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D.O.A.P., man
Like another magazine, we too are "well aware that the dangers of counterfactual speculation ... are almost as grave as those of unbridled futurism," but that doesn't stop us from showing you some video from Gabriel Range's speculative Bush assassination mockumentary, Death of a President. The movie premiered this week at the Toronto Film Festival and is the latest entry in the Bush assassination fantasy canon. It follows Nicholson Baker's Checkpoint (a "scummy little book" according to Leon Wieseltier in The New York Times Book Review), and a recent Harper's editorial by Ben Metcalf in which he wonders, "Am I allowed to write that I would like to hunt down George W. Bush, the president of the United States, and kill him with my bare hands?" Then there's Cindy Sheehan who fantasized about snuffing out the president as a baby. (Sheehan and others have found their words of criticism and magical thinking used against them by rightwing pundits, notably Michelle Malkin who trumpets KILL BUSH MANIA in her syndicated column this week.)

Watch two D.O.A.P. clips after the jump and decide for yourself whether they're fantasy worthy.





And currently on YouTube ...



In Other Late Breaking News...

>> Leashed: Dog the Bounty Hunter finds himself on the other side of the law.

>> Attack: A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. Army base in Iraq, killing two and wounding 29.

>> Sorry, GOB: The makers of the Segway scooter called an across the board recall due to a software glitch.

>> Details: The name of the gunman who shot up Dawson College in Montreal has been released. 25-year-old Kimveer Gill can be seen holding weapons in numerous photos on the Internet, and even mocked up a fake tombstone for himself that reads, "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."

   09/14/06 5:37 PM
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