Posted on 08/31/2006 5:56:22 AM PDT by indcons
LONDON (Reuters) - British public broadcaster Channel 4 is courting controversy with what it calls a "shockingly real" drama about the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush.
"Death of a President," shot in the form of a documentary examining the assassination, will use a blend of archival footage and computer-generated special effects to portray Bush in October 2007 arriving in Chicago during an anti-war rally.
In the film, Bush is killed by a sniper, and the investigation quickly focuses on a Syrian-born man. It will air in October on Channel 4's More4 digital channel, as well as at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
"It's a pointed political examination of what the war on terror is doing to the American body politic," said More4 boss Peter Dale at a press conference on Thursday.
Promotional materials described the program as "a thought-provoking critique of the contemporary U.S. political landscape."
Dale acknowledged that the program will be controversial, but maintained that it was a sophisticated work meant to spur debate.
"I'm sure there will be people upset by it," he said. "I hope people will see the intention as a good one."
Channel 4, which is publicly owned but funded by advertising, was criticized last week by outgoing ITV Chief Executive Charles Allen for its reliance on reality TV shows and "shock docs."
More4's autumn schedule also includes "The Trial of Tony Blair," a satirical program about the future resignation of the British Prime Minister.
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Cheney becomes POTUS...and makes the worlds bad guys pay, especially the evil, partisan, media...
Be sure to drop by the Pray for the President thread--this is nothing less than a call to kill the President, and I have NO doubt that there will be those willing to answer that call. Had a right-winger produced a movie like this about Clinton, the uproar would have been deafening.
My guess is that this will win top awards at the Toronto Film Festival.
I was prepared to be annoyed with Channel 4 about this until I saw this snippet. Though no doubt it will be a Syriana-style apologetic piece
Now the press is a threat to truth and freedom.
The beast should be starved.
It is entirely moral never to pay for anything they sell ever again, whether one uses it or not.
Why is it news that terrorists and their sympathizers want to murder the leader of their enemies. Same thing occurred in WWII and most other wars.
I guarantee the "quick focus" on the Syrian man will be exposed later in the film as a racist rush to judgment and it will be revealed that the true perpetrator was a white, heterosexual Southern Christian conservative who did the deed because the President was not being fascist enough for his tastes.
You know I'm right.
Note that the producers were BBC contributors.
The old media is increasingly under the control of the terrorists. How and why is this happening? Money, power?
Agreed on all counts.
As somebody else pointed out, this is nothing but a veiled call for an attack on Pres. Bush. The "healthy debate" that this producer refers to can be done without calling for violence. The left shows its pure hatred again.
I will stop by the Pray for the President thread, MizSterious.
Wait until you see this bit from the Guardian:
"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."
I'd like to rain my 'good intentions' repeatedly upon his soft skull.
'Liberal Crock'. . .all of which continue to fill volumes. . .
The only good that would come out of such a horrible event would be Cheney nuking the country responsible for hiring the assassin.
My thoughts as well. I wish more would just 'NO' to MSM and what now passes as a voice of Liberal terrorism.
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