Lights, camera, exploitation
That’s Our Bush! The pResident’s re-election campaign kicks off with a shameless 9-11 docudrama
by J. Hoberman, in the new Village Voice:
In the end 9-11 turned out to be a made-for-TV movie, or rather, the basis for one—a shameless propaganda vehicle for our superstar president George W. Bush.And it's NOT A COMEDY!!
The upcoming Showtime feature DC 9/11: Time of Crisis is a signal advance in the instant, ongoing fictionalization of American history, complete with the president fulminating most presidentially against "tinhorn terrorists," decisively employing the word problematic in a complete sentence, selling a rationale for preemptive war, and presciently laying out American foreign policy for the next 18 months.
Good grief.
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