Remember the TV docudrama depicting the assassination of George W. Bush?
Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated.
Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunned down by a sniper following an anti-war demonstration
But rather than a repeat of JFK’s shooting or Ronald Reagan’s attempted assassination, this shocking image is part of a new Channel Four show.
The dramatic scene, which has caused outrage among Americans, has been created by a British film company for a programme about the effect of the War On Terror.
In Death Of A President, which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival later this month (SEPT)before being shown on Channel 4’s satellite channel More4 in October, the assassination is a starting point for a retrospective fictional documentary about what happened next.
This scene, which was created by putting the President’s face onto an actor with digital wizardry, shows him being gunned down just hours after driving past an anti-war demonstration while doing a talk in Chicago.
The 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.
Yeah, good times: I won’t go to the closest cinema, because they chose to show this piece of crap. But do you remember how the objective media critics at Editor & Publisher hyperventilated over that?
No, you don’t . . . because they didn’t even think it worth writing about.
More Fun: Though I don’t always see 100% eye to eye with Karl, let’s just say that his election coverage is rather better than this bit from Jane Hamsher in which she wonders whether McCain is going to “make a play for Hillary’s woman supporters”:
I spoke with a well-known pollster recently who said that if women think the country would be safer with McCain over Obama by 10 points on election day, she predicts that McCain will win. While it’s absurd to think that McCain would be better than Obama on women’s issues, these kinds of decisions are — as Krugman says — highly emotional. A pitch to “security moms,” combined with an appeal about “elitists in the Democratic party” looking down their noses on working class women just might work.
Do you think McCain will try to get some of those votes? Stop blowing my mind. Highly emotional? Can she say that?
I am a woman and I find a lot of this stuff about “women’s issues” to be kind of sexist.
So, taxes and defense aren’t “woman’s issues”?
Anyone who quotes Paul Krugman is a fucking idiot.
Is anybody else not able to get the front page of the blog? I got here from a HotAir link to a specific thread, and I can surf from thread to thread, but when I try the home page I get the software is being upgraded page.
Nah, not sexist at all. What were you wearing when you posted that? ;D
Get rid of the www, and you’ll come to the new front, B Moe.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say the assassin turns out to not be a Muslim. Am I crazy or what?
Since Bambi is all about telling me what I can drive, eat, say, or do, I want to be sure I have this right. I wouldn’t want to break any p.c. rules now, would I? It is okay to make and cheer over a movie that shows a sitting U.S. President being assassinated with a gut shot, but it is not okay to reference a primary election of a major state still unsettled in June as one of several precedents of unsettled by June party nominees, because it happens to be best remembered as the day RFK got assassinated. Do I have it correct? Just checking.
Thanks, BMoe and Dan, that’s been happening to me all day.
Any way to put a message up on the old page, Dan?
Oh yeah, hitting the “Home” button takes me to the message page, too.
I’ll give it a try, MayBee.
I can’t reach the admin page.
Yes, I have hacked the admin page. They’ll be a few changes once the next update finishes. Protein Thor will be accepting applications for guest bloggers. Send past work and references to toescurled4obama@proteinthor.com if you would like to be considered.
Dan, do you have nishi’s email? She’ll send you your new password to log-in once the new Protein Thor template finishes uploading.
Maybee, I hit home and it took me to the message page, but the www part of the address was gone, so I hit refresh and the home page came up. Everything is working fine now. If that don’t work, try hitting the side of your computer a couple of times.
You’re right, BMoe. I refreshed on the message page and now I get the home page from the home button.
Thanks, guys.
Bueller!
Bueller!
Ben Stein is teh idiot xtian theocon. LULZ!
Speaking of the webpage being tarfu, I’ve fixed the mess I caused, downpage, replacing the big image with a link to more of the same.
That’s good to announce thor. Hackers get such a good reception amongst serious folk.
I’d tell you to grow up, but that’s a lost cause; child.
“So, taxes and defense aren’t “woman’s issuesâ€Â?”
Well,no.The gentle way to to answer this is “NO”. These are AMERICAN issues.
How did we get to the poinr where the press and politicians subconciosly identify (for “We, the people”) the United States of America as the “Balkans”, where all of our interests are divided, and we should be trying to scratch everybody else’s eyes out?.
I think this is one of the reasons that I get so angry with the proggs, because they insist on promoting class (race, ethnic, religious, etc.) warfare and envy (i.e. – seperation).
I am watching “Recount”, and am having trouble not puking on my computer. I followed every minute of this debacle on TV, radio, and internet, so I know exactly what happened. What was most amazing was the MSM’s outright lies about almost everything that happened, every single day.
You can invoke “nuance”, but you can’t tell me that I didn’t see what I saw with my own eyes. I think it’s actually funny that the Republicans held back enough votes to trump Gore when he tried to pull the uaual Democratic trick of waiting to see how many votes they needed to win, and thrn having their last precint report in kate with just enough votes to squeak out a win.
But guess what? The Repubs whacked the democrats with the same trick the Dems have been using for decades. And boy! Did THAT piss off the Dems!
Hollywood at it’s finest! It just scares me that all the stoned out youngsters are going to see this, and believe all this crap. It is clear that the proggs used as their bludgeon, the fact that laws mean NOTHING if you can stir up the raging (and not so educated) mob enough.
Here we have actors who have almost all revealed themselves to be hard left, acting out their hatred of Bush in a distorted film, shot with a distorted script, and then having their hand-maidens in the drive by push this baloney as “authentic”.
Gore (through proxies), sued Bush about ten times, and lost every single case. But when Bush got tired of this manipulation, and went to Federal Court, Gore claimed that Bush sued first. Absolute bullshit, to anyone who followed this story closely.
I think Gore’s “documentary” about “global warming” lets everyone know how “serious” this mouthbreather Gore is, and that his credibility about “count every voice” is as high as the credibility of the steamer I just flushed down the toilet.
Here’s to hopey changicity! The first presidential candidate in history who has basically said: Constitution? What Constitution? WE NEED CHANGE!
Can’t wait, huh? I agree that things are not bad enough now, and it is that time in history to wind the vise even tighter on American citizens. Obama’s dream is to be Jimmuh Carter all over again, except much worse.
I’ve got to turn this “movie” off now, because it is so distorted that I am about to smash my TV.
Outright lies, designated by the MSM as a true attempt to portray the truth.
AAAAARRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!! BULLSHIT!
“Recount” is quite similar to the recent “Che Guevara, Friend to Puppies and Non-Counterrevolutionary Children,” and the probably forthcoming “Stalin: We Don’t Like It When You Call Them Gulags, and the Mass Starvation was an Accident, Really.”
Part of the problem is that social sanction for lying is pretty much a thing of the past. The causes for that are non-trivial and possibly unavoidable, but the consequences have reached the point where a lot of people can’t actually communicate – which is in itself a problem.
Lost Dog – I can’t believe you watched “Recount.” A glutton for punishement, aren’t you?
I wonder what the reaction would be if that CGI’d face were that of Barry Hussein…
I imagine that the cries of “racism” would echo off the face of Mars.
That sounds like a stupid asshole of a movie. Even a gimmick like shooting the American president doesn’t mask the fact that it is probably one of those pointless, meandering British turds that abruptly end without the slightest hint that there was a story contained within.
But really, as much as I think Bush is a clowntop, I think it is vile and tasteless to make some masturbatory piece of shit about him getting shot – or any sitting president, for that matter. Show a little respect you chinless limey.
BTW, the fucker who made a sculpture of a dead Prince Harry really pisses me off – because Prince Harry is Teh Hottie.
probably more of putton for glunishement; the odds for a HBO production to show any kind of fairness
vis avis anybody of a conservative nature is closer to zero. Tom Wilkinson is just the wrong type to play Baker, Balaban looks like Ben Ginsburg (who would later be a legal advisor to the Swift Boaters)but is nothing like him in manner. Bruce McGill, the guy from Animal House who is playing who; Stipanovich! No one doing the Roger Stone role (doing the jobs Americans won’t do; i guess)and don’t even get me started on the Laura Dern’a caricature of Katherine Harris.
The real story was the catalyst was the Clinton administration’s appeasement of the Castro regime; which involved a paramilitary deployment in a major urban center; while the real enemy was training not far from the real scene; in Vero Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, et al. The attempt to forestall Ward Connerly’s anti-affirmative proposition, led to an influx of poorly educated,
functionally illiterate voters particularly in Gadsden and Hillsborough Counties; which ended up spoiling their ballots. The 1997 mayoral election’s voter fraud led to the Checkpoint contract that scoured the voter roles. Not a few election supervisors chose not to follow the voter lists leading to at least 2,000
illegitimate vote. Add to that Robert Wexler’s marketing campaign re the butterfly ballot and the discarding of military ballots; including at least part of those cast by the crew of the Cole; wouldn’t serve dramatic purposes
The Che’s hagiography by Sodebergh which premiered ar Canne interestingly leaves out the 1959-1964 period at least partially dealt with in Andy Garcia’s labor of love, the Lost City (which assured it would not receive wide distribution; because it painted him as an arrogant sadistic thug