The easiest money you can make

Whats the easiest money you can make? Selling missiles to Iran? Selling nuclear technology to North Korea? Being a Palestinian? No way.

The easiest money on earth is:

"Death of a President, on More4, uses actors and computer effects to portray the president being shot dead during an anti-war rally in Chicago in 2007."

Guess which President they mean, and you win todays putty medal.

As the program maker says "It's a pointed political examination of what the War on Terror did to the American body politic. I'm sure that there will be people who will be upset by it but when you watch it you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is."

Mmmmm. Perhaps. A more reasonable way of characterising it would be something like "...another hack piece of lefty bullshit fantasising about the murder of George Bush." And if you don't think that this is a common fantasy for those in the US and around the world whose pet peeve is the continued existence of Mr Bush, do a Google on George W Bush and assassinate.

The Democrats in the US in particular have spectacularly descended from their historical position as a moderately left-of-centre party with wholly American instincts into a festering melange of hate-groups, eco-frenzies, special interest lobbies, single race promotion groups and America-haters. As they become more extreme and unhinged, fewer and fewer ordinary Americans are willing to associate themselves with it. Joe Lieberman has already payed the price of having a rational view, and Hilary Clinton I predict will too. Democrat policy can now be summarized as:

We hate George W Bush
Pull all troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Apologize to the world and grovel in self-abasement
We hate George W Bush
Stop all meaningful economic activity (due to warming of earth)
We hate George W Bush
Give zillions of dollars to third-world dictators as recompense for our oppression
By the way, did we mention we hate George W Bush? Just checking.

Anyway, returning to the original point of this post, making TV programs that feed into the Bush-hatred feeding frenzy is just about the closest thing right now to a guarunteed banker. "Producers of the film, which is directed by Gabriel Range, hope to sell the broadcast rights to the US."

I'm just surprised that there aren't five or six more of these murder-fantasies flying around, given that as soon as you get a distribution deal for the US, you can retire to the Bahamas with you hefty pile of loot, braying all the while about the fascist policies of Mr Bushitlerhaliburton. The sangria tastes so much better when its got that dash of self-righteousness.


All quotes taken from this BBC website article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5302598.stm?ls