Putting ideas into people's heads
Earlier this month, there was a big fuss being made over a British mockumentary that depicts the assassination of President Bush as the catalyst to a heady detective story. Critics blasted the film as "shocking" and "disturbing". Others said the movie could "put ideas into people's heads" and trigger a real assassination attempt.
I wonder what they will have say about this scene from The Path To 9/11. Something tells me not much.
John from AMERICAblog describes the scene:
Please tell me how this scene is any different from the British drama? Sure, technically Clinton wasn't "killed" in that scene. But what about the criticism that airing a mock Bush assassination would "put ideas into people's heads"? The same can be said for this scene as well. And this is especially true if it's viewed, with all it's Clinton blaming glory, by someone who is already mentally unstable.
Or does it only matter when those "ideas" are directed at a Republican?
Update: The scene is even worse then I thought. Not only does it show the image of Clinton being shot at but the crowd then begans to chant "Clinton is Satan" over and over. The Clinton hatred of the makers of this is palpable.
I wonder what they will have say about this scene from The Path To 9/11. Something tells me not much.
John from AMERICAblog describes the scene:
Nice. Now I'm watching a scene where a movie of President Clinton is being projected on a screen, it's footage from some Clinton speech, and a Taliban guy walks up and shoots several times at Clinton's head, you see a good 5 or 6 or more bullets make holes in the screen in the middle of Clinton's head, just like he's assassinating Clinton.
Yes, we now have Disney/ABC throwing in mock assassinations of Bill Clinton. Did the Taliban really stage such a mock assassination of Clinton with bin Laden watching, and somehow we got a blow-by-blow of the entire scene? Or did Disney/ABC decide to throw in a mock assassination of Clinton just for the fun of it? You decide.
Please tell me how this scene is any different from the British drama? Sure, technically Clinton wasn't "killed" in that scene. But what about the criticism that airing a mock Bush assassination would "put ideas into people's heads"? The same can be said for this scene as well. And this is especially true if it's viewed, with all it's Clinton blaming glory, by someone who is already mentally unstable.
Or does it only matter when those "ideas" are directed at a Republican?
Update: The scene is even worse then I thought. Not only does it show the image of Clinton being shot at but the crowd then begans to chant "Clinton is Satan" over and over. The Clinton hatred of the makers of this is palpable.
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