The World According to Bush - tonight (Sunday), Newsworld

[iverglas]

Don't forget: tonight on The Passionate Eye.

http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/feature_171004.html

Comes recommended by Aussies who already had it on TV. (It's French-made ... same director as Dark Side of the Moon -- did anybody else see that?)

In case anybody misses it the first time around, it re-airs on Friday night at 10 p.m. (I'm not sure whether the 1 a.m. Passionate Eye broadcast, Sunday night / Monday morning, is the same thing -- I think it is.)

"If you're not yet having nightmares
about the world being in the hands of a
circle of crazed zealots, this should do it.
The World According to Bush, a two-
hour documentary about the inner-
workings of the Bush administration, will
frighten even the most hardened
Washington-watchers."

[metis]

1. Thanks for the reminder

It is a terrific program.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

2. It was okay -- a little too "conspiratorial", though.

Brought up a lot of important stuff.

Its rare -- extremely rare -- to see anything about Prescott Bush and his Nazi ties, in the mainstream media.

BUT, it bordered on tinfoil hate conspiratorialism at some points. So, Karl Rove invested in Boeing? What does that have to do with ANYTHING??

I'm starting to invest in the stock market, and I can't imagine my investing in an airplane/military company being therefore correlated with the fact that I'm an evil madman bent on world-domination and blowing up Arab countries. Karl Rove bought STOCKS of Boeing and that somehow makes him evil?

If I buy stocks of Altria, a company that happens to make cigarettes, does that make me an evil despicable bastard?

[iverglas]

3. hmm ... anybody else want to field it? ;)

I have to admit that I didn't watch. We switched to the second half of it when Law&OrderCI ended, but I'd already slept through the last half of that, and I promptly went back to sleep. I woke up and considered finding the tape to put in to record the 1 a.m. broadcast, but went back to sleep again, knowing that I'd have a chance to catch it in Friday night.

Such will codeine (and the hacking virus it is combatting) do to a normally motivated and diligent TV viewer!

The co-vivant, who watched hour two, briefly commented that there wasn't anything new to him in it, but then there isn't much new that one could tell him about a Bush or a Rove. I don't follow quite so closely myself; rotten and evil are rotten and evil, and I figure I don't need to clutter up my head with every little detail of rot and evilness.

But ... as with Enron stock ... isn't the point that he had major holdings in a company that was dealing with the US govt ... in a way that was perhaps not in the public interest?

"I'm starting to invest in the stock market, and I can't imagine my investing in an airplane/military company being therefore correlated with the fact that I'm an evil madman bent on world-domination and blowing up Arab countries. Karl Rove bought STOCKS of Boeing and that somehow makes him evil?"

I haven't had the feeling that his ownership of stock, per se, was the point, and I don't know what the film said about it all; maybe we need some Rove / Bush admin experts to set us straight.

[Canadian_moderate]

4. I watched a bit of it

It was pretty lame and I pretty much already knew that because the Starweek (Toronto Star's TV guide) had slammed it as being pretty lame and boring and recommended not to waste your time on it. That says a lot coming from the left-of-centre Toronto Star.

From what I saw, I'd agree with them. I've seen much more informative journalism that slams Bush & Co.

I'm against the war in Iraq, but I don't always trust the French either. They've got their own agenda. In my visit to France in May of this year I also found most French people I dealt with to be rude and inconsiderate. I couldn't wait to cross over into Germany, where the people were friendly and hospitable. Sorry for the rant against the French, but that was my experience.