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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/29/2007 9:36:56 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Okay, I'll support my opinion by citing some examples of leftwing assassination fantasies: Randi Rhoades has twice "jokingly" called for Bush's assassination on Air Unamerica. Both times she defended her words as jokes. Bush's assassinaton has been the subject of a film: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15448556/site/newsweek/ NY State Comptroller introduced Senator Schumer with these words: "The man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a bullet between the president's eyes if he could get away with it." www.wnbc.com/politics/9306297/detail.html Now the Clintons were hated by conservatives, but you didn't see conservatives saying things like this during the Clinton era. BTW it would have made front page news if they had.

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 1:31:29 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

A new low in Bush-hatred .... 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. Channel 4 Television The assassination scene from “Death of a President,” a television film whose subject is George W. Bush. 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. townhall.com Message 22799850

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 1:33:46 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Now the contemptible Mr. Johnson is issuing threats to conservative bloggers.... "I know where you are living. You forget that I do work for the European Union and friends in Interpol. I've offered you a mature way to deal with this situation. You're obviously too immature and inexperienced to recognize the offer for what it is. Too bad." http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=22661465

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 2:38:50 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Kill Bush mania Message 22806708

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 2:39:25 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Assassination Chic hotair.com

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 2:40:11 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

COSTNER BLASTS BUSH ASSASSINATION FILM Message 22808002

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 7:12:27 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Williams, the world-renowned pacifist, fumed: "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=22658097

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 7:48:22 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Another "Tolerant" Liberal A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board. http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=22369054

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 8:17:58 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

David Letterman: Ann Coulter Is A Bitch Who Should Be Murdered By OJ Simpson Message 22527655

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 9:27:26 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The Secret Service is investigating two DU posters for, apparently, making threats against someone in the administration. Message 22947314

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 10:10:23 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Moonbat Assaults Strangers Over The War Message 23303376

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 10:13:08 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Guillotine The Republicans! Message 23307488

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 10:39:42 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Angry Left Death Wish Message 22174361

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 11:18:37 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Lowlife Michael Crook, the troop-smearing, cop-bashing, white supremacist sicko, is claming responsibility for the despicable death-wish greeting card received by injured soldier Joshua Sparling at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Message 21987566

To: JBTFD who wrote (56628)	3/30/2007 11:24:05 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

We should be shocked at this. A left wing partisan expresses his genuine beliefs that are indisputably despicable. The perp is completely unrepentant. At worst his peers hardly slap his wrist. His blog is now the #1 left wing blog where many Dem politicians regularly pay homage. "In June 2003, after television cameras caught a cheering, thousand-strong mob in Fallujah dragging the charred, dismembered bodies of American contractors through the streets, Moulitsas linked to the reports and said of the contractors: “I feel nothing… Screw them.”" http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=22001744