It’s a work of political fiction, one that ended up including a real-life sit down with then-presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and a hug from Mitt Romney on the evening of the Iowa caucuses.
Jane Edith Wilson, star of “Janeane From Des Moines,” joined The Last Word Friday to talk about her unique film opening in New York theaters Friday.
The mockumentary follows the fictional character of Janeane Wilson, an avid conservative who goes on the campaign trail in the spring of 2011 in search of a Republican candidate to support. She does this while facing mounting economic, financial, and health difficulties.
“It’s part-fiction, part-reality, just like politics,” Wilson told O’Donnell.
Wilson, with her film crew, is so effective at improvising and deception that a moment she was able to steal with Gov. Romney ended up on the ABC News evening broadcast. She dramatically pleads with Romney to “save the small families of America.” He tells her that he will pray for her, and that people in her situation are among the reasons he’s running for president.
Reports about Wilson and her encounter were also mentioned by the Des Moines Register, Talking Points Memo, and Washington Post.
For O’Donnell, the film’s formula is unusual. "I love this movie, and I don't know what this movie is," he said.
“Borat” is the only artistic precursor. Wilson’s credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm, ER, and Seinfeld, and several TV ads for Tide detergent and Hyundai.
Critics have given the film kudos for refusing “to go the predictable route of ‘punking’ the candidates for easy satire or cheap laughs.”
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Two debates down, amd more than anything else, what we have learned is that in both President Obama's and VP Biden's appearances, they provided ample evidence of why the team that went to Washington, DC to be the transformational administration that was to usher in a new age of bi-partianship cooperation failed so dramatically, leaving the nation's voters in the position of watching abject partisianship grind the wheels of progress to a halt over the past four years. While President Obama appeared in character a week ago Wednesday night in his debate, it was evident from the beginning that he was distanced from the proceedings, didn't really seem to want to be there, and somewhat disdainful of the process of debating ideas with his challanger Gov. Romney. When it became Joe Biden's turn this Wednesday evening, he did seem to relish he opportunity to be there (perhaps as since his gaffe about putting black people back in chains back in the early summer, he hadn't been allowed to be anywhere of consequence), but while he was engaged, it was with a mocking, giggling and smirking demeanor, and again disdainful personae he adoped for the occasion all evening, with nothing but inpatience for having to listen and respond to the ideas of his challenger, Congressman Ryan. Incredibly, that Joe Biden had been tasked last year to to lead the meetings between Democrat Party legislators and Republican Party legislators in attempts to arrive at a path to fiscal responsibility in the face of our ever soaring national debt level and serious needs to examine reform alternatives.
Not a very pretty picture at all...and surely not anything that the voters can find any reason in their ill performances to return this re-election ticket back to their jobs for another four years. Obviously, there isn't a cooperative bone in either of these men's bodies...they are mired in their ideologies, unwilling to attempt to seek bipatianship solutions. As they both have behind them a record of abject failure on the economic, fiscal, and now the foreign affairs policies of their administration as is evidenced by the growing threat of Al Qaeda terrorism and another wave of fundamentalist Islamic jihadism raising its ugly head in the turbulent Middle East, North Africa, and Western Asia, they surely are not deserving of another term of office; not with those two disturbing performances.
No, no, no. What you saw in the first debate was not Obama's distance, but Romney's all out effort to show Obama that he was his 'natural' superior in all things. A failed effort, in the long run, but effective for a short while.'
Obama has done very well by this country. Economically things have moved steadily forward. Who's doing the complaining? Those with the highest incomes. They, like Romney, feels he's been keeping 'their share' away from them. And he and his .01 per centers won't stop until they've shaken the last nickel out of the 99.9%'s pockets.
The GOP has NEVER shrunken government; they've only shrunken the part that you, as an ordinary taxpayer, get from it.
Only 397,000 more full time employed Americans only at the end of September, 2012 than existed in January 2009 when Obama/Biden took office: that is only enough to not quite cover 3 months of new individuals entering the workforce (avg. of 150,000 each month) over a 45 month period...and an average Unemployment Rate of 8.6% for those 45 months (previous 8 years of the Bush Adminstration Unemployment Rate averaged 5.6%), and the lowest labor force participation rate now since the 1970s, and the lowest number of small business start-ups (2/3rds of new jobs come from small businesses) since the 1970s. That is the Obama/Biden Economic record. They've taken us back to the failed economic record of Jimmy Carter.
How's the Middle Class done? Average family income has fallen $4,300 a year in the past 3&3/4ths years compared to $1,000 over 8 years under the previous administration. A drop in the Middle Class family net worth of 28% over that 3&3/4ths years. Millions having left the labor force entirely due to poor to no opportunities to find employment. And to cost of living? Gasoline prices double what they were, and rising further, from the end of 2008 before Obama/Biden took office, home heating oil on the rise, electricity prices on the rise: due to the Obama/Biden War on fossil fuels. And as gasoline and diesel prices affect food prices greatly, they are on the rise again too.
It's a losing game trying to make a case for this Administration to be returned to do more damage to the Middle Class they what they have managed to achieve in the past 3&3/4ths years, jim!
The middle class' income starting falling under Reagan. You aren't taking any but the most short sighted view. And, by the way, that's a total of 5.3 million jobs under Obama, even with falling government employment, when for GW Bush's entire 8 years just 2 million jobs were created.
You're pretty full of baloney.
Look at the Bureau's statistics for total employment in the US for Jan, 2009 and September, 2012 and you can see for yourself the isn't 5,300,000 jobs added...only 397,000 over that 3&3/4th years of Obama policies, Jim. You see you just can't count temporary jobs (like the kind we got out of the stimulus spending) or those that found work only to be soon again laid off as permanent jobs gained. What do you think those horrendous weekly nre Unemployment insurance claims of 350,000 to 390,000 have been all about...you've got to account for those as jobs lost that aren't made up for by anemic figures such as the 114,000 new hires only reported by employers this last month!
Those who want to blame Obama for not "creating jobs" are the ones who support those who believe it is not government's place to create jobs? Isn't that why Congress is not even voting on President Obama's jobs bills? Infrastructure jobs in times of recession help the country (remember the Hoover Dam) which is what we and our vets need now but if it's not drilling for more oil or coal mining the GOP is thumbs down. The GOP is cynically, for reasons of bowing to energy companies, and for political reasons, holding back a jobs surge in order to say "see, Obama creating no jobs so vote for Romney"! Am I wrong? Seems pretty darn clear to me!
We ran out of room to borrow more money, honey! In 2010 the American people said no to more deficit spending to try to jack up the employment statistics with public service jobs and jobs in public works projects that even Obama joked "weren't exactly shovel ready"! All we need is for a broadening of the tax base abd an economic growth fiscal path of certainty, a reigning in of the anti-business attitude of this administration and roll back of the crippling regulations (mostly in the energy sector, but in a myriad layer of other regulations paced on the creation anbd expansion of business activity too), and a cut in taxes for corporations to be more globablly competitiive and cuts in small businesses taxes that are meaningful so that they can begin to expand again, and the job growth will follow. Jack Kennedy did it, Ronald Reagan did it, and Mitt Romney will do it too. The Big Government-Redistribute the Wealth amateur had his chance, and failed. He had it all his way for the first two years and we were only deeper in debt for the result. Time for a change sweetie!
So right, the v.p.(lower case on purpose)was disrespectful ,and degrading bully ,and the mediator did a terrible job of controlling him.
Michele Bachmann’s answer to the lack of health insurance question in this “movie” clip is “It goes back to we’ve got to have a pro-growth economy” and then she blames President Obama for the increase in gas prices.
No mention of the two wars, as Vice President Joe Biden said at the debate this week, “put on credit card” by the Republicans prior to the Obama Presidency.
So…wreck the economy, blame the Democrats for not fixing it soon enough, and blame the lack of heath care insurance on a bad economy.
The $4.5 Trillion of deficit spending over 8 years of the Bush Administration mostly for the prosecution of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars (the former both Obama and Biden voted to authorize, the later only Biden to authorize) and for the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan for seniors compares favorably to the approaching $6 Trillion deficits spending under the Obama/Biden Administration in just half the time, 4 years, mostly for public sector employment and Medicaid expansion and a host of expansion of public spending programs and "economic stimulus". Biden infamously mentioned the "Two Wars and the Prescription drug program for seniors on the credit card" as the reason for the recession of late 2007 to June 2009, but he was wrong...the recession was due to the bursting of our 1995 to 2005 housing market bubble, and the awful financial panic that ensued due to the bundling and leveraging up as "investments" of bad mortgages further compromised by the insane credit default derivatives that the major financial institutions had gambled on. And that was as much a circumstance that was allowed to grow to its dangerous level by the Bill Clinton Administration as the Bush Administration, and the Democrats in Congress as well as the Republican's in Congress, and Alan Gresnspan at the head of the Federal Reserve thru the period 1995 thru 2005. There is pleanty of blame to go around!
Ignorant economic platitudes are a dime a dozen, sdtech...and you show your econonic ignorance when you repeat them. Please spare us in the future.
As to Michele Bachman's remarks, its no different in 2012 than it was in 2002 a decade before that by far most families and individuals receive their health insurance as a benefit of their employment, and employment growth goes a long , long way to improving health as well as the economics of our health systems, including the funding through growing tax revenues of public health system delivery. That is why establishing the conditions for economic growth is the most important thing Government can do next to the Defense of our Nation and keeping internal peace and order.
Michele Bachmann’s answer to the lack of health insurance question in this “movie” clip is “It goes back to we’ve got to have a pro-growth economy” and then she blames President Obama for the increase in gas prices.
No mention of the two wars, as Vice President Joe Biden said at the debate this week, “put on credit card” by the Republicans prior to the Obama Presidency.
So…wreck the economy, blame the Democrats for not fixing it soon enough, and blame the lack of heath care insurance on a bad economy.
Michele Bachmann’s answer to the lack of health insurance question in this “movie” clip is “It goes back to we’ve got to have a pro-growth economy” and then she blames President Obama for the increase in gas prices.
No mention of the two wars, as Vice President Joe Biden said at the debate this week, “put on credit card” by the Republicans prior to the Obama Presidency.
So…wreck the economy, blame the Democrats for not fixing it soon enough, and blame the lack of heath care insurance on a bad economy.
Well, you are three times over the ignorant economic fool, sdteck.
Michelle Bachmann's on her way out! Finally!! sdtech is right. So President Obama not cleaning up the mess fast or good enough for the GOP? So what do they do? They fabricate ridiculous tales of Obama moving Winston Churchill's bust out of the Oval Office, or hanging drapes with Islamic symbols and removing the American flag from the Press Room, and it goes on and on, ad nauseam. Anything the knuckle draggers love hearing to take him down, drip by drip. Is it any wonder Obama is disheartened? Look at him. He never had a chance. But if it's up to me -- and in a way it is -- and I'm hoping others feel the same way -- give him another term. The GOP does not deserve control of the presidency again. Not yet. They must honestly earn it and so far they only propagate dissension and outright lie.
OBAMA 2012!
Another country heard from!
I found Romney's reaction most sickening of all. The guy is playing the role he played as Bishop, comforting but offering nothing whatsoever to relieve this woman's stated misery, except to say he planned to create more jobs.
Yeah, the guy's created jobs all right. Tell that to the workers in Illinois whose jobs Bain just gave to Chinese nationals who are coming here to replace them. Tell that to the few holders of the jobs Romney did create, at Staples, who make $18,000 a year...
Where exactly are the 5,000,000 new jobs created in the Green Energy economy Obama promised us? Where in fact are the 5,000,000 jobs that Biden tried to claim have been created under the Obama/Biden Administration. The US Bureau of Labor Statitistics show only 397,000 more employed individuals at the end of last month than existed in the nation in Jan, 2009 when this Admninistration took office, jim.
As to your claim of Bain Capital bringing Chinese workers into the country to go to work in Illinois please cite your resources. I had no idea...seems to be maybe something you might have picked up on the liveral blogoshere perhaps, like a bad case of Asia flu?
I worked as a waitress for a number of years at restaurants, none of which provided healthcare. I earned too little to afford a private plan and my dental, well that's another story. So I went without coverage but was able to go to Planned Parenthood and pay a fee depending on what I earned (sliding scale) in order to have an annual pap smear and mammogram. It is becoming more obvious men don't understand women's bodies, i.e., Todd Akin. So if not financially secure, or have a family who can afford to pay, or a husband which many marry for security, women are just on their own with reproductive problems with no one to turn to. Oh wait, until they're sick, end up in an emergency room with sky high costs, and we all pay! You men slay me. If you had issues younger in life, before the prostate acts up later when you have Medicare, you'd be 100% behind preventive clinics to catch disease. Overall Planned Parenthood is a drop in the bucket of the budget, so a false premise related to cost. If Planned Parenthood can be defunded then also eliminate tax cuts for private jets, and subsidies for Chevron, etc., etc., etc. Cut for us, cut it ALL!!
The problem is we are borrowing money from China, Japan, Great Britian, the Germans, and the Danes primarily to pay subsidies for programs like Planned Parenthood which they say goes for preventive health care, but many of those dollars go for abortion services. They state they will be able to meet their program needs with donations and fund drives they receive, so why burden out children and grandchildren, Teresa?
What you list as "cuts" for business use of jet aircraft, or the "cuts" for Chevron's (and their competitors) oil and gas exploration and development are not subsidies funded with borrowed money...they are their profits left in their accounts by credits earned to allow them to use their profits to discover and produce more energy, T. And whenever we started doing things in the past like taxing as luxuries yacht manufacture, for example, all we did was cost good jobs in the United States as the manufacturers closed up shop in the US and moved their operations into the Carribean Islands and Central and South America. Crippling the small commercial jet aircraft industry by denying them the ability to keep more of their profits for research and development costs does no good for anyone except workers and governments in other nations that would love to have the leg up on the competition, sweetie.
We need to foster growth in business activities and energy production, not curtial it.
Real Clear Politics is reporting their averaging of all the post debate polls show Romney leading Obama nationally now by 1.3 points, ane by that same 1.3 points in Ohio...quite the turnaround from the heretofore reported 8 point lead for Obama in that critical state. Of course, that is well within the margins of error in both those instances, so for all practical purposes, it is a statistical tie nationally and in the bellweather state of Ohio after the debate.
Kind of amazing those poll lead numbers also equate exactly to the slump in our nation's Gross Domestic Product growth rate to 1.3% only in the quarter ended September 30th. Two debates to go, and 21 days of campaigning yet to go, folks.
Two polls with demonstrable right wing leanings, American Research Group and Rassmussen skewed the results. The President has retained his advantage, and a CNN poll (Grandpa is always praising CNN while he's dissing MSNBC) has the President with a 51-47 lead. American Research Group had Obama up by 1% in the early September polls while everyone else was showing a 5-10% edge for the President.
And here's Politico:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/10/ppp-ohio-poll-obama-romney-138382.html?hp=l1
This is the third public poll --following CNN and NBC/Marist-- to show the president holding onto his lead in Ohio even as Mitt Romney's standing has improved nationally in the aftermath of the first debate.
Connom Sense will tell you that there are outlier polls that favor each candidate, and that is why Real Clear Politics.com AVERAGING of the polls presents the most reliable gauge of not only the snap shot in time, but also the trend, and neither looked good for the incumbent, Cab Driver.
Common Sense also should tell you that a state like Ohio that has been markedly such a battleground in presidential politics will not this year have any reason to not be closely tracking the national polls...hence as Real Clear Politics.com's averaging showed, for Ohio the polls are right on with the national sentiment!
Better start using some chap stick, Cab Driver...all your whistling lately seems to be turning them parchment dry. LOL!
I just learned about this guy; he's a political science professor who discusses polling. He looks pretty sharp to me, and his tallies on the electoral college are noteworthy. Alex DeWitt just mentioned this one...
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/
The Obama camp is looking at 277 Electoral votes, minimum, and that's not including New Hampshire, which probably isn't a toss-up, nor is Virginia.
And that's giving Romney Florida, which is still clearly a toss-up state. Well, I hope all the money the righties spend act as small economic stimulus factors.
I see Grandpa is still trying to say something original because he doesn't have anything factual. That use of capital letters in the honorarium he addresses me with is still kind of weird. Have I come up on the right wingnuts' radar screens, and he's making track money from the Koch head crowd?
BTW, I'm in in good company. Keith Olbermann just tweeted a link to that same video of Romney calling Glenn Beck a "statesman," and well...
Citing Keith Olberman really downs't do very much at all to bolster your argument, twice fired from Commentator positions. That clown should have stuck with his passion, Sports.
2 debates and three weeks of campaigning, and we will see what we see. It's either going to be squeaker, or it could break big for either candidate, but the state of the economy, the fiscal mess, and the Administration now having to play defense on their Foreign Affairs policies pretty much tells me that they have a weak hand to try to claim the big pot, Cab Driver. There just isn't any magic of "Hope and Change" in your guy this time around, and the Romney/Ryan Ticket have the momentum now.
Averaging polls is a very good approach. According to Real Clear Politics Romney's lead has dropped to one tenth of a percentage point.
But averaging the averages is even better - a 31 day average of Real Clear's averages gives President Obama 48.12 and Gov. Romney 45.87. The same approach applied to 2008 for the same period gave Obama 48.37 to McCain's 44.02 (about 2.9 points off from the actual election spread)
Rasmussen thinks it's a close race - within the margin of error. So expect the polls to bounce back and forth a couple of points for the next week or so.
Romney momentum ? I could not agree more - look at RealClearPolitics Obama vs. Romney graph. Highlight October 9th through the present and click - it will show that period in more detail. Does Romney have momentum - yes he does - it is downward after the debate - then flatlines - still there is momentum of a sort.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/ I disagree with Sabato's assumption that the debate cost Obama points. Obama was on the decline starting about October the 4th. Rasmussen also dismisses any significant loss to the debate. Both candidates went into decline just before the debate - Obama's decline was simply a little faster.
BARRACK BRINGING THE HEAT ON TUESDAY, THAT WATER CAN'T PUT OUT: 47% VS MITTY...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrfXtp2SLc&feature=fvwp&NR=1
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I Challenge my Generation to Inspire Future Generations.
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Who in the hell are you people kidding "obamas moved the country "forward"'. Isn't that the modo of MSNBC. How is this a "news" network? It just reminds me of the pool of algae covered doo-doo i used to walk through in the middle east. The people who support this elitist cant "smell" anything except the @!$%# they wallow in and it seems to be a pleasent aroma with consideration to some of these comments. Absolute insanity...vindictive, angry people you liberals are. Grow up and contribute to society instead of trying to destroy it by racial division and killing the unborn. I will admit, its like going to the zoo, reading these comments and listening to MSNBC. Its entertaining. The the animals are different but they all doing the same thing..... Sit around and hope people noticed them. Keep it coming. I enjoy bringing jokes to work.
BARRACK BRINGING THE HEAT ON TUESDAY, THAT WATER CAN'T PUT OUT: 47% VS MITTY...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrfXtp2SLc&feature=fvwp&NR=1
MUCH LOVE TO THE PEOPLE LIVIN IN BAINPORT/CASHIN, MUCH LOVE FROM THE HEARTLAND, HOME OF CHERLY BROWN-HENDERSON!
I Challenge my Generation to Inspire Future Generations.
Yours in Christ, Sonny Scroggins
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