Rod Liddle, a newspaper and magazine columnist who also makes documentaries for Channel 4, said he thought the Bush film gave voice to a common sentiment in Britain.
"You will never, ever be able to overestimate the degree to which the British people loathe George Bush," Liddle said. "It will be a free round of drinks in every pub for the person who plays the assassin."
Liddle said there was nothing wrong about making a documentary about the assassination of a U.S. president, even if it was difficult for some people to watch.
"I don't find it particularly objectionable, but then I'm not George Bush's family," he said. "It seems to me to be a reasonable premise, even if it is uncomfortable."
(Kevin Sullivan in The Washington Post, September 2, 2006)
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That idiot is just like the liberal media twit who wondered how Nixon got elected, since everyone she knew voted for McGovern. I see British leftists are like ours with their own little echo chambers that they think represents the majority, even though they keep getting trounced in elections.
The Brits have their own Michael Mickey Mouse Moore.
"No weapon formed against GWB will prosper".....
The traps the evil leftists have spun will be a web of deceit that ensnares their own wicked schemes and possibly tools of their own destruction they make for themselves.
Bush is well within his rights to order a government-funded documentary on the benefits of killing this filmmaker.
Maybe we should have a movie made about this film producer. One in which he's killed while a nation watches. Not that I want to endorse violence or anything.
Should be said loudly, and OFTEN... until this blows over..
I predict that the next President will be GOP, and will suffer the same.
There were people who loathed JFK too. Would Rod Liddle have bought a round for Lee Harvey Oswald? These people are so sick.
I'm betting this is one of the guys who wouldn't show the Mohammed cartoons and protested Falwell's call to assassinate Hugo Chavez isn't he?
They should do a "DocuDrama" about an abortion sniper - or would that be "insensitive"?
This Englishman thinks he is analyzing the current status of things in America!! How would he know?? Guess he reads the New York Times. What a pathetic bunch these Europeans are.
This Englishman thinks he is analyzing the current status of things in America!! How would he know?? Guess he reads the New York Times. What a pathetic bunch these Europeans are.
And the killer will turn out to be another Tim McVeigh, lily white militia member with a pickup truck and a grudge against the gub'mint.
And of course, the movie will paint the assassination as well-deserved and the American people as universally anti-Bush.
Then the filmmaker can get on to quickly solving the "Palestinian problem" and other world disputes now that the evil Bush is gone...
During the 1990's, there was no love lost on Free Republic for then-President Bill Clinton. But had a motion picture featured the assassination of Clinton during that time, I'm sure that no one on FR or any other conservative site would have condoned it.
I hope this film is never distributed in the United States.
But this technology is a Pandora’s box. Actors and digitizing tricks can be used to “reconstruct”, or fake events entirely, for audiences that have learned no solid history in our schools. Such audiences have no defences against such frauds, beyond their postmodern scepticism of everything. They are easily manipulated.