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Posted by: TVblogger 1 year, 9 months agoPundits on both sides of the political spectrum have themselves in a tizzy over Jack Bauer and his latest escapades with the hit action series 24.
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TVblogger
Jan. 17, 2007, 12:40 p.m.What ******es me off the most is Olbermann wouldn't be saying ANYTHING if 24 was on NBC.
What is it with people that think that primetime TV means anything but entertainment?
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contrast
Jan. 18, 2007, 9:45 a.m.I dont watch 24. I write and animate fiction all the time it is fiction. The stuff I write and draw COULD happen yeah but it is never my intention to have people sit around debating "Jeez maybe it could happen?" I think that may be the case here though...either way it is publicity and to quote P.T. Barnum "I dont care what you say about me just spell my name right."
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nakedtruth
Jan. 18, 2007, 11:02 a.m.Every repressive government in history has used entertainment as propoganda. From the Greek plays to the Roman colliseum to the Nazi books for children displaying Jews as poisonous mushrooms entertainment has been used for more than just "entertainment". Anybody that doubts that 24 is neocon propoganda should consider the fact that Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff was as the "Heritage Foundation" meeting honoring the show's creators.
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Mintyfunk
Jan. 17, 2007, 1:37 p.m.The sad thing is that it is an honest 'what if' scenario, that fits well into action/drama television. You don't see them cry over the fact that Buffalo was nuked in Sum of All Fears starring uber lefty Ben Affleck. It's just TV Folks, remain calm.
Had this been an actual emergency.....
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amazed
Jan. 17, 2007, 3:54 p.m.take it easy on Ben, minty-- I gained a lot of respect for him during the convention. The interviewer was trying valiantly to get him to bash Bush and trash his motives. And he finally replied something to the effect.
No, I'm not going to say he's evil. I believe he means well and is doing what he thinks is best. I don't agree with him and I think that a lot of what he's doing is downright wrong, but I'm not going to say that he's trying to destroy the country. There's too much of that going on now, and it's getting us nowhere. We've got to try to find a way to work it out.
I was SO impressed I wanted to hug him! (course that might not be too bad an idea anyway.....:D)
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ybdogsct
Jan. 17, 2007, 5:25 p.m."The sad thing is that it is an honest 'what if' scenario..."
Yes, it's just a tv show, but is it an honest 'what if' scenario? lol. Can you imagine what he must say to his wife when he gets home from one day's work?
WIFE: How was work today, hun?
JACK BAUER:
Well, after I single-handedly saved a senator from a kidnapping plot, I discovered a homegrown terrorist cell in L.A. that I first mistook as under control of my girlfriend's ex-husband. The terrorist used his son as a human shield, but we were able to rescue the son and apprehend the perp. The perp got away and in the process, my girlfriend's ex-husband was shot and killed. The terrorists initiated the launch of America's nukes, but in the end, we were able to cancel most of them and apprehend the perp. Btw, we have to move to China since I was identified in a plot to rescue a witness from the Chinese embassy and a Chinese national was shot and killed.
All in a days work...
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Shankari25
Jan. 17, 2007, 2:18 p.m.I watched about two minutes of this thing and then promptly switched channels. It seemed so obviously a bunch of fearmongering. It seemed to promote the fear of terrorism in this country using, by the way, mostly Indian actors. What a joke! Fox needs to bring those stupid cartoons back and dump this violent piece of garbage.
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I-am-the-cat
Jan. 17, 2007, 5:01 p.m.Even if all of them came from the Middle East, (and guess what- there are muslims other places, some even born here) how would that solve anything when we've got home grown terrorists, as well as gangs, etc.?
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Searunner52
Jan. 18, 2007, 7:14 a.m.Well sparky then you had better be prepared for the $hit to hit the fan because as an American Citizen, combat veteran, and staunch defender of the Constitution of this Nation it will be a cold day in hell before I would allow something as pernicious as this to happen!
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I-am-the-cat
Jan. 17, 2007, 4:59 p.m.I did notice the Indian actors- guess they figure the average American Joe can't tell. The same guy playing the terrorist son was on SVU last night playing an actual Indian character, though another villain.
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GoldStandard
Jan. 17, 2007, 11:43 p.m."Fearmongering"? Recognizing a threat is not fearmongering. I suppose anyone who portrayed the Nazis or the Soviets as evil were fearmongerers?
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PatrioticAmerican
Jan. 19, 2007, 6:44 p.m.Shankari, It is Just a Television Show, Those who have Common sense and a brain, can tell the difference between Television and reality , (Uless of Course Your a Dem) Then there is no such thing as Reality outside of the way You think
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amazed
Jan. 17, 2007, 3:56 p.m.Guys-- get a grip, it's only a TV show. And, maybe I run with the wrong crowd, but I know far more people who DON"T watch it (including me!) than who do.
It's hard to watch a serialized show -- there's so much else to do!
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Blackadder1964
Jan. 17, 2007, 8:20 p.m.I aggre the first season was good, after that it just became sillier and sillier, I gave up watching after the second season.
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NoSpinDave
Jan. 17, 2007, 4:02 p.m.Olberman is such a loser. I just cant say anything else about the guy.
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icelander
Jan. 18, 2007, 8:53 a.m.Olbermann isn't as "friggin left" as you can get. I'm often to the left of him on issues, and I know people who are even more leftist than I am.
Maybe you're just so far to the right that we all tend to blur together.
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TVblogger
Jan. 17, 2007, 4:29 p.m.I think the thing to take away from this is that a fictional TV show is just that...FICTION! It shouldn't be a forum for political debate.
I just can't see a well educated individual watching 24 and seeing what happened Monday night, then saying "Wait, wow! Bush is right." Or saying "WOW! This show is a Conservative crack-pipe."
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mikeymike68
Jan. 18, 2007, 9:48 a.m.Like you blogger, I dont understand the brew-ha. TV shows typically are a reflection of our ure and right now our ure is embroiled in a war on ism. Politically speaking, it never occured to me that I was watching any sort of propoganda to garner my support for any war. Its just television. It is a group of writers sitting around wittling away at a script, a script that has to generate viewership.
And any fan of 24 can tell ya...Jack had to miss eventually. I mean after 5 seasons how can one man singe handedly take down cell after cell without missing a beat? This was an episode that had to happen to bring true balance to the SHOW and not to our reality. This is fiction people. Enjoy the ride or exercise your right to change the channel. Most people in this planet dont even have that right so use it well and use it often.
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I-am-the-cat
Jan. 17, 2007, 4:56 p.m.What's funny is that there are "liberal" elements to the story, too, like an innocent person falsely imprisoned with the actual terrorists, and a black president of the US. I found it amazing that Fox allows things like that. But I guess it's not Fox News, it's entertainment.
Plus regardless of politics, Jack Bauer's hot. So I'm a liberal, but I'll still watch.
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vexingmodstwo
Jan. 17, 2007, 6:10 p.m.Anyone who takes the events of a fictional tv show and gets scared is a moron. And anyone who thinks that people will get scared because of a fictional tv show is a moron.
(I think I covered all sides... it's a damn TV show. And it's GOOD!)
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froggs09
Jan. 18, 2007, 2:40 a.m.Very good vexing! You made more sense with a simple statement than all the others with their diatribes about nothing.
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royal-m
Jan. 17, 2007, 6:40 p.m.Its fun to watch which is what TV is supposed to be. Jack Bauer is an actor named Kiefer Southerland who is doing his freakin job by acting, the writers are doing their job by trying to write something interesting, something a given audience will watch. All the audience has to do is watch or not watch. There are 500 channels. If you dont like it turn the channel...watch the military channel if you think 24 is to liberal and watch PBS if you think its too conservative ........although if you take the first three letters of the third character mention in every episode and .....ha ha ....it really is just a show
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obuzzoff
Jan. 17, 2007, 7:06 p.m.Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black Muslim from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas. Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii.
When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a radical Muslim from Indonesia. When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia. Obama attended a Muslim school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a Catholic school.
Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, "He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school."
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obuzzoff
Jan. 17, 2007, 7:06 p.m.Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Osama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the radical teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.
Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background.
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Searunner52
Jan. 18, 2007, 7:28 a.m.What you fail to mention sparky is that Wahabbism is the primary religion of our staunchest ally in the ME and the nation from which the majority of those purported to take an active role in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 - Saudi Arabia.
The other thing you fail to mention is that the Muslims - especially the minority of them that follow an extremist path - take a very dim view of anyone who is an active member of their faith who denys that they are! Obama is a christian and has been for the majority of his life! What this is is just another poor attempt by the right to stir up fear and distrust and it's really quite pathetic!
I guess that Obama simply scares the cra* out of you clowns on the right and I fully expect that your bigoted rhetoric will only become louder and louder as time passes - it's all you have left!
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AmaraM
Jan. 18, 2007, 9:58 a.m.What difference should a person's religion make in deciding whether or not he or she is capable to do a job?
I am not an overly political person, but I would be more likely to vote for someone who is Muslim that I see as capable of doing the job I'm hiring him/her for, than anyone just because they aren't Muslim.
Talk about wearing blinders! It's no wonder this country is in the mess it's in.
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obuzzoff
Jan. 17, 2007, 7:11 p.m.Does anyone want to check it out before comment or do you just want to start bashing now.
What do you think nospindave.
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TVblogger
Jan. 17, 2007, 7:22 p.m.What in THE World are you talking about? You know this is a story about 24 don't you?
Thanks for your crazy rant. Maybe you clicked on the wrong story.
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aniokly
Jan. 17, 2007, 7:44 p.m.I love it when the Democrats think we are all so scared of Terrorists, and quote FDRs, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." It was easy for FDR not to fear his enemy. he had rounded them up, and put them in camps. Then the Democrats gathered up all their assets, and lived happily ever after. Our enemy is amongst us. They live next door, and across the street. They go to school with our children, even so I am more afraid of being betrayed by the Democrats then the enemy.
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mikeymike68
Jan. 18, 2007, 9:58 a.m.Democrats? You mean Americans. You are more afraid of Americans than ists? As a Republican, I dont agree with Democratic ideals often, but I do not fear them and they do not fear me. If I were you, I would be more concerned about real threats to our country and our citizens and less about political s. A democrat is an American, and I will stand beside any American and his or her God given right to disagree with me before I agree with a statement such as yours...
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Teech
Jan. 17, 2007, 8:04 p.m.All those lessons teaching fact, fiction, and opinion.....wasted!
So many people still don;t know the difference.
When The Simpsons comes on, perhaps it should come with a warning? "These are NOT real people..........."
The heading on the article says it all....."Idiotic Furor over 24..."
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Mintyfunk
Jan. 17, 2007, 9:53 p.m.Does this mean we get to bash Jericho as well? there were more nukes in Jericho than 24....
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eugenegerard
Jan. 17, 2007, 10:55 p.m.You just don't get it. You are desensitized 24/7 to the horror of violence. 24 feeds, the be scared all the time, that has put the corporatists in power. They want constant war and fear so they can feed off your fears. 24 promotes that. Count the violent shows on TV. It doesn't have to be like this. You are being programmed to accept the balogna being fed to you by the media. Wake UP. Somebody said its just a TV show. It's not just one. It's twenty-five plus Rush Limbaugh plus CNN plus Fox plus MSNBC plus ABC plus CBS plus NBC plus National Geographic (anyone remember all the war machine stories) plus the History Channel(WWII TV) plus Hannity plus Nancy Grace plus WWF. Its HATE TV All the Time.
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TVblogger
Jan. 17, 2007, 10:58 p.m.I'm not sure you can add Hannity and Limbaugh together with MSNBC and CBS...
AND YES IT IS JUST A TV SHOW.
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uvaldog
Jan. 17, 2007, 11:17 p.m.I liked when Jack bit that guys neck and killed him. But I guess now we are going to see a surge in vampire-related deaths. Darn it, Jack. You are such a bad role model!
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StrictlyWizzard
Jan. 18, 2007, midnightSome people don't get words like "fiction" and "satire". 24 causing political debate? 24 is pure fiction and to mirror many on this blog... A TELEVISION SHOW. If you don't like it, don't watch it. I don't like Rush Limbaugh so I don't listen to him. Hmmmm... that seems to make sense but then again, I like things uncomplicated at times.
When I watch television, I don't care who puts what spin on the show. Next thing people are going to say is Deal or no Deal feeds gambling and should be abolished... What's next with some of you people??? Book burning again?
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bigdidyo
Jan. 18, 2007, 1:06 a.m.I don't know how to express what I'm feeling right now. I have so many thoughts running through my head that I can't put them down to make sense. If we are going to start dividing tv shows along party lines we are surley doomed. Terrorists have already attacked us in this country and with the state of the nuclear situation world wide, this is not a far fetched senario. What makes anyone think that we are immune to suicide bombers or worse in this country? This is not propaganda but it does pose a real threat to dems and republicans alike.
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unimodal
Jan. 18, 2007, 4:12 a.m.Only in America.
Where else in the world can you make a movie about 9/11.
Where else can you make a movie about terrorists.
Then all you lot do is sit back and happily play with your knobs and congratulate yourselves over how good you are. But if anyone dares stand up and criticise you, oh no you cant have that, thats just not on. It's un American. God help the world.
If America kept it's nose out of everyone else's business, we would'nt be in the ****** we are in now. It all comes down to two things, greed and money, everyone else's that is.
The one good thing about 24 is, it shows the rest of the world who view the show, just how narrow minded America and Americans really are, by producing shows just like this. . ha ha ha.
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kboy
Jan. 18, 2007, 8:04 a.m.Orson Wells would be proud! Haven't heard so much nonsense since Murphy Brown got pregnant. There are a lot of people that sit around waiting to come up with reasons to hate something and then make up theories of why they are correct(mostly that is a propraganda attempt by the other side).
Too bad the news on TV does not get to be looked at as closly as this fictional action program.
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slate
Jan. 18, 2007, 8:48 a.m.Hey if they are ok with a book/movie about assassinating Bush how can anything else be considered overboard?
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