Coming Soon: ‘Democrats’ — A Steven Spielberg Production
**Written by Doug Powers
Consistent with the claim that Democrat setbacks have been a problem with messaging rather than voters rejecting their policies, it’s being reported that Nancy Pelosi is turning to Hollywood for (more) help:
Midway through Philip Rucker and Paul Kane’s story about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s transition to minority leader comes an interesting bit of news. The California Democrat, vilified by Republicans in the last election, has turned to director Steven Spielberg for help rebranding House Democrats.
Lawmakers say she is consulting marketing experts about building a stronger brand. The most prominent of her new whisperers is Steven Spielberg, the Hollywood director whose films have been works of branding genius. Lawmakers said Spielberg has not reported to Pelosi with a recommendation.
Given how last month’s election turned out for the Dems, the perfect choice for someone to put their story to celluloid would have been Irwin Allen, but unfortunately he’s no longer with us.
What might Spielberg’s production dedicated to House Democrats be titled? “San Fran Nan and the Temple of Doom”? “Tax Me If You Can”? “Jurassic Pork”? “Close Encounters With the Third World”? “Dude, Where’s My Gavel?” Time will tell.
Update: Doug Ross spotlights something Spielberg might consider using as a logo for the new Democrats — which is, fittingly, just a re-branded logo of the same old Democrats.
Update II: That was fast — Spielberg’s already finished his first production (as inspired by Bloodthirsty Liberal):
Update III: Spielberg’s rep says he’s not going to re-brand the Dems — give them lots of money, yes, but re-brand, no.
Could it be that even Steven Spielberg isn’t creative enough to want to tackle a re-write of a script that’s as unsalvageable as Nancy Pelosi’s?
**Written by Doug Powers
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*Ya gotta wonder what Spielberg uses for brains in wanting to align himself with the Dems; After all, Hillary and P-BO are working overtime for the destruction of Israel and the Jews that live there!
*Better to have Spielberg do a movie on China ruling over us in the future; Now that would be scary, and maybe not even fiction if we don’t oust P-BO and the Dems in 2012!
Oh, Doug, that picture is TOO FUNNY!
That picture is truly a classic!
They never, ever allow themselves to consider the possibility that what they are doing is wrong and unpopular.
They ALWAYS think they are right, and just haven’t done a good enough job of “messaging” and “branding” to get those who “cling to their Bibles and guns” to finally see things THEIR way.
Nov. 5, 2010: Obama: I’m thinking maybe my problem is poor messaging
After repealing DADT, how about “Fags of Our Fathers“?
Imagine that pic if she took her teeth out.
“The Creature From The DC Swamp,” or “IT Came From San Francisco.” Both starring Nancy Pelosi.
This one is for Aloha Guy:
“Jurassic Pake: Senator Daniel Akaka”
“Angels and Dems”
“The Marxist of Oz”
“A Socialist for All Seasons”
“The Full Pelosi”
“Cash of the Titans”
Perfect selection to do the re-branding. Steven
Spielberg has one of the most creative minds for fiction and illusion, the world has ever known.
He and San Fran Nan have many things in common;
they’re very wealthy,
both feel a tremendous amount of guilt because of their fortunes;
they both have extravagant homes, and (non-union) housekeepers;
they both enjoy expensive Napa wines;
both are dependant on taxpayers to fund their lifestyles;
both have succeeded greatly in the capitalist system they abhor; and,
they both love aliens, and used them to expand their careers: him extraterrestrial, her illegal.
I wonder if he’ll get creative license when crafting this sure-to-be blockbuster epic of fantasy?
Given how the entire conservative movement is based around polemicists who make millions off their inflammatory rhetoric, and gives ridiculous lip service to conservative celebrities, it seems somewhat hypocritical for the right to criticize liberals for paying attention to how their message is received.
Friend, we listen to our conservative celebrities because they are so RARE.
For every conservative celebrity, there are 1000 pompous, arrogant narcissists that believe they are the center of a socialist universe.
Sorry Nancy, better marketing won’t make sewage stink less.
Let us see how the liberal socialist message was received in the rest of the world.
Mao – 50 million dead
Stalin – 20 million dead
Hitler – 10 million dead
Pol Pot – 2 million dead
Three generations of the Kims in North Korea, Castro, Che, Mugabe…plus all of Eastern Europe. We’ll never know how many really died, but it’s probably over 10 million more.
Yeah. It really is how the “message” is “received.” There are about 100 million people that got the liberal socialist message loud and clear.
Trying to rebrand the message of socialism is like putting perfume on a skunk.
Don’t sell our leftists short. They’ve already accounted for 50 million killed in this country, and that’s just counting the babies. Nobody else even comes close.
I don’t quite know how they think they can rebrand themselves through Hollywood. About 99% of all Hollywood movies have a run-of-the-mill Marxist as the hero. What can they do – take the other 1%?
Shame on me for not remembering that, txvet2. I should know better.
Notice how it’s always left-wing liberal socialism that attracts the mass murdering dictators like moths to a light? And when they get elected in a free country, they immediately set about destroying that freedom and replacing it with socialism?
Why do socialists despise freedom, liberty, and opportunity so much?
Sorry Nancy, better marketing won’t make sewage stink less.
Uh, sorry but you are mistaken on this. You CAN make sewage stink less with better marketing. In fact, with a proper marketing budget you could make people believe sewage actually smells good.
And if you REALLY have the budget available you could, in a few weeks time, convince people that they should wear raw sewage on their shoes and in their hair and that it was good.
How the F$8K do you think obama got elected?
You can get the answers to those questions and a lot more if you read Codevilla’s new book, or the American Spectator piece that inspired it.
Lmao.. Most excellent!
If only he were truly Pake.
The Money Pit, Pt II
Shaft Part II
Song?
Jerry Reed: She Gets the Gold Mine, I Get the Shaft
Didn’t Hollywood imply Darth Vader was Republican?
James Greenidge
Queens NY
What is Spielberg doing with a Jew-hater like Obama? Seems like Spielberg has become a capo for Obama and the dems.
I have a few suggestions for a title for that movie;
Despicable Me
Jackass
Dumb and Dumber
True Lies
Evil Dead
Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue
Sorry Pelosi…You can put lipstick on a pig, but it still is porky. Although some of the damage these creatures have inflicted on the American People will never go away, I pray that the regressives will all be defeated soon! I breathed such a sigh of relief when I heard they had left DC!! However, I won’t really believe it until January 5th! Seriously…I wouldn’t put it past Reid to sneak back in and pass Crap and Tax by some corrupt maneuver. Has anyone actually seen him leave??
Thank you Red State Skeptic for your insight-wrong as it as always.
Red State Skeptic Call Home.
Errah, Gone with the Wind; A Stimulus Story.
On December 22nd, 2010 at 10:32 pm, sbw999 said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!!!!
+1
When
ProgOPPressives find that “the power of persuasion” doesn’t win people to their side, they then turn to “the persuasion of power”. And when that doesn’t work, they simply kill those who oppose their oppression.And Obama’s “family friends” aren’t any different.
I call people who advocate genocide and infanticide cold-blooded killers. Wouldn’t you?
Obama’s Affinity to Cold-Blooded Killers:
Genocide. (of TWENTY-FIVE MILLION people!)
Infanticide.
Ayers is a Violent, Revolutionary Communist. What is Obama?
Perhaps Nancy and Barack appearing in a remake of the classic “a boy and his dog” story like Pelosi Come Home.
– bjc
It’s not that hard to figure it out. Spielberg creates movies that are designed to provide viewers with an entertaining escape from reality. Congressional Democrat legislation is marked by a distinct disconnect with reality.
They’re a perfect match.
I’m reminded of the movie “Wag The Dog”
On December 22nd, 2010 at 11:51 pm, rambler said:
On December 22nd, 2010 at 11:54 pm, TooMuchTime said:
Perfect! That’s a great way to turn “lipstick on a pig” around and use it on/against Piglosi and the Demonrats!
(Flashback: Obama on McCain/Palin: “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”)
You can put perfume on a socialist skunk, but it’s still a skunk.
Here’s a another idea for a Democrat movie title:
The Spendables
I’d like to see all the little “wee-weed up” Washington piggies go
“wee, wee, wee, all the way HOME”!
On December 23rd, 2010 at 12:45 am, txvet2 said:
True.
On December 23rd, 2010 at 12:53 am, TooMuchTime said:
Yes. Because they don’t believe in God, they fundamentally reject the truth that our Christian founders found to be “self-evident”:
that life itself is a God-given (endowed by our Creator) unalienable right.
And governments are instituted among men to secure, not take away, the unalienable right to life.
The answer lies in which god they serve…
“Yes, We Can!” –> “¡Sí se puede!” –> Alinsky Radicals –> Lucifer
And oh, by the way, while Pelosi claims to be a Catholic, she supports the murder of unborn children and she has a history of fabricating Bible verses.
A wolf…
On December 23rd, 2010 at 9:00 am, Teddy Kennedy said:
And another suggestion.
The Losers
I smell a Nazi fart. Poofie!
Spielberg has officially denied this whole story.
Oh, they realize they are unpopular and that what they are doing is “considered” wrong by the people. But they don’t care. They believe they know better. They also believe that their mission of seeking permanent power is all that matters.
The America you know?
They want to destroy it and replace it with something they envision as America.
I detest all of these people. They really sicken me. Not just with their attacks on America, but their arrogance. They really don’t give a s—t about what we think or want.
And by the way. They know that the alarm clock that signals that they need to worry about the next election has gone off. What you’ll see is rhetoric and meaningless (to them) compromises that they believe will make them look “Centrist”.
Hopefully America will not be fooled again. If we are…. it may be too late to fix.
The asylum called. You didn’t eat your pudding.
RSS is a “denier”.
RSS denies that Socialists/Communists have murdered about 100 million people, not including the 50+ million innocent children murdered by abortion.
RSS, do you also deny that Obama “family friend” Bill Ayers advocated the murder of millions of capitalists? And do you deny that Ayers’ wife murdered a police officer with a bomb she placed in a police station window?
That’s called ‘the truth’.
and that’s called ‘how Satan twists words into a more palatable lie’.
“The Ever Spending Story”
Tell me exactly when you expect Obama to take his mask off and begin the slaughter of all the capitalist pigs in this country.
Answer my questions first, RSS.
Libs are always “re-branding.” They used to call themselves “Communists,” then “Socialists,” then “Liberals.”
As soon as everyone realizes that whatever name they’re going by these days (e.g., “progressives”) is just code for “liberal,” they search for a new term. It’s like someone who really does believe that “Clothes make the man.”
I remember years ago listening to Rush Limbaugh remarking about how blacks tried the same thing to somehow fool themselves and everyone else that a label change was all it took to “solve” their problems: They went from “Negro” to “Black” to “African-American,” but somehow the sky-high single-mother birth rates and school drop-out rates and welfare dependency and the wildly disproportionate incarceration rates didn’t change.
Funny thing is, the only people stupid enough to think that “re-branding” will make any difference at all are the ones suggesting it.
Oh you got me there. I don’t care and neither do you when Republicans are linked to Gordon Liddy or Oliver North or Jerry Falwell. There are plenty of fanatical nutjobs surrounding politics, and politicians on both sides cozy up to them for various reasons. I don’t personally think it reflects well on our president that he was in any kind of polite company with that douchebag, but I think we’ve seen more than enough of Barack Obama the president to show that beyond a shadow of a doubt, his views do not begin to resemble Bill Ayers’, and if you seriously think he is about to open fire on the same Wall Street fat cats who are well represented within his administration, then you seriously need to go on medication.
I think they have the same goals, but advocate different means to get there.
Communist Revolutionaries have a long history of imprisoning and executing the “counter-revolutionaries” who oppose them.
Obama has a long track record of associating with, and filling his administration with, Communist Revolutionaries who “most admire” people like Mao, Castro, Che, Chavez, Lenin, Stalin, etc.
Why should we expect these modern Communists to act differently than those who they openly admire?
Last year: White House Christmas Decor Featuring Mao Zedong
This year: Journalists are not allowed to take pictures of the White House Christmas tree ornaments.
I beg to differ. Ayers is a Marxist. Obama has put Marxists in positions of power throughout his administration.
Let’s compare Obama and Ayers directly.
Do you carry some of that Hezbollah medication around with you?
Their plan isn’t to destroy all business.
Their plan is to destroy all small and medium-sized businesses via oppressive regulation (example: ObamaCare), and then nationalize all of the big businesses.
We’ve already seen that Wall Street companies that weren’t on the leftist’s “good side” (like Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers) were forced out of business, while those on the leftist’s “good side” were bailed out or given other advantages.
It’s not a level playing field.
The Democratic Socialists are choosing winners and losers. As they consolidate more and more and more power.
You are getting into some serious Alex Jones territory, but at least he has some facts right. Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were left to die during the Bush administration.
I’m fully aware of that.
Bush did what Treasury Paulson recommended.
And Paulson was a trojan horse. RINO. Goldman Sachs crony.
Paulson, with Bush’s blind support, paved the way to TARP and Obama’s 2008 election.
No, no, no…it should be Oliver Stone, because a radical fantasizer would be much more sypatico, accurate too.
Listen to one who speaks from intimate first-hand knowledge:
RSS said
As an independent, I realize both sides make money off of offensive rhetoric. Al Sharpton, Keith Olbermann and C. “thrill up my leg” Mathews all say the crap they do because they know Hannity, Beck, Levin and Limbaugh will broadcast it in sound-bytes.
So don’t give us this left-wing crap about how it’s just conservatives.
Once again, RSS, you’ve shown why independents have flocked nearly 3:1 republican. All your side knows how to do is blame conservatives and point the finger at them.
You have absolutely no substantive argument whatsoever.
Two quotes from Davy Crocket that we should have our Senators and Congressment follow religiously:
And one quote that pretty much sums up the way I feel about the current administration and it’s minions:
ECS