HoodaThunk?

In checking in with the news, I happened to tune in just as a report was airing on a British studio’s plan to broadcast a fictional account of President Bush being shot to death in Chicago. The program is going to use actors and, yes, digital manipulation to give a real, fake-but-accurate vision of President Bush being assassinated.

“Death of a President,” also scheduled to be shown at the Toronto Film Festival in September, focuses on all those linked to the pretend crime — including nearby anti-war protesters, suspects, Secret Service guards and investigators, Dale said.

More4, which is the digital offshoot of Britain’s Channel 4 network, plans to show the program on Oct. 9.

The White House declined to comment on the network’s announcement, saying it would not dignify the program with a response.

“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,” Dale told reporters.

“It’s a pointed political examination of what the war on terror did to the American body politic,” he said.

Dale said he expected the film would upset some, but defended it as a sophisticated piece of work.

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

And I hope people see this for what it is: some perverse fantasy indulgence by some Bush-hating Brit hoping to stir up the already-lunatic left in this country and, if he’s “lucky”, an actual attempt on the President’s life. In order to tell a “very gripping dectective story” that launches off a Presidential assassination, there is no need whatsoever to depict a sitting President, a man who is very much alive, getting gunned down in the streets. A “very gripping detective story” has no need of being a “pointed examination of what the war on terror did to the American body politic” either. Although saying that shows you exactly why this studio has decided to pull this petulant-child stunt. This has nothing to do with being a “detective story” and everything to do with being just another war protest that sinks into depravity because it lacks anything else to attempt to be compelling.

Note, even, the verbiage this clown uses when he says it: “…what the war on terror did to the American body politic.” Not “might do,” not even “would do.” He said “did” do. Past tense. Already done. He’s got his conclusion already sewn up and now’s his chance to paint his little murder fantasy as some kind of inevitable conclusion. His so-called good intentions can be summed up as saying he thinks the war we are fighting should result in someone out there (anyone?) walking up and killing our President. And not just any president, President Bush.

Ed Morrissey over at Captain’s Quarters has this to say on the topic and has more links.

I’ve got a better idea for these Brits with the bloodlust for American presidents: how about you remake that film with Tony Blair and the Queen getting gunned down in London instead? That is, if you dare.