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.
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Lame. As usual.
LINKS?
I sure wish Cheney would send these nutjobs right over the edge tomorrow and announce he's decided to run for the Presidency after all in '08!
Sure, hmmm, ok, if you say so, and, oh, I KNOW I am going to regret asking...but, what the hey does Jerry Falwell have to do with you, anti, honoring my First Ammendment right to freedom of speech?
"Death of a President has been made by Borough Films..."
Source
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1862149,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
The "London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee Global Operational Managers Conference" described the offerings of Borough Films...
"specialise in the development of detailed scenarios.. and the creation of video material to bring such exercises 'to life'."
Take a look at a few of the names shown that participated in the 'Contingency Planning' committee:
Contingency Planning: ‘Are you Prepared – Exercising your Top Team’
Chaired by Derrick Pearson, LloydsTSB
The panel comprised:
Derrick Pearson – Lloyds TSB
Simon Banks – Lloyds TSB
Allen Drew – Lloyds TSB
Simon Langdon – Insight Consultancy
Simon Finch – Freelance Film- Makers
Gabriel Range – Freelance Filmmakers
John Trundle – Bank of England
This was an interactive exercise facilitated by an external consultancy group.
Also mentioned were:
Review of Conference and Conclusions
Chaired by Oonagh O’Neill, Chair, FX JSC Operations sub group
The panel comprised:
Oonagh O’Neill, -Morgan Stanley
Mike Neale - JPMorgan Chase
Barry Holland - Barclays Capital
Susan Balogh - Goldman Sachs
Michael Douglas - Bank of America
John Hagon, - CLS Services
Leigh Meyer, - Citigroup
Derrick Pearson - LloydsTSB
London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee Global Operational Managers Conference
Source
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/markets/forex/fxjsc/GOM_conference.htm
Is there something more going on than meets the eye?
This would be a perfect Mike Judge production.
"specialise in the development of detailed scenarios.. and the creation of video material to bring such exercises 'to life'."
Hmmmm....
Falwell sued Hustler magazine over a parody ad, claiming libel, emotional distress, etc. He lost on slander, won on emotional distress, but it was overturned by the Supreme Court. It's a very famous free speech case, so I'm surprised you never heard of it. Or maybe not.
I gave links for the GHWB case, so you have no right to demand them again due to your poor memory.
gwbush.com case. I actually have that audio around somewhere
Fun, now that you have me finding those links again, I run across where during the 2000 election turmoil Bush had all of his gubernatorial papers hauled to his Dad's library without permission from the state, where they could more easily be kept out of reach of the public (at least until after his presidential tenure) than if the state archives retained title as is the state law (Bush ignored a law inconvenient to him? Tell me it ain't so!).
Anybody who makes it to President these days will have his faults. Unlike you, I remember that no matter how good President Bush is (and he is good), he's still a politician.
Bloom County did that years ago. They went out hunting with a liberal call that squaked some liberal mantras. Then a liberal popped up out of the bushes and got shot, screaming "Ouch! Socialized medicine!"
It would be popular in Miami.
The author was quite the leftist hippie, but he generally made fun of anything. At least the recurring character Cutter John, a wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet, is a consistent good guy in the strip.
Note to self: Research all thin skinned evangelists suing porn peddler mags before posting on forum, even though said case happened, oh say, a dozen or so years before you gave a flip or knew jack about politics...no excuse, Girl...after all, we're talking reasonableness, logic, sound judgment here...assume nothing
Last note to self: must remember google is an essential tool when deficiencies in deductive reasoning are noted/suspected.
Definitely. It is one of the seminal free-speech cases in our country's history. And that's what this is about -- free speech. As the quote goes, free speech means nothing if it isn't applied to speech you dislike.
Last note to self: must remember google is an essential tool
Researching before asking is generally a good idea. It helps keep one from looking stupid.
Yeah...at least I have found a tool to keep me from looking stupid, where are you going to find yours?
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