Bush Backs New Terrorism TV Series

[Paragon]

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13584,00.html?eol.tkr

In what would be a highly unusual action for a president, George W. Bush is apparently giving the White House seal of approval to a television series, D.H.S.--The Series, a drama about the Department of Home Security being introduced Thursday night to prospective networks at an Industry gathering.

President Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge both "endorse and contribute sound bites to the introductions of the series," according to the show's producers.

Though the series' theme relates to the President's agenda on national security and international terrorism, it is virtually unprecedented for the White House to endorse such a fictional representation. It is unclear what input or relation if any the President or the real DHS would have with the show in the future...(more)

[maggrwaggr]

1. looks like Bush is getting ready for his second career

in Hollywood.

Good luck, bro, you're gonna need it.

[ender]

2. pure f'ing propaganda.

seriously, this is just pure, unadulterated propaganda.

and on THURSDAY NIGHT???? i cant think of a single network that would rearrange their thursday night for propaganda.

[Guaranteed]

4. Yup. Disgusting. nt

[rooboy]

11. Yeah, charming. n/t

[wellst0nev0ter]

3. Jesus H. Christ

Are they purposefully making TV totally unwatchable?

Besides, I thought they already got an Oceania-vs-Eurasia program called Threat Matrix.

[kysrsoze]

10. Threat Matrix was cancelled. Let's hope this is cancelled before airing

[wellst0nev0ter]

36. Cancelled? Really?

Damn, I haven't been watching network teevee for a while :)

[hyphenate]

25. I watched a few episodes of Threat Matrix

And after like five episodes total, I realized what a piece of major propaganda it was. In fact, it was painfully obvious that it was--in one scene in one episode, there was a liaison to the president talking to the president on the phone which gave the distinct impression that the president was intelligent. We ALL know that can't be OUR president, don't we? :)

[damnyankee2601]

37. Actually, I thought it evolved.

Call me paranoid, but I thought it was propogandist crap from the get go, and watched it under the "know your enemy" doctrine. I noticed toward the end that they started portraying some of the moral ambiguities of of the "Patriot" Act, and then they got cancelled.

[orwell]

5. Butts for Bush

Will there be any naked girls?

Or...Mel Gibson's butt...:puke:

Never mind...

O

[yo-yo-ma]

6. groan and retch

[aquart]

7. Interesting casting:

<http://steepledistributions.com/apex/alison.html>

Executives

Alison Heruth Waterbury is the Chief Operating Officer of Allied American Group Ltd. and co-founder of Steeple Distributions, Ltd a film production and distribution company in California, and Apex International, LLC a real estate entity.

Ms. Heruth Waterbury has had a successful career in the film and television industry playing the lead female role opposite ER's Goran Visnijic in The Last Will (Independent Pictures). Her television roles include the lead in the new upcoming D.H.S. the series, about homeland security (Drama).

She has recently been sponsored as the most recent life time member of Women in Film, sponsored by Tichi Wilkerson-Kassel. She has become a Reserve Sheriff for Orange County under Sheriff Michael Cronna and a Senior Advisor of the Clergy for Sheriff Lee Baca for the LAPD.

-snip-

Ms. Heruth Waterbury is the founder of Colors of Our World (1998), a Christian organization to assist underprivileged children and single mothers through educational programs, housing facilities and financial support. She is the mother of four children.


I've never seen an acting resume like it.

[Democat]

13. CIA?

A little government sponsored propaganda?

[soup]

28. Big Arnold supporter - $21,200.00

STEEPLE DISTRIBUTIONS, LTD on the list

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy for governor with a pledge that "I don't need to take any money from anybody" because "I have plenty of money myself." Arnold's about-face on his promise to accept no campaign contributions brought millions of dollars into his campaign chest, and gave rise to the Governor's $21,200 Club - those donors who gave Arnold $21,200, the maximum amount allowable by law.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/arnoldwatch/special_interests/

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:yourock: Good catch, aquart! :yourock:

What else can we find add to this?

[Wwagsthedog]

8. Thanks for the warning.

nt

[mobuto]

9. Forget D.H.S. -- The Series

I'm still waiting for :

"Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board -- The Series"

or "Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission -- Undercover"

Who says television has to be boring? This is great stuff!

[hatrack]

12. "Black Lung Advisory Investigative Panel - Miami"

"Federal Aviation Administration Refueling Standards Working Group - With Richard Dean Anderson as The Commissioner!"

"Foot and Mouth Disease Trackers - This week - Paola, Kansas!"

"Country-Of-Origin-Labeling Subcommittee of the Investigative Committee of the Meat & Plant Food Safety Inspection Service - starring Neve Campbell and Martin Landau!"

This fall, all the action is right here on ABC!!

Damn, Mobutu, I think you're on to something here!

[JawJaw]

16. Don't Miss...

Coming up soon from the Office Of Pulp Propaganda,

I'm An "Enemy Combatant" Being Held
Indefinitely Without Charge
- Get Me Out Of Here !!!

[74dodgedart]

30. How about a reality show -- Computer Programmers compete for McJobs

[myrna minx]

31. The Simpsons had a spoof of Law and Order.

Law and Order: Elevator Inspections Unit.

teehee.

[Lisa]

14. will there be a laugh track?

Because Bush is likely to blurt out self-serving statements about how attentive he is to these issues -- and it would make listening to them halfway bearable.

[wickerwoman]

15. But the DHS is already fictional.

Code High Orange my ass.

[truthisfreedom]

17. of course bush backs anything to do with terror. he needs nonstop fear to

keep his agenda alive.

[oldcoot]

18. Threat Matrix

This series sounds similar to Threat Matrix(it also was propaganda). Was Threat Matrix canceled?

[annagull]

19. It's not TV, it's HBO?

gee, wonder why HBO-Time-Warner would do this sucking up?

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Well, someone's lying

Either the government or the producers; my money is on both.

The show is billed as a realistic action series following the exploits of Special DHS Agents Andrea Bacall and Jack Callahan, portrayed by actors Alison Heruth Waterbury and Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh. The characters venture from the halls of Washington, D.C., to war-torn locales as they fight fanatical terrorism. Producers claim "the series will educate, inform, and inspire the average citizens around the world about America's front-line defense/offense against those who have declared war on the U.S. and our democratic allies."

The Department of Homeland Security shouldn't be venturing to war-torn locales - unless things are a lot worse in America than I'd heard. Either the whole department is a scam (quite possible), or the producers are putting out blatant government propaganda - trying to pretend that they're saving people around the world, instead of imprisoning immigrants without trial, or checking up on your reading habits (neither of which has the required sexiness for TV).

At least when the BBC produced "Spooks", about MI5, it showed them spying on British people as well as foreigners, and getting screwed over by the CIA.

[Kinkistyle]

21. It will star Tom Ridge changing the Terror Alert Color code.

Ridge: A scandal involving Cheney? Code Orange! Whew! Back to yellow. What now? The WH Press Corp getting uppity? PUMP IT BACK UP TO ORANGE, STAT!

[saigon68]

40. Tom Ridge needs to trot out the duct tape again

What a jerk. My aged aunt almost went crazy when Tom Terrific told her to buy duct tape and visquine sheeting.

[Voltaire99]

22. TV *is* terrorism

See the essay by Francine Prose in the current issue of Harper's Magazine, in which she brilliantly reads reality TV as an infecter of Republican values.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

32. Great bumpersticker. The Culture Wars need to be revealed. More...

"TV is TERRORISM" would make a great bumpersticker/t-shirt campaign.

How about-"FREE ALAN ALDA FROM GITMO BAY" to also indicate culture wars?

And here's today's first obligatory recap of Dominionism as culture war against the US Constitution:

I've decided to post this synopsis in all my thread responses:


The whipping up of the old anti-semitic and anti-homosexual memes is cover for a very real and documented campaign to make this country a Hitlerian Theocracy fueled by fundamentalist passions called 'Dominionism.'
This is the religion-fueled fascism:
Supreme dictators smiting evildoers wrathfully with no legal restraints.

'THE CHOSEN FEW' IS BEING MORPHED INTO 'THE MASTER RACE'
THE SAME WAY 'GET OSAMA' WAS MORPHED INTO 'GET SADDAM'! GET IT?

We are living in the closing minutes of a culture war that the American Taliban, called Dominionists, are winning. 'Might Makes Right' is WINNING over 'The Rule of Law. The US Constitution is being gutted and replaced with the Bible but we will all suffer permanent war, not enjoy imminent peace. Have you noticed the last three years?

Georgie's brain is much worse than you think and he's being used for terrible purposes. Here's a British clinical psychologist's researched analysis of the boy king. He interviewed Georgie's family, friends and such and determined that he was abused as a child and developed an 'authoritarian personality,' the root of fascism! Read it and weep for him and us.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html
(So George, how do you feel about your mom and dad?)-CLICK

And this personality is being exploited to further the creation of a Hitlerian Theocracy called ‘Dominionism’, which has been going on in this country for the last thirty years. Read it and wonder what the hell we're in for next now that Eugenics is domestic policy and Imperialism is foreign policy.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_5160.shtml
(God Bless America, The Constitution is Dead)-CLICK

If you'd like to read the full speech of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia back in the dark ages of January 2002 when he said that 'democracy interferes with the Divine Right of Kings and he's doing something about it,' read this and wonder what century we're living in and just what that Constitution was for, anyway.
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/scalia.htm
(God's Justice and Ours)-CLICK

How can they get away with it when everyone seems to be pissed off at Georgie and we're supposed to be able to vote the bastard out of our White House? By fixing the electronic voting machines for 'the House.' Read this and decide which country to escape to this fall when Georgie is reinstalled to finish the job he was sent to do-eliminate democracy totally, create a police state, and conquer the world.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
(Diebold, Electonic Voting, and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)-CLICK

LATE BREAKING NEWS-FEB. 26 2004
Right now the Dominionists are introducing legislation to replace 'The People' as the authority in our democracy’s Constitution with ‘God’ in a bill called ‘The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004,’ exactly the opposite of what it really is. The legalities of the Christian Theocracy are being used to destroy our laws as if by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

This is not a test! It is absolutely real and happening right now while the media are busy covering gay marriage and Mel Gibson’s bloody crucifixion porn film, ‘The Passion of the Christ.’

“…on February 11 , 2004 Dominionist leaders in congress made their move; they introduced a bill in both houses called The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004. Among the sponsors of the bill are Rep. Robert Aderholt (Alabama), Rep. Michael Pence (Indiana), Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, Sen. Zell Miller (Georgia), Sen. Sam Brownback (Kansas), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (South Carolina).

The House version is H.R. 3799 and the Senate version is S. 2082. The bill limits the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts to hear cases involving “expressions of religious faith by elected or appointed officials.”

Although the claim by its sponsors appears to be that the intention is to prevent the courts from hearing cases involving the Ten Commandments or a Nativity Scene in a public setting from being reviewed, the law is drawn broadly and expressly includes the acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law by an official in his capacity of executing his office.”

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0402/S00172.htm
(The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004)-CLICK

[wabeewoman]

47. This article is a must read!

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_5160.shtml
It explains so much of the thinking of bush and cronies. I could never understand why they would want to get rid of social security and safety nets for the poor. I highly recommend reading this article. Its long but so worthwhile-it isn't just rhetoric about 2004. Thanks for posting it!

[Solly Mack]

23. Well, now that's sickening

America...I never knew ya

[R Hickey]

24. J Edgar Hoover oversaw production of the TV series the "FBI"

Hoover helped pick Effrim Zimbalis Jr. to be the star.

Hoover also reviwed all the show's scripts, and publicly endorsed the series, just like Dubya and Tom Ridge are doing with this new creation.

[saigon68]

34. Hoover helped pick out his own dresses

He was one very bizarre human being. He was a racist too. He bugged Martin Luther King.

He also had the dirt on everyone . He was a liar and a blackmailer.

[rocktivity]

26. Let me guess--a couple of cute young things

and she'll be a brunette so people will think she's smart...



:headbang:
rocknation

[dusty64]

27. This is crazy, a new

WH propaganda series. I couldn't figure out what network would be airing this, any idea? Does anyone know what company produced that Pravda piece about chimp and 9/11, I can't recall.

[74dodgedart]

29. It will give Bush a chance to try on his flight-suit costume again

[The_Gopher]

33. actually, Bushco endorses fiction all the time

"it is virtually unprecedented for the White House to endorse such a fictional representation"

actually, the Bushies are always pushing fiction--WMD pre-war intelligence, budget numbers, medicare reform, tax cuts, job growth. they're endorsing fictional representations daily.

[peekaloo]

35. lol...I was just about to post the same thing!

:thumbsup:

and this was after posting an "amen" to a post about Michael Moore's Oscar speech from last year!

[Seldona]

38. Fictional Representation?

Well no wonder he supports it wholeheartedly.

Pure propaganda.

Boo! The terrorists are out to get you!

And Uncie George is here to help.

Bah.

[neverforget]

39. Goebbels is proud of this Administration. Propaganda pure and

simple.

[saigon68]

41. They have taken disinformation to "NEW" heights

Goebbels is jealous he wasn't born in 1958

[farmbo]

42. Lemme guess...It will run on CBS

EOM

[colonel odis]

43. can we just all vote and get these phuckheads out of office.

though i shudder to think at their indignation if they are shown the door. we had to listen to their juvenile whining, which devolved into sheer bitterness and hatred, for 8 long years.

so once we vote them out of office, can we get an fcc that will shut assholes like hannity and rush down. can we get an sec that will go after the carlyle group instead of trying martha steward for witchcraft.

in other words, can we just get our country back?

[achtung_circus]

44. Will the show's budget come out of the Bush/Cheney "war chest"? n/t

[Khephra]

45. wrong thread

sorry

[MetaTrope]

46. Oh lovely

From The Boston Globe:

One poster for the series uses a picture of Bush and his Cabinet members with their heads bowed in prayer. Medawar said Christianity will be a central element of the show, whose trailer has an agent saying, "Hey Johnny, do me a favor -- say a prayer," as he runs into a hostage situation.