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More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film
The Guardian ^ | August 31, 2006 | Jason Deans

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at media.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: americahaters; bushhaters; deathofapresident; doap; snuffmovies
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1 posted on 08/31/2006 5:47:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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Utter fantasy - Mayor Daley would never allow it.

A more likely scenario in Chicago would be getting killed by a drunken ILLEGAL while crossing the street - or standing on the sidewalk for that matter.

2 posted on 08/31/2006 5:51:31 AM PDT by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: Sub-Driver

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz.....hit the snooze button and turn over for another 8 minutes libs, its only a dream.


3 posted on 08/31/2006 5:52:12 AM PDT by getbillnow
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To: Sub-Driver

A liberal wet dream.


4 posted on 08/31/2006 5:52:26 AM PDT by SampleMan
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To: Sub-Driver

They won't even produce a risque movie about Clinton but this they can make!


5 posted on 08/31/2006 5:53:27 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Sub-Driver
In all my life, I have never seen such vile hate that is now spewing from liberals. Honestly, it is frightening to see them display such abject hatred. Oh, sure, it's just a movie some will claim, but the fact is that out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

I believe these people secretly desire someone to really assassinate President Bush and thus put out such suggestive fodder hoping that someone a bit more wacked-out will actually do the job. It is a vile and disgusting display!
6 posted on 08/31/2006 5:53:28 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Sub-Driver
This probably represents a terminal case of BDS.

I'm going to guess, without reading the rest of the article, that the culprit is not the poor, put-upon Syrian but an evil Christian fundamentalist who did the deed because he felt the President wasn't being fascist enough.

7 posted on 08/31/2006 5:53:36 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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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.

They wish.

But if they want to show it in the US, they may meet some nice young men with sunglasses and earpieces.

8 posted on 08/31/2006 5:53:45 AM PDT by AmishDude (`[N]on-state actors' can project force around the world more easily than Canada". -- Mark Steyn)
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To: Sub-Driver

Liberal film industry again rooting for the facists.


9 posted on 08/31/2006 5:56:01 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Obadiah

I tend to see the same pattern. How is it that Clinton got away with so much and yet they have decided that Bush is the worst thing to ever happen to America??? Absolutely baffles me. It's almost like they are blinded by hate.


10 posted on 08/31/2006 5:56:47 AM PDT by Icthus
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To: Sub-Driver
And some relatively popular author wrote an entire novel based on such a scenario last year, I believe.

People who indulge in this level of discourse have lost their right to participate in the conversation.

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.

11 posted on 08/31/2006 5:58:58 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Incorrigible

Any movie about the Bent One would probably co-star Traci Lords and Ron Jeremy, and garner an XXX rating.


12 posted on 08/31/2006 5:59:15 AM PDT by Malacoda (Bu**er Islam)
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To: Incorrigible

Wasn't that True Colors movie a thinly veiled bust on Clinton?


13 posted on 08/31/2006 5:59:55 AM PDT by xcullen
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To: Sub-Driver

I think we may actually need to wait to see what the film is really about, even though I suspect it is a hit piece, as it may be quite different then our initial reaction would reasonably assume given the track record of these types.


14 posted on 08/31/2006 6:04:47 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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It's just my opinion, but I feel they would have more viewers if they did a fictional movie about broadcasters and the writers of phoney documentations being killed in various Hollywood styles.

15 posted on 08/31/2006 6:11:15 AM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Let's make a documentary about Secret Service agents dispatching SWAT teams to arrest all these yahoos talking openly about assasinating our sittinng CINC.

It'll be less fictional than Moore's crock.


16 posted on 08/31/2006 6:12:41 AM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Obadiah

Not to mention cowardly. Liberals display a total lack of nads.


17 posted on 08/31/2006 6:13:50 AM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Icthus

With roll models like Polanski, Allen, and tthe freak who made Powder, it's only natural to conclude that Toon was one of their own, a fellow evil, perverted, Commieweird.


18 posted on 08/31/2006 6:15:40 AM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: xcullen

I believe the movie was "Primary Colors," with John Travolta in the starring role as the Clinton character.


19 posted on 08/31/2006 6:20:06 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Before It's Too Late, Tancredo in '08 !)
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To: Sub-Driver

Put the IRS on this turkey and every dime associated with it for the rest of the producers and promoters natural lives (and beyond).


20 posted on 08/31/2006 6:29:05 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (WARNING: Alcohol may cause you to think you are whispering when you are definitely not.)
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