Lights, Camera, Exploitation. (*) Campaign Kicks Off w/Shameless Docudrama

[Merlin]

In the end 9-11 turned out to be a made-for-TV movie, or rather, the basis for one—a shameless propaganda vehicle for our superstar president George W. Bush.

The upcoming Showtime feature DC 9/11: Time of Crisis is a signal advance in the instant, ongoing fictionalization of American history, complete with the president fulminating most presidentially against "tinhorn terrorists," decisively employing the word problematic in a complete sentence, selling a rationale for preemptive war, and presciently laying out American foreign policy for the next 18 months. "We start with bin Laden," Bush (played by Timothy Bottoms) tells his cabinet. "That's what the American people expect. . . . So let's build a coalition for that job. Later, we can shape different coalitions for different tasks."

Scheduled for cablecast on September 7, DC 9/11 inaugurates Bush's re-election campaign 50 weeks before the 9-11 Memorial Republican National Convention opens in Madison Square Garden. DC 9/11 also marks a new stage in the American cult of personality: the actual president as fictional protagonist.

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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0335/hoberman.php

As the article goes on to point out, this is in the finest tradition of Stalinist propaganda.

[PartyPooper]

1. This is shameless and disgraceful!

I hope the victims of 9/11 speak out against this outrageous and disgusting exploitation. I'm only sorry they have to experience this added kick in the stomach.

:-(

[Dhalgren]

2. God!!!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

God!!!!

[WillyT]

3. If There Is A God, May This Backfire On * Completely !!!

:argh::puke::argh::puke::argh::puke::argh::puke::argh::puke::argh::puke:

Our 'culture' SUCKS!!!

[Sweetpea]

16. I think it will backfire.

[Fenris]

4. Okay, so they got the guy who played W on "That's My Bush"

To play "serious" W in this shit film? Wow. That's funny.

[Jim Sagle]

5. It could've been worse. They could've included a big

Hollywood fistfight between w and Osama. ;-)

[colorado_ufo]

6. I had to read this post twice -

I couldn't believe what I was reading the first time. This is as tasteless as anything could possibly be.

Who paid for this?

[xxqqqzme]

7. I am SOOOOO glad I

don't subscribe 2 Showtime! This is enough 2 make anyone gag!

[Dude_CalmDown]

8. Hitler would be proud.

Look at the bright side - most people that are casually channel surfing will pass right by it thinking it's some kind of nature documentary on chimps.

[symbolman]

9. They should have added that beginning

from the Naked Bullet where Leslie Nielsen beats the shit out of about three 80's bad guys while pretending to be a hapless servant at their big terrorist meeting..

what a schlemiel, a schlemazel..

This is going to be high comedy, if it wasn't so dark a subject... if I had lost anyone in those towers I would be screaming from the rooftops..

who is going to believe any of it? the 23% of completely insane people that live in this country and worship the whistle ass?

I have the relief for this right here at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911short.htm my flash done one year after the slaughter of those poor people and it shows Bush sitting on his ass for a half an hour KNOWING those buildings were HIT..

[hiphopnation]

10. Also...

from the latest edition of Village Voice check out the preliminary list of groups planning to protest the RNC convention in NYC next year about this time. It's HUGE!!

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0335/harkavy.php

www.counterconvention.org
www.rncnotwelcome.org

I think I may just have to be in NYC about that time...:think:

[hiphopnation]

11. Check this out!

I don't know if everyone's seen this, but from the list at Village Voice comes...One Thousand Reasons

[Not a robought]

12. Ohhh yeah

The RNC convention is going to be a big headache for those f--ks they won't soon forget.

[PartyPooper]

13. Kick!

:dem:

[feminazi]

14. I'm so glad I just cancelled Showtime.

*

[Lisa]

15. I am sorry to say that as a Canadian and Ontario taxpayer ...

I helped foot some of the costs for this propaganda pic. (They filmed it in Toronto to get the federal and provincial tax breaks.)

Well, I plan on getting my money's worth. I volunteer to write the audience response heckling script (as in "Rocky Horror" and "MST3K").

[trogdor]

17. Somebody should tape it.

Then doctor it up like MST3K.