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Now this simply pisses me off.

Death of a President: a fictional documentary looking back at the October 2007 assassination of George Bush.

Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.

Death of a President seems certain to cause a furore on the other side of the Atlantic when it is premiered at the Toronto Film Festival next month.

In the UK the 90-minute film will be broadcast first on Channel 4’s digital service in October.

When Mr Bush arrives in the city he is confronted by a massive demonstration against the Iraq war and is gunned down by a sniper as he leaves the venue. The hunt for Mr Bush’s killer focuses on a Syrian-born man, Jamal Abu Zikri.

The filmmaker snuck it in under the covers by shortening the name to the phonetically self describing acronym “D.O.A.P.,” Gabriel Range (U.K.) as shown on the film festival lineup. Yup, the sniveling piece of crap is too scared to list the full name so he does the typical liberal thing and hides behind an acronym.

The following quote lays out the premise for the film:

Death of a President also looks at the differing viewpoints of the pro- and anti-Iraq war lobbies and the impact of Mr Bush’s war on terror on the US.

“I’m sure there will be people who are upset by it. But when you watch it, you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is,” said Peter Dale, the head of More4.

“It’s not sensational or simplistic, it’s thought provoking.”

Death of a President has been made by Borough Films, the independent producer responsible for two similar BBC2 fictional pieces in the style of retrospective documentaries.

It has been produced by Gabriel Range, Simon Finch and Ed Guiney.

The only thing I find thought provoking here is how anyone manages to give these people any credibility. Friends of a feather explains it all.

Curt over at Flopping Aces went through the newspaper comments and caught the following little gem that is typical of so many lefties.

The hopes of six billion people across the world were raised by the first three words of your headline - then dashed by the next four.
- Kate, Southampton, Hampshire

Her comment refers to the title of the newspaper article, “President Bush ‘assassinated’ in new TV docudrama”

I wonder if Kate would feel the same if our country refused to lift a finger to help her sorry ass when the islamofascists come to force her to wear a burqua or stone her for showing leg under her skirt?

This is simply more proof that being an asshole and being a liberal isn’t necessarily mutually exclusive. Especially if you are one in film. I am so irritated right now that I can’t even bring myself to comment anymore.

Update: Jeff Goldstein has a much more tempered response in “Assassination chic returns”. I love the part about Bush Derangement Syndrome:

this is a piece designed to exploit BDS, and as such, it strikes me as cynicism trying to pass itself off as “art.” Let the feverish lefties lap up such unpasteurized agitprop. Hopefully it’ll give ‘em a fine case of the Bangs.

Others Bloggin on this Topic:

• Wizbang: Bush Assassinated In New Movie
• Stop the ACLU: President Bush Assassinated In New Movie
• Strata-Sphere: Liberal Wet Dream
• Conservative Outpost: Daily Summary
• The Political Pit Bull: Bush Assassinated In “Thought-Provoking” Drama
• GOP and College: Even More BDS
• My Pet Jawa: Why Isn’t Bush Dead?
• Thunder Run: Web Reconnaissance for 08/31/2006
• The Anchoress: The Day “Bush Hatred” Jumps the Shark
• It Shines For All: Assassination of President Bush
• Pajama Editors: I’m sure we’re all totally taking it out of contex
• Jeffrey Mark: THE REAL INFIDELS
• American Traditionalist: To Be a Democrat/Liberal

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