Thursday, 03 June 2004

The W Files. Following in the footsteps of The Iraq War: A Play in One Act (link via lies.com, and curse you all for posting your idea first!), I'm thinking about creating a TV series. It would star two FBI agents, Deana Skeptic and Fox Wingnut, and their assignment would be to look for evidence supporting the Bush administration's claims.

One week the agents would be in Prague, investigating a tip that a 9/11 hijacker met with an Iraqi agent; the next they'd be at Abu Ghraib, checking to see if the prison atrocities were the work of a few bad apples; and so on. One agent would be deeply skeptical about Bush's claims, and the other would swallow them hook, line and sinker.

The difference between my show and "The X Files" would be that, week after week, Deana would be absolutely right and Fox would have egg on his face. Each and every claim gets proven false by Agent Skeptic, but for some reason Agent Wingnut never detects the pattern… in fact, he continues to believe the claims are true even after they've been shown to be false.

Also, in spite of a remarkable zero-for-infinity track record, Fox starts each new investigation with an unshakable blind faith in the veracity of the Bush administration: He'll be sort of like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, except that our national security will be at stake.

I might even have different guest stars playing the part of Agent Wingnut every week, with each one introducing a different wild-eyed premise: I want to believe Richard Clarke committed perjury, say, or I want to believe Saddam was behind 9/11. The WMDs are out there.

Whaddya think?

- Posted by Scott Forbes at 9:38 am. comments.