The Art of Hate

The Left's ultimate fantasy

President Bush has many enemies.

They can be divided into factions.

There's the nutcase/terrorist/madman group -- Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hassan Nasrallah, Khaled Mashaal.

Then there's the millions of followers of these maniacs -- Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamofascists, Palestinians and their sympathizers.

Of course, the Democrats make up another rabid anti-Bush group. The ones who call Bush "King George," serial power abuser, war criminal, shredder of the Constitution, Big Oil buddy, torturer, liar, law-breaker.

(Recognize the disgraceful EX-president Jimmy Carter, and Al Gore, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Russ Feingold, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden?)

And there's the millions of followers of these irresponsible, and in some cases subversive, Americans -- Blue America, celebrities, the glitterati, the liberal elite.

The mainstream media -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Aljazeera -- make up another powerful Bush-hating faction.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention one more faction, the radical loons on the Left -- Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, CODEPINK, Amnesty International and other so-called human rights organizations, NARAL, MoveOn.org, Daily Kos, and other assorted Leftist nuts.

And then we have the artistic community -- creators of expressions of positively creepy works of "art" that encourage hatred toward President Bush and promote violence against him.

Remember this "artwork"?


Al Brandtner's work titled "Patriot Act"

The latest "kill Bush" expression comes from filmmaker Gabriel Range.

From ThisisLondon:

This is the dramatic moment when President George Bush is gunned down by a sniper after a public address at a hotel, in a gripping new docudrama soon to be aired on TV.

Set around October 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.

I've stayed at the Sheraton in Chicago.

I wonder if it will become a mecca for pilgrims, an anti-Bush destination point, a tourist attraction.

It's possible that Bush-haters will now flock to the hotel, considering it a magical place, where dreams come true, the Left's Field of Dreams.

"If you assassinate him, we will come."

Death of a President, shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect the assassination of Bush has on America in light of its 'War on Terror'.

The 90 minutes feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a Syrian-born man wrongly put in the frame.

GAG!

And who's the killer? A Swede?

Are racial profilers the villians?

Peter Dale, head of More4, which is due to air the film on October 9, said the drama was a "thought-provoking critique" of contemporary US society.

He said: "It's an extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work, a drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of George Bush as the starting point for a very gripping detective story.

"It's a pointed political examination of what the War on Terror did to the American body politic.

"I'm sure that there will be people who will be upset by it but when you watch it you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is.

That sounds reminiscent of how The Da Vinci Code was promoted, framing it as a "thought-provoking" mystery as opposed to an offensive piece.

"It's not sensationalist, or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama. I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good."

HUH?

A fantasy about the assassination of the American president has no "good" behind it whatsoever.

Of course it's sensationalist, and it's simplistic.

People wish Bush dead -- simple.

Read more, from Reuters and the BBC.

Times Online reports:

Death of a President uses digital trickery, archive footage and actors to imagine the murder of President Bush and the descent into national paranoia which follows.

The feature-length drama will be screened on More4, Channel 4’s digital sister channel next month after receiving a big-screen premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

I predict a five minute standing ovation after the premiere screening of the film, with movie mogul Al Gore screaming, "Encore."

Channel 4 hopes to sell the film to US broadcasters but Americans in London declared the film tasteless and feared it could encourage extremists in their home country.

CBS, network that originally planned to air the Ronald Reagan hit piece, would probably love to get its hands on this. So would every other US network, with the exception of FOX.

The broadcast networks can't touch it and they know it; but some cable outlet with ratings in the cellar, one with nothing to lose like MSNBC, might pick it up.

Here is a synopsis of the "artistic expression":

The film is set next autumn, when "US foreign and domestic policies have polarised the country’s electorate". Arriving in Chicago to make a speech to business leaders, the President is confronted by a large anti-war demonstration.

Unperturbed, the President goes ahead with his visit. But as he leaves he is gunned down by a sniper. While a nation mourns, the "state apparatus" turns its attention to the hunt for his killer. A Syrian-born man is identified but the truth may lie closer to home.

The assassination scene explicitly recalls the attempt on President Reagan’s life in 1981. John Hinckley fired six shots at close range as the President left the Washington Hilton hotel.

Good grief.

...[The film's director Gabriel] Range told The Times: "We studied hours and hours of footage of Bush. The scenes are created by a mixture of special effects, stock footage and digitally compositing our actors onto the archive of Bush."

Mr Range secured permits to film the murder scene on location in a Chicago hotel.

He denied charges of sensationalism. "The film is based on meticulous research and interviews with FBI agents and people on the other side of the war on terror," he said.

"It is a serious and sensitive film. There is no way it would encourage anyone to assassinate Bush and usher in Cheney’s America."

Oh no, we wouldn't want to usher in "Cheney's America," now would we?

This is BS. It really is.

I can honestly say that I would have been outraged if some nutjob made a film about the assassination of Bill Clinton when he was president. This shouldn't be a partisan thing.

I hope Dems speak out and condemn the Bush assassination film, even if they are actually eagerly awaiting its release, a guilty pleasure.

It's tasteless, not to mention potentially dangerous, to depict the assassination of a world leader. Every American should take personal offense.

I'm not advocating censorship. I do think that Range has the right to make his hateful film. The Bush-hating audience has the right to see it. Lib critics have the right to laud it, showering it with praise -- "thought-provoking," etc.

Accordingly, decent people have the right to object to such a disgusting depiction and express their condemnation.

I sincerely believe that Range considers his creation to be a serious film.

I buy that, because Range is obviously seriously deranged.