Carla Gugino: TV Pits Women Against Each Other

Salon:

Carla Gugino in "Political Animals"

"Political Animals" is basically Hillary Clinton fan fiction: What if Hillary had left Bill after she lost the primary to Barack Obama? What if, while still secretary of state, she had decided to run for president? What if she had two sons instead of a daughter, a feisty mother, was named Elaine Hammond, and looked exactly like Sigourney Weaver? The fun, soapy results are playing out every Sunday night on USA at 10 p.m., with Weaver joined by a supporting cast that includes Carla Gugino as Pulitzer Prize-winning political journalist Susan Berg, a woman who made her career exposing the Hammonds' dirty secrets. Gugino has appeared on TV many, many times before, usually kicking ass in a show that is way too short-lived ("Karen Sisco," "Threshold," to name just a few of Gugino’s TV credits). Gugino spoke with Salon last week about Hillary, reclaiming the word "bitch" and the way TV portrays strong women.

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Comments

[kyria]

04:40 PM on 07/27/2012

If Hillary Clinton was so smart she wouldn't be such a war-monger.

[Know-some-secrets]

07:15 AM on 07/27/2012

Too funny. Carla Gugino says: "'Political Animals' is basically Hillary Clinton fan fiction."

Actually Hillary Clinton is basically fan fiction too.

Has there ever been a political leader more dependent on exageration, claiming undo credit and shifting blame, spin, and the accomplishments of a spouse?

[F1rewoman]

01:54 PM on 07/27/2012

Is being Secretary of State not big enough of an accomplishment for you? If she wasn't a political leader you would probably be blaming her role as a wife, somehow. She hasn't done anything different than what a male political leader has done accept a male political leader doesn't have to also take blame for their spouses behavior.

[Know-some-secrets]

02:07 PM on 07/27/2012

I believe Barack Obama appointed Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State to pacify the bitter Clintons as political critics and to curb Bill Clinton's troubling selling of influence internationally for personal gain.  It was a very costly strategy that I understand but do not admire, and it has worked.
Mrs. Clinton has reprised her role as a world traveling meet and greet first lady, even setting records for miles traveled, countries visited, and number of times she's complained about being exhausted.
I see nothing she has really accomplished, except helping persuade President Obama to    escalate the war in Afghanistan with the futile "Surge" and pressuring for violent regime change in Libya, about which she laughed and joked "We came, we saw, he died." 
You may admire her.  I do not.