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A long time ago in the 1990s there was this teevee program called The X-Files — a creepy mix of Nixon-era political conspiracy, the occult, fake terror attacks, FEMA killing everybody, and Space Demons. It seemed completely fantastic until 2001, when Dick Cheney and George W. Bush began their reign of horror. And finally, after years of silence, the creators of the X-Files are talking about how this administration stole all their ideas, even 9/11!
What noble purpose encouraged the show's writers to discuss the American Evil hatched from their innocent teevee drama? There's a new X-Files movie coming out this summer, that's what! It will feature FBI agents Robocop & Whatzherface boring the fuck out of everybody for two years. Ha ha, just kidding. Maybe.
Anyway, Variety asked these people about the bizarre "coincidences" between the X-Files, its short-lived 2001 spin-off The Lone Gunmen, and why Condi Rice is such a terrible liar. This is because the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen is about corrupt Defense contractors and evil government officials flying a passenger jet into the World Trade Center so they can blame it on terrorists and start a lucrative series of anti-terror wars to boost defense-sector profits in the post-Cold War era. This was shown in May 2001 on FOX, and it got such terrible ratings that nobody noticed it was about 9/11, which happened a few months later:
The show was also pretty awful. But still, Condi lies!
Littleton brings up the "Lone Gunman" connection to 9/11 and a member of the panel mentions this might be the first time they've ever really talked about it. How did they react to the terrorist attacks having dramatized a very similar scenario just six months prior?
"It was freaky, and one of the weirdest things is no one really asked us about it," Carter says. "It had been imagined before, by many others."
"Condoleezza Rice is saying its an unimaginable crime — hello, my pilot!" adds "Lone Gunman" actor Dean Haglund.
"It made me angry," Spotnitz says. "It was not unimaginable. My first thought was ... 'Oh my god, I hope they weren't copycatting the Lone Gunman, which they weren't. My next thought was: 'Why weren't we prepared for this?' "
So we were wondering what other stories from the X-Files have also inspired the Bush Administration, and came up with the following:
X-Files: FEMA blows up its own high-rise in Texas to hide some kind of alien plot.
Bush Administration: FEMA blows up the levees in New Orleans so the black people will go to Texas.
X-Files: A terrible "fluke worm man" is created in some sinister Government Laboratory and unleashed upon the public.
Bush Administration: Terrible anthrax is created in some sinister Government Laboratory and unleashed upon Democratic legislators and TV anchormen.
X-Files: A deeply evil "shadow government" actually runs everything.
Bush Administration: A deeply evil "shadow government" actually runs everything.
2008 Paley Festival Coverage [Hollywood Reporter]
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And Cheney is misery wrapped in rubble inside an angina.
X-Fles: Evil aliens called "The Black Oil" take over part of the government.
Bush Administration: Dick Cheney...
X-Files: A close-knit group of circus freaks cover up the crimes of one of their own.
Bush Administration: A close-knit group of ... well, you get the idea.
Forget Gillian and David. I'd like to see an MSNBC version with Brian Williams and Nora O'Donnell. Hottttt.
Yes, yes, yes, it's been obvious for years that Bush is the X-Files President.
But, c'mon -- Starship Troopers (and, for that matter, Robocop) provided a clearer and more detailed blueprint for Cheney's gameplan.
Smoking Man/Alex Krycek '08: "Slightly Less Evil Than the Current Administration!"
CCH Pounder guest starred on at least one episode of The X-Files, and I'm sure that she'll be tapped to play Condi Rice in the t.v. movie about the Bush administration (with Josh Brolin as Bush and Donald Sutherland as Cheney).
Cheney = Tooms?
You be the judge!
no, no the Fluke Worm Man IS Dick Cheney.
That was the most atrocious acting ever. I just lost 4 minutes of my life to that.
@gjdodger: ah, you might be right. It was the consumption-of-human-livers fact that convinced me.
I just like how, if anyone had written for the show a vice president who alternated between a perma-sneer and unapologetic rage, who, in response to a reporter noting that 2/3 of people thought the Iraq war wasn't worth it, tossed off comments like "So?" it would have been considered ridiculous cardboard characterization.
The Bush-Cheney Years: Lowering the Bar for Hack Writers Everywhere.
The Reichstag is on fire!!!!
Hitler wants his residuals mailed to a PO box in Bolivia.
@gjdodger:
That's not fair. Tooms had a kind of reptilian intelligence.
They were just testing anthrax. AIDS and obesity are killing the poor effectively, but good planners keep something in reserve.
OMG -- this means we have to start an emergency task force to watch every mystery/spy/adventure show and figure out when and where the next attack is coming. Then all we have to do is warn the Administration ahead of time in order to prevent a horrible event.
The X-Files: Lack of foresight and plannning led to a meandering plotline that became hopelessly bogged down around its fourth or fifth year, thus accomplishing no real resolution, ever.
Bush Administration: They're blowing shit up again, which just shows how well we're succeeding.
Man, you know what always makes for great TV? People typing things on computers.
"It was freaky, and one of the weirdest things is no one really asked us about it," [show creator Chris] Carter says.
This is proof that Chris Carter is a CIA operative. Even the most neophyte conspiracy theorist would not be surprised that the mass media are covering up the Lone Gunman pilot. Therefore, he must be lying. Why? Same reason as Condi lies, to cover up complicity.
@jfruh: That's why there are so many great, exciting shows about Journalists.
So the whole 9-11 'truth' theory preceded 9-11? Maybe we would have all been better off if these writers had just conjectured that Arab terrorists would destroy the World Trade Center, and that an evil president and vice president, along with evil defense contractors, opportunist Democrats, and a supine press would push us into war as a result.
Say what you will, but the Season 8 episode where Sinbad guest starred as the only one who knows how to kill the pantsuit-wearing vampire was awesome. The only downside is that this years October Surprise will probably involve some kind of impenetrable jive about metal-man super-soldiers. Personally, I hope that means WALNUTS! molested a disabled veteran.
I heard recently that Cheney is a fan of 24.
This last year of Bush/Cheney is going to be the best season yet!
tink...Tink...tink...Tink...
@SuperUnison: You realize there is no way anybody could prove you wrong, as nobody ever saw Season 8.
X-Files -- character declares Bills will never win SuperBowl
Bush Administration: ensures it.
Actually I was a believer of the X-file's theory that FEMA was going to run the government in case of an national emergency.
After Brownie and Cherkoff that seems like a less likely theory ....
@SayItWithWookies: A+
From te episode: CLYDE BRUCKMAN'S FINAL REPOSE
Clyde: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more
undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation.
Mulder: Why are you telling *me* that?
If only Vitter had used plastic diapers.
Did they do an X-Files episode on a fuckwad US Airways pilot discharging his gun in the cockpit of a plane? Because I'd appreciate a little more insight into that before I hop on Flight 69 to Where-Fucking-Ever.
@NBAWRITER1: The pilot was just taking a break. To hunt. For rats.
An FAA official said that anyone qualified to fly a plane across the Pacific deserves to have a gun in the cockpit.
Rodham She Wrote.
Margaret Cho Believes In 9/11 Conspiracy
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The Truth is out there --- scans around the DVD section of Borders.
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