Hillary Spoofs "Sopranos"
With Nod To Tony Soprano's Swan Song, Clinton Announces Winning Tune For Campaign
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Play CBS Video Video 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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Photo Essay 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 CommentsNo, the last real president this country had was John F. Kennedy.
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?
Ah yes, the day of fear of the US being put under UN rule, the days of the flagrant abuses to the posse comatatus act, the days of chipping away of our second admendment rights, the days of a president who could perjure himself under oath and not get any punishment...etc, should I continue?
Yeah, that's right the days when you LOSERS were so fired up about a stain on the dress!!
As said beofre, I don't care if he had an all-out orgy in the oval office, what pissed me off was that both him, and earlier Hitlerly both lied under oath and got NOTHING!
ROFLMAO Wonder how many REAL American's wouldn't love to have those times back!! Sieg Heil Y'all.
Posted by skyk at 09:26 AM : Jun 20, 2007
Not me!
American needs to see thru these TWO bozos....All they want is power and will step on every decent American to get it. Arkansas was glad to get Bill elected to the PResidency because they did not want him any more..Did he move back? No. Set up residence in NEw York.
Hillary will screw this nation up. America and the world are NOT ready for a woman President. And, she said Bill would be "Ambassador to the World"....Yeah, get him out of the White House on Taxpayers money. Let him find a new girlfriend at every port. Maybe Monica could be one with him!
What kind of Democrat would want to be VP to her and to Bill? Al Gore, maybe. But, he is screwed up enough. Maybe he can make the White House "GREEN" and keep his mansion in TN using more power than any one in the world.
Please people....Look at the obvious!
JULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN
EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..
I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.
AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..
DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,for-america@hotmail.com
ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION
they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..
just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..
if the american NOW dont stand up and start a NATIONAL REVOUTION ON THIS WASHINGTON BULL S/H/I/T/ THEN we as TRUE AMERICANS can say nothing!!!
its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..
they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..
Posted by realpatriot1
Whew! Thanks, I needed that.
naa naa naaaa naaaa
heeey hey hey
gooood byyyyye
The real Hillary song.
That's why they work hard to destroy them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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