Zeb_Carter
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COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU (Political)
That British movie about the fictional assassination of George W. Bush has been picked up by a U.S. distributor for a cool million bucks. In case you haven't heard, the movie portrays the killing of the president on a trip to Chicago in 2007. Special effects and actual news footage were used to portray the assassination. How nice.
Sure, these filmmakers and this distributor have the First Amendment rights to make and show whatever film they want. It will be interesting to see just how well this plays here in the United States. Yes, George W. Bush is not too particularly popular right now....but the American people generally don't take too well to the idea of somebody harming their president. Which brings about another point.
What will the Democrats say in response to this movie? Will there be howls of protest from Bill Clinton over this movie, like he complained about the 9/11 program on ABC? Will Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid be coming out against this film? Maybe not. Will Howard Dean condemn the idea of assassinating the president, even though they don't agree with him? Their reaction will be one to watch for.
Imagine if this movie had been made 10 years ago about the assassination of Bill Clinton. We would have never heard the end of it.
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That British movie about the fictional assassination of George W. Bush has been picked up by a U.S. distributor for a cool million bucks. In case you haven't heard, the movie portrays the killing of the president on a trip to Chicago in 2007. Special effects and actual news footage were used to portray the assassination. How nice.
Sure, these filmmakers and this distributor have the First Amendment rights to make and show whatever film they want. It will be interesting to see just how well this plays here in the United States. Yes, George W. Bush is not too particularly popular right now....but the American people generally don't take too well to the idea of somebody harming their president. Which brings about another point.
What will the Democrats say in response to this movie? Will there be howls of protest from Bill Clinton over this movie, like he complained about the 9/11 program on ABC? Will Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid be coming out against this film? Maybe not. Will Howard Dean condemn the idea of assassinating the president, even though they don't agree with him? Their reaction will be one to watch for.
Imagine if this movie had been made 10 years ago about the assassination of Bill Clinton. We would have never heard the end of it.
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