Elizabeth Warren, a Bigger Star Than George Clooney or Angelina Jolie?
In the Sunday Washington Post, film critic Ann Hornaday puts on her left-wing political beret to honor a documentary called “Maxed Out” now playing on the Showtime channel -- and its star, Elizabeth Warren, currently running as a Democrat against Republican Sen. Scott Brown for “Ted Kennedy’s seat” in the Senate.
James Scurlock, the director of “Maxed Out,” is all gush to the Post. “You look at the way people have responded to her, I’m just in awe,” he said. “I live in L.A., which is a celebrity culture, and people get much more excited when you say you know Elizabeth Warren than if I knew Angelina Jolie or George Clooney. She’s like a rock star.”
Hornaday and the Post thought a documentary on Palin called "The Undefeated" was an "ad." But Hornaday loved a film radical feminist Bella Abzug.
Today's film is an "engaging, lucid primer." Scurlock told the Post he can't imagine why Warren would be controversial.
As for the biggest star of “Maxed Out,” Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, Scurlock declines credit for discovering her. “I think she was just really waiting to be heard,” he said, adding that hers was the last interview he did for the film, and that she only gave him an hour. “And she didn’t even really need an hour, because what she basically said was [that] you can’t have banks making more and more money as their customers are going broke faster and faster. That’s not sustainable.”
He was shocked when Warren became a polarizing figure after Obama named her to create the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “Elizabeth has been labeled as anti-business and anti-finance,” Scurlock said, “but the reality is that the financial industry, which is the backbone of the economy, cannot survive bankrupting all its customers. We both felt that’s a very pro-business, pro-economy position.”
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He should have called it "Marxed Out".
Submitted by NeoKong on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 1:17pm.
“And she didn’t even really need an hour, because what she basically said was [that] you can’t have banks making more and more money as their customers are going broke faster and faster. That’s not sustainable.”
So I guess that banks now have to share their profits with their customers...?
What does one have to do with the other ?
How does your bank make you go broke?
Granny Warren claims she's not rich,
Submitted by fscarn on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 1:39pm.
But she has a net worth of more than $14 million.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/27/multimillionaire-elizabeth-warren-...
Lefties can't help it; their lying just comes to naturally to them.
Washington Post and Ann Hornady
Submitted by oldfart on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 1:49pm.
Pardon me while I loose my lunch.
Hasen Jason - get the basin
Urp slop - get the mop
Who cares about lefty's at The Post
Submitted by Conservator on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 2:25pm.
Currently, Sen. Scott Brown is leading the so-called star Elizabeth Warren by as much as 9 points.
Oh, barf!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 3:29pm.
Do Democrats not have any other way to describe popularity status other than Rock Star?
Also, I honestly don't give a flying fig about either Warren or Brown, but is this forever going to be "Ted Kennedy's seat"??
If so, then do us all a favor and "retire" the seat, like they do with a player's number in sports.
motherbelt
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:50am.
I guess it's the left's version of "she's good people"?
Ronald Reagan
More affirmation .....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 3:40pm.
...that I did the right thing (oh, I made a pun) when I cancelled HBO, Showtime, Cinemax.
Warren is going to LOSE...
Submitted by ChrisNH on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 4:07pm.
Leftists are apoplectic about the prospect of a Dead-Kennedy seat STAYING with the GOP. They are gushing over Warren's rise in the same way they are gushing over the 'improving economy.' Neither is happening.
Warren
Submitted by mmilesll on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 4:10pm.
The voting skills of Mass have been in question for years, all Warren has to do is drive somebody off a bridge and kill them and she wins the seat.
In My Mind
Submitted by NC Boy on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 6:02pm.
Ted Kennedy's seat will always be right there next to Mary Jo.
The shallow world of the liberal mind.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:58am.
It's not about substance, ideas or even a logical, reasoned debate. It's about emotion, show, appearance and feel good blather that the world can be solved at the end of the 22 minutes of the half-hour sitcom they adopt as reality. It's about taking a position that is based solely on emotional claptrap and manufactured outrage, not on recognition of threats or consolidation of the facts to form an intelligent conclusion.
Take a look at any of the trolls that have infested the board within the past four months and you will see a motley collection of simple-minded, shallow and worthless souls who are sorely lacking any independent judgment or will to reason beyond the latest propaganda they hear. It's all about how it will look on TV or on the net, and not about the very people they lie about representing.