Despicable

You read it at Reasonable Nuts first. Well, maybe at the BBC or elsewhere, but it's interesting I commented on this a couple weeks ago. Seems the press are picking up on it. Jeff Jacoby does an admirable job of compiling this as just part of a terrible new low in Bush hatred.

Channel 4 Television

The assassination scene from “Death of a President,” a television film whose subject is George W. Bush.

This is Bush-hatred as a snuff film. The fantasies it feeds are grotesque and obscene; to pander to such fantasies is to rip at boundary-markers that are indispensable to civilized society. That such a movie could not only be made but lionized at an international film festival is a mark not of sophistication, but of a sickness in modern life that should alarm conservatives and liberals alike.

Naturally that's not how the film's promoters see it. Noah Cowan, one of the Toronto festival's co-directors, high-mindedly describes "Death of a President" as "a classic cautionary tale." Well, yes, he says, Bush's assassination is "harrowing," but what the film is really about is "how the Patriot Act, especially, and how Bush's divisive partisanship and race-baiting has forever altered America."

There's one best word in the english language for this: Despicable.

Main Entry: de·spi·ca·ble
Pronunciation: di-'spi-k&-b&l, 'des-(")pi-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin despicabilis, from Latin despicari to despise
: deserving to be despised : so worthless or obnoxious as to rouse moral indignation
synonym see CONTEMPTIBLE