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awesome
Perfection. Sums up what an idiot this guy is. Lets hope the film has the same-lets laugh so we don’t cry kind of vibe.
This is probably the closest Josh Brolin has looked like Dummy yet.
Hm.
Finally Brolin looks like Bush
So this confirms it. It’s a comedy.
Still does absolutely nothing for me. I have very little faith in this film.
It works on so many levels.
Bush is fuckin’ quack. I can’t wait to see this movie so I can laugh at the world’s biggest idiot who was elected, ahem, twice on the grandest stage.
I have faith that it will show doubters how dumb the real W. really is…
“Is our marketeers learning? Yes.”
Is our grammar learning? Apparently not. Or maybe you’re just trying to emulate Bush. Gotcha.
emulate? I’d call it ‘mocking’
“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?”
—George W. Bush, Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
(ah, January 2000. Happier days. When Bush was just a simple clown; instead of a murderous war criminal clown.)
Where is RRA? I love how he talked about Kris ripping off AD, when this is at least the third or fourth story in the past week that I saw on InContention first.
No disrespect to either site–I need BOTH of them equally to survive.
In Contention and Awards Daily don’t invent these items out of thin air, Adam. We both have our sources, and find things independently.
If I learn something at Kris’ site I give him credit, and he does the same for us.
If one site finds something of interest before another, I think that only means that we also have lives that occasionally need living
What can I add that’s unique to AD? I could say that this poster gets an A- because of two symbolic flaws:
1) Bush’s watch says it’s high noon, when in fact we know it’s only the eleventh hour.
2) Bush’s hands are awkwardly positioned to hold King Abdullah’s dick while sucking it.
See? That’s something you won’t hear at In Contention.
“I have faith that it will show doubters how dumb the real W. really is…”
Why are you all acting like this is some revolutionary approach to depicting George Bush? From what I’ve learned about the film so far, it doesn’t look like this is going to be any different from the Bush that has been depicted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on their respective TV shows for the last six years. Not to mention every single Bush impersonator from Will Ferrel to Frank Caliendo seems to have done this same schtick as well. Need we forget there was even an entire animated TV series dedicated to showing Bush as a foolish idiot: Lil’ Bush (which if you ever watched it was one of the most groan-inducing spectacles of “entertainment” I’ve ever seen, talk about taking a one-joke premise and running it into the ground). For all I know that show might still be on the air. Yet you all seem to believe based on this poster that now the world will all realize what an incompetent leader Bush has been for two terms. This isn’t some new nuanced approach, it’s not something the world has been lacking recently and clamoring for. We’ve already had plenty of it, and we’ve had it done much better than this Oliver Stone dreck looks like it’s going to be. Give me The Daily Show over this almost-sure-to-be mess any day.
I’m gonna wait before passing judgment on this film.
I hope they don’t want to be taking seriously with dumbass posters like this! Oh, nevermind Oliver Stone is directing so they don’t!