Suddenly I've seen the trailer on cable news three times tonight. I don't like
this fucking movie one little bit. It opens tomorrow, and it looks to me like the only thing that could possibly generate any sympathy at this late stage for our failed and still-failing Republican leaders.
As much as anything has smelled over the last six years -- and just about everything has -- this to me stinks to high heaven.
This isn't a Chicken Little diary, so I don't think a SYFP response is warranted (but that's up to you). This isn't the end of the world.
I just want to explore what our response should be to the release of a movie, eleven days before the 2006 election, graphically depicting the assassination of President George W. Bush.
So, what do we do? I think any blogger that's accepted ads for this thing should jettison them immediately. I think prominent bloggers on the left should publicly trash this film at every opportunity. I think we need to agree on a fairly uniform statement.
Something like...
"While freedom of speech is at the core of our nation's beliefs and should always remain a near-absolute right in our country, the release of a film depicting the assassination of our currently serving president, eleven days before a major, real-world U.S. election, serves only to distract from, if not poison, our national debate about real issues.
Let's let all the talk about this and that fiction that some may hope will now come to dominate the conversation give way to real talk about real facts. This is the real world we are living in. Let's talk about that, and what that means we need to do on November 7th."
Your thoughts?