Here’s a test for the wingnuttosphere
If you’re so fired up about the principle of freedom of speech and are outraged by the craven surrender of the German opera’s performance of Idomeneo, I fully expect to hear the same rage directed a little closer to home where the major movie distribution chains are refusing to carry Death of a President.
Newmarket Films set itself an unusual challenge when it decided to release the controversial faux investigative documentary “Death of a President” just six weeks after acquiring the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival last month.
But it might face an even more formidable obstacle because several major theater chains are refusing to play the film, which mixes real news footage with dramatized segments depicting the fictional 2007 death of President Bush.
Newmarket, the 12-year-old Los Angeles-based film financing, production and distribution company, plans to open the film October 27, just in time for the November 7 election.
“Yes, it’s controversial,” Newmarket co-founder Chris Ball said. “It’s quite a compelling political thriller. In many ways it is sympathetic to George Bush. It talks about a rush to judgment. In no way is it a call for violence.”
Or are you really just cherry picking your moments of outrage, in the manner best fit to incite your bigoted belief system?
