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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Wrong. My tool is working fine for me...
Google it..."Only a fool argues with an idiot."
Moving on, no need to say more...my mother raised no fool.
There are a lot of people on this site that advocate turning Iran into a “glass parking lot”. I’m positive a majority of people on this site would love to see a docu-drama about that very thing. I’ll go one step further and posit that many members would express a desire to see the movie played out in real life. Fine, that’s how people on this site view Iran.
People on the left view President Bush the same way. So, they’d love to see a docu-drama about him being assassinated. I expect most of them would love to see that actually happen. In their version one mad dies. In our version, millions die.
It’s bloodlust by degrees, people.
Why does it have to be risque...couldn't they just do a docudrama on his terms in office. Wait a minute, then it would be risque wouldn't it. LOL
That movie was "Primary Colors" and yes, it was about the Clinton years leading up to Presidency. Full of people shot and teenagers knocked up, etc.... LOL; John Travolta did an Excellent job as the "boy Governer", as they liked to call him back then.'
King Richard was known as The Lion Hearted.... Wallace as Braveheart.....
"RFK, hated by Arabs more than he knew by for his support of Israel."
Don't forget Bobby made his career as attorney general attacking the Italian Mob; versus the Irish Mob that his daddy ran bootleg liquor for. Some say the Mafia did in Pres Kennedy, maybe Bobby too.
"If I hear any man praising this film, I will break his jaw. If I hear any woman praising this film, I will pour a beverage over her head."
now now now...she would most likely be a fem nazi and you know how they demand "equality". You MUST give her the same treatment that you would the man! She will accept no less! LOL~
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President Bush 'assassinated' in new TV docudramaThe two hour drama, in which events are 're-created' by the use of footage and interviews, shows the media storm around the War on Terror as Muslims are fingered as the culprits before there is any evidence.
In the wake of the assassination, authorities focus on a Syrian-born man in the search for the culprit.
'In the hunt for the killer, this will show how America has been affected by the War on Terror,' said a spokesman. 'It is about the polarisation of America in all the events post 9/11.'
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Well, I have come to the conclusion that long before we became aware of Arab anger, it was there. Bishop Sheen, around 1950, noted how frustrated the Muslim world felt, and had felt since the collapse of the Turkish empire and the frustration of Arab ambitions by the Allied cabal. "Conservatives"scorn the "Wilsonianism of Bush's policy, for getting that it was the "realists" of Britain and France who tied this gordian knot.
Ginsberg says Exley offered to sell the rights to gwbush.com for $300,000 before lowering his demand to $80,000--a price the Bush campaign still won't pay. Exley does not deny that, but insists it was the Bush campaign that contacted him and asked his price. "I was just having fun with them," he said. "But I mean, obviously, I would have sold them the domain name."
Trying to extort someone to comply with your demands is not legal nor protected. As far as the "Austin Chronicle" I've never heard of it and I live in Texas.
I'm a big admirer of Bishop Sheen.
Is there anything on the web where I can read about what he had to say about the Muslim world?
This is exactly what you did with the GHWB proof: demand evidence, get evidence, then dismiss it. It's useless giving you evidence.
rying to extort someone to comply with your demands is not legal
You put an interesting, yet incorrect, twist on it. He bought the domain (now his property) to parody candidate Bush, used it, Bush then wanted it, so he named a price. That's capitalism. Of course Bush didn't want to have to pay fair market value for the property of another (there is precedent with him for that), so he went to court.
In any case, all of that is irrelevant, since the issue is the site owner's freedom to say what he did, not the ownership of the site.
As far as the "Austin Chronicle" I've never heard of it and I live in Texas.
You may not know this, but Texas is a really big place, and it is possible that you may not have heard of a publication local to another city. They apparently run 90,000 copies a week.
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Why is the british goverment allowing this Piece of crap to be made?
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