential campaign's new song will be.
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In the new Clinton clip, Hillary Clinton, like Tony Soprano, spins through the musical selections in a diner in the New York suburbs. (HILLARYCLINTON.COM)
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Democratic Senator from New York and former first lady sets her sights on the White House.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign unveiled its new campaign song Tuesday with a Web video that spoofs the final scene of the mobster series.
The video caps a month-long, interactive Internet campaign that drew more than a million viewers to Clinton's campaign Web site and to YouTube, the popular online video display room.
In the new Clinton clip, Hillary Clinton, like Tony Soprano, spins through the musical selections in a diner in the New York suburbs, as her husband, former President Bill Clinton, quizzes her about the campaign and the song contest winner.
The “Sopranos” touches are subtle but perfectly obvious to any fan of the series.
The music that plays through the video is not Dion's but Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" — the same song that Tony Soprano chooses from the jukebox in the show's final scene. At one point, actor Vince Curatola (who played New York mob boss Johnny "Sack" Sacramoni in the series) walks menacingly past the Clintons' table.
Tony Soprano ordered onion rings. Hillary orders carrot sticks for Bill. "No onion rings?" the former president asks forlornly.
"Where's Chelsea?" Sen. Clinton asks. Outside a car tire hits the curb. "Parallel parking," President Clinton replies.
"How's the campaign going?" he asks.
"Well, like you always say, focus on the good times."
"So what's the winning song?" he presses.
"You'll see."
"My money is on Smash Mouth," he says. "Everybody in America wants to know how it's going to end."
"Ready?" Hillary asks.
The scene cuts to black.
But unlike “The Sopranos,” it is not over. You can click to hear Celine Dion's "You and I," picked as the official Clinton song, and a new page pops up. The most prominent word stands out against a red background:
"Contribute."
“Humor, when it is funny, is the most effective political tool of all,” said CBS News chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer. “For all her political skills, Hillary Clinton has never been really known for a sense of humor. This thing is hilarious. And I think it is going to help her campaign. I think it's one of the cleverest things I've seen in a long, long time.”
The selection of Dion, who was born in Canada, resulted in some smirking accusations from Republicans that Clinton had "outsourced" her music. In fact, Dion's "You and I" has done a turn as a theme song already — for Air Canada in 2004.
But the song campaign and the video also illustrate the growing effort by some of the more technologically savvy campaigns to connect with voters and potential donors in clever, relatively inexpensive formats that are infused with pop culture references, contemporary themes or intimate moments.
Just this week, the campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, posted a video featuring Romney's wife, Ann, narrating scenes of Christmas vacation last year when the family reached the decision to pursue the White House.
Amid scenes of children, grandchildren, in-laws and pets, Ann Romney gestures towards family members seated around a lunch table. “This is our kitchen cabinet,” she said.
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See all 63 CommentsVery poor choice.
A far better and more appopriate one?
War Pigs by Black Sabbath.
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Funny, I've been listening to War Pigs by Black Sabbath this week, too.
Politicican have themselves to blame
they only started the WAR
why should they all go out to Fight
They leave all that to the Poor.
Watch "Zeitgeist" on google video.
The Truth Shall Set You Free.
I still like Obama, though.
Very funny stuff.
A song isnt going to make her any better of a person.
She is still living with a pandering *** of a husband, and both she and he are compulsive liars.
The only song that we need to hear about the Clintons is this one;
Naa naa naa naa
naa naa naaaa naaaa
hey hey hey
goooood byee!!!
' ... it used to be in our society that good men spanking evil men held hostage women and children ... today, kids with free veggie taco and free veggie tea parties hold hostage every trail and every page ... '
' ... as a child, i mowed the lawn and washed the car and walked to market and shoveled the coal and swept the walks and dusted the furniture while my dad went to labor and my mother tended kids and neighbors and breakfast lunch and dinner and scarcely allowed me a moment to myself ... today, my husband and i mow the lawn and bus to market and sweep the walks and dust the furniture and tend to meals and kids and neighbors while our children print the orders and the invententories and ship the packages ... and scarecely allow us a moment to ourselves '
They scare the h*e*l*l out of me. If either of them becomes the Democratic Party's nominee, we will throw the vote back to the Republicans (and we should all remember what a stellar job they have done). I do not believe either of them are electable.
I remember the absolute abortion that her and her team of Big-Pharma-first committee members came up with a health care plan which helped everyone but the sick.
I remember when she was on the board of Loral Corporation which provided Saddam with WMDS.
How 'bout this for a song?..."Bye, Bye Hillary bye, bye..."
1992 and 1996, when Bubba was running for Presi-
dent, that the Republicans did not use the lyrics
from that old Ray Charles song, "What'd I Say".
"Tell your Mamma, tell your Pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas - Oh yeah - what'd I say ...... The sad thing about this election is that we don't have a better field of candidates to chose from - this could be a "None of the Above" year for me. Come to think of it, with the great shape that former Governor Huckabee left Arkansas in, we might all be better off going there.
I agree with you that it is strange that Hillary would choose a Sopranos theme for her campaign message. It is also interesting that she chose one where most commentators believe that Tony got wacked. Does this mean that even at a subconscious level, Hillary is hopeing that someone will do Bill in?
For her theme song, they left out the most fitting choices for her (or any politician for that matter): 'Liar' by Three Dog Night or 'Political Man' by Cream.
SHE HASN'T DONE A SINGLE THING IN HER LIFE EXCEPT MARRY BILL."
Posted by billysmith6 at 04:55 AM : Jun 20, 2007
That's a shabby lie.
Hillary graduated Wellesley College with honors, where she had been elected president of the student government and was the first student at that college to deliver the commencement address. She then entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. During her second year, she volunteered at the Yale Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development. She also took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and worked at the city legal services to provide free advice for the poor. In the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973. She began a year of post-graduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center. Her first scholarly paper, "Children Under the Law", was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973 and became
frequently cited in the field.
That's just the start of the story.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
Pray for Peace, God Bless Each of You.
Posted by infidel_us at 09:04 AM : Jun 20, 2007
LOL It's a JOKE you pathetic Nazi!! ROFLMAO After all Old Bill was the LAST real President we had so.... LOL You do remember the days when our nation was NOT concerned with the ever growing National Debt and the dying of our kids in a needless war don't you? Yeah, that's right the days when you LOSERS were so fired up about a stain on the dress!! ROFLMAO Wonder how many REAL American's wouldn't love to have those times back!! Sieg Heil Y'all.
Posted by mike71067 at 08:33 AM : Jun 20, 2007
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ROFLMAO Yeah right! All those people in the North and West who will vote for Bloomberg are going to be REAL REPUBLICAN's who can no longer stand the Southern Fascist and Religious Reich. An Independent run by Bloomberg will do nothing but make the Republican Party a Southern Party and not able to win ANYTHING. If all you clowns can come up with against this lady is MORE mud slinging, you are truly in deep do do. You are losing your party in front of your eyes and still all you can do is sling mud? LMAO Fascist have NEVER been able to accept reality and this is just another example. Sieg Heil y'all.
Posted by MCVet
Oh, check out this imbecile. With all the dirt on this woman and her shadey background, it is very appropriate that she chose this parody. It only goes to show that she knows she can get away with just about anything. After all BJ did. She's a socialist from the word go. Like Pelosi and Reid. More wealth for them but you get "we'll distribute your wealth for the common good". Yeah, that's Billary the two-headed Presidency looking out for ya.
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Mad Dog Albright, Clinton's murderous Secretary of State, once said, in a moment of candor, that 'one of the strengths of American foreign policy was that it did not change with which party occupies the White House.' The Cheney DoD plans of the closing days of Bush41's Administration for the Balkans and the Middle East were faithfully carried out by Clinton, and then by Bush 43....'bipartisanship' in action.
If you want to continue and extend the Stupid People's War, wasting our substance on hundreds of foreign bases, reigniting the Cold War with Russia, keeping the border open and building a bigger and better police state, the I heartily recommend this Clinton--or any other mainstream candidate--to your attention.
A famous showman once said, "you'll never lose money under-estimating the intelligence of the American people." It will be a miracle if yet another mainstream servant of the Oligarchy is not elected, or doesn't steal the next election.
Posted by processor2 at 10:01 AM : Jun 20, 2007
Because CBS is the "Clinton Broadcasting Service." With the new Clinton supporter news director firmly in place, there is NO LIMIT to how far CBS will go to get her elected.
No hardball questions for Hillary!
What a f*cking LOSER!
Posted by infidel_us
How can you tell. I can't understand on g/d thing it's saying.
-Posted by MCVet at 09:31 AM : Jun 20, 2007
"Mud-slinging"?? She has slung enough mud all over herself since 1992 that it looks like Bill shot her in the chest with projectile diahreeeeeeah.
...she's got nothing else to offer.
Hilary President?
Fuhgeddaboudit!
a government or state ruled by an elite, or privileged upper class.
Oligarchy
a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
Plutocracy
a government or state in which the wealthy class rules.
The Bush/Clinton crime families would have it no other way!
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Posted by processor2 at 11:15 AM : Jun 20, 2007
It's a little more lighthearted than all the DEPRESSING REPUBLICAN TRICKS. Speaking of "light hearted" Moore's documentary "Sicko" seems to poke fun at Bush lack of health care policies, the K Street lobbyists tied to it and our "only the best for the richest" health care industry and Today's latest if you can afford it go to another country move - Bush's NEXT VETO ON America's FUTURE health care (don't want to catch up with the REST OF THE WORLD in health care do we?). The STOCK MARKET is bouncing like a ping pong ball which is about to fly Off THE TABLE AND DOWN TO THE FLOOR. Foreign exchange money rates are getting "interesting" and those of us on fixed incomes are facing disaster.
I NEED A LAUGH -BADLY!!!
Bush's government has "a stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok," she said in one of the more partisan speeches of her campaign. "It is everything our founders were afraid of, everything our Constitution was designed to prevent."
I imagine it's the pot calling the kettle black. I especially like her word "progressive", that means violations to the constitution big time. It's a prelude to informing you that BIG GOVERNMENT IS COMING TO TAKE CARE OF YOU. The ever evolving Dumnocrats with the secular society, open borders, socialized medicine - anything progressive is against free enterprise and capitalism. You can kiss our constitution good bye.
With the warrentless wiretapping and spying on American telecommunications, "Patriot" Act provisions like forcing librarians to REPORT what books targeted Americans are checking out and threatening PROSECUTION if the librarian TELLS ANYONE about the spying, DUMPING HABEAS CORPUS, PS 51 - which GEORGE gave himself the option of TAKING OVER BOTH CONGRESS AND THE SUPREME COURT ON POSSIBLE TRUMPED UP REASONS and oh so many HUNDREDS OF "Presidential Signing Statements" (about 800 or so in 6 years) putting BushCo ABOVE THE LAW I'd say George's remark that the CONSTITUTION was "Just a God D@mned Piece of Paper" sums up what the current Administration has done to it nicely.
What a f*cking LOSER!"
- Posted by infidel_us at 10:24 AM : Jun 20, 2007
The above is not the kind of prose to submit to the Harvard Educational Review for publication, much less as a work to stand as a frequently cited source in the field, like Hillary Clinton's 1973 paper "Children Under the Law."
You'll have to raise your consciousness a bit.
Come out of that dark place and into the light dude!
In 1933 it was Big Government coming to take care of us that saved capitalism.
To be a progressive is to look to improving how government operates. Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive.
To be a conservative can mean to protect what's working and doesn't need changing or it can mean to stick one's head in the sand and let the status quo prevail regardless.
I know you're a more thoughtful conservative like the latter and listening to some of the extreme left mental masturbation on here is even hard for me, but it's not all as dark as it appears.
That's why they work hard to destroy them.
naa naa naaaa naaaa
heeey hey hey
gooood byyyyye
The real Hillary song.
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