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'Assassination' director deceived White House ('Death of a President')
WND ^ | September 12, 2006

Posted on 09/12/2006 5:18:32 PM PDT by IrishMike

The maker of a controversial movie that portrays President Bush as an assassination victim admits he hid his true intentions from White House officials in order to film footage of the commander in chief on a visit to Chicago.

Gabriel Range, the 32-year-old British director of "Death of a President," told the Los Angeles Times his crew received official White House press credentials by proving they were affiliated with Britain's Channel 4, which will air the film this fall.

Range, who filmed the president's arrival at the airport and his speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, spent six months in the city, where he filmed anti-war rallies and staged other rallies himself without attracting press attention, the Times said.

The film, which debuted Sunday night at the Toronto Film Festival, has been denounced for centering on the fictionalized death of a sitting president. .....

Actor Kevin Costner, who was in Toronto to premiere a film of his own, has come out in opposition to "Death of a President," saying Range failed to consider how Bush's family would react to scenes of the president being assassinated.

"It's awfully hard if you're his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there's a certain thing we can't lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world," Costner said, according to Contactmusic.com. "Whether we think it's being performed right or not we can't, like, wish ... or think that's even cute."

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To: F.J. Mitchell; pissant

Leftists are carrion, maggots serve a purpose by eating carrion and ridding the world of the stench.

You owe maggots an apology, Pissant.
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I never used them, but I hear they are good fish bait used in a sack / coarse fishing).


21 posted on 09/12/2006 5:51:35 PM PDT by IrishMike (Democrats .... Stuck on Stupid, RINO's ...the most vicious judas goats)
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To: IrishMike

no American will go to this picture


22 posted on 09/12/2006 5:51:53 PM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: IrishMike

The Left and the Truth are strangers.


23 posted on 09/12/2006 5:52:10 PM PDT by gaspar
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To: SE Mom

I would have thought the libs. would be almost spent by now. Collapsing into an exhausted heap, drained by rage and choking on the life-blood of their bitter bile. Yet they manage somehow to raise their knarled fingers into the air and whisper their curses on President Bush. It's the most pitiful sight to behold.


24 posted on 09/12/2006 5:57:34 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness
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To: roses of sharon
The President will be fine, no leftist wants to deal with President Cheney.

It is not political types but nut jobs etc who are triggered by crap like this
25 posted on 09/12/2006 6:10:42 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: The Wizard

no American will go to this picture
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I think I will go to the old megaplex and observe the vermine who go inside to watch this sleeze fest.


26 posted on 09/12/2006 6:14:09 PM PDT by photodawg
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To: IrishMike

DISGUSTING POS.


27 posted on 09/12/2006 6:18:21 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: uncbob
True, I hadn't thought of it that way.

I was spitting nails about this last week when I read that in Britain they are showing it on TV, with newspapers headlines like "Bushwacked".

Sickening.
28 posted on 09/12/2006 6:18:25 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: IrishMike
There is simply NOTHING like a frickin, lying. . .'self-serving-ends-justifying-any- means', Leftist/Demrat/Scum-totalitarian-pretending to be 'good American'. . ..to painfully challenge onse sense of a 'fair world order'.

Repubs had better wake-up as well. . .and do more than just 'smell the coffee'. . .

29 posted on 09/12/2006 6:18:47 PM PDT by cricket (Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .)
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To: roses of sharon

No kidding!!! That's why I was NEVR afraid that George HW Bush would ever be assassinated...no one wanted Quayle!!


30 posted on 09/12/2006 6:20:13 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: GeneralStorm
Gabriel Range can go to hell.

Not for this but...

He'll smoke a turd in hell for it.

31 posted on 09/12/2006 6:23:31 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (I alone, am the chosen one. Because I alone, did the choosing.)
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To: xzins

Ditto


32 posted on 09/12/2006 6:28:14 PM PDT by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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To: The Wizard

Wrong!!!! A lot of Americans will go to this film. Of course the will all be left wing nut cases.


33 posted on 09/12/2006 6:32:23 PM PDT by Kath (Luvya Dubya)
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To: IrishMike
'Assassination' director deceived White House ('Death of a President')

Just another example that proves that old saying:

Liberals are afraid that voters will understand what they really intend to do;
Conservatives are afraid that voters will fail to understand what it
is they intend to do.

In other words one of them MUST and gladly will lie for "the cause".
34 posted on 09/12/2006 6:36:37 PM PDT by VOA
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To: xzins; IrishMike
Good for Kevin Costner's sane comment.

I started reading and thought, "Aw crap....now I can't watch Costner movies either?" Then I read on and breathed a sigh of relief.

35 posted on 09/12/2006 6:39:01 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: xzins

For this, I can almost forgive Costner some of his lesser works.
Not that I'll watch them.

What's going on in Hollywood?
Tom Cruise gets cut from his lucrative contract...
Some actors come out for Israel and against Hezbollah in a big advert...
Leno lets James Wood go deep on his 9-11 involvement and being pegged
as a bigot by the pre-9-11 FBI...
and now Costner saying sane things out in public?

Soon it will be raining cats and dogs in Biblical proportions!


36 posted on 09/12/2006 6:40:58 PM PDT by VOA
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To: sam_paine

Me, too. I was surprised because I think I remember Costner being a liberal on other issues.

You'd think we'd all recognize, whatever the party of the president, that glorifying the assassination of any president is a loser.


37 posted on 09/12/2006 6:41:15 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: IrishMike

Send in the back helicopters.


38 posted on 09/12/2006 6:41:44 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: VOA

It's just gotta be the end of the world. LOL!


39 posted on 09/12/2006 6:43:36 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: The Wizard

HA! I don't believe that for one minutes; Nancy and Howie will be at the opening....bet on it.


40 posted on 09/12/2006 6:44:02 PM PDT by Laverne
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