Aug 31 2006
Fictional assassination
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.
