{"id":4052,"date":"2026-07-22T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:39:22","slug":"crooked-media-and-a-former-barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-comms-exec-are-making-a-political-show-about-the-south-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4052","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Media and a Former Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Comms Exec Are Making a Political Show About the South (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tJennifer Palmieri was rushing through the Atlanta airport the other day on her way down to Laredo, Texas, when she paused to make an observation. \u201cI mean, the world comes through here,\u201d she said, speaking by phone. \u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t you try to understand?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palmieri is in the process of helping us do just that. The former White House director of communications under Barack Obama as well as the head of comms for Hillary Clinton in 2016 has undertaken an ambitious goal: to help TV viewers get at the nuances of the political South.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4050\">\u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tShe and <em>Pod Save America<\/em>-company Crooked Media are producing a six-part documentary TV series called\u00a0<em>Long Play<\/em>, <em>The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>has learned. The show aims to uncover fundamental issues and profound shifts in a way daily news coverage doesn\u2019t. Palmieri has brought along former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu and veteran journalist and<em>\u00a0The 19<\/em><sup><em>th<\/em><\/sup>editor-at-large\u00a0Errin Haines as co-hosts, each bringing their experience to bear on the nonfiction show.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCrooked Media, co-founded by former Obama speechwriter and Palmieri colleague Jon Favreau, will executive produce the show, as will Favreau; they\u2019ll help market and distribute it. <em>Long\u00a0Play<\/em>\u00a0will also live on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPalmieri thinks the series could be the tonic for what\u2019s ailing political journalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much resignation about the region \u2014 you hear Democrats say \u2018don\u2019t bother with the South, you can\u2019t win there.\u2019\u201d said the media vet, who also spent several years co-hosting Showtime\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Circus\u00a0<\/em>later in its run. \u201cAnd the reality is it\u2019s so much more complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To unearth that complexity the trio will use their Rolodexes to get powerful people to talk while also attending rallies, interviewing voters and generally giving a view from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia power players Stacey Abrams, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Brian Kemp have already been interviewed for the debut Georgia episode, which is expected to hit online next week. The Texas episode will center on a James Talarico rally in Laredo and move on from there.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cEach place is fascinating in its own way and has its own dynamics. Georgia, where we\u2019ve been, was the birthplace of civil rights but also a very conservative state,\u201d Palmieri said. \u201cI really think there\u2019s an appetite for this kind of content.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\t Among the other states are North Carolina and Oklahoma, with the remaining two to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4048\">Zoe Salda\u00f1a Boards Short Film on Palestinian Womanhood, \u2018It\u2019s Complicated,\u2019 as Executive Producer (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t \u201cPeople in the South feel really misunderstood \u2014 left behind, looked down on \u2014 and they want to explain that to somebody,\u201d Landrieu says in the trailer. (You can watch it below.)<\/p>\n<p>\n\tProducers have also brought on some other cultural heavy hitters, with the music of singer-songwriter and liberal activist Jason Isbell featured in multiple episodes and the magazine Bitter Southerner providing creative. The show is being produced and financed by Left\/Right Productions, which produced <em>The Circus (<\/em>as well as <em>Mob Wives<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Long Play<\/em>, however, is not meant to chronicle the week in politics like\u00a0<em>The<\/em> <em>Circus<\/em>\u00a0did. Instead, as its name suggests, it will take a longer view about the forces shaping each state. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tPalmieri said she feels more optimism than many of her peers about the potential for new coalitions and fresh forms of unity, no matter recent evidence suggesting widening rifts even within political parties.<\/p>\n<p>The comms veteran says what can look like a divide may just be confusion \u2014 confusion that a political show could help address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u00a0<em>think<\/em>\u00a0the country is very divided but that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening in my opinion,\u201d she said. \u201cLook at Republicans. Because Trump is not an ideological conservative a lot of people don\u2019t know where to go after he\u2019s gone. So it\u2019s really a jump ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palmieri isn\u2019t trying to prescribe partisan strategy, though she realizes the kind of information\u00a0<em>Long Play<\/em>\u00a0provides can be used in that way. She also understands that all three of the principals are Democrats (Landrieu was also the\u00a0infrastructure implementation coordinator under Biden) but says she believes that people will tune in from across the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>For all the ways politics pervades modern life, political deep-dives on television are actually rare, reduced to the occasional documentary or longform cable news piece. Still, the extent of viewer appetite at a time when social media algorithms feed political info (and outrage) 24\/7 remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Palmieri continues a trend of high-profile ex-White House officials establishing a place in the political news firmament \u2014 a trend that extends from Obama advisor David Axelrod on CNN to Trump first-term figures\u00a0Kayleigh McEnany and Larry Kudlow on Fox News to Joseph Biden comms chief Jen Psaki on MS Now. Palmieri thinks this pattern isn\u2019t accidental.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so much noise and so people are hungry for inside information,\u201d she said. \u201cWith Mitch and Erinn, that\u2019s what we\u2019ll try to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4046\">Elon Musk Says Grok Will Make Feature-Length, AI-Generated and \u201cHistorically Accurate\u201d \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Movie Before the Year Ends<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Circus co-host and Hillary Clinton operative is taking on the South in a YouTube release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[948,1922],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-barack-obama","tag-hillary-clinton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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