I totally agree, Mark. This is a piece of lefty wish fulfillment. No matter how the argue it. Thoroughly disgusting!
Arnold | 08.31.06 - 3:41 pm | #

If they were really hoping to start at dialogue, why would they make a movie presenting the murder of our president in a documentary format?

Sounds less like a conversation and more like a threat.
elmo | 08.31.06 - 3:54 pm | #

But it's FICTION! Don't these people realize that it can't really happen?

(cough!)Turner Diaries(cough!)
Joel | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 4:08 pm | #

Michelle Malkin wrote about "Assassination Chic" in her book Unhinged.

It is disgusting when the left passes off a wishful murder of our President (who also happens to be a husband, a father, a friend) as a piece of "thought provoking art".

What's especially disheartening is that many really do want President Bush dead. Including someone I work with, who wants to dance on his grave some day...
Amy P. | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 4:39 pm | #

I submitted a comment directly to the site. We'll see if they post it.

Look for one from Portland, OR.
Kathleen Lundquist | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 5:08 pm | #

My favourite part is the wrongly-accused Muslim. What a controversial statement!

Who wants to put money on the real culprit being a shadowy Christian Conservative? Mabe even.... Dick Cheney?
Nick Milne | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 5:34 pm | #

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

Yeah, cuz, you know, there is absolutely NO way, no possibility at all, that a Moslem man could ever be responsible for a theoretical assasination of Bush. Must have been somebody trained in a Kristianist Krusader Kamp, no doubt, perhaps a pro-lifer, even.
Veronica | 08.31.06 - 5:55 pm | #

Can't you just hear the cheers during the movie's screening when "the deed" is done?

Ugh. Radical leftist. What a wretched worldview.
JCL | 08.31.06 - 6:20 pm | #

This is incitment to murder, pure and simple, but those sorts of laws are only enforced against those who don't have network access.

PVO
mulopwepaul | 08.31.06 - 7:08 pm | #

Sick!

Why isn't this movie coverd by the laws which prohibit death threats to presidents?

I'd put my money on a wacky left-winder as the killer. As many here are saying, this is their wish. No doubt the killer will be Cheney or Rumsfeld to get more power, or maybe Haig returns to reclaim power.
Peggy | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 9:59 pm | #

Why not?

... because it was made in Britain (a film-critic friend hypothesized on a discussion board earlier today that it'll never be officially shown in the US) and premiering in Canada.

... because it's labeled as both fiction and hypothetical (it's supposedly a documentary uncovering what "really" happened years after the assassination).

I attend the Toronto film festival every year, and I actually thought I should see it, either for the record or to see if it was any good (it bears some premise-and-style resemblances to ZELIG, which is close to my favorite Woody Allen movie). But I left it off my list of first-choice tickets earlier today. The prospect of the reaction of a festival audience (I experience lone-Jew-at-Nuremburg moments about once a year there), I can't see it being anything but wish-fulfillment.
Victor Morton | Homepage | 09.01.06 - 2:58 am | #

Absolutely disgusting.
Louise | Homepage | 09.02.06 - 5:11 am | #