'Assassination' director deceived White House ('Death of a President')

WND ^ | September 12, 2006

[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."

[Names Ash Housewares]

Can legal action be taken if he lied?

[KStorm]

Gabriel Range can go to hell.

[madison10]

Gabriel Range can go to hell.

For lying...he probably will.

[pissant]

A Michael Moore wannabee. Leftists are maggots.

[xzins]

Good for Kevin Costner's sane comment.

[the invisib1e hand]

can't wait until the dirt starts coming out of the corners of this freak's life.

did he incubate in one of folds of Michael Moore's flesh?

[reefdiver]

I'm worried , I'm old enough to remember the Kennedy Kill. I was in 3rd grade. It always stuck with me then, that for some reason American Presidents who were elected in years like 1960 - or 2000. always with a 0 at the end were the ones for some reason who were killed. You guy's will be able to answeer this better than me

[IrishMike]

A hollywierd with a brain and common sense.
One of the few.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Reagan broke "the curse".

Superstitiousness has no scientific merit. Worry about more important things.

[Earthdweller]

I keep thinking.....The artist, revealing his inner most fears and desires.

I'll hold further judgment until I see it but it sounds sick at the onset.

[OldFriend]

Notice that bubba is silent on this film.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I'm waiting for the sequel, "The Death of a Snot-nosed, Limey Director Who Kissed a lot of Liberal @$$ In Hopes of Winning an Award."

[F.J. Mitchell]

"Leftists are maggots."

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

You owe maggots an apology, Pissant.

[Fred911]

I'm sure I'm not alone in my decision to avoid this piece of cr@p.....something I do not need to support

[SE Mom]

Unbelievable.

He's too clever for his own damn good.

[lowbridge]

Notice that bubba is silent on this film.

He's in the film as the mysterious guy on the grassy knoll.

[CedarDave]

This guy will probably get an Oscar nomination and the director of United 93 will be passed over.

[roses of sharon]

The President will be fine, no leftist wants to deal with President Cheney.

More like this guy will die first, if he ever sets foot in a Red State, lol.

[pissant]

To all the maggots, I apologize. And dem carrion is not fit for your meals.

[IrishMike]

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).

[The Wizard]

no American will go to this picture

[gaspar]

The Left and the Truth are strangers.

[small voice in the wilderness]

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.

[uncbob]

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

[photodawg]

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.

[Suzy Quzy]

DISGUSTING POS.

[roses of sharon]

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.

[cricket]

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'. . .

[Suzy Quzy]

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

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Gabriel Range can go to hell.

Not for this but...

He'll smoke a turd in hell for it.

[skr]

Ditto

[Kath]

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

[VOA]

'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".

[sam_paine]

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.

[VOA]

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!

[xzins]

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.

[toddlintown]

Send in the back helicopters.

[xzins]

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

[Laverne]

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

[cricket]

Leftists are maggots

Could not agree more . . .but it is strange. . .or perhaps not so strange; how words do fail to describe the lowest of the low. . .worst of the worst. . .

We struggle to find a name; a word. . .an adjective; a metaphor. . .whatever; to get us there. . but, in truth, am guessing there is no word perfect enough; to describe the 'perfect anti-thetical' . . .that these Dems embody. . .

Maggots. . .rats. . .animals (in truth, an insult to maggots. . .rats. . .). . .

Scum; pond-scum. . .low-life; no. . .we can get close. . .but we still cannot 'get there'. And perhaps that is a thing. . .

[longtermmemmory]

When did the left think anything out.

This is a wet dream, of the left because their impeachment fantasy will never happen.

The left only sees themselves out of power, everything else is secondary to them.

[Fred Hayek]

Leftist maggots - to borrow from Full Metal Jacket -
Pukes, lowest form of life on earth, not even human ####ing beings, nothing but grabasstic piles of amphibian s##t.

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL!

Just got an Email from some maggot acquaintances. They accept your apology but say carrion isn't so bad and in fact with lots of horse radish, garlic and Texas Pete on it, it tastes just like chicken. Chicken, cut and run, Dems.

[stickandpucknut]

I say we do a movie where clinton screws around gets aids and dies along with hillary.

[olinr]

Let the Secret Service take charge of this one! They are trained to cause accidents...

[cricket]

May have to reconsider, my just posted comment.

Not easy finding the 'right words' to describe these people. . .but have to say. . ."grabasstic piles of amphibian s'##t; raises the bar. . .as it takes us to a new low to meet the truth of these 'people'. . .

LOL

[F.J. Mitchell]

I also have heard they are good bait, but never tried them.
I do know that the stinkier the bait the better cat fish like it.

[Uncle Meat]

I honestly think that the whole idea of this movie is to stir up the nutcases out there that blindly hate Bush to the point where one of them will be incouraged to carry it out.

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! That's a movie I would stand in a long during a hail storm to get into.