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Bush assassination film wins festival prize for revealing “larger truth”

posted at 8:26 pm on September 17, 2006 by Allahpundit
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By unanimous vote of a five-member jury of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), despite having received “largely negative reviews.”

FIPRESCI’s general secretary insists there was nothing political about their decision, and that in fact the film “irritated us a lot.” On what basis, then, did they award it a prize?

“[F]or the audacity with which it distorts reality to reveal a larger truth.” The “larger truth” presumably being (a) Arab Muslims are fall guys in the war on terror, (b) Bush needs to be shot in the chest at close range, (c) all of the above.

None of us thought this day would come, but it has, and it would be bad form not to acknowledge it: Hillary has become the voice of reason.

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It is truely dispicable for both the film to be made and for the FIPRESCI to give the film an award. I am not suprised that the junior senator from New York spoke out; afterall, she is close to the subject in two ways; as the wife of the former President and for her aspirations. I will be greatly surprised if Senators Kennedy and Kerry spoke out against the film and its award. It would be nice if Congress made a resolution condeming the film. It would sure put the Democrats in a bad position. Either way they voted on the resolution could make them look bad.

DAT60A3 on September 17, 2006 at 8:37 PM

The question is, will they turn on Hillary? I know a lot of the far left don’t like her already, but will this cause them to consider her to be like Lieberman? Democratic Persona-n0n-Grata?

If they did, would this be the start of a virtual civil war in the democratic party?

And would this “war” cut out the cancer that seems to have infected it, or would the surgery kill the patient?

EFG on September 17, 2006 at 9:07 PM

Democratic Persona-n0n-Grata

opps. Spelling/typo mistake.

EFG on September 17, 2006 at 9:08 PM

Anybody want to finance a film in which a Democrat of some higher political power level gets snuffed? — and the plot turns out to have been hatched by another Democrat?

The Machine on September 17, 2006 at 9:30 PM

It would be nice if Congress made a resolution condeming the film. It would sure put the Democrats in a bad position. Either way they voted on the resolution could make them look bad.

Need anyone say more.

B Moe on September 17, 2006 at 9:41 PM

Sen. Clinton is trying to lift her entire party out of the moral latrine they find themselves in.

Entelechy on September 17, 2006 at 10:06 PM

There are a lot of sick puppies in this world and this film is but brief glimps of a chronic vendetta perpetrated by the amoral, ruthless, Godless left.

rplat on September 17, 2006 at 10:09 PM

Machine, I don’t have much money at all but I’d be willing to put what little I have towards a snuff Democratic President film. We could all get together and preview in Toronto as well. WOnder how many awards we’d get? It could be hatched by Howie Screamin Dean and John Kerry. They could have the police arrest Karl Rove and Scooter Libby for the deed.

Catie96706 on September 17, 2006 at 10:15 PM

Just don’t make Gore the President who gets snuffed. They’ll demand a remake.

NellE on September 17, 2006 at 10:35 PM

hehe, good one, NellE! I laughed out loud.

tickleddragon on September 17, 2006 at 11:04 PM

Anybody want to finance a film in which a Democrat of some higher political power level gets snuffed? — and the plot turns out to have been hatched by another Democrat?

Hmmm, I can picture it now. Only, let’s make it dozens of victims! It has to do with former President Clinton and the former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s body count. It would be an easy script since most of the work is already done. We could call it “Sudden Death Syndrome” : or, “How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Clinton’s“.

yyyeah baby! shagidelic!

SilverStar830 on September 17, 2006 at 11:30 PM

Bah

Ann Coulter summed it up pretty well in Slander: basically the media world is a lot of morons telling each other how smart they are. They don’t have to be smart or make sense; as long as they call each other smart the illusion remains. Evidently some papers went as far as to postulate that Algore was too smart; maybe his genius would be beyond the accessibility of Joe Everyman.

JamesVersusEveryone on September 17, 2006 at 11:31 PM

This may be the Rovian side of the Hidlebeast, it is classic lefty tactic to create the problem and then offer their solution,which usually only serves to make things worse.But then they are holding the reigns and they are loathe to let go.

bbz123 on September 18, 2006 at 12:29 AM

As ugly as the sight is, it’s a good thing when liberals reveal themselves and their agenda. They talk “peace” but we know they really mean submission; they talk “tolerance” but we know they’d really like to see the president dead. For voters, it’s a matter of truth in advertizing.

Halley on September 18, 2006 at 1:01 AM

Anybody want to finance a film in which a Democrat of some higher political power level gets snuffed? — and the plot turns out to have been hatched by another Democrat?

Please, boys and girls, leave this to the likes of: DU, KOS, HuffPo, the BBC, those in Toronto and a few ‘artists’.

If not, we can’t criticize them any longer and the voters will not have a choice.

Entelechy on September 18, 2006 at 1:16 AM

And critics wonder why the studios are getting less and less interested in their opinions…

Jim Treacher on September 18, 2006 at 4:06 AM

Silverstar beat me to the punch. I was going to recommend calling this little endeavor ‘The Vince Foster Story’.

Anyway, is anyone really really surprised that a group of Eurotrash gave an award to a film that is basically the wet dream of Eurotrash everywhere?

Wolfman on September 18, 2006 at 7:28 AM

In all fairness, I’d be surprised if Hillary didn’t condemn this miserable film. She is, after all, the wife of a former president, whether you liked him or not. This movie would be wrong about any president, conservative or liberal, not matter how bad he might be.

Jezla on September 18, 2006 at 12:57 PM

Have any of you seen the film? Or, as I suspect is the case, are you listening to the media’s description of the first thirty seconds of it? Do you know that it is about the assassin and not the assassination? What are you so upset about? The movie is a fictional account of a fictional event. Aren’t we spreading freedom around the world at the end of a gun barrel? Doesn’t that freedom include free speech…all speech? Even ignorant, inflammatory speech?

shackler on September 18, 2006 at 1:13 PM

Yes shackler, proof - you’re on this blog.

Entelechy on September 18, 2006 at 1:25 PM

Sen. Clinton is trying to lift her entire party out of the moral latrine they find themselves in.

Entelechy on September 17, 2006 at 10:06 PM

Wow, think about the implications of that statement … it’s Hillary trying to lift the dems out of the moral latrine.

Next up, we will have Bill Clinton trying to lift perpetually adulterous spouses out of their own moral latrine …

They are in trouble.

thirteen28 on September 18, 2006 at 1:58 PM

thirteen28, in this context I didn’t have item #3 in mind, rather all the others on the list…but, alas, I get your drift.

Entelechy on September 18, 2006 at 2:35 PM

Nothing political about their decision my backside- groups like this are always political.
And as for a “larger truth”- please. The only truth of any size they acknowledge is what they want to believe is true, the facts simply do not register if they’re not in accordance with leftist orthodoxy.

Abigail Adams on September 18, 2006 at 4:07 PM

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean denounced distasteful campus recruiting tactics by an independent contractor hired by the College Republican National Committee. Among the offerings: a “catch an illegal immigrant” hide-and-seek game on campus, and a “fun with guns” BB-gun shooting gallery that featured cutouts of top Democrats, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.

Dean called the activity “divisive, potentially dangerous and discriminatory,” and Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman agreed. But the agreement ended there. Conservative bloggers accused Dean of hypocrisy, arguing he got bent out of shape about the shoot-a-Democrat college game but had no objections to a new movie that depicts the fictional assassination of President Bush. The British-produced movie, “Death of a President,” has just hit American shores. Pictures of the assassination scene are all over the Internet.