It's only a film, or "a 'thought-provoking critique' of contemporary US society," but from some of the headlines in the British press, you might think it was the actual news of the day.
Headlines include: BUSH WHACKED: FURY AS DUBYA 'ASSASSINATED', President Dubya done for, George Bush Is Dead, US President George Bush 'assassinated', and from Canada, Bush assassinated, on TV anyway.
"Nearly every British newspaper on Friday carried photos of the assassination of President Bush -- or at least the eerily realistic depiction of it from a new documentary-style television film that is causing an uproar in Britain."
A caption on a photo from a scene in the film reads: It's OK! The bullet hit him in the head.
Snippets from The Daily Mail-UK:
In Death Of A President, which has caused outrage in America and will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this month, the shooting is a starting point for a fictional documentary about what happened next. So what would happen if President Bush was assassinated?
While America closed ranks and mourned, across the Islamic world Bush's death was greeted with outpourings of joy.
But what hurt Americans most was the Europeans' lack of grief. . . The Independent newspaper published its obituary with a front-page collage under the headline 'Latest victim of war on terror'.
The BBC played a montage of Bush's malapropisms from 'Don't mis-underestimate me' to 'The nostalgia for my administration will only begin after it's over'.
At home and abroad, the gloating over Bush's death soon gave way to a sober realisation that he had actually been a check on Dick Cheney's ruthless way of defending America from enemies at home or abroad.
'I thrive on crisis,' Cheney explained, 'it was peace that got me tense.'
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