More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film

The Guardian ^ | August 31, 2006 | Jason Deans

[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.

[Bringbackthedraft]

"They won't even produce a risque movie about Clinton but this they can make!"



They could have made one called "The Oval Orifice XXX". I'm sure had they done it, it would have received outstanding reviews. </p>

[longtermmemmory]

The Medium is the Message.

Conservatives we need to be making these "edgy" movies about the left.

We should do a movie about hitlary being a lesbian married to the president.

We should do a movie about the third way.

[alloysteel]

Is the production of a "future history" type of docudrama bordering on the illegal, when it depicts scenes that suggest real persons and potentially real events that could take place?

This sounds almost like an instruction and indoctrination video, that may be the signal for some individual or organization to act.

There is a certain lack of ethical content in this sort of depiction.

[yoe]

It should be banned in the US.

The enemy has brought political squabbling to new heights with the Useful Idiots, Politically Correct Dolts, anti-American leadership and Bush Bashing on the left with the help of the MSM propaganda.

Be very careful for whom you vote in November; leave the appeasers and bashers behind, they will only bring you the demise of America. Vote for the Republic and know the difference between that and a Democracy. The Democracy the left espouses is Socialism – a far cry from the Republic For Which We Stand.

[roses of sharon]

Liberals have converted to Islam and suicide belts will be next.

They have always had weak minds and empty souls, and their behavior over the last 6 years proves it.

[Niteranger68]

Gabriel Range, from here on, if our President is harmed in any way, I'm coming to kill you!

[antiRepublicrat]

It should be banned in the US.

Absolutely not.

The Democracy the left espouses is Socialism

It is in such socialist states that films like this are often banned. Not in my free country.

[thoughtomator]

A continuation of the NYTimes' 2004 post-election call for the President's assassination: BOLTS FROM THE POLITICAL BLUE Can History Save the Democrats?

[Right Wing Assault]

Of course the killer can't be a Muslim. He will likely be a Christian zealot. They are the ones who are going around doing all the killing and beheading, aren't they?

[vrwcagent0498]

Love Kate from Southampton's comment on the UK Daily Mail's website (remember, these comments are MODERATED, so this was allowed to go through.)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=403036&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&ct=5&expand=true#StartComments

B**ch.

[Right Wing Assault]

"I'm sure there will be people who are upset by it. But when you watch it, you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is,"

Oh, sophisticated makes it acceptable. That is so like Hollywood, even if they are British. So, why don't we make a "sophisticated" doc about what would have happened if the Muzzles had kidnapped Clinton and beheaded him live on TV?

[Billthedrill]

Oh dear. "Edgy" tends to translate to "hate-filled and brainless." This little turd is circling the drain before it even hits the midnight matinees at the art-house movie theaters.

It is revealing and not a little amusing to see what the left is desperately fantasizing - "massive" anti-war demonstrations and righteous assassins. Their hands would be clean, of course. It'd be all the victim's fault.

[toddlintown]

What fantasy. Bush would never stay at the Sheraton.

[carlo3b]

This Peter Dale filmmaker, and More4 producers are just a few more leftist with money and an agenda.. They claim that they finance and sponsor thought provoking programing, like this treasonous garbage and Fahrenheit 9/11, to liven up the discussion.. DUH.. If someone would have had Clinton in the same situation the clamor that would follow, would have had the filmmaker in an orange jumpsuit, defending a hate-crime.. Nothing new here, just Moveon..

[CFC__VRWC]

I believe these people secretly desire someone to really assassinate President Bush and thus put out such suggestive fodder hoping that someone a bit more wacked-out will actually do the job.

There's nothing secret about their desire to see the president assassinated; otherwise, you're completely correct.

[I'm ALL Right!]

I believe these people secretly desire someone to really assassinate President Bush and thus put out such suggestive fodder hoping that someone a bit more wacked-out will actually do the job. It is a vile and disgusting display!

Your absolutely right.

I think these slimeballs should be tried for conspiracy to assasinate the President. The visual images in this movie will only serve to put ideas into other psychotic minds, which is their hope entirely, IMO.

[DogBarkTree]

Oh Canada? Yawn....who cares? It must be tough living in the shadow of the US.

[prairiebreeze]

Let's see them make a film where a bunch of Democrats like Hillary, Schumer, Biden, Obama and Kennedy are sitting at a lunch table and get offed by a car that suddenly plows through the restaurant window. Just so we can gauge the effect on the country, donchaknow.

After all, fair is fair.

[Tokra]

We should do a movie about hitlary being a lesbian married to the president.

And after that - we could do a fictional story.

[JerseyDvl]

The left is exposed for the Ameri-hating,seditious traitors that they are.
I welcome a debate showing just how unhinged they are as they support this garbage as they did Fahrenhype 911.