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Probably not in the best of taste…

Bush ‘assassinated’ in TV drama

A TV drama is to show US President George Bush becoming the victim of a fictional assassination.

Death of a President uses CGI effects and archive footage to portray the president being shot dead during an anti-war rally in Chicago in 2007.

The documentary-style 90-minute film uses the event to explore the effects of the War on Terror on the US.

It will get its world premiere at next month’s Toronto Film Festival before a screening on UK digital channel More4.

In the drama, Mr Bush is assassinated by a sniper after delivering a speech to business leaders.

He is confronted by a demonstration against the Iraq war when he arrives in the city and is shot as he leaves the venue.

The righties are screaming loudly. Many of them are blaming this on the Democratic Party. I think that’s going a bit far. This is a British production. I doubt very much that the Democratic Party had anything to do with it. If any of you right wing blowhards has any proof to the contrary, ante up. Otherwise, I think you’re just farting to see what it smells like.

Yesterday, on the eve of George W. Bush’s visit to Salt Lake City, the mayor of that city delivered a strong speech at a rally protesting the visit and the policies of the Bush administration…

Transcript of Mayor Rocky Anderson’s speech

A patriot is a person who loves his or her country.

Who among you loves your country so much that you have come here today to raise your voice out of deep concern for our nation – and for our world?

And who among you loves your country so much that you insist that our nation’s leaders tell us the truth?

Let’s hear it: “Give us the truth! Give us the truth! Give us the truth!”

Let no one deny we are patriots. We love our country, we hold dear the values upon which our nation was founded, and we are distressed at what our President, his administration, and our Congress are doing to, and in the name of, our great nation.

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president.

That is not a patriot. Rather, that person is a sycophant. That person is a member of a frightening culture of obedience – a culture where falling in line with authority is more important than choosing what is right, even if it is not easy, safe, or popular. And, I suspect, that person is afraid – afraid we are right, afraid of the truth (even to the point of denying it), afraid he or she has put in with an oppressive, inhumane, regime that does not respect the laws and traditions of our country, and that history will rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever had to endure.

Read the entire speech here. YouTube has a short video clip here.

I’m beginning to believe that yesterday was declared National Democratic Chutzpah Day and somebody neglected to send me the memo.

Update: Video of interview of Mayor Anderson on MSNBC in which he explains and defends his participation in the protest.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean appeared on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC last evening. He talks about, among other things, Donald Rumsfeld’s ridiculous speech on Tuesday in which he compares critics of the Bush administration’s policies to Nazi sympathizers…

Also worth watching, if only because it has so many righties up in arms today, is Keith Olbermann’s own commentary on Mr. Rumsfeld’s remarks.

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