And the next front starts - Conason has the scoop

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Thursday August 19, 2004 · 9:53 PM PDT

2004/08/19 · 21:53

Well, Joe Conason has the scoop on the forthcoming anti-Kerry, We-can-be-F911 too, "documentary" from RNC friends, Citizens United.

You remember them. They were the same ones who gave Moore all that priceless advertising on the eve of the opening of Fahrenheit 9/11 where they demanded that the FEC shut Moore down from advertising his film on television.

Now they plan to release a feature-length documentary -- including many of the allegations of our esteemed Swift Boat Veterans for Revenge -- saying that Kerry is a scumbag. Oh, and that OBL wants him to win.

Conason's most important point: This "film" is made by people with clear and close ties to both Rove and the RNC (they are making two shorts for the RNC convention) and they may, in fact, be in violation of the same laws they claimed Moore was violating. (More friends of Rove involved in obliterating Kerry. Who'da thought?)

If the movie poster Salon has up is right, it's a keeper -- Kerry right next to OBL and SH with our beaming "Mission Accomplished" president hovering above (see below, but beware of gag reflex).

An excerpt:

An outline of the "The Big Picture" obtained by Salon suggests that the Citizens United documentary will offer not only a staunch defense of Bush but also an aggressive attack on Kerry, including a recitation of various smears having to do with his medal-winning military history put forward lately by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The outline portrays the Democratic nominee as the preferred candidate of such "foreign leaders" as Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong Il and the Nicaraguan Sandinista Party, and as an "appeaser" of European powers deemed corrupt and hostile to U.S. interests -- especially France. Virtually all the world's other nations are solidly behind Bush and the war in Iraq, according to the outline, which labors to disprove allegations that Bush "lied" about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaida.
[Filmmaker] Chetwynd, widely known as one of the Bush administration's most fervent advocates in the movie industry, serves on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. He also happens to be a friend of political strategist Karl Rove. Last year, Chetwynd directed Showtime's "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis," a semi-fictionalized docudrama about the White House response to the terrorist attacks (described in the Washington Post by reviewer Tom Shales as "primitive propaganda" and "a reelection campaign movie"). Now, while he toils on the Citizens United documentary at a studio in North Hollywood, he is also preparing two films to be screened at the Republican National Convention, according to Daily Variety. The first is a "tribute" to the late President Ronald Reagan, for whom Chetwynd once served as a speechwriter. The second is a "toast to George W. Bush."

Personally I think this movie will go the way of "America the Beautiful," or whatever that feel-good, we're not F911, Disney movie was called. No one will see it (unless they bus people in from churches, maybe). Hopefully after the swift boat liars are taken down, the media will not give it credence either.

Still, I didn't think it would be possible for me to feel more animosity toward Bush, but somehow, as each day passes and we get closer to the election, he exceeds my expectations.

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