Holy shit. It doesn't get more blatant than this example of media manipulation

[cali]

10, 2009

PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 9


Almost as if Lou Dobbs had taken over the network, ABC plans to debut a series in the fall about aliens who come to Earth promising "hope," "change" and universal health care, but who actually want to infiltrate our government and our businesses and, to that end, have rallied the country's youth behind their nefarious campaign.

Morena Baccarin plays the good-looking, seductively charismatic leader of the so-called Visitors, one remarkably knowledgeable about human culture and media manipulation.

The series is called "V" and it's a re-envisioning of an old miniseries of same name.

Baccarin acknowledged she had modeled her alien character after politicians, saying: "I am trying my best to be as trustworthy as I can be and to embody what everybody of every nationality and need wants to see. At the same time, you have your own agenda."

Oh, and "V" is debuting on Nov. 3 -- the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, a.k.a. the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama being elected the 44th president of the United States, which will be front and center on all the cable news networks, the broadcast TV networks' newscasts, the front pages of newspapers, magazine covers and pretty much otherwise on everybody's mind.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/09/AR2009080901970.html

[asdjrocky]

1. Well, at least we can be sure the show will suck.

Wingnuts are notorious for producing bad entertainment.

[cali]

3. no doubt about that, but it's pretty brazen that ABC is airing such blatant

anti-Obama propaganda.

[lame54]

5. they're are the assholes who made and aired "Path to 9/11"

[zbdent]

2. thus starting the 2010 campaign for Repugs ...

hmm ... every "liberal" ad was tied to George Soros, but CNN gets to run commercials that a Repug candidate pulled because they were too controversial ("Let's run the pulled commercial 50 times during this discussion ...")

It's barely after the polls close in the 2009 election season ...

They should be careful, when you consider that the Supreme Court is going to review the "Hillary" movie and determine whether or not it was pure campaign material, not "entertainment" ...

[woodsprite]

4. V isn't new. It's a remake. And it was pretty good back in the 80s' n/t

[vadawg]

6. yeah what was posted just seems to be the same storyline of the original

they promised mankind a brighter future, health for all, an end to suffering, whilst using us as the fillings for their delicious meat pastries. The original was class, hopefully this will be as good as the battlestar remake..

[enviralment]

7. HAHAHA

this is great!!! alien politicians, controlling dilettantes whats not to like? As for the
dem. connections maybe a little to motivated by conspiracies are we? hummmmmmmm?

[onenote]

8. there has been talk of a revival of "V" for years

This newest version was "greenlighted" last January and probably was in development for quite a while before that.