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More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film
The Guardian ^ | August 31, 2006 | Jason Deans

Posted on 08/31/2006 5:47:02 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film

Jason Deans, broadcast editor Thursday August 31, 2006 MediaGuardian.co.uk

Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.

Death of a President seems certain to cause a furore on the other side of the Atlantic when it is premiered at the Toronto film festival next month.

In the UK the 90-minute film will be broadcast first on Channel 4's digital service in October.

The drama takes the form of a fictional documentary looking back at the assassination of Mr Bush in October 2007, after he has delivered a speech to business leaders in Chicago.

When Mr Bush arrives in the city he is confronted by a massive demonstration against the Iraq war and is gunned down by a sniper as he leaves the venue. The hunt for Mr Bush's killer focuses on a Syrian-born man, Jamal Abu Zikri.

Death of a President will use a combination of archive footage, CGI special effects and scripted scenes.

Actors play the fictional secret service agents and other aides who are with Mr Bush when he is shot and recall the incident in interviews recorded for the retrospective documentary.

Death of a President also looks at the differing viewpoints of the pro- and anti-Iraq war lobbies and the impact of Mr Bush's war on terror on the US.

(Excerpt) Read more at media.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: americahaters; bushhaters; deathofapresident; doap; snuffmovies
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To: Sub-Driver
I know one guy that's probably pretty excited about this:

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141 posted on 08/31/2006 10:09:36 AM PDT by b4its2late (Are we going to have to hear this crap everyday until election day 2008?)
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To: sportsterinred
It means some folks were pissed at Bush and killed him. Its an incitement to violence.

So Team America was an incitement to violence against all of the liberals who got killed in it? That movie should have been banned, just as the leftists wish it could have been?

Just depicting someone dying is quite different from directly trying to recruit someone to do it.

142 posted on 08/31/2006 10:09:44 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Obadiah

Don't you just seethe at that? So they are putting Ms Couric front and center. Id like to see her assinated. Lets see a rash of TV media front men bite the bullet. LET THEM EAT SOME OF THAT FOR A WHILE.


143 posted on 08/31/2006 10:11:09 AM PDT by sportsterinred
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To: linda_22003
Aw, you're no fun at all. You're injecting real information into a perfectly good rant thread.

I'm such a party pooper.

144 posted on 08/31/2006 10:12:12 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: sportsterinred

"Id like to see her assinated."

You dropped a few letters - unless you really do have designs on her derriere.


145 posted on 08/31/2006 10:13:03 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: prairiebreeze

maybe we could call that movie "Independence Day"


146 posted on 08/31/2006 10:14:58 AM PDT by lakeman (when a marine kills the only thing he feels is the recoil of his rifle)
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To: linda_22003
You dropped a few letters - unless you really do have designs on her derriere.

She was pretty cute back in the day...

147 posted on 08/31/2006 10:15:50 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
I don't think its "Just depicting someone dying" I think its a plan of some unhappy people to kill the President of the United States. How they carried thier plan out to a successful conclusion and walked. Its a successful plan. You cant play it down. It is what it is, on its face. Why do you want to make it something less?
148 posted on 08/31/2006 10:15:58 AM PDT by sportsterinred
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To: linda_22003

LOL, sorry. Guess I was in a hurry


149 posted on 08/31/2006 10:17:07 AM PDT by sportsterinred
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To: Sub-Driver

Guess some folks may call this artistic license. I call it mindless propaganda. A certain line has been crossed. The Secret Service should arrest these bastards.


150 posted on 08/31/2006 10:22:07 AM PDT by Reagan Man (Conservatives don't support amnesty and conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: Reagan Man

Can they do that, go to Britain and arrest British nationals? I don't know; I'm asking.


151 posted on 08/31/2006 10:23:40 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: sportsterinred
How they carried thier plan out to a successful conclusion and walked. Its a successful plan. You cant play it down. It is what it is, on its face.

So what do you say about Tom Clancy's novel Debt of Honor, where the climax was the murder of most of our federal politicians, including the president?

152 posted on 08/31/2006 10:28:54 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: linda_22003

Guess I lost my head. Fahgetaboutt the SS. Send in the Delta Force and kill'em all. LOL


153 posted on 08/31/2006 10:29:18 AM PDT by Reagan Man (Conservatives don't support amnesty and conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: jaydubya2
***This is obviously impossible. Guns are illegal in Chicago...***

Well, handguns are for sure. And Rifles and Shotguns are legal but are "supposed" to be registered with the cops and said registration approval renewed annually (but nobody does that). And naturally those evil 'semi automatic assault rifles' are banned. Then again, if you live in Public Housing ALL firearms are banned..

Wait... you're right ALL guns are basically illegal in the Kingdom of Daley.

(Seriously, by Chicago's firearms laws Cap Pistols are supposed to be registered with the cops. That old Mattel Fanner 50 is a dangerous weapon don't ya know.)

154 posted on 08/31/2006 10:29:24 AM PDT by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: Sub-Driver

What a pitiful project. The left really has lost touch with reality.


155 posted on 08/31/2006 10:32:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Bring your press credentials to Qana, for the world's most convincing terrorist street theater.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The political equivalent of a masturbation fantasy.
156 posted on 08/31/2006 10:32:54 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The fourth estate is the fifth column.)
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To: Condor51
Cap Pistols? I feel much safer now!

At least you can still get a good serving of fla gras in Chicago...Oh yea, I forgot, they banned that too.
157 posted on 08/31/2006 10:36:33 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: antiRepublicrat

I dont say anything about it.


158 posted on 08/31/2006 10:38:05 AM PDT by sportsterinred
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To: jaydubya2

Since it's "foie gras", I'm guessing you're not missing it very much. :)


159 posted on 08/31/2006 10:39:24 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: Sub-Driver

This type of stuff doesn't bother me. In fact, I'm glad. The Left should be as tactless, despicable, stupid, irrational, hatefilled as possible. They can call Bush Hitler, call for his assassination, call for the imprisonment of Christians, GOOD! It makes them look all the worse. It shows to normal, decent people, how abnormal and indecent the Left is, and how they can and should never have any sort of power, ever. We have to let them hang themselves, and censoring them doesn't do that. Maybe everyone shouldn't see this movie--I sure as heck won't--but everyone should know it exists. Force Democrats to either renounce its demented leftwing base or defend it, either way, self destruction. Conservatives and Republicans just need to play their cards properly and not go a witch hunting, which plays in the Leftists hands.

There should be a museum dedicated to Leftwing idiocy. An actual, walk in museum, where you can bring your high school age kids. It would document via paintings, TV replays, giant sized pictures, the various insults and insinuations the Left has hurled at non-leftists (particularly in recent years--the Moveon ads, the "Unterfuhrer" comments, the "protest" pictures of signs with the Star of David crossed with a Swatstika, ect.--and compare what Republicans stand for and have accomplished, with what the Nazis stood for and accomplished. If detaining thousands of terrorists is as bad as killing millions of Jews, than killing milllions of Jews is ONLY as bad as detaining a couple thousand terrorists. The moral equivalency is hilariously stupid and corrupt, and such idiocy needs to be immortalized to stygmatize the Left for all eternity.

My prediction, is that the "real" assasin in the "docu-" "drama" is some Conservative Christian straight white male Haliburton employee who kills the President, per his own orders, to make him a martyr for Evangelical Christians everywhere and thus by framing a poor, innocent, Islamomarxist Syrian, unleash America's wrath upon the middle east so that America can nuke Iran, put Muslims in nude pyramids, enslave the Negro, blow up more levees, steal all the oil, heat up the earth, starve the elderly, rip off the burkas of Muslim women only to force them to live barefoot and pregnant in the tiny kitchens of mobile homes in the Ozarks, and to incinerate, of course, neo-Foulcaltian James Joyce literacy clubs. Exactly like the denouement to that stupid propoganda film Bob Roberts, by Mr. Susan Sarandon.


160 posted on 08/31/2006 10:41:32 AM PDT by 0siris
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