The head of an emerging journalistic outfit owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. drafted the script for a potential television ad for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to emails obtained from campaign chairman John Podesta and published by WikiLeaks.
“As you will know … I am a committed Republican (or would be if I had the vote this year),” British Heat Street editor Louise Mensch wrote in an email to Michael Kives, an ad writer and Hollywood bundler for Clinton. “But I worry no end about Donald Trump becoming our President … much rather have your girl Hillary.
“The politician in me thinks Lena Dunham and Gloria Steinem are nails on a chalkboard to the average American woman AND I think Hillary is not capitalizing on the yearning that we have to see a woman as president properly,” Mensch wrote. “Her competence and intelligence are beyond doubt, her problem is warmth. If I may, here is an ad I would love to see run.”
Mensch said the ad, titled “Our Time,” should include a parade of women supporting Clinton’s candidacy. “A succession of mostly young women, a few old women, one with a baby daughter, multiracial and multi-occupation, to include a nurse and a woman in uniform of some kind where permitted … one after the other, smiling and looking to camera and saying ‘It’s our time.’ and the last woman says, ‘It’s our time. I’m with her.’ fade to banner credit ‘Hillary 2016.’ ”
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Mensch added, “That would be inspirational, aspirational, and the kind of riff you really need on ‘Yes we can.’ ”
Kives forwarded the message to Podesta, campaign manager Robby Mook, and longtime aide Huma Abedin. “I like this idea,” Kives wrote before noting, “Louise is a former Conservative British MP. Very smart.”
Mensch served in the British parliament from 2010-12.
The exchange was included in 1,193 from Podesta’s inbox published by WikiLeaks on Wednesday. The website has published 7,199 messages from Podesta since Friday.
