Dubya Unplugged. Unplugged from Condi, that is! Zing!

Real men go to Paris. The shopping is much better than in Tehran.

I don't know why, but the part of Bush was played by Mr. Magoo in my head.

I hope this movie phails.

What! Oliver Stone! Make something up? Holy shit!

I loved it when he had Jim Garrison discover a nest of New Orleans leather queens and tie them to the Kennedy Assassination.

If Stone does with this movie what he did with Nixon, then the audience might come away unexpectedly sympathizing with Bush 43.

Only Stone could screw up a man who caricatures himself.

@Mike_Jahn: "Back... and to the left. Back... and to the left. Back... and to the left."

So basically this is going to be one long SNL skit but cheezier and in black and white whit jump cuts.

I've got my countdown to 129 going just like everyone else, but I think I can live without this crap. That's My Bush and Lil Bush will work just fine. And probably be classier.

I also didn't know until Ollie told me that Jim Morrison wore white jocket shorts under his famous leather pants. Wow! Radical. I am the Lizard King. I can wear BVDs.

@Goober_Pea: ...and a score by John Williams.

Where is Scroll_Lock when I need him?

This screams National Lampoon's Escape from Abu Ghraib

@In Other News...: Yeah, right. The theme music for Darth Vader plays as Bush strides across the lawn from the chopper.

This is so over the top with the non-alcoholic beer clinking that I wonder if the whole thing will just be a big acid trip, more Natural Born Killers than Nixon. Like maybe Bush will be ordering troops to go to war, and the White House will be on fire and Juliette Lewis will be all writhing around in the background for no reason.

I hope so! No point in going for accurate fiction when you can show *actual videotape* of these people acting stupid, and they'll deny it, claim it was out of context, blame filmmaker, etc.

@BalknChain: Jar Jar Goes to Washington.

@Mike_Jahn: Harold and Kumar Go To The White House

You know it's grade C Hollywood when the scriptwriter has characters talking to one another, often face to face, and using first names.

Listen, Had ...
Open the pod door, Hal ...
He's dead, Jim ...

Yo Ollie, round up Kukla and Fran and get your ass back to the Hill School.

@Mike_Jahn: Williams scored Born On The Fourth Of July, JFK and Nixon. Did a great job with all.

Definitely. I'm not criticizing him. Far from it.

(shakes head in disapproval) Anybody can go to Tehran. Real men go down to the Bush.

This film writes itself:

Bush says something dumb.
Rice says something sensible.
Cheney says something evil.
Bush smirks and has a cold one. "Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh."

Scene.

wow, even I don't get that last comment.

@TedSez: oh boy, now I picture Bush with his shirt over his head ala Beavis
heh heh heh heh I need TP for my...
Yeah, I need to go to bed *sigh*

@TedSez:
"Palestine is the king's beer mug isn't it?" the President asked.

"Well, Mr. President," the Secretary of State replied, "We should take that into consideration."

"Don't patronize your patron, Brown Sugar," the Vice President snarled.

I can't think of any more Bush dialogue and I have to get up in the morning.

Real men drink alcoholic beer

Ugh. 8 years of utter ridonculousness, and this is the best we can do?

If you're going to make stuff up, I want to see W doing snuff off Geronimo's skull in the middle of Skull & Bones headquarters while jacking off into a time capsule.

Wow, Mike, this really got you going :)

Who said Rice said something sensible? Rice, repeatedly, has the job of disseminating the most outlandish and outrageous administration lies. She was the one who used "mushroom cloud" in a speech about Iraq's WMDs. Only Cheney is comparable in his sheer inability to tell the truth. Rummy was at least, mostly, amusing, the best dinner guest, hypothetically.

This script looks totally wrong to me. Bush is not an initiator. He is absolutely nothing like a driven man, or a person who convinces people in a group conversation.

@nanotalent: YES. Or into a time portal. And the other end of the portal will be just above his head during his Mission Accomplished speech. Kind of a la Donnie Darko.

Other than Salvador and Platoon, I don't think I can sit through any other Oliver Stone films.

OTOH, according the Graydon Carter, et al, Bush was actually dead drunk on the occasion of his infamous pretzel choking episode.

If that was ever confirmed and put to celluloid, I'd pay serious money just to see that one scene. Just to pull the curtain back on his entire charade of a presidency and just to shut his hagiographers the fuck up.

If that scene's supposed to be about the birth of "the Axis of Evil," shouldn't David Frum be in it? And what's his drink of choice?

So Karl Rove opens a non-alcoholic beer and says nothing. In other words, we are supposed to believe Rove -- the so-called "Bush's Brain" -- played the role of "Bush's Tee Totaler" in the White House? Realistic.

May of the meta-Oliver Stone lines never make it past the studio suits. For instance, my favorite line in Wall Street, after Bud finds out Gekko two-timed him on Blue Star Airlines: "I feel like I've been bent over the sink of life and dry-humped." Apparently it never made it into the film, but it's in the script. That's what makes Oliver Stone so awesome: you can see him thinking of it, biting the eraser of his #2 pencil, touching it up a bit and then smiling in sweet satisfaction.

Cheney's big Lecter line, "real men go to Tehran", is an accurate quote. According to a 2004 Time article, it was one of the "playful slogans" of the neocons during the buildup to the Iraq invasion.

Complaining about making pantomime villains out of the Bush administration is like complaining that Untergang "humanized" Hitler. The sad fact of the matter is that Hitler *was* human, with all the terrible existential implications that that carries; conversely, the even sadder fact is that the current rulers of Planet Earth are straight-up pantomime villains.

@nanotalent: He doesn't have the balls. Fray boy pranks are about his speed.

@Mike_Jahn: Frat boy, I meant. "Fray boy" sounds more like Russell Crowe.

I thought it was "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Damascus"

@regisgoat: Syriana.

@Mike_Jahn: A nest? I thought they lived in burrows.

Unless Cheney's "coffee mug" is filled with the fresh squeezed blood of newly murdered infants, this is totally inaccurate. Also, non-alcoholic beer? Riiiiiiight.

Totally inaccurate. There's no way Bush could pronounce "Khatami." He'd more likely use a nickname like "The K-Dawg."

@Steverino: Yes! And maybe at some point, he jumps into the portal and gets lost in time, eventually winding up in 1774. He almost derails the American revolution by showing the founding fathers how to make beer bongs and play polo on baby dinosaurs.

             JEFFERSON
   Ow! The infernal beast has claimed
   my hand!

             BUSH
   Alright, nobody panic. Don't get
   me wrong, these things have strong
   jaws, but they're vegetabletarians.

All of a sudden, Washington strides up and punches Jefferson square in the jaw.
The baby dino, startled, spits out Jefferson's hand.

             GERONIMO
             (laughing)
   Oh, snap!

             BUSH
   You did it, Ragey! Look, his hand is free!

             WASHINGTON
   His hand is what? Oh, right.
   That's... why I hit him, right. Hey, do
   we have any more of those gelatin
   shooters?

One of the dinos (the cutest one) winks at the camera.

I hope this doesn't come out until after the 2008 elections. In 2004, I think that Michael Moore movie, oddly enough, helped Bush seem like a "goof", especially from the clips. I don't want the diversion of this movie to take away from the Democratic ticket. By the fall, it's probably going to be Geraldine Ferraro and Ralph Nader, but just saying...

i dont know -- seems like ryan tate might secretly be a right winger. maybe even a christian. why does he keep calling bullshit on this?

Are they getting Caliendo?

"Turd Blossom" used to be a joke name for my dog.