Die Hard 4 presidential montage

Very bad terrorists deliver their ultimatum via a remix of US Presidential speeches

In this otherwise formulaic installment of the Die Hard series, there is a remarkable example of remix video, selecting phrases from dozens of speeches from US Presidents from FDR to George W. Bush in order to deliver a terrorist ultimatum. The terror threat was ostensibly edited together by one of the terrorist geeks who wittily laments not having been able to include more clips of Richard Nixon. This technique of transforming the  meaning of presidential speeches via cutup became a staple strategy among politically motivated remixers during the 2004 presidential election. With this appropriation of the strategy and placing it in the hands of Internet-based hacker-terrorists, the filmmakers reinforce a narrative mendaciously associating media remixing with piracy and terror networks.