Web Ad for 'W.' Depicts President Bush Sitting on Throne

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W. movie Web ad | NewsBusters.orgA Web ad for the Oliver Stone's latest political bio-pic "W." features actor Josh Brolin as the title character seated on a throne.

The porcelain variety.

Seated in a pose calling to mind Rodin's "The Thinker" statue, Brolin is shown holding chin in his left hand while seated on a toilet, trousers draped around his boots. The text in the promo image reads, "SITTING PRESIDENT: W. In Theaters Oct. 17."

I first noticed the ad in the sidebar of Dr. James Joyner's Outside the Beltway blog.

As we've noted here, Stone's film has either been both praised and panned in the MSM, both on the basis of the film's supposed objectivity.


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I expect the "tolerant"

I expect the "tolerant" left to get even worse toward election day.

These people have no class.

hey at least they've risen

hey at least they've risen to the level of juvenile sophmoric toilet humor

congrats libbytards! 

Journalism is the opium of the liberals

   They've evidently

   They've evidently decided they aren't going to get regular folks going to see the movie so they are going to have to drum up support from the whacko's.

The radio ad claims

That this movie is an "astonishingly accurate portrayal".

Based on whose view though?

 

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. - J.B. Books (John Wayne)

Well heck, It's directed by

Well heck, It's directed by Oliver Stone so it must be true and accurate ------ right?

Just one

Just one more reason not to watch this tripe.

Very Classy.

 And Oliver Stone claims to have been fair in portraying Bush? 

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

wouldn't it be great

...if some undecided voters got annoyed by this crap coming out before the guy is even out of office and changed the election towards McCain?

 Nice one, Hollywood.

That's not a toilet. 

That's not a toilet.  That's Oliver Stone's career.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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Stoned

If you smoke enough pot like Oliver Stone does anything you do regardless of how stupid or over the top will seem rational.  After all this is the same director that portrayed all American Soliders in Vietnam to be alcoholic, drug using rapist and murderers.  Platoon was a joke in todays modern version of what Vietnam was about and I bet the same will be thought of "W" in about 10 years.

It is despicable to present

It is despicable to present our President in such a way....sitting on a toilet.  Oliver Stone should be banished from the country.  But I guess that is what our soldiers are fighting for.  Our freedom of speech.  I bet some of our soldiers would like to get a hold of Mr. Stone! 

Especially

Viet Nam Veterans. Stone's movies are just leftist propaganda. How that POS crap of a movie platoon is always shown with 4 stars is way beyond me. I am sure Hollywood has another hit on their hands HAHAHAHA 

"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox

For such a 'sympathetic'

For such a 'sympathetic' and 'historical' movie, the trailers sure are incredibly partisan and derogatory.  Apparently, Oliver Stones  move company thinks that only people who hate Bush with that white hot passion are going to heading to the theatres.

No 'history buffs' need apply.

foreign money, foreign pandering

I understand that Stone couldn't get much money here Stateside, so he went foreign in a big way. The resultant movie is a huge slam on President Bush. What a surprise....NOT!

And will somebody explain to me how President Bush is such a complete drunken, drugged out dunce... AND... an evil Machiavellian genius...????????? Must be multiple personality complex. Hello, Cybil, is that you Cibyl? What's the frequency Kenneth?

 It's as if the

 It's as if the left claims that Bush is a cross between Forrest Gump and Carlos the Jackal.

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

Mr. President is sure getting under the liberal's skin

Letterman had on that Brolin the other night bashing President Bush and I just love it that George Bush has so gotten under their skin.

Letterman is the little boy who like all liberals wet their panties after 9 11, then demanded Bush do something on their authority.

Bush implemented their demands in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now they want to blame him for what they were screaming for.

 

Now Letterman changed his mind and his stupid rants can not  be judged, so he must make like Oliver Stone President Bush stupid for their policy demands.

I never agreed with President Clinton's war in Kosovo as it was bogus for the reasons given as the Serbs were not doing 1/8th what the Muslims were and still are butchering Christians in the Balkans. I never though had to call Clinton stupid. He simply was exposed for trying for an oil pipeline which is wrong to kill people over.

If he would have said this Kosovo war is to keep Turkey and Greece from blowing each other up, then I could have agreed to that.

That is the problem with these sissy liberals. It is ok having the military blowing up babies in Kosovo when their Bill is giving orders, but it is somehow evil to save brown skinned people in Iraq from genocide by a communist Bill kept in power in Saddam Hussein.

George Bush has been a decade ahead in this entire scenario after he got caught being lied to by Dick Clark and Jamie Gorelick and manipulated by comarde Colin Powell.

Give you a hint, McCain wants no part of Powell.

This though is the legacy of liberals in their demanding to kill people and then when people get killed, well it was that stupid guys fault.
No Oliver Stone, David Letterman, Josh Brolin, the blood is on your liberal hands. You are responsible for the dead in southern Iraq, Kurdistan, the several thousand US Soldiers dead after liberation as you emboldened terrorists and all the Iraqi dead.

You David Letterman are responsible for Afghanistan getting hot, because all the terrorists moved out of Iraq when you wanted Iraq quieted down and will come back after you demand Afghanistan quieted down.

Liberals have no idea of strategy no more than Obama. The world will have terrorists. One has to have a zone to kill them in in Asia or they will come to America and murder hundreds of thousands here.
More people always end up dead under Letterman, because he appeases terrorists until they act and then a war always starts.

Gee sounds like Neville Chamberlain and that is exactly what all these media Obama boobs are.

 

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Cute by half. The left

Cute by half.

The left are desperate...the commercial ads scream at you for this filthy flick on all the networks...they pay for the volume these ads scream at you with in your living room, this alone for me is reason to not see it.

What a pathetic bunch of classless people.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Stones new trophy

And this years "porcelan crapper award" goes to ........... (the tension builds) ........ (the enelope is opened) ...... "Oliver Stone"

The thinking President

Well, this might actually peeve some of those rads on the left whom have long maintained that Bush was stupid.

I'm going to take the glass half-full approach here:

That's a thinking president, if I've ever seen one (well, not one in that particular situation, mind you). (;~> gary

Looks like a "shitty" ad to me.

Looks like a "shitty" ad to me.

 

Me to WD

and to think that depicts the President of the United States.  Disgraceful.

Maybe my college-age

Maybe my college-age children will make a Blair Witch style movie about obama..showing obama, bill ayers & acorn taking a dump on the heartland and feature cameos of reid, pelosi and barney wizzing on the capitol.

Scratch Blair Witch style...this could be a documentary!

 

 

That it could

That it could Tmom...

That it could.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

And in 4years when Stone

And in 4years when Stone directs 'O'  the advertisements will depict Him walking on water no doubt.

This is unconscionable

 To do this to any president is reprehensible, and totally disrespectful. Can you imagine if a movie portraying Clinton in this way were made?

There was a time in our country when if you insulted someone this way you'd be run out of town on a rail, or pistols at 10 paces. Of course, we're more civilized now though(sarc).

Of course, this just freedom of speech, jut like the "Sarah Palin is a c***" t-shirts. Funny, this free speech doesn't extend to conservatives though. I swear liberals are just in suspended adolescence.

 “I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal.” --Barack Obama

Brilliant.

No seriously, The Thinker is an important piece of artistic history.  Dubya should be honored to be held in such high regard. 

 

This may show George W Bush

This may show George W Bush on the toilet, but Oliver Stone, Josh Brolin, and their ilk are what's in it.  

McNotObama '08

I just hope

I just hope that Barack is just as amused when he gets the same type of treatment.

It's no wonder why the USA is the object of ridicule when we treat our leaders like this.

Anything said against Obama

will never approach the crap President Bush had to take. If elected he will be untouchable, the lovefest between him and the press will be pornographic and of course his "blackness" will deflect all criticism except from those meanie racist conservatives.  

"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox

So much for the "Dubya

So much for the "Dubya shredded the Bill of Rights" argument.

Bad Ken Shepherd

I lost a lot of respect for you, Ken for posting the picture of that ad. A description of it would be adequate. You are just giving free advertising for that awful movie, and I fear you are very much aware of that.

TA

Toilet humor is usually the rage of  Europeans, and infantile  Americans who still examine their personal parts with wonder and awe.  They're the flashers and closet cases.  Predictable that Ollie would put out something like this. He's very high on the 'ick' factor. 

Barak 0bama - Afraction American

W

this crap is going to bomb faster than michael moore can eat a double cheeseburger!

I happened to have some

I happened to have some inside scoop.  There is a photo inside the toilet that you do not see...

http://www.tehrantimes.com/News/10197/16_MMS96.jpg