The left is shocked---SHOCKED I TELLS YA----about any suggestions of media-promoted VIOLENCE!

To wit:


A new low in Bush-hatred

by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
September 10, 2006

SIX YEARS into the Bush administration, are there any new depths to which the Bush-haters can sink?

George W. Bush has been smeared by the left with every insult imaginable. He has been called a segregationist who yearns to revive Jim Crow and compared ad nauseam to Adolf Hitler. His detractors have accused him of being financially entwined with Osama bin Laden. Of presiding over an American gulag. Of being a latter-day Mussolini. Howard Dean has proffered the "interesting theory" that the Saudis tipped off Bush in advance about 9/11. One US senator (Ted Kennedy) has called the war in Iraq a "fraud" that Bush "cooked up in Texas" for political gain; another (Vermont independent James Jeffords) has charged him with planning a war in Iran as a strategy to put his brother in the White House. Cindy Sheehan has called him a "lying bastard," a "filth spewer," an "evil maniac," a "fuehrer," and a "terrorist" guilty of "blatant genocide" -- and been rewarded for her invective with oceans of media attention.

What's left for them to say about Bush? That they want him killed?

They already say it.

On Air America Radio, talk show host Randi Rhodes recommended doing to Bush what Michael Corleone, in "The Godfather, Part II," does to his brother. "Like Fredo," she said, "somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw!" -- then she imitated the sound of a gunshot. In the Guardian, a leading British daily, columnist Charlie Brooker issued a plea: "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?"

For the more literary Bush-hater, there is "Checkpoint," a novel by Nicholson Baker in which two characters discuss the wisdom of shooting the 43rd president. "I'm going to kill that bastard," one character fumes. Some Bush-hatred masquerades as art: At Chicago's Columbia College, a curated exhibit included a sheet of mock postage stamps bearing the words "Patriot Act" and depicting President Bush with a gun to his head. There are even Bush-assassination fashion statements, such as the "KILL BUSH" T-shirts that were on offer last year at CafePress, an online retailer.

Lurid political libels have a long history in American life. The lies told about John Adams in the campaign of 1800 were vile enough, his wife Abigail lamented, "to ruin and corrupt the minds and morals of the best people in the world." But has there ever been a president so hated by his enemies that they lusted openly for his death? Or tried to gratify that lust with such political pornography?

As with other kinds of porn, even the most graphic expressions of Bush-hatred tend to jade those who gorge on it, so that they crave ever more explicit material to achieve the same effect.

Which brings us to "Death of a President," a new movie about the assassination of George W. Bush.

Written and directed by British filmmaker Gabriel Range, the movie premieres this week at the Toronto Film Festival and will air next month on Britain's Channel 4. Shot in the style of a documentary, it opens with what looks like actual footage of Bush being gunned down by a sniper as he leaves a Chicago hotel in October 2007. Through the use of digital special effects, the film superimposes the president's face onto the body of the actor playing him, so that the mortally wounded man collapsing on the screen will seem, all too vividly, to be Bush himself.

This is Bush-hatred as a snuff film. The fantasies it feeds are grotesque and obscene; to pander to such fantasies is to rip at boundary-markers that are indispensable to civilized society. That such a movie could not only be made but lionized at an international film festival is a mark not of sophistication, but of a sickness in modern life that should alarm conservatives and liberals alike.

Naturally that's not how the film's promoters see it. Noah Cowan, one of the Toronto festival's co-directors, high-mindedly describes "Death of a President" as "a classic cautionary tale." Well, yes, he says, Bush's assassination is "harrowing," but what the film is really about is "how the Patriot Act, especially, and how Bush's divisive partisanship and race-baiting has forever altered America."

I can't help wondering, though, whether some of those who see this film will take away rather a different message. John Hinckley, in his derangement, had the idea that shooting the president was the way to impress a movie star. After seeing "Death of a President," the next Hinckley may be taken with a more grandiose idea: that shooting the president is the way to become a movie star.

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This premieres tomorrow. *promote

>> ^dag:
Still with you! But very soggy. I think I got the last bus out of the CBD. Just went to the supermarket- it was bedlam. The shelves were Soviet. The premiere is on the radio- saying it's going to be worse than '74.


NO!!! NOT WORSE THAN '74!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Still with you! But very soggy. I think I got the last bus out of the CBD. Just went to the supermarket- it was bedlam. The shelves were Soviet. The premiere is on the radio- saying it's going to be worse than '74.

>> ^vaporlock:

It says video expired?


Wow, it was fine yesterday morning for me. It's broken right now even on http://abc.go.com/watch/clip/v/SH011580430000/PL55/VD55101665 ... So weird. I wonder why expire it after the season 2 premiere? Sheesh.

Oh geez, I think just had a case of internet fail. I definitely copied the wrong address tab. I thought you might like this 22 minutes skit: http://videosift.com/video/Danny-Williams-You-Can-t-Just-Quit-Being-Premier
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Eh? That's my profile link, nothing more.

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The sift may not appreciate this one so much, but I suspect you will.

http://canada.videosift.com/member/calvados

Coco rocks. I won't watch every episode though. I only wanted to see the series premiere. I didn't care for the interviews and music.

Come on, people... Share the funny stuff on VS with videos!

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There was something very electric about this performance. More than anything else in the premiere, this gave me the feeling that Coco is here to stay this time.

I was at the TIFF premier after party/concert with the Burning Brides entertaining, Alex Lifeson from Rush joined them onstage and kicked all sorts of ass. The bass player from BB was GREAT!

seems weird to premiere this a week before Blizzcon. I would think they'd have premiered it there. Oh well, more time for me to spend on Diablo 3 stuff!

'Tis indeed an awesome track from an awesome soundtrack (from an awesome film). Thanks for the quality.

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There's just something about this track. Absolute *quality.

Oh you!>> ^quantumushroom:

These two leaders complimented each other.
Of course! They're both communists.

>> ^quantumushroom:

These two leaders complimented each other.
Of course! They're both communists.


The Republicans, from Nixon to Dubya, are a much better complement to China.

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sifted because atara posted Dinosaur Ballet which only uses the opening 40 sec, before the orchestra comes in, and i thought someone might like to hear the rest.

from the wiki:
The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488) is a musical composition for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, around the time of the premiere of his opera, The Marriage of Figaro. It was one of three subscription concerts given that spring and was probably played by Mozart himself at one of these.

The second, slow movement, in ternary form, is impassioned and somewhat operatic in tone. The piano begins alone with a theme characterized by unusually wide leaps. This is the only movement by Mozart in F sharp minor. The dynamics are soft throughout most of the piece. The middle of the movement contains a brighter section in A major announced by flute and clarinet that Mozart would later use to introduce the trio "Ah! taci ingiusto core!" in his opera Don Giovanni.