Tom Kovach
Hey, ABC, the people have spoken!
"Commander in Chief" series gets the axe
By Tom Kovach
The ABC television network has cancelled its primetime series, "Commander in Chief", due to dwindling ratings. It's about time!
As the man that organized the very first anti-Hillary rally in New York State, I saw from the first previews that the series was an obvious ploy to soften up the populace for the inevitable "Hillary for President" campaign. The plummeting ratings of "Commander in Chief" indicate to me that Joe and Jane Average were able to see the same thing that I saw. Of course, one does not need to be a trained observer to detect the political signal. The pro-Hillary current was so obvious that even Stevie Wonder can see it clearly now.
Just as clearly, ABC continues to assert its desire to be the avant-garde primetime network. Despite the fact that most Americans are conservative, and even many liberals prefer "family friendly" programming, ABC is the network that pushes the envelope more than the others. Stephen Bochco has been one of the top envelope pushers in the television world for over two decades. He produced "NYPD Blue" on the ABC network, and frequently set new lows in TV programming standards with his potty-mouthed episodes. And, recent shows by Bochco have bombed. For example, I was an early detractor of his failed wartime series, "Over There". (I could barely stomach the premiere, and never watched another episode.) Now, his efforts to steer the American mind in favor of Hillary have fallen into the same ditch as his efforts to recast the American soldier as an amoral societal castoff. Bochco and ABC are simply out of touch with the real America.
the real America
The fictional first female president, Mackenzie Allen (portrayed by Geena Davis), was equally out of touch with the real America. She was especially out of touch with the real Constitution. Some of her actions on the show might have made some people "feel good," but they were ludicrous. This was especially noteworthy in the episode where she "went over the heads of the Congress" to give the State of the Union speech directly to the American people on live television. According to the Constitution (Article II, Section 3), the president is required to give that report to the Congress. It is simply good politics, but not required procedure, to simultaneously report to the American citizenry. If the show has succeeded in softening people up to support Hillary, then it might also succeed in softening up the population to sit idly by while their officials trample upon the Constitution. (Oh, I forgot. The network newscasts have been doing that for decades.)
There were many other instances of the program's twisting of government procedures and protocols. The show also tried to twist and rewrite history. An especially egregious example was the final episode (Thu, 27 Apr 2006), in which an evil White governor somehow gets an entire local police department in Maryland to overlook the dramatic increase of crime in a large Black neighborhood. (Conveniently, there was no mention of any Black police officers in said department. Would they go along with the program? I doubt it!) The problem is that the specifics of the show's plot were all inverted from the real-life facts of the Beltway Snipers situation three years ago. In real life, a Black chief concealed valuable police intelligence from his own department, and put out false reports of a White suspect, to conceal the fact that the real suspects were Black. On the show, the President of the United States takes time out from her busy schedule — thwarting terrorists, tracking legislation, checking on the children's homework, telling her husband what to do, and worrying about the emotions of her homosexual staffer (who plans to "marry" his ... whatever they call them this week) — to micromanage the police-community relations in said neighborhood.
The residents of the real Hyattsville, Maryland, were not happy about the show's portrayal of their town. They were also not happy about the fictional neighborhood — where the town meeting was held in a grocery store that advertised "chittlings" prominently on the overhead sign (misspelled on the sign on TV; the correct spelling is "chitterlings", although it is usually pronounced "chittlins"). Conveniently for the camera angles, that word appeared near the president's head as she walked toward the store from her limousine. If this slap to the residents of Hyattsville had been done by a conservative producer, imagine the weeks-long outcry from the MSM pundits. All of a sudden, the same writers that produced "stories ripped from the headlines" now want to emphasize that it is "compelling fiction". In reality, Hollywood liberals are so accustomed to enjoying fact and fiction blended on the evening news that they're stunned when someone is upset about such a blending in a primetime fictional series.
Was it mere coincidence that, on the same day that ABC cancelled "Commander in Chief," the voters of Herndon, Virginia, cancelled their mayor and most of their city council? Those voters were upset because said politicians were supporting programs to help illegal aliens find employment. According to statistics from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the estimated number of illegal aliens in Tennessee is approximately equal to the number of unemployed citizens. So, if we just boot out the illegals, then there will be a job for every citizen. I'm sure that a similar situation exists in other states, such as Virginia. So, it seems that the voters of Herndon "cancelled the show" of those politicians — thus giving them an opportunity to truly empathize with the unemployed American citizens.
In both cases, with striking parallels, the people have spoken!
© Tom Kovach
The ABC television network has cancelled its primetime series, "Commander in Chief", due to dwindling ratings. It's about time!
As the man that organized the very first anti-Hillary rally in New York State, I saw from the first previews that the series was an obvious ploy to soften up the populace for the inevitable "Hillary for President" campaign. The plummeting ratings of "Commander in Chief" indicate to me that Joe and Jane Average were able to see the same thing that I saw. Of course, one does not need to be a trained observer to detect the political signal. The pro-Hillary current was so obvious that even Stevie Wonder can see it clearly now.
Just as clearly, ABC continues to assert its desire to be the avant-garde primetime network. Despite the fact that most Americans are conservative, and even many liberals prefer "family friendly" programming, ABC is the network that pushes the envelope more than the others. Stephen Bochco has been one of the top envelope pushers in the television world for over two decades. He produced "NYPD Blue" on the ABC network, and frequently set new lows in TV programming standards with his potty-mouthed episodes. And, recent shows by Bochco have bombed. For example, I was an early detractor of his failed wartime series, "Over There". (I could barely stomach the premiere, and never watched another episode.) Now, his efforts to steer the American mind in favor of Hillary have fallen into the same ditch as his efforts to recast the American soldier as an amoral societal castoff. Bochco and ABC are simply out of touch with the real America.
the real America
The fictional first female president, Mackenzie Allen (portrayed by Geena Davis), was equally out of touch with the real America. She was especially out of touch with the real Constitution. Some of her actions on the show might have made some people "feel good," but they were ludicrous. This was especially noteworthy in the episode where she "went over the heads of the Congress" to give the State of the Union speech directly to the American people on live television. According to the Constitution (Article II, Section 3), the president is required to give that report to the Congress. It is simply good politics, but not required procedure, to simultaneously report to the American citizenry. If the show has succeeded in softening people up to support Hillary, then it might also succeed in softening up the population to sit idly by while their officials trample upon the Constitution. (Oh, I forgot. The network newscasts have been doing that for decades.)
There were many other instances of the program's twisting of government procedures and protocols. The show also tried to twist and rewrite history. An especially egregious example was the final episode (Thu, 27 Apr 2006), in which an evil White governor somehow gets an entire local police department in Maryland to overlook the dramatic increase of crime in a large Black neighborhood. (Conveniently, there was no mention of any Black police officers in said department. Would they go along with the program? I doubt it!) The problem is that the specifics of the show's plot were all inverted from the real-life facts of the Beltway Snipers situation three years ago. In real life, a Black chief concealed valuable police intelligence from his own department, and put out false reports of a White suspect, to conceal the fact that the real suspects were Black. On the show, the President of the United States takes time out from her busy schedule — thwarting terrorists, tracking legislation, checking on the children's homework, telling her husband what to do, and worrying about the emotions of her homosexual staffer (who plans to "marry" his ... whatever they call them this week) — to micromanage the police-community relations in said neighborhood.
The residents of the real Hyattsville, Maryland, were not happy about the show's portrayal of their town. They were also not happy about the fictional neighborhood — where the town meeting was held in a grocery store that advertised "chittlings" prominently on the overhead sign (misspelled on the sign on TV; the correct spelling is "chitterlings", although it is usually pronounced "chittlins"). Conveniently for the camera angles, that word appeared near the president's head as she walked toward the store from her limousine. If this slap to the residents of Hyattsville had been done by a conservative producer, imagine the weeks-long outcry from the MSM pundits. All of a sudden, the same writers that produced "stories ripped from the headlines" now want to emphasize that it is "compelling fiction". In reality, Hollywood liberals are so accustomed to enjoying fact and fiction blended on the evening news that they're stunned when someone is upset about such a blending in a primetime fictional series.
Was it mere coincidence that, on the same day that ABC cancelled "Commander in Chief," the voters of Herndon, Virginia, cancelled their mayor and most of their city council? Those voters were upset because said politicians were supporting programs to help illegal aliens find employment. According to statistics from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the estimated number of illegal aliens in Tennessee is approximately equal to the number of unemployed citizens. So, if we just boot out the illegals, then there will be a job for every citizen. I'm sure that a similar situation exists in other states, such as Virginia. So, it seems that the voters of Herndon "cancelled the show" of those politicians — thus giving them an opportunity to truly empathize with the unemployed American citizens.
In both cases, with striking parallels, the people have spoken!
© Tom Kovach
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