Hillary Spoofs "Sopranos"

With Nod To Tony Soprano's Swan Song, Clinton Announces Winning Tune For Campaign

(CBS/AP)  The scene: A diner and a jukebox. A nostalgic song. A cut to black. It worked on the finale for "The Sopranos." It now marks a new beginning for "The Clintons."

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.

[PaulLevi]

The Hillary-Sopranos video was excellent - as was the Obama Girl ... we're in a new, welcome, improved age of politcal marketing ... http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2007/06/hillary-clinton-and-sopranos.html

[klingon69]

LOL It's a JOKE you pathetic Nazi!! ROFLMAO After all Old Bill was the LAST real President we had so....
No, 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!

[gunownerdan]

The Bush/Clinton crime families do seem to be quite happy with their oligarchy.

[gunnerv1]

"Dons" don't kill other "Dons"

[awbsdad]

Never having watched The Sopranos, if this is what it was about, I am glad. Funny, the Clinton's chose to spoof THE MAFIA, not a wholesome American family, with values. What does this tell Americans about Hillary and Bill? Stab you in the back people and keep on moving. Don't do it their way, find a horse head on your pillow in the morning.

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!

[gunownerdan]

I wonder if Hillary will be able to buy enough votes to be the next president. With only about $50 million, the Clintons don't have the hundreds of millions and billions that Romney and Bloomberg have.

[jack3213]

As for the Clintons Clip ( in the Diner) as they say "Imitation is the highest form of flattery" However, if taken literally, as some believe, I think their identical ending as the finale to the Soprano's was ( when all goes black) is simply and quite exactly ( IMO) what will happen to them. The lights go out and we all assume they are either 'dead' or floating in their depressive abyss.

[forthepeopl1]

the people party is here already,are you ready

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,[e-mail]

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..

[mitch0927]

*** spell checker lol.....ORIGINALITY

[mitch0927]

What ever happened to "ORININALITY?"

[gunnerv1]

They allow you to "spoof" your own.

[antigovt]

All govt sucks. No one is on our side. The liberals are Commies and the Conservative are pro-rich. We have bigger issues involving the REAL terrorists who live in our inner cities terrorizing our poor working class people. These terrorists are called gangs. We need to destroy the drug import into our cities and fix the families and our education system in order for our once great country can restore its status.

[mudrose-2009]

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.
Posted by realpatriot1

Whew! Thanks, I needed that.

[pwrslm]

naa naa naa naa

naa naa naaaa naaaa

heeey hey hey

gooood byyyyye






The real Hillary song.

[gunownerdan]

Our constitutional rights are the greatest threat to fascists like the Bush/Clinton crime families.
That's why they work hard to destroy them.

[realpatriot1]

mudrose,

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.

[homespunlady]

Hopefully , if mudrose TRULY is worried about keeping the Constitution alive he's behind nominating and electing Congressman and Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul. So fr I haven't seen ANY other candidate in EITHER top party more of a Constitutional purist.

[iceman_1960]

"YOU'RE a JOKE you pathetic Nazi!! ROFLMAO Better hurry LOL......you're gonna miss your Rosie O'Lardass lame talking points, ROFLMFAO, Seig Heil, LOL Oh, don't forget, ROFL, to TIvo Oprah!

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.

[homespunlady]

mudrose, the constitution was shredded already.

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.

[mudrose-2009]

Trying to win over her party's liberal activists, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday accused President Bush of disregarding the Constitution and promised to bring a new progressive vision to the White House.

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.