Bush Haters Wish Life Would Imitate Art

The Stiletto ^ | October 27, 2006 | The Stiletto

[theothercheek]

The shocking pseudo-documentary, "Death of a President," that uses archival news footage to simulate the assassination of President George W. Bush, has been criticized by politicians on both sides of the aisle for depicting the killing of a sitting president. But at one movie theater just seven blocks from the White House, some members of a matinee audience were less interested in the question the filmmakers claim they were asking - "what if?" - than in indulging the sick fantasy, "if only." Reuters quotes one moviegoer, a Susan Wallick, 53, as saying, "I think it's sad that he's such a lousy president that we have to make a movie like this to get it out of our system."

"I think there are a lot of people who are so angry at Bush this is almost a fantasy film for them or a feel-good film," David Schwartz, chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image told Pittsburgh Post-Gazette film critic, Barbara Vancheri, when the film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival last month.

By the way, in her review, Vancheri, who praised the movie asks – but doesn’t have the guts to answer – the question: "How would I (or other critics) feel about "Death of a President" if the assassin's bullets hit Bill Clinton or Al Gore or a politician who would be president such as John McCain or Barack Obama?"

Kam Williams, film critic for "The Electronic Urban Report," an "urban/black entertainment" Web site, is a tad braver:

Most of the discussion surrounding this controversial docudrama has revolved around whether it's okay to depict the assassination of a sitting president. Now, if you believe in freedom of speech, next, you've got to ask yourself how you feel about specifically seeing George Bush wasted. The answer to that question is likely to depend on which side of the aisle you align yourself with …

And then there’s Cinema Blend’s editor Joshua Tyler, who really lays it on the line:

Liberal extremists and just about everyone who doesn't live in America will get to see their shared fantasy come to fruition on October 27th when the controversial festival film Death of a President hits theaters.

NOTE: The original source includes links to all the articles quoted. The Other Cheek's HTML skills are rudimentary so could not put them in here.

[kinoxi]

"I think it's sad that he's such a lousy president that we have to make a movie like this to get it out of our system."

I've got a few suggestions.

[RayChuang88]

If you've read Michelle Malkin's book Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, there's a chapter in that book that specifically deals with liberals openly talking about assassinating President Bush.

[operation clinton cleanup]

By the way, in her review, Vancheri, who praised the movie asks – but doesn’t have the guts to answer – the question: "How would I (or other critics) feel about "Death of a President" if the assassin's bullets hit Bill Clinton or Al Gore or a politician who would be president such as John McCain or Barack Obama?"

As much as I despise Clinton and Gore, I have no interest in seeing a docudrama of either of them being assassinated. Liberal/Socialists are whipping themselves up into a scary frenzy.

[theothercheek]

Once upon a time, such threats would be investigated by the Secret Service, if only as a precaution. I guess they have their hands full with Homeland Security stuff, so sicko libs feel emboldened enough to say whatever they want. But one day, one of them is going to try to act out the fantasy.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Outrageous bad taste at the very least.

But what do you expect?

[theothercheek]

That's because you are sane - and your moral compass is working the way it is supposed to.

[Hawk1976]

I'm starting to understand why leftists are so attracted to Islamists. They have the same psychosis believing they should be "in charge" of everything. Then they get angry when they realize they aren't.

Beyond the shared psychosis, Mohammedans have the testicular fortitude to do what they leftists, for now, only have the courage to wish to do.

[Hawk1976]

They can froth at the mouth all they want. The question is "Do they have the courage of their convictions?" This is subject to change but my answer is no, they do not.

[operation clinton cleanup]

That's because you are sane - and your moral compass is working the way it is supposed to.

It's to bad common sense is not more common these days.

[Hawk1976]

Now, if you believe in freedom of speech, next, you've got to ask yourself how you feel about specifically seeing George Bush wasted. The answer to that question is likely to depend on which side of the aisle you align yourself with

No, this is an incitement to violence and is not constitutionally protected. This man needs to don his sheets before engaging in this talk. Then he is the sort for whom the analogy would be lost.

[theFIRMbss]

>Bush Haters Wish Life Would Imitate Art

I am NOT a witch,
but I believe witches think
that if you plot harm

for others, sometimes
the universe turns your thoughts
into harm for you . . .

[operation clinton cleanup]

They can froth at the mouth all they want.

I listen to Air America early in the morning and late at night, They are convinced we are living under a Nazi police state... yet they think more government is the answer to everything.

[Savage Beast]

Never forget: There is no limit to the depths of human depravity. Even the excesses of Nero, Caligula, Comodus, et al.--to the likes of which the decadent Left would deliver us if we were foolish enough to give them the power--did not plummet the depths possible. There is no bottom.

However, never forget also: Goodness, heroism, love, and decency are human traits as universal as are evil and depravity.

Reflect on this and reject the depravity, dishonesty, and decadence of the Left.

[pepperdog]

"Susan Wallick"

She must have licked a wall with mercury in it! Poor Susan, it will never get out of her system, the brain has been totally destroyed.

[RWB Patriot]

Hmmph, all I have to say to the people who cheer for this movie is this: If President Bush ever does get assassinated, and it turns out it was a liberal who did it, it'll be open season on liberals. Not a single one of them will be safe, especially if I get a hold of them.

[Peter Libra]

Dealing with the cries of the left about a "police state" and deprivation of "human rights" and so on, one could pose a question.

In a police state one gets to talk of assassinating the leader? To use the leftist insert on talk radio, re diversity and ending with the telling word.

RIDICULOUS

[Wilhelm Tell]

I haven't seen it and I don't plan on seeing it, but from what I understand the movie's premise is that America is such a bad, evil, intolerant, knee-jerk sort of place that it will become a police state, undoubetedly run by Haliburton. The film not only gets the leftists all thrilled at a depcition of the president getting killed, it also indulges in the other leftist obsession -- a paranoid obsession about what bad and reactionary place America is. It will reinforce the leftists conviction that America is an intolerable fascist police state and maybe the terrorists who want to destroy America aren't so bad after all.

[MadIvan]

I have to admit I have never seen such raw hatred from the Left. The bloodlust they have is unprecedented.

Regards, Ivan