U.K. ad imagines Bush assassination

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Here’s a wrap-around cover ad from today’s London Paper, advertising Death of a President, a feature film airing tonight on TV in the U.K. that imagines the assassination of George W. Bush. Spotted in the Flickr stream of Adambowie, who wonders whether people might be confused into thinking that Bush had actually been shot. He asks whether this is “a) a really clever ad; b) not a smart thing for a so-called newspaper to do; or c) all in bad taste anyway.”

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