Hillary Buys An Hour Of Hallmark Channel Primetime For Pre-Super Tuesday Town Hall

Hillary Clinton has bought an hour in prime time on the women's-oriented Hallmark Channel the night before next week's Super Tuesday primary election.

The cost of the unusual block-time purchase is about $500,000, according to industry sources.

Hallmark will air Clinton's national "town hall" TV event, linking 22 cities in primary election states by 21 satellites.

Before the TV deal, the event was basically a massive, closed-circuit campaign rally.

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[larmarch5]

This event is being held at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, TN. I think that's great! Bet most of the Hillbashers on here didn't even know there was a womens basketball hall of fame, and now that they do, they don't care. Well, that's a shame. Go Lady Longhorns!

[Dendy]

Hillary can sit down and answer questions for hours with great detail; wile Obama is very uncomfortable doing so.
See it's not as easy as walking around with Oprah and the Kennedy’s

[larry278]

Her Hillaryship has to take what she can buy. PBS wouldn't sell her the time slots used for reruns of Lawrence Welk; the Game Show Network doesn't have the audience for what it shows. Fox Sports wouldn't sell her the half-time of the Super Bowl. Hallmark is the only game in town. I wonder if the sites for her Hillaryship's town meetings will be open during the Super Bowl, show the Super Bowl on big screen TV, give away hot dogs & beer to draw a crowd for her town meeting.

[feelfree]

I think its a very clever move.

[tkk]

Oh no! She's not buying air time to promote her candidacy is she? How racist and bigoted and just plain ignorant. She isn't supporting Obama? Traitor!

[isisdawnra]

all that campain money could be better spent, on any issue we care about. Like health care, the defficet anything..­.......
It's a waste. outragious!

[GiggidyGeshmoygen]

EARMARKS - CLINTON VS. OBAMA (Part1of2)

Earmarks have a real impact on expanding the budget deficit by billions of dollars every year. And as part of the earmarks industry, lobbyists are hired to obtain the billions of dollars at stake. Washington now has almost 35,000 registered lobbyists, more than double the number in 2000 when George Bush became President.

Hillary Clinton's position is that lobbyists are an integral part of the democratic process and should remain so. Meanwhile, Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, noted on Bill Moyers' website: "the earmarking process is a breakdown in democratic decision-making in the Congress."

John McCain, who has a strong record of attacking earmarks and government waste, declared during a Republican presidential debate on October 21, 2007, "I have fought against out-of- control and disgraceful spending that's been going on and I have saved the American people as much as $2 billion at one stroke... I will have this debate and win because she is a liberal Democrat and I am a proud, reliable, consistent conservative Republican­."

In the fiscal 2008 omnibus appropriations bill, Hillary Clinton received 261 earmarks, more than five times the number of any other presidential candidate. Keith Ashdown, research director for the Taxpayers for Common Sense, told the Los Angeles Times that "Clinton has made aggressive use of the pay-to-play earmark game" and received 360 earmarks worth $2.2 billion from 2002 to 2006. This record establishes her as by far the worst abuser of earmarks among all presidential candidates in both parties.

In the fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill, Clinton pushed for more war-related earmarks than any other senator except the chair of the Armed Services Committee. Clinton received 26 earmarks worth about $148.4 million... Clinton has been particularly active in obtaining earmarks for defense companies in New York, helping them sidestep the normal competitive system for contractors. She's also raised more than $270,000 for her campaigns from these defense contractors. By contrast, Obama had only one earmark, requested with several other senators, to help children with severe disabilities.

[KyleCope]

This is hilarious - Hillary Clinton as a Terminator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMgxFE6bms

[Dandy12]

Smart move for her. Maybe McCain will get some cash and try to sell blood and guts to the same audience.

[wm1066]

Will it pre-empt "Walker, Texas Ranger"?
Man would that steam Huckelbarry!

[Mollye]

I think this is a very smart move. My parents watch the Hallmark channel more than any other.

[truthyguy]

Would someone please tell me why Hillary flashes that look of surprise on her face (you know, the one that seems to say to some faceless person in the audience: "wow, I didn't expect to see you here") every single time she appears at any public event or speaking engagement.