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By SJWNY, a Trail Mix Contributor

What if ….

A well-known cable giant wanted us to cast its next major event: a movie about the 2016 Presidential Election. Of course we won’t know the outcome until November, but we can get started on the “Primary” behind the scenes stuff now. Oh, & while we’re at it, we can choose the Director, the Screenwriter, the Costume Designer & a person to write the Musical Score. Why not?

Behqdefault creative; big names have drawing power but maybe there’s a lesser known but very talented person you’d like to give a career boost to. Uncover a few hidden gems. The power is in your hands, Trail Mix Moguls, & the budget is unlimited.

Alright Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.

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116 thoughts on “I Am Big. It’s The Pictures That Got Small.”

  1. Holy Hollywood!  I would love to find some new and rising political stars…and put them in a Mars Attacks sort of movie!

  2. foxbusinessnews:

    After a blowout victory Saturday in the U.S. Virgin Islands and a decisive win in the U.S. territory, Clinton is less than 30 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination, according to an Associated Press count. 

    “We just won Puerto Rico! !Gracias a la Isla del Encanto por esta victoria!” tweeted Clinton. As the race was called, Clinton was on stage on Sacramento, rallying voters in California. 

    [….]

    Clinton has 1,807 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses; Sanders has 1,516. When including superdelegates, her lead over Sanders is substantial: 2,355 to 1,562. 

  3. I can’t sleep…I am so very excited that Hillary will secure that nomination this week!   Soon we will have life without sanders and sarandon, get out of the way so the dems can move-on to victory.  Time to soak trump.

  4. Blonde Wino,

    I would love to find a way to use the cast from Deadwood in our movie. What an amazing group of actors. Any excuse to employ Ian McShane & Powers Boothe is a good one.

  5. sjwny, love your thread.  here’s a must-have scene hopefully will be re-enacted by the end of this campaign craziness

  8. My favorite political bio-pic was CBC’s Trudeau: The Man, The Myth, The Movie (2002). If you have any way to watch it, do. Truly inspired. The director had the brilliant idea to create four different movies within the movie. Hour One (Trudeaumania) was shot in the style of Richard Lester; Hour Two ( FLQ Crisis) in the style of Costas Gravas; Hour Three (Life with Margaret) in the style of Bertolucci; Hour Four (Constitutional Crisis) in the style of Alan J. Pakula. This is a movie with true vision, not afraid to take viewers on the complicated life that was Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

    (The scene in Hour One which explains/creates a myth of how the rose in the lapel came to be is one of the most beautiful trips ever shot on film.)

  9. Flowers in politics are so beautiful…I am always surprised by the use of flowers by the Iranians at their podiums…so beautiful and then you see the talking dickheads.  We in the USA like our flags in political theater…wearing those big flag pins instead of a flower.  Perhaps it is time for HRC to adopt the USA flower corsage!  Something in red, white and blue petals.

  10. Get on to some of the other technical folks, but the cinematographer on this epic should be Roger Deakins.  Here is just one blog on this master of creating intensity on the screen:  The Work of a Master  If you see the Deakins name on a film, GO.  Even if you hate the movie, the visuals will still haunt you for days afterwards.  Just a few of the approximately 75 films of this multi-nominated but no win for this man.

    Sicario

    Skyfall

    No Country For Old Men

    Prisoners

    Shawshank Redemption

    Fargo

    True Grit

     

  11. Plato to give a running narrative, breaking the third wall.  Bach for the processional scene of the GOP funeral pyre.  Brando to play Trump.  Ellen DeGeneres to play HRC.  My third grade friend’s aunt, who was way unhinged, to play Bernie.  Shaq to play Obama.  The miniature horse from the Amazon Prime commercial to play both Obama dogs parts.  Michele to star as herself.

  12. Blonde Wino,

    Seems the fewer Human Rights a country has the more garish the floral display. Like being caught in the world’s biggest funeral home.

  14. I’ll bow to Jace on this one, but for the music I would lean toward Danny Elfman for his ability to capture the quirky & sinister of American politics.  Among his credits:  Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Christmas, American Hustle, Spiderman, Real Steel, and for the necessary sex scandal in the film:  50 Shades of Grey.

     

  16. It might be fun to have Senator Sander’s character done in shadows, silhouette. A voice off stage set up as a vehicle for reaction, shots of “Headlines” charting his successes/defeats.

  18. Campaign manager for any of the candidates either good guy or sinister but definitely charming & believable rapidly on the move:  Hugh Jackman.  I have to have something to look at in this mess of a political season.

     

  19. PiT, it sounds like it’s time to batten down the hatches in Tampa. By the way you might want to lock up the women folk too. LP is in your area for the week. Great planning for a Beach vacation no?

  20. Jamie, and one of the drumpf’s lawyers should be played by jason alexander’s “stuckey”, the lecherous lawyer character in “pretty woman” or alternatively he could re-play “george castanza” as one of hillary’s campaign insiders.

  21. This season has all the ingredients for a Cohen brothers flick, or, maybe one of those odd, faded-Polaroid-filtered Wes Anderson movies.   Trump’a ex-campaign manager was cast some months ago: Niedermeyer from “Animal House.”

    .You do realize that you still have to deal with Bernie all the way through the convention, right?

    .You also realize that if Hillary is the Dem nominee, YOU are assuring a Trump presidency, right?

     

     

  22. Blue

    At most we will only have to deal with Bernie through the first vote, but he will probably have conceded before then.

    There is a good chance Trump will be forced to quit in some fashion before their convention.

     

  24. there also needs to be a place for angela lansbury’s “eleanor shaw islin” the evil mother in “manchurian candidate” with lines like:

    “I keep telling you not to think! You’re very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon’, just simply isn’t one of them.”

  28. pogo & other legal eagles on the trail, be sure to watch starting at 21 seconds thru 58 seconds in

    on on vol 2, the second john oliver video above.

  29. I’m thinking Mel Gibson as drumpf.  He’s an entertainer, is a funny guy and a tough guy and he’s racist and sexist (or maybe he’s just a bonehead – either way, it fits).  A little orange makeup, a blond bird’s nest wig, some lifts for his shoes, et voila.

  32. great finale too in that last vid when oliver read the trump quote (from trump univ home page): “take the risk, but before you do, learn what you’re getting yourself into”

     

  33. “Trump’s hair should be a separate character he talks to late at night, the actual source of his tweets”

    genius idea, boss!

    but who would be best as the voice of the wig?  hitler? maybe one of the dicks- take your pick on either the former vp or the potus –

    or mr burns from the simpsons.

  35. Greg Sargent lays it out in the Morning Plum.

    But something else is all but certain to happen tomorrow night that could further complicate Sanders’s efforts to sway the final outcome, once the voting ends.

    It’s this: Clintonwill finally clinch a majority of the pledged delegates, i.e., the delegates that are bound by the voting in primaries and caucuses. The upshot of this will be that at that point,the only thing keeping Sanders’s candidacy alive will be the existence of super-delegates and the possibility of flipping them, and Sanders has regularly blasted their very existence as undemocratic. In other words, after tomorrow, in a world where super-delegates didn’t exist, Clinton would be the winner of the nomination.

    Here’s the math. There are a total of 4,765 delegates — 4,053 pledged delegates, and 712 super-delegates, who support the candidate of their personal choice. To get the nomination you need a majority of the overall delegates, i.e., 2,383 of them. Clinton will not have this outright majority through pledged delegates alone, and will need super-delegates to put her over the top. That won’tformallyhappen until the convention, but news orgs will project her the winner, since she is alreadyestimatedto have 548 of the super-dels in her corner.

    But after tomorrow, shewillhave finally won a majority of those pledged delegates for the first time, and the voting will be all but over (except for the D.C. primary next Tuesday). Right now ClintonleadsSanders by 1,809-1,520 among pledged delegates. (If you include super-delegates, the totals are 2,357-1,566, but again, that’s not official.) If Clinton wins only one third of the nearly 700 remaining pledged delegates at stake tomorrow — and she’ll win far more — she will have at least a 2,027 majority of the 4,053 pledged delegates. This will be the case even if Sanders wins California.

    Thus, for the first time, Sanders will no longer be able to say that we still have yet to hear the will of all the voters in the Dem nominating contest. And for the first time, he will have to say unequivocally that the super-delegates should override that now-established aggregate will of the voters.

    ***

    Clinton, too, is responsible for making this process go smoothly, and for all we know, it won’t. But regardless, after tomorrow, a very important aspect of Sanders’s whole ongoing case will essentially disappear.

    Now it may be just me, but it appears that bernie will wander into high hypocrisy after tomorrow.

  36. uh oh, another nasty storm is brewing in the west. sadly, another shiny object to distract the media from campaign issues.  I hear a dog whistle in this quote from wapo’s   “A major Native American site is being looted. Will Obama risk armed conflict to save it?”

    “I would hope that my fellow Utahans would not use violence, but there are some deeply held positions that cannot just be ignored,” Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, the veteran Republican lawmaker, said in an interview.

     

    is hatch hatching something?

  37.  
    Bill Clinton: Sanders supporters ‘will be toast’

    By Caitlin Yilek
    Go Bill go, i love it.. Enough already.. Soon they will all come home. Ah, there will be a few stragglers hopefully most will be like Blue from states Dems won’t win in November anyways. It gives them a luxury in their minds to do what they wish in regards to their votes.. I didn’t have that choice here in Florida in 2008 or i may have done the same.. Of course looking back my vote for Obama was correct..?

    WJC to noisy Sanders fans at today’s LA event: “They can shout all they want… she has bent over backwards to be positive in this campaign”

    More from WJC in LA: “I don’t want to pick a fight… I’d be screaming too cause… they’re toast for election day. So have a good time”

  38.  

     

    Scoring will be adapted. The aptly named Masquerade Waltz. Opening scene, Republican National Convention.

  39. pogo, yeah she was/is a perfect character for this campaign.  really loved the quote at end to be “shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves”

    or if you’re into the King James version from matt 10:16 quoting jc:
    “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”

  42. PatD, Jace posted the Kathy Bates clip, but I do agree she’s perfect to be cast in the movie.  She was perfect in the role in Primary Colors, and why reinvent the wheel when you have a perfectly good one to use?

  43. jace, sorry for the missed attribution and thanks, pogo, hard to keep up who gets kudos nowadays. particularly true on this thread by sjwny… released a lot of creative juices on everyone’s part.

    jamie, so are those numbers now comparable to those Hillary had when she withdrew and endorsed Obama? must be some financial haggling going on between campaign number crunchers right now… settlement of debts (not just dollar ones) to be haggled.

  44. enten at fivethirtyeight: Senate 2016: The Democrats Strike Back
    Democrats have a good map, but early evidence suggests a close race for majority control.
    Right now, Republicans hold 54 seats to the Democrats’ 46 (including two independents who caucus with the Democrats). The Democrats have a favorable map in 2016: Of the 34 seats up for grabs, 24 are held by Republicans. Democrats need to net four seats to win control of the Senate if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency and five seats if Donald Trump wins.

    [….]

    And of the eight seats most likely to change hands in 2016, six are held by Republicans in states that President Obama won twice, and one is held by a Democrat in a state that former President George W. Bush won twice. If Trump does better in the presidential race than expected, Democratic gains could be kept to a minimum, but the field is tilted in their favor.

    For now, Democrats are most likely going to win three to four seats. How did I get to those numbers? I summed up Democrats’ chances in all 34 seats.

  46. patd

    As of tomorrow, Hillary’s numbers will be in excess of Obama’s when she conceded in 2008.  He went over the top on June 3 and she conceded on June 6 following a mutual meeting with Dianne Feinstein.

     

  47. Poobah, that’s true enough.  As a Hillary supporter I wouldn’t suggest casting Emma for her character.

  49. Pogo,

    It looks like Tropical Storm COLIN is going to be a rain event and not a wind event.  LP should be fine as this is supposed to last 1 day and he can return to his beach activities tomorrow.  I know tomorrow is ME168’s High School gradations, in door, and, according to forecasts, it will be dry, just a little breezy.

    The radar shows the rain bands are just skirting the coast. Waiting for COLIN to take more easterly path but now it is moving NNE at 14 mph.

    This is going to be a crazy Hurricane Season with 3 named storms and we are only 6 days into the season, including Hurricane Alex on January 14.

  51. Harry Reid Is Quietly Laying The Groundwork For Elizabeth Warren To Be Vice President

    There are, however, two very good reasons not to choose Warren as the party’s vice presidential nominee. Massachusetts currently has a Republican governor, who would be able to name a temporary replacement to fill Warren’s senate seat if the Massachusetts lawmaker became vice president. And, even though this seat would eventually be filled by the winner of a special election, there’s no certainty that Massachusetts voters will choose another Democrat to fill Warren’s seat. Just ask former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA).

    Though there’s no way to eliminate these downsides entirely, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is reportedly exploring ways to mitigate them. According to the Boston Globe, Reid commissioned election lawyer Mark Elias — who is also general counsel to the Clinton campaign — to explore how to work within Massachusetts law to limit the number of days Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s appointment would be able to serve in the Senate.

    Massachusetts law requires a special election to be held 145 to 160 days after a vacancy opens, and the governor’s appointee gets to serve in the interim. The Globe reports, however, that “Reid’s team has identified a portion of the law that allows an officeholder to start the special election clock by filing a resignation letter, but also announcing an intention to vacate the seat at a later date.” In effect, Warren could remain a member of the Senate until the moment she is sworn in as vice president, should she be elected to that position, but the special election clock would start ticking as soon as she filed a letter announcing her intention to vacate the seat in the future.

    This year’s presidential election will be held on November 8th, but the new vice president is not sworn in until January 20th. Thus, if Vice President-elect Warren were to celebrate victory by immediately filing her resignation letter, she could potentially knock 73 days off of the time Baker’s appointment would serve.

    It’s a high stakes gambit, with control of both the Senate and the Supreme Court potentially hinging in the balance. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) isn’t simply refusing to allow a vote on President Obama’s nominee to fill the current vacancy on the Supreme Court, Chief Judge Merrick Garland, McConnell’s also suggested that he may not allow the next president to fill that seat either.

  55. Helen Mirren  Hillary

    Anyone’s drunk uncle with an asbestos ass*   Sanders

    Melissa McCarthy                                          Jane Sanders

    The biggest idiot you know                          Trump
    Susa Sarandon Carly Fiorina
     

    still working on the rest although Bill Clinton probably should play himself

     

    and Amy Goodman should declare her inkind contributions of fake news to the Sanders campaign.  She certainly did not give an accurate depiction of the delegate count on her fake news progam
    * using Craig’s description
     

     

  56. more from warren:

    As Judge Merrick Garland patiently await a hearing for his Supreme Court confirmation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren published a new report Monday highlighting how Republicans have worked to block or stall President Barack Obama’s nominees at the federal level.

    The 14-page report compiled by her office determined that Obama’s nominees to courts and government agencies, on average, must wait significantly longer to receive Senate confirmation than those under past presidents. In fact, the average wait for an Obama nominee during the first six years of his administration (127.2 days) is more than double that of the vaunted Reagan administration (59.4 days).

    The report shows a gradual increase in the wait for a Senate confirmation in the last three decades: 67.3 days during the George H.W. Bush administration, 91.8 days during the Clinton administration, and 97.4 days during the George W. Bush administration.

    […]

    Warren’s report shows that nominations made during a president’s last two years in office are hardly out of the ordinary: 447 nominees were confirmed under Reagan, 457 under Bush 41, 352 under Clinton, and 349 under Bush 43.

    “The idea that Senate Republicans are willing to leave our highest court short-handed for nearly a year seems shocking. But the fact is that, for more than seven years, they have waged an unrelenting campaign to keep key positions throughout government empty,” Warren said in a statement.

  57. Here’s the 2008 Dem primary contest lineup.
     
    It was a very different schedule – heavily front loaded with no large states in May or June’s 9 remaining contests.  Obama ended up with 127 pledged delegates more than Hillary (ultimately 333, including super delegates).  Plus, Hillary had 257 super delegates in her column to 463 in Obama’s.  She got 219 delegates to Obama’s 189 over the last 5 weeks of the race – not enough to overcome his lead of 169 before PA or make any credible claim to “momentum” that would swing the supers to her (the delegate numbers may be off by a few – I haven’t proofed them).  Hillary’s lead is 294 without supers and 796 with, and absent a wave of supers changing to bernie – those margins will probably be about the same Wednesday and into the convention.  Obama never had that kind of lead (he had a little over half the margin Hillary has) and Hillary was not delusional enough to act as if the party supers owed it to her to switch and support her even though she won 7 of the last 10 contests, which included PA – the last remaining large state, and she had won Florida, California, New York, Ohio and New Jersey.  Bernie thinks winning one of those should be enough?

  58. Listen up ladies:  Heather Minchon was kind enough to publish the rules for decorous behavior on Wednesday


    Heather Michon
    1 hr · 

    As the clock ticks down to Hillary Clinton winning her “presumptive nominee” badge, I thought I’d pass on a few helpful hints to Hillary supporters – the ladiesin particular – about how you are expected to comport yourself over the coming days and weeks. These are tips I’ve gleaned from various FB posts, blogs, and opinion pieces over the weekend.

    1) Don’t get too excited. There’s nothing notable whatsoever about a woman winning a major party presidential nomination, and most likely the presidency. Just because it’s never happened before doesn’t make it “historic.” History is the domain of men; HERstory is something that’s taught in Women’s Studies departments. One is fact, one is fringe. DO NOT compare one with the other.
    2) Remember, the white guy could still save us. Team Sanders has every right to spend the next seven weeks trying to convince DNC superdelegates that YOUR vote counts less than the fact that Bernie reeeeeellllly wants to run for President. No, he’s not going to be able to convince them, but bursting that bubble would be so friggin’ unladylike.
    3) Women Clinton Supporters: When talking about the primaries, always keep in the forefront of your mind that all Sanders supporters came to that decision through a rational and dispassionate comparisons of candidate platforms and philosophies. YOU voted with your vagina. Nothing good ever came out of a vagina. Nothing.
    4) Don’t smile. Well, smile, for God’s sake – nobody likes a resting bitch face – but don’t smile *too much.* Don’t shout….it scares people! No outbursts! Play it safe: sit quietly, legs crossed at the ankles, hands folded on your lap. Employ a buddy system. If you feel a creeping sense of joy that threatens to spill out onto your face, have your friend elbow you hard, right in the boob. Repeat as needed.
    5) If you absolutely must celebrate, go ahead. Everyone knows women are emotional creatures. Just remember, from here on out, everything is either all your fault, or complete luck. If Hillary wins with the 336-202 Electoral College blow-out Princeton’s Sam Wang is predicting at the moment, it’s because Donald Trump is such a weak candidate that a sea otter could have won by a country mile this year. If she loses it’s ALL. YOUR. FAULT. You, and your vagina.

  59. Proposing the vastly underrated Sam Elliott as Bill, who is about as thin as him these days. Definitely prefer someone like Sam who can do an authentic Southern accent.

  60. I think all of the Republican primary candidates should be portrayed by umpa lumpas with appropriate hairdos

  61. Sam’s a great choice.  I’ve always loved him and the roles he plays – certainly has the range to play Bill, but his voice is a tad baratony.

  62. Bill Clinton is one of the speakers at Ali’s funeral

    I guess Divorcing Don will be there too lol NOT

  64. Jamie, thanks for linking heather michon’s rules on how hillary ladies should behave upon winning. right down Hillary-ous!

    she forgot another rule: to the loser guy, be sure to say you’re sorry….which includes that you “hope his feelings aren’t hurt, it happens to the best of people, it’s not him it’s you, maybe next time” … give him a cookie, pat him on the head with a “there there” and “now go out and play with your new glock and spiel”

    …. bless their little hearts, they tried.

  66. speaking of angry b’ars, from wall st journal:

    In separate appearances on CNN Sunday, Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders condemned violence at political gatherings.

    Mrs. Clinton denounced “all violence in our political arena,” but said Mr. Trump had fostered “an environment in which it seemed to be acceptable for someone running for president to be inciting violence.”

    “Trump has lowered the bar,” she said. “And now, is it a surprise that people who don’t like him are stepping over that low bar? I don’t think it is. He needs to condemn all violence by everyone. I already have, I will continue to do so.”

    Of the violence, Mr. Sanders said, “I condemn it absolutely.”

    “I want to make it clear that any person who is a Bernie Sanders supporter, please, do not in any way, shape or form engage in violence,” he said. “That is absolutely not what this campaign is about.”

  68. fivethirtyeight: Conventional Wisdom:

    Several high-profile Republicans still aren’t sure whether they’re going to go to the party’s convention in Cleveland come July, and that includes Ohio’s governor, John Kasich, and one of its senators, Rob Portman, who’s running for re-election.

    Those unsure of their July schedules include Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. There are quite a few party establishment types who have checked their black books and will for sure not be showing up July 18, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

    “I’m sure it will be fun; I’m sure it will be entertaining,” Graham told The New York Times. “And I can watch it on TV.”

  69. Charles Krauthammer said the content of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy speech which harshly criticized Donald Trump was “rather devastating,” but it came from a flawed messenger.
    He said on Special Report that the speech would have had “tremendous effect” had it come from one of Trump’s opponents in the Republican primary. The problem was that Clinton delivered it.

  71. KC,  Krauthammer missed the boat again. Drumpf’s primary opponents are not running against him.  Hillary is.  He might be right if the pugns weren’t meekly backing trump, but that ship sailed a few weeks ago.  Now if Ryan or, say, McCain said it, yeah.  But his vanquished opponents would just come off as sour grapers.

  73. YeeeeeHaaaaaw!  From Cape Cod to your ears.  I agree with Craig… Meryl Streep should play Hillary.  ?

  74. Glad everyone is having fun 🙂 Sam Elliott = excellent choice.

    Ha, rewatched All The Way yesterday. Pitch perfect. Emmys to all involved.

     

  75. my vote is for emma thompson….no matter what were the negatives in primary colors, the positives outweighed them imho. she delivered an authentically complex character.

  77. salon:
    It should be obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention to the election so far. Trump is nothing if not a thin-skinned King Joffrey Lannister who abuses every established path of recourse available to him. For example, the presumptive nominee for the party that’s fought against frivolous lawsuits and in support of tort reform for decades has been involved in more lawsuits than any other presidential candidate in history: 3,500 and counting. He’s been the plaintiff in 1,900 of those suits, including one against Bill Maher because the HBO host and stand-up comic (accurately) compared Trump to an orangutan. It’s difficult to imagine a lawsuit more frivolous than that.
     
    While discussing the suit, Maher told Conan O’Brien, “The legal system in this country is not a joke. It’s not a toy for rich idiots to play with. It’s not a collection agency for billionaires.” Unless you’re Trump, of course.
    [….]
    But Trump’s fetish for frivolous lawsuits isn’t necessarily the primary source of danger in his would-be presidency.
     
    Not too long ago, one of Trump’s psychotic yappy-dogs, Roger Stone, who, by the way, has accused Hillary Clinton of engaging in a “war on women,” amplifying the meme into a book-length screed, told Breitbart News Daily that Trump will strip CNN of its FCC license when elected. Stone said, “When Donald Trump is president, he should turn off their FCC license. They’re not a news organization; they’re about censorship.” And by “censorship,” Stone was referring to the fact that CNN banned him for making demonstrably false statements. Regardless, the threat alone could have a dangerously chilling effect on political journalism during a Trump presidency, rewinding the calendar to the Nixon era when the White House exploited the office to settle political scores of all varieties.

  78. Jane Lynch to play Clinton. Danny Trejo to play deadbeat donald.

    Judge Reinholt to play Bill. Paris Hilton to play Mrs. trump, III, nicole wallace as marla maples trump, and candace cameron bure as Ivana trump.

    John Finn to play Sanders. Christian Bale as rafaelo eduardo cruz. Zachary Quinto as marco rubio. Comics Jeffrey Garcia & Gabriel Iglesias as john kasich & jebus h.

    Edward James Olmos as rupert murdoch. trey gowdy as Anderson Cooper.

    jabba the hutt to play both the bad roger ailes and christ christie.

  79. Damien Lewis plays sniveling meanness perfectly. Add some strategic padding & a bad haircut … voila! Donald J.Trump.

  83. SJ, great pic.  Cranston is a great LBJ.

    Trump says it’s ‘inappropriate’ for ally Newt Gingrich to criticize his attacks on the ‘Mexican’ judge

    Gingrich compared Trump’s attack to a liberal attacking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he’s black.

    “We would all go crazy,” Gingrich said. “Every conservative would say it was wrong and it was racism. And Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He’s no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States, and he’s got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.”

    On Fox News early Monday, Trump was asked to respond to Gingrich’s comment, along with those of other Republicans.

    “As far as Newt is concerned, I saw Newt, I was surprised that Newt — I thought it was inappropriate what he said,” Trump said Monday morning.

    This is just too rich for words.

  84. And drumpf picked up another 3 Pinocchio award today over his claim that Elizabeth Warren was a hypocrite because she purchased and sold homes and made a killing doing that after the housing bubble burst.

    Instead, Warren mainly helped family members by purchasing or financing homes that were then held for years. Her family members did appear to profit from some transactions, but only modestly. This is not a portfolio of a savvy real estate investor but fits the profile that has been portrayed by Warren and her aides — a sister helping out her brothers and other relatives, mainly through loans. There’s nothing hypocritical about that.

    We wavered between Three and Four Pinocchios, as his claim is essentially worth 3½ Pinocchios. But we don’t do half-Pinocchios.

    Three Pinocchios

    God, the man has no sense of shame and apparently has never been acquainted with a concept called “truth”. But you knew that. Good thing BiD doesn’t worry about surviving a drumpf presidency. I don’t share that confidence.

  85. Pat

    Joe has always been able to pretend that there was no racism in the Republican party. But no more, one good thing about Donald Trump is that he puts it front and center. No dodging or using dog whistles .

    LOL

    Lots of Southern Republicans Like Joe an Newt  have been able to pretend they aren’t the party of racist. but no more.

    Gotta love it.

     

    Jack

  86. Inappropriate for Newtie cuz he’s on the short list — the ticket to hell

    or because it was critical? what about everyone else

  87. Drat it.  Everyone always goes for Streep or as a right wing Republican relative of hers that I knew referred to her “We don’t talk about Auntie Meryl” lol

    Glenn Close always gets consigned to the roles Streep didn’t want, but she has a much better singing voice just in case this thing ends up being a musical. Which puts us right back to “The Movies Have Gotten Small” that began the thread.

    YouTube thumbnail

  88. John Slattery would be great at playing Bill Clinton.

    Anyone who has not seen Spotlight should do so…

  89. I’m starting to think our gang scares off people from dropping in from on high.  Somebody needs to let them know the natives are friendly, we just expect you to have a wide range of interests and make sense.    Grand Poobah needs to let us know who reads regularly.  I keep seeing things show up on commentary news sites, that sounds suspiciously “great minds with a single thought” but they found the great minds here … lol

     

  91. I joined so I could comment…thanks for the tip Jamie, love the Minchon piece.

    I second the Pogo nomination of Mel Gibson. It would be the only movie I’d actually pay to see him in since his freak flag started flying a few years back. But, then again, it could be considered type casting 🙂

    I love the Helen Mirren idea (forget who said it).

    I was thinking of a different Sam to play Bill. I’ve always liked Sam Shepard. He has the look, does southern very well and is a great actor.

    How about David Mamet for screenplay. Quite a combo of previous works from political satire to horror. Sounds like this election already.

    Great thread thanks for having me.

     

  95. GrannyMumantoog

    Glad you are here.. Thanks for the comment and hope you stick around and tell us how you feel..

  96. KGC

    That video may be the best anti Tru, video so far. It looks like it is going to be an anti abortion video at first so that grabs the target audience then gives it the twist. in a different direction.

    Very effective

     

    Jack

  99. AP & NBC piss in bernie’s all bran, call Hillary the presumptive dem nominee based on pledged and super delegates who they have confirmed will support Hillary. Clinton can’t be happy that it came tonight, but I bet she sleeps well tonight.

  100. Poobah,  I passed your crazy fart lighting uncle description along to Mrs. P.  She thought it was hilarious.   She said she misses seeing you on TV – misses that humor on the fly. Who else would use such a description?  Only Carville perhaps, but he shows up rarely anymore.

  101. Pogo

    I thought the same thing about Hillary can’t be happy about the timing.. I know they wanted a big headline tomorrow..

  102. Top 3 WaPo articles are about Hillary becoming presumptive nominee.  I’m waiting for Bernie to come out shortly and deny reality. It’ll happen soon.

  105. GrannyMumantoog,

    Nice to have you on the ‘ trail’. Saddle up and ride often. We go interesting places.

  106. Well, bernie’s getting close to his moment of denial.   NY Mag gets it right.  Bernie has some strange ideas why he deserves the nomination….ain’t that the truth? Btw unless, or maybe more to the point, if, you’re thinking something bernie’s saying about the dem nomination process makes sense, this is worth the read.

  107. Bernie doesn’t strike me as a fart lighter. More like the uncle who belches big after dinner and laughs at it. The kids laugh, the adults roll their eyes and wonder why he couldn’t have spent Thanksgiving with his wife’s side of the family.

  108. Ron says he dad would just say no to Trump

    I wonder if Michael will challenge him to a duel to see who gets final say now the final say  now that Nancy is dead

  109. If Nancy had lived to make this statement it probably would have carried more weight. Michael is simply trading on his fathers name and has been for some time. Trump is just a target of opportunity and Reagan is nothing if not an opportunist. Move on, nothing to see here.

  111. Nina Turner could not begin to make sense when Chris Hayes flipped the table and asked whether she and Bernie’s camp would be claiming foul if he were ahead in the popular vote and pledged delegate count and Hillary tried to get the super delegates to overturn the will of the voters.  Evasive describes her “answer”.

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