President Bush 'assassinated' in new TV docudrama

[dirk digler]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23365246-details/President+Bush+assassinated+in+new+TV+docudrama/article.do

President Bush 'assassinated' in new TV docudrama
31.08.06


Bush is shot by a sniper in a scene from Death of a President.

This is the dramatic moment when President George Bush is gunned down by a sniper after a public address at a hotel, in a gripping new docudrama soon to be aired on TV.

Set around October 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.

Death of a President, shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect the assassination of Bush has on America in light of its 'War on Terror'.

The 90 minutes feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a Syrian-born man wrongly put in the frame.

Peter Dale, head of More4, which is due to air the film on October 9, said the drama was a "thought-provoking critique" of contemporary US society.

He said: "It's an extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work, a drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of George Bush as the starting point for a very gripping detective story.

"It's a pointed political examination of what the War on Terror did to the American body politic.

"I'm sure that there will be people who will be upset by it but when you watch it you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is.

"It's not sensationalist, or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama. I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good."

The film will premier at the Toronto Film Festival in September and was written and directed by Gabriel Range.

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Is it me or does that look like James Carville laying on top of the POTUS?

[Robo-Chachi]

http://img.dailymail.co.uk//i/pix/2006/08/PresidentC4_228x163.jpg

Is it me or does that look like James Carville laying on top of the POTUS?


On the irony.

There was an accompanying poll asking if people thought it should be shown in the US. Some 65% said yes. I think it would be in pretty bad taste to air a film dramatizing the assasination of your current president.

[jiveturkey]

On the irony.

There was an accompanying poll asking if people thought it should be shown in the US. Some 65% said yes. I think it would be in pretty bad taste to air a film dramatizing the assasination of your current president.
I agree, not appropriate.

[ncognito]

It might be that 65% of Americans might in some way wish this were a real documentary.

[DanT]

Why would anyone want to shoot President Bush, I wonder?

[oldandslow]

I certainly don't...

I just want him impeached.

[ncognito]

I certainly don't...

I just want him impeached.

What a total waste of tax $, a lone slug would be so much more cost efficient. Not that I'm advocating, I am not. Just sayin...

[patteeu]

What a total waste of tax $, a lone slug would be so much more cost efficient. Not that I'm advocating, I am not. Just sayin...

I'm "not advocating" the same thing about you.

[Radar Chief]

What a total waste of tax $, a lone slug would be so much more cost efficient. Not that I'm advocating, I am not. Just sayin...

Good thing you added that disclaimer. Never know who’s watch’n.

[ck_IN]

Wow this sounds like a liberal wet deam.

Offing a president that they all hate for God know's what reason. A chance to take a swipe at America, aka a critique of US society. A chance to glorify a poor innocent little Syrian who's simply a victim of evil America. A chance to rant about the Patriot Act and all the imagined snoopers giving a dam about what they do. And last but not least an opportunity to slam the 'body politic' aka republicans, for their reaction to terrorism. All the while being oblivious to the fact that we're in WW 3. All this turd is missing is a Clinton corronation.

[Robo-Chachi]

Wow this sounds like a liberal wet deam.

Offing a president that they all hate for God know's what reason. A chance to take a swipe at America, aka a critique of US society. A chance to glorify a poor innocent little Syrian who's simply a victim of evil America. A chance to rant about the Patriot Act and all the imagined snoopers giving a dam about what they do. And last but not least an opportunity to slam the 'body politic' aka republicans, for their reaction to terrorism. All the while being oblivious to the fact that we're in WW 3. All this turd is missing is a Clinton corronation.


Wow. Where'd you get that nice wide brush you paint everybody with?

[ck_IN]

<i>Wow. Where'd you get that nice wide brush you paint everybody with?</i>

I bought it on the CNN merchandise page.

[Robo-Chachi]

Ah yes. That troublesome CNN again. If only CNN would go away. That would solve the worlds troubles.

[Eye Patch]

Does anyone know how this docudrama actually plays out?

If I were to guess considering it’s from the country across the pond… something like now that the devil is gone the entire world is now at peace…proving that Bush and America were the just source of evil all long and the Muslim fascist were justified for everything they have done. I’m sure no matter what it will paint a positive spin to the president’s demise.

[ncognito]

I'm "not advocating" the same thing about you.

um...thanks?

[Jenson71]

That would be scary, watching a film about your death, from a sniper, next year. I wonder how often George Bush thinks about being assassinated?

[Adept Havelock]

Ah yes. That troublesome CNN again. If only CNN would go away. That would solve the worlds troubles.

Then we could all be Doubleplusgoodthinkers, and hold hands singing hymns and watching Fox news....

The film is indeed tasteless, IMO.

Does anyone know how this docudrama actually plays out?

I don't know, nor do I care. I won't be wasting my time with it.

[memyselfI]

I don't want him dead. Nope, something else would be more gratifying...

http://arizona.indymedia.org/uploads/bush-jail_bars-war_criminal.jpg

[Eye Patch]

I don't want him dead. Nope, something else would be more gratifying...



So in your estimation assuming you get your way... what do you think will happen to his country in regards to polorization and especially how our enemies would react.

[Old Codger]

Then a person with an approval rating in the 20's would step in as President and all hell would break loose.

[mlyonsd]

In meme's world Martin Sheen is still running things from the left wing.

[Chief Henry]

I don't want him dead. Nope, something else would be more gratifying...

http://arizona.indymedia.org/uploads/bush-jail_bars-war_criminal.jpg



Only in wildest Rich Gannon fantasies :Peace: