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Thursday, May 29, 2003
      ( 8:51 AM )
 
The Bush Docu-Drama Administration

Expounding on our thinking about BushCo designing a made-for-tv-movie history for us all to soak up and forget the truth... Vinman in the comments below points to a fantastic post on Some Kind of Bliss about the news that the white house is orchestrating a television movie to be shown this September about the President's heroic, triumphant handling of 9/11. Skob makes a good point: that it's being strategically shown right around the anniversary of 9/11, right around the time that the election campaigns kick into high gear. From The Globe and Mail:

A copy of the script obtained by The Globe
and Mail reveals a prime-time drama starring
a nearly infallible, heroic president with
little or no dissension in his ranks and a
penchant for delivering articulate, stirring,
off-the-cuff addresses to colleagues.

Ironically, this masterpiece of theatre is being filmed in Canada...where the president in question refused to go based on their rejection of our fine excuses to invade Iraq:

That the whole thing was filmed in Canada
and is eligible for financial aid from Canadian
taxpayers, and that its loyal Republican
writer-producer is a Canadian citizen best
known for his adaptation of The Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz, are ironies that will be lost
on most of its American viewers when it airs
on the Showtime network this fall.

I guess we can be thankful that the majority of television watching Americans don't have Showtime. On the other hand, this is just one example of a finely-crafted image machine that is covering the actions of this white house in not just a white-wash, but a pristine coating of sublime polymer finish that they are hoping will never be cracked.

So, along with the manipulation by the media and the white house controllers in our every-day news consumption about this government, we now have tv movies being made in the interests, not of telling history or the truth, but in the interests of preserving a lie. And not just the lie that Bush wasn't a heroic president in charge of a well-oiled team on 9/11, not the lie that he had any inkling of a foreign policy that might have made a difference even before 9/11, not the lie that it was the entire country of Afghanistan that needed bombing to atone for 9/11, not the lie that it was Iraq who was responsible for the terrorism inside our borders, not the lie that reducing tax revenue will create jobs and help the economy, not the lie that corporations don't get any favors from this administration, not even the lie that we are more secure now... the lie that must be preserved is that George W. Bush won the presidency by national election in 2000 and took his throne by mandate of a majority of the American voting public. THAT'S the lie that must be protected and slowly dissolved away into the history of television movies and finely-crafted news bites.

And that's the lie that we need to keep exposing and, more importantly, disprove next year.

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