British TV to show film about fictional assassination of President Bush

[kansasblue]

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=5352717

LONDON A British network plans to show a film with a controversial plot, the assassination of President Bush.
Combining actors and digitally manipulated news footage, the movie will be a documentary-style drama about Bush being shot dead after a speech in Chicago. It goes on to focus on everyone linked to the shooting, from suspects to Secret Service agents.

The film will be shown in September at the Toronto Film Festival, then again in October on British T-V.

The White House is declining comment, saying it won't dignify the program with a response.

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[formerrepuke]

1. They should have used a fictional name for the President...

...really, really bad taste. Even the most strident Dubya-bashers (like we are) should be able to see how wrong this is.

Also reported on MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14608725/

[buff2]

2. But it wouldn't have been wrong if it was

about Clinton instead of bush. The righwingnuts would be falling all over themselves to go see it.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. I wouldn't want him assassinated, but...

Confession time.

Nick Park (creator of "Wallace and Gromit") does a claymation short film called "Georgie's Bad Day." In this film, a character who looks and sounds very much like Fearless Leader wanders away from his handlers and finds himself alone in a poverty stricken, ethnically diverse neighborhood. In trying to get back, he runs in to a group of Bible-spouting rednecks, who think he is a homosexual. When they find out that he went to an Ivy League school and hasn't been to church in months, they figure he is a liberal elite atheist homosexual. After getting away from that without having to squeal like a pig (this is a family show, after all) he goes rough several more incidents, like having his wallet stolen and then trying to convince the FBI that he really isthe President and not some deluded coke-head. Eventually, he makes it back to the White House and familiar territory, only to find out that no one noticed he was missing (except for Cheney, who is in the Oval Office behind the desk, looking awfully smug.)

Think "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" meets "The Wrong Trousers." :hi:

[CBHagman]

5. That actually sounds very entertaining!

Do you mean Park has actually done the film (I haven't checked IMDB) or that this is your fantasy of a Nick Park short?

When I heard about the British film recounting a fictional assassination of Bush, I actually felt rather bad about it. I'm all for free speech and so forth, and obviously many horrific things and "what-if" scenarios have been put on film.

But there are plenty of people out there in the real world threatening violence, and something like this just piles on. I also think it helps encourage our worst traits and impulses as humans. I can understand a program like South going over the top with things like this, but a realistic depiction hits too close to home, even if I don't like the victim.

On edit: I just checked IMDB and see this is your fantasy. But maybe Nick Park is reading this...

[GOPS Worst Fear]

4. ..Just sent this on to The Stephanie Miller Show

What would be bad if life imiated art here:
It would be horrible for the country if this really happened. Mainly because Bush would then become a martyr. And let's face it. Bush is no John Kennedy. Personally for myself, I would much rather have a live idiot as a President than have Bush as a dead Martyr.That way Bush goes down in history as a total failure. if he dies he will be martyred and have to hear about what a great man he was until the end of time.