 DATE: When Frank turns the TV on in the motel to try and prevent  Dwayne listening to his parents arguing in the next room, President  George W. Bush is shown on the TV making a speech. The clip in  question is all taken from one sentence of an August 24th, 2001  speech announcing the nomination of Air Force General Richard Myers  for the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The clip starts  in the middle of the sentence, but as camera angles change it jumps  first back to the start of the sentence, and then to almost the end  of the sentence. To add further confusion, while this clip suggests  the film to be set in 2001, near the end of the movie we see a New  York Times Book Review cover listing a June 2005 article, "The  Passions of Robert Lowell" 