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Debbie Schlussel has the goods on the latest Hollywood absurdity: "Weekend Box Office: Death of a President = More Re-Birth of Islamist BS":
The much-hyped "Death of a President" isn't worthy of its press. It's a boring, silly movie that's hardly plausible. Unless you're a shrieking leftist who believes in all the BS about Muslims not being terrorists, but being loyal Americans who are wrongly maligned. If you're one of those, then this is your movie.If you want to see this movie and don't want to find out who really killed President Bush, stop reading here. For everyone else, guess what? The assassin is not the Syrian Muslim, who trained in an Al-Qaeda terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, found with gun powder on his clothing.
Nope, the gun powder was on his clothing "by coincidence," he trained at the terror camp because he's a peaceful guy who thought the camp was just about learning more about Islam (the same excuse everyone who trains there says when they get caught), and he's just an innocent hard-working Syrian Muslim American patriot. Why, even his wife tells us she "cried for three days" after the 9/11 attacks and that the first thing she learned in English was the American National Anthem.
No, predictably, the assassin of the Prez is not the wrongly-convicted, innocent, peace-loving, Al-Qaeda trainee Syrian. It's a Black American Vietnam Vet whose two sons fought in Iraq, one of whom was killed there. Of course, a Vietnam Vet or parent of kids serving or slain in Iraq would murder the President. Gee, why didn't we think of that.
In "Death," despite all the evidence that the vet is the killer, Congress has passed Patriot Act III, and the innocent Muslim is still in prison, easily convicted with no chance of getting out. And no-one will look at the evidence, including a suicide note apologizing for killing the Prez, that the Black American left behind.
Posted by Robert at October 27, 2006 10:55 AM
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I wasn't even aware of this stupid sounding movie until now but I'm not at all surprised that Hollywood made it. Heaven forbid they make something like "Why We Fight" regarding our enemy of today. Just keep on making drivel and more "islam is peaceful" propaganda.
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at October 27, 2006 11:02 AM
I hope they at least included a few Zionist Conspiracies in the film. Maybe there's a quick scene after the credits where it is revealed that Mossad was behind everything.
Posted by: Jesus Christ Supercop at October 27, 2006 11:03 AM
Did anyone see Munich? What did you think about the last scene when Eric Bana is refusing Geoffrey Rush's plea to go back to Israel? The twin towers were in the background, and I just took the scene to suggest that fighting the Arabs would just engender more terrorism (i.e. 9/11) so it's better not to do it.
Did anyone else think that that was what the self-loathing, surrender monkeying Mr Spielberg was trying to suggest?
Posted by: FREE LEE at October 27, 2006 11:12 AM
Free Lee:
Spielberg is on record as saying exactly that.
Posted by: CGW at October 27, 2006 11:17 AM
Just another example of muslims being used for politcal gain in entertianment, 24, Siege, CNN, usefull idiots overlooking the danger to score politcal points
Posted by: KAOSKTRL at October 27, 2006 11:21 AM
So it was the jooos fault all along.
Spielberg also missed a trick with War of the Worlds. The invasion of a cold-thinking alien that does not know what humanity is, that considers human beings to be amongst the lower order of animals, and that is only interested in annihilation and the assertion of its own order.
Yes that's right, he could have made an association with the blood-sucking joos, of which he is one, and who he actually goes on the record to indicate his hatred of.
Posted by: FREE LEE at October 27, 2006 11:28 AM
Note to the first poster - it's a British film, not Hollywood.
Posted by: johnb at October 27, 2006 11:36 AM
By the way, interesting post by M Phillips regarding the rise of anti-semitism on the good old instruments of the celebrity endorsed Left.
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1370
at October 27, 2006 11:39 AM
Why, even his wife tells us she "cried for three days" after the 9/11 attacks and that the first thing she learned in English was the American National Anthem.
I may puke. The ummah is so patriotic.
Probably like this guy.
http://www.muslimsforamerica.us/?src=google&adg=muslims&crt=getinvolved
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061016-6.html#
Posted by: Carolyn2 at October 27, 2006 11:42 AM
"even his wife tells us she "cried for three days" after the 9/11 attacks "
that's because 3000 deaths are not enough, he thought of 10,000 at least
Posted by: StillFedUp at October 27, 2006 11:48 AM
Note to the first poster - it's a British film, not Hollywood.
Posted by: johnb at October 27, 2006 11:36 AM
Oops! Someone should make it anyway-here and there. But I doubt it.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 27, 2006 12:37 PM
I understand that the BBC has also produced a TV series entitled "Spooks" about MI5, wherein the real bad guys aren't the A-Q sympathizers, who are far too inept and really just petty criminals, but the Mossad, who are manipulating all sorts of stuff. The most egregious episode was written by a man named Khoury, who is a Lebanese Christian.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at October 27, 2006 12:57 PM
They may do a sequel titled "Death of a Moronic British Filmmaker".
Posted by: pythagoras at October 27, 2006 1:21 PM
ISLAMSFORLOSERS said
Heaven forbid they make something like "Why We Fight" regarding our enemy of today.
Hollywood is making propaganda films today ("The Siege" with Denzel Washington, "Sum of All Fears","FlightPlan" with Jodi Foster, "24", etc.). But they are all of the "Why We Must Not Resist" variety; they all lead us "racist" infidels to the obvious conclusion that Muslims committed violent acts, only to be "surprised" at the end to find out, in each case, that the real villain all along was a white Christian male, and now aren't you ashamed that you thought it was the Muslim character?
If the State Department is not paying for the production of today's propaganda pieces, I wonder who is funding them?
Posted by: special_guest at October 27, 2006 1:21 PM
Seriously, can anyone name a movie in which a Muslim character has done anything wrong?
In Hollywoodland, all the Muslims are virtuous, the Jews are sneaky and traitorous, and the evil characters are Christians.
Posted by: special_guest at October 27, 2006 1:30 PM
Oh right? So the killer is actually the Black guy! And they tell us that Leftist movie makers don't deal in racial stereotypes. Move over Carolyn, I'm gonna puke too!
Posted by: Provoslavni at October 27, 2006 1:44 PM
"they are all of the "Why We Must Not Resist" variety"
There are a handful of exceptions. "Tears of the Sun" with Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci is one. This 2003 movie has a brave US officer go in and rescue a group of Christian refugees from being massacred by Muslim jihadists in Nigeria. The scene where the Muslims have martyred a group of priests, nuns and laypeople is worth the price of the DVD.
Another movie that is in theatres now is "One Night With the King" starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, and John Rhys-Davies. This movie is an epic re-telling of the story of Esther/Haddasah and is a beautiful answer to today's Muslim anti-Semitism.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430431/
Every Christian and Jew should see this movie.
at October 27, 2006 2:33 PM
I confess to being a regular television watcher -- mostly those American crime dramas, like the former NYPD Blue, the entire Law and Order franchise, 24, Boston Legal, J.A.G., West Wing, and many other somewhat lesser-known ones, such as Criminal Minds, Cold Case, Without a Trace, N.C.I.S., Bones, and many others.
Here's my report of the way these shows have handled story lines dealing directly or tangentially with Muslim terrorism over the past 5 years: With the sole exception of the now defunct J.A.G. and its direct successor N.C.I.S., every one of these shows has treated the subject of Muslim terrorism either as
1) a case of mistaken identity on the part of gung-ho, Islamophobic, jumping-the-gun law enforcement authorities, with the real culprit turning out to be some white dude with purely criminal motives;
or
2) a marginal problem of a tiny minority of extremists who have hijacked Islam -- with the one show that focussed most extensively on this subject, 24, doing everything it could to minimize the Islam factor, utilizing various subtle tactics:
a) having most of the Muslim perpetrators look less Middle Eastern and more like vaguely Italian GQ models
b) having higher, and shadowier, bad guys who were vaguely Euro and East Euro criminals resembling Bond villains pulling the real strings that made the Muslim terrorists do their deeds -- with the highest and shadowiest bad guys turning out to be Anglo-Saxon white guys in the Administration right up to the President of the USA himself!
c) minimizing the use of Arabic terms, like "Allah", by the Muslim terrorists when at key moments they should have used them (like when one operative commits suicide in a car)
d) injecting decent sympathetic token Muslim characters into the story to counterbalance the bad Muslims; etc.
The sole exceptions mentioned above -- J.A.G. and its direct successor N.C.I.S. -- have had a few shows that actually showed Muslim terrorists shouting "Allah Akbar!" and did not try to counterbalance this theme with the typical minimizing tactics noted above. One particular episode of N.C.I.S. in fact had a SE Asian Muslim, clearly portrayed as such, who seemed very nice and moderate, but who turned out to be a suicide bomber who blew up a naval ship.
Posted by: remote_control at October 27, 2006 4:56 PM
I don't know, remote_control, there was that West Wing episode in the third season where the president orders a covert assassination of a very nasty and slimy Middle East Muslim dude with clear terrorist plans against the U.S. (and feels guilty about it, but that just shows his humanity and basic Christian decency. It's an agonizing decision for him). But I agree, both that program and Law and Order - actually the only tv dramas I have watched regularly - tend to go laughably easy on Muslims, one of their biggest weak points. It's not just about fairness. There have certainly been many highly unpleasant black and Jewish characters on Law and Order, for example. We're more afraid of offending Muslims than of offending any other group. Does anyone dare to come out and ask why that is?
Posted by: angloirishslav at October 27, 2006 11:37 PM
Thanks, Provoslavni, I will check those two movies out.
Posted by: special_guest at October 28, 2006 5:25 AM
So let me get this straight; the moviemakers use the name of a real, sitting president, not a fictional one as in many other movies, having him assassinated, subtly advocating it, and it's Muslims who are unfairly targeted? This movie is nothing more than wish fulfillment.
Posted by: Balrog at October 28, 2006 10:58 AM
Great!
Just what the world needs right now - another movie prominently featuring a black criminal.
Will the racism never cease?
Posted by: Snippet at October 28, 2006 1:58 PM
Great!
Just what the world needs right now - another movie prominently featuring a black criminal.
Will the racism never cease?
Posted by: Snippet at October 28, 2006 1:58 PM
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