[ 31 August 2006: Message edited by: Fidel ]

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Dale said that the focus of the film was on the assassination's aftermath, as the news media rush to judgment and as investigators plumb America's fear and anger, particularly in communities with most cause to be angry at Bush.

Using actual archival footage as well as computer-generated imagery that, for instance, attaches the president's face onto the body of the actor playing him, the film leaves no doubt that the victim is Bush rather than some generic president.

But Peter Dale, the head of More4, was quoted in British newspapers as saying that the film was not sensationalistic and did not advocate the assassination of Bush.

"It has the combination of a gripping forensic narrative and also some very thought-provoking places where you are encouraged to think about the issues behind the narrative," he said.

Dale said that the focus of the film was on the assassination's aftermath, as the news media rush to judgment and as investigators plumb America's fear and anger, particularly in communities with most cause to be angry at Bush

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[ 02 September 2006: Message edited by: oldgoat ]

Over at Majablog, the writer has this to say about it:

"I’m just saying I don’t want Bush to be assassinated. Really, truly. Here are the top ten reasons why:

10. Regular television programming would be pre-empted for days, except maybe for the Super Bowl.

9. News coverage of the assassination and state funeral would shine the rosiest light possible on the President’s memory, causing some viewers to think maybe he wasn’t so bad, after all. (In fact, this might be the only way Bush could get his approval numbers over 50 percent again.)

8. Darryl Worley would record a song about it.

7. For the next several months you wouldn’t be able to pass a supermarket tabloid rack without seeing pictures of Bush and Jesus — together forever.

6. You’d have to listen to your wingnut father-in-law rant about it all through Thanksgiving dinner.

5. The Right collectively would become even more paranoid than it is already.

4. For the rest of your life, you’d have to listen to people referring to Bush as a “martyred president.”

3. The assassination would fuel a whole new generation of conspiracy theorists.

2. Bush wouldn’t live long enough to see what historians will write about his presidency.

1. Dick Cheney.

Need I say more?"

Why do you want to see the President assassinated? Why do you hate America?