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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Despite the best efforts of the White House and much of the media to portray this week’s elections as a meaningless barometer of the public’s mood toward the Obama administration, the results were clear. The voters were communicating buyers’ remorse. One year after reaching its zenith, the Democratic Party is now grappling with what could be the beginning of the end of the Obama era. In Virginia, former Attorney General Bob McDonnell, a solid pro-family, pro-life conservative, won a landslide victory, as did down-ticket conservative candidates. Repeated Obama visits to his own backyard did...

Yes – that Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, enemy of Fox News and admirer of Mao Tse Tung. Dunn, who started out working for President Carter’s chief of staff, Hamilton Jordan, is regarded by Democrats as one of the their most highly experienced strategists. That’s why David Axelrod brought her into the Obama campaign team. It turns out that she also advised Tony Knowles in the 2006 Alaska Gubernatorial campaign.

Robert (Bob) Bauer, the top lawyer for the Democratic National Committee and personal lawyer to President Obama and his chief campaign counsel, is emerging as the top candidate to replace Greg Craig as White House Counsel, Fox News has learned. Senior White House officials declined to comment on Bauer's future status with the White House. But Democrats close to the situation said Bauer is under serious consideration as Craig's replacement. Craig is expected to leave the White House by year's end - if not sooner. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said no decisions have been made on Craig's future...

Attacking Fox News and defending President Barack Obama is a family affair for Anita Dunn, the White House communications director who has blasted Fox as an arm of the Republican Party and talked about "controlling" the news media. She's married to Robert Bauer, the chief of the political law group at Perkins Coie, the Seattle law firm hired by the White House to defend President Obama in court cases challenging his "natural born" citizenship status in the United States and thus, his eligibility under the U.S. Constitution to be president. Dunn is targeting Fox News with criticisms emanating from the...

"In the heat of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, when members of candidate Barack Obama's staff began to fret about the potential for illegal attempts to intimidate voters on Election Day in Nevada, the campaign's general counsel calmly told everyone on a staff conference call to settle down. Don't worry, attorney Robert Bauer is said to have counseled. If necessary, the campaign will simply call the local authorities and have the opposition forces arrested."

The increasingly nasty fight between South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer escalated further this week with charges from a legislative ally of Bauer that Sanford and his supporters are spreading malicious rumors that Bauer — a Republican like Sanford — is gay. GOP state Sen. Jake Knotts made the charge in a letter to state legislators Wednesday that was obtained by POLITICO. In an interview in June with The State newspaper, Bauer voluntarily brought up the subject of his sexual orientation. Asked if he was gay, he responded: “One word, two letters. No.” But the rumor...

Barack Obama must think American voters are a fickle bunch. After sweeping him into office on a wave of hope and goodwill, many Americans are now rejecting much of what he is proposing. But voters have not changed their minds about what they want. Rather, many voters, against all the evidence, believed Obama’s promises of post partisanship, moderation and transparency. Now they know better. As the reality of Obama’s policy proposals has become more graphic, so has the public’s opposition to them. All over the country citizens are exercising their God-given rights of assembly and free speech. And that has...

Finally a Time Change for "24" by Ednamode 24 is changing its setting in more than one way for season 8. Not only will the show be set in New York City, the season will be starting at a vastly different time of day: 4:00PM. In recent years, the biggest complain amongst many of the die-hard fans, was that the show's Power's That Be had taken the time of day for granted, especially on a show where a ticking clock is a major character. Five of the past six seasons started between 6:00AM and 8:00AM, giving each season an almost...

Freddie Prinze Jr. as Jack Bauer Jr.? Sources said Prinze is joining the cast of Fox's "24" as a regular, playing Davis Cole, a recently returned Marine who runs CTU Field Ops and wants to follow in Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) footsteps. On the real-time drama, whose upcoming eighth season started production Wednesday, Prinze joins fellow new cast additions Anil Kapoor, who plays a Middle East leader; Chris Diamantopoulos, as the president's new chief of staff; and John Boyd as a CTU systems analyst. All of them are regulars, while Jennifer Westfeldt has come aboard as a recurring, playing a...

(translated from French) I have a scoop, yes. The next season of 24, which narrates the adventures of the intrepid agent against terrorist Jack Bauer, aka Kiefer Sutherland, will be held at UN Headquarters. New York. Jack Bauer, dragged to court during the previous season for his brutal methods and unorthodox, has experienced a deep personal turmoil, and intends to devote to the maintenance of international peace in his new home of the United Nations. This turmoil confirms victory of virtue, the new consciousness of the American superpower in the Obama era, especially the triumph of the Department of Public...

Our last president was ridiculed for claiming to have peered into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and gotten, in his words, a “sense of his soul.” Our current president wants to do something even more audacious: to peer into your mind to get a sense of your thoughts. And if he finds them insufficiently accepting of homosexuality, he may want to lock you up. And he could get the chance. This week, the House of Representatives passed The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HR 1913), which adds gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability to the list of protected categories...

Obama for America spends nearly $9.5 million in the first three months of this year. ### If you glanced at the expense side of the report filed Wednesday night by President Obama's campaign committee, you might be excused for thinking there was a presidential election afoot. Obama for America, the fundraising juggernaut that powered Obama's ascent to the presidency, spent nearly $9.5 million in the first three months of this year, including $684,000 on telemarketing and print and online advertising, $994,000 on event staging and $310,000 on payroll and taxes. To be sure, some of the payments stem from...

During the presidential campaign, one of the stickiest rumors surrounding Barack Obama was that if he was elected, America could look forward to having a Muslim in the White House. Now that Obama is president, that rumor may prove correct. President Obama says he’s a Christian, but that doesn’t mean he won’t appoint Muslims to key positions in his administration in return for Muslim support during the election. Muslim groups are fretting that none have been appointed yet, and they want that to change. Polls showed about nine in 10 American Muslims voted for Obama last fall, and they want...

Sri Lankan Suresh Joachim, from Toronto, has broken his own world record for watching non-stop TV, in Sweden. Joachim set the previous world record of 69 hours and 48 minutes in 2005 but has now exceeded that with 72 hours in front of a box in Stockholm, watching three series of Kiefer Sutherland’s 24. Quite why he had to go to Sweden is anyone’s guess but he was probably sponsored by a local TV station. In the process he consumed “between 25 and 30 cups of coffee”, caffeinated one presumes. So well done Suresh. But did he see any ads,...

President Barack Obama has installed his personal and political attorney, Bob Bauer, as the Democratic Party’s new lawyer, a move that gives Bauer unmatched power in Democratic legal circles and marks him as a top behind-the-scenes player in the president’s inner circle. In addition to representing Obama in personal matters, such as the federal investigation of disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and political matters stemming from Obama’s presidential campaign, Bauer will also play that role for Obama’s new political network, Organizing for America, and the Democratic National Committee, which is administering the network. The added work will mean a...

So according to Susan J Rice the 20th hijacker was tortured while he was being held at Gitmo. He was allegedly kept alone by himself (the horror), held without sleep (poor guy), made to stand nude (oook), and put in the cold. What were these interrogators thinking? Why are they treating this guy like he had planned to kill 3,000 people.

A Resurrected '24' Article By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Well before the end of its last season -- its sixth -- viewers in revolt against plot concoctions as pointless as they were bizarre had begun abandoning "24" in droves. Now season seven has arrived (Sunday and Monday, 8-10 p.m. ET on Fox), and it's a good bet nobody is going to be moving anywhere once the taut new "24" -- in fact very much the old "24" -- begins to unfold.

Premiering nine days before Obama takes office, "24" couldn't seem more outdated. If there's audacity in hope and nationwide belief in the necessity of change, nobody sent the memo to producers of "24." This is a series where presidential assassinations were the norm and presidents were corrupt or evil (if they weren't, then they were assassinated). Cynicism about politics and especially the presidency are the currency of "24" - beyond the whole terrorist bogeyman conceit.

Primary care specialist Dr Homer Drae Venters says the popular drama series should tone down the violence because viewers have "become accustomed to the idea of torture". Suffocating, electrocuting or drugging a suspect are all in a day's work for Bauer, played by Emmy Award winning actor Kiefer Sutherland. But in an article for medical Journal The Lancet, Dr Venters claims the show's hero Jack Bauer "makes torture popular" and warns that people are increasingly viewing such methods of interrogation as "acceptable". Dr Venters, of New York City University, said: "Jack Bauer makes torture popular. "We are tempted by the...

America's ignorance of Obama 'disturbing' Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - November 24, 2008 A pro-family activist and former presidential candidate says a recent editorial in a leading business publication illustrates just how little the American voting public knows about president-elect Barack Obama. Two months before the presidential election, Investors Business Daily (IBD) published an editorial entitled "Michelle's Boot Camps for Radicals." It revealed that Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of a publicly funded non-profit organization known as Public Allies, but he resigned when his wife Michelle became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies...

24: Redemption is on FOX at 8PM. A reminder for all Freepers who are fans of Jack Bauer.

Six months ago, after the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, Chief Justice Ronald George (who voted with the majority) explained to a reporter how he had come to his decision. He said he asked himself, “When is it that a court should act? When is it that a court is shirking its responsibility by not acting, and when is a court overreaching? That’s a real conundrum.” On November 4, George’s “conundrum” was solved by the six million (and counting) Californians who voted “Yes” on Proposition 8, the California marriage amendment. Despite being outspent, traditional...

See page 5 of the .pdf document. Voter registration impropriety does not constitute actual vote fraud. Indeed, despite strenuous effort there is not documented evidence of anything but isolated and sporadic instances of voter fraud. See Lipton, In 5-year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud, New York Times, April 12, 2007. Right, Bobby, "Voter registration impropriety does not constitute actual vote fraud," provided that Mickey Mouse, Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins, Jive Turkey, and perhaps a million more registrants with less prominent names are purged from the rolls before Election Day. Also, I think I will bring to the DOJ's attention...

I am compelled to correct notions espoused by Chuck Bauer's Community comment Monday claiming Barack Obama will protect gun rights. Bauer writes, "Barack Obama will preserve our right to bear arms for hunting, sport shooting and home defense and respect our tradition of gun ownership." Bauer is representative of so many gun owners in this country in the fact that they haven't the slightest idea of the intent of the Second Amendment and the purpose for which George Mason and Patrick Henry insisted that it be included in the Bill of Rights. This country had just defeated the British Army...

Going into last night’s vice presidential debate, Big Media had molded the very negative narrative that John McCain had committed a fundamental mistake by selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate. Her recent interviews, they said, proved that she was not ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. That narrative even had some media commentators predicting that a bad performance in the debate could be a “death blow” for the entire McCain presidential campaign. But last night Sarah Palin reminded us why so many Americans are galvanized by her candidacy. In fact, she blew last night’s debate out...

For months, a prominent theme in the mainstream press was Senator John McCain’s alleged difficulty attracting evangelical support. After years of watching helplessly as conservative Christians handed political victories to conservative candidates, Big Media thought it had discovered a new type of evangelical voter, one for whom “fetus fatigue” had set in. This new type of believer, we were told, was tired of debates over abortion and marriage and wanted instead to discuss issues like AIDS and universal health care. But as quickly as this narrative was picked up by the media, it has been abandoned -- and for good...

In this year of historic firsts, it should surprise no one that political prognosticators predict Election Day turnout to exceed 60 percent of the voting age population for the first time in 40 years.  Americans have “change” on their minds.  But they’re getting decidedly different visions of it from two presidential candidates who stand diametrically opposed on almost every issue.  Despite the stakes, there remain some conservatives who see little reason to exercise that which Samuel Adams called one of the most solemn trusts in human society -- the right to vote.  So, with voter registration deadlines looming, let me...

American Values president Gary Bauer announced his support for GOP presidential nominee John McCain at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC today. Eyeblast.tv has the video of the announcement here.

McCain Trounces Obama At Saddleback Saturday, at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in California, Senator John McCain outclassed and soundly defeated Senator Barack Obama in a “Presidential Forum.” You can tell that the extent of the McCain victory was great, because the Obama campaign is acting like a “sore loser” and claiming that Senator McCain “cheated,” and because Big Media is pretending as though the event never happened. I can guarantee you that if Obama had won on the strength of his rhetorical skills, we’d be seeing clips of the forum over and over and over again. The media and...

Conservative leader Gary Bauer says Barack and Michelle Obama are "out to lunch" when it comes to addressing the economic challenges middle-class Americans face. American Values president Gary Bauer says Michelle Obama's "arrogant elitism" was "fully on display" at a recent campaign stop in Pontiac, Michigan, where she joked that a $600 tax rebate check from the government was only enough to buy "a pair of earrings." Bauer, who points out his wife has never spent $600 on a pair of earrings, says such "gems" from Michelle Obama are being largely ignored by the mainstream media. "She's complained about the...

n his first series role in 40 years, Jon Voight has signed on for the upcoming seventh season of "24." On the Emmy-winning Fox drama, Voight will play Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) uber-nemesis who is pulling the strings behind next season's terrorist threat. The character will be introduced during "24's" two-hour Season 7 prequel and will be featured heavily in the latter half of the season.

With the nation’s economic anxieties growing in direct proportion to oil prices, let’s not forget this fact: that the Left’s decades-long refusal to address domestic energy supply will cost Americans more than the soaring gas prices they are already paying. Who is to blame for increasing gas prices? Listening to the rhetoric on the Left, it’s the fault of George Bush, or, better yet, Dick Cheney, who must be making some money on the side. (Is it part of a Halliburton plot?) Moving rightward, a surprising number of conservatives seem to be buying into the notion that soaring oil prices...

The Democrats’ Anti-Military Problem by Gary Bauer Posted 04/18/2008 ET One of this election season’s most bizarre developments is the Democrats’ persistence in highlighting what voters regard as the party’s greatest liability, a lack of patriotism, by constantly attacking what voters regard as the country’s greatest asset, the military. We’ve gotten used to the political Left’s anti-military animus, and even the recent spate of violence at military recruiting centers and mis-titled “peace” demonstrations across the country surprises few of us. But the anti-military virus that infects the Left has spread to a disturbing number of prominent national Democrats, including, most...

Of all the factors that led to Mike Huckabee's demise in the 2008 presidential sweepstakes (insufficient funds, lack of foreign policy experience), there's one that has been largely overlooked: Huckabee's disbelief in the theory of evolution as it is generally understood – without the involvement of the Creator. Perhaps you're thinking: What's evolution got to do with being president? Very little, as Huckabee was quick to remind reporters on the campaign trail. But from the moment the former Baptist minister revealed his beliefs on evolutionary biology, political commentators and scientists lambasted him. Some even suggested those beliefs should disqualify him...

For those of us with access to the Internet, it’s been difficult to miss the circulating e-mails claiming that Barack Obama attended a Madrassa (an Islamic school) as a child in Indonesia. Or perhaps the one informing us that Obama’s middle name is Hussein. Then there’s the Internet allegation that Obama is really a “secret Muslim.” Innuendo about Barack Obama’s faith and upbringing often dominate discussions regarding how the likely Democratic presidential nominee might conduct his foreign policy. That’s a shame, because it distracts us from more legitimate and far deeper concerns over Obama’s relationship not with Islam but with...

We all mourn the deaths in Iraq, now approaching 4,000th Americans, in the five-year-old fight for freedom and justice in that nation. But sadly we seem oblivious to the fact that we lose approximately the same number of our fellow citizens everyday to abortion. The plague of abortion takes one American life about every 30 seconds. But here’s a little good news on this Good Friday: Soon Congress will have the chance to limit severely the ability of this plague’s principal purveyor, Planned Parenthood, to force you to pay for its deadly deeds.

Jack Bauer for President which party would jack run under?

"Bit by bit, McCain is drawing conservatives to his side. Family values activist Gary Bauer endorsed McCain this week." See whole article here: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0215/p02s01-uspo.html

LOS ANGELES -- "24" co-creator/executive producer Joel Surnow is leaving the Emmy-winning drama. Surnow's departure is effective immediately. He served as an executive producer on the first eight episodes of Fox's real-time thriller's seventh season that were produced before and into the strike but will not be creatively involved in the remaining 16 episodes, slated to begin filming shortly. Surnow's overall deal with "24" producer 20th Century Fox TV was up April 30. This week, the writer-producer asked the studio to release him early, to which they agreed. Instead of signing a show deal to continue providing services on "24,"...

“If Barack Obama is elected president, I daresay America will present a new face to the world, will restore, simply by his election, hope – not just within the United States, but from all corners of the world, that America’s claim to moral authority is back on track and that our leadership in world affairs will see a renaissance.” So said U.S. Representative William Delahunt (D-MA) at a recent campaign event in which the leading Democratic foreign policy voice endorsed for president a candidate who admits: “the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact I spent four...

  For Immediate Release October 18, 2007   Contact: Joe Turman Shirley & Banister Public Affairs 703-739-5920/800-536-5920 jturman@sbpublicaffairs.com   Hillary Meets Jack Bauer StopHerNow.com Announces ‘24’ Parody Script Contest   Washington, DC – In anticipation of the upcoming premier of FOX’s 24, StopHerNow.com, the leading Hillary Clinton educational website, today announced a script writing contest for an episode of The Hillary Show.  The contest will coincide with the release of a new episode featuring former President Bill Clinton.  The Jack Bauer episode will be timed to debut along with the premier of the seventh season of FOX’s 24 on...

Religious conservatives are at odds over which of the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination should get their backing. Many of the top leaders on the religious right privately say it's impossible to name a top-tier, declared Republican hopeful who can pass the "straight face" test as someone social conservatives can honestly say they would trust if elected. Catholics and Protestant evangelicals on the right account for about a third of the Republican Party's electoral coalition, and it's difficult for a Republican to win without them. "The problem is that there isn't someone seen as a titular head of the...

A well-known evangelical leader is encouraging conservative Christians to give presidential hopeful Fred Thompson and all other candidates a fair chance not long after another prominent conservative leader criticized the former senator for being too weak on key issues. Although he doesn’t endorse Thompson, former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer contends that conservative Christians should seriously consider him if they want to avoid a “nightmare scenario” where they are forced to choose between two pro-abortion, pro-gay rights candidates – Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. “He (Thompson)’s obviously against same-sex marriage. He doesn’t support quite the same constitutional amendment that some...

From "An Inconvenient Truth" to popularizing the Prius, Hollywood has helped lead the way on some environmental issues. One of the latest initiatives: Cool Change, Fox's company-wide program to reduce the network's impact on global warming. As part of that effort, the seventh season of "24" will take steps to reduce and offset the carbon emissions from the show's production, with the goal of having the season finale be entirely carbon-neutral. ...

Now that the immigration bill has finally died its slow and much-deserved death, it's an appropriate time to consider what lessons can be learned and what the episode portends for a Republican Party in disarray. Above all, the defeat of the Senate's immigration bill-a de facto amnesty for illegal immigrants that did virtually nothing to address the threats to our national security that our porous borders have created-was a victory for average Americans over the Washington, D.C. establishment. The details of the bill's collapse are telling. Between Tuesday and Thursday of last week, 14 senators changed their minds and voted...

JACK BAUER, America's favorite counter-terrorism agent with the violent code of honor and the weird sadomasochistic bent, is squaring off against a stealthy and unforgiving new enemy. His fans. ON THE CLOCK: Kiefer Sutherland, as Jack, awaits his next appointment.

James Bond on Jack's Turf: Taunts Bauer Again, Calls Him "Rubbish" -- New York Times headline, February 30, 2007 After months of transatlantic bickering and tabloid name-calling, the public feud between Jack Bauer and James Bond has taken on an ugly new coloring. The battle for espionage bragging rights, now affecting U.S.-UK relations, has become a classic barroom brawl, as the clandestine torture tactics championed by both principals is bandied about in television spots, print articles, and YouTube videos the world over, aided and abetted by the New Media Youth. In an effort to calm the dispute, U.S. Secretary of...

A little twinge of anxiety always hits the community when the new neighbors move in. What do they do for a living? What kind of music do they listen to? Are they sociable or are they loners? Are they loud? Do they park the chassis of their beaten-up cars on blocks on the front lawn? And do they contribute money to anti-gay groups? Seattle, we have a problem. Seems a couple of the Sonics' new hefty financial backers, Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward, have been willing to spend backup point guard money to support former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer's...

The AP has found a new way to attack TV's 24. They say that because of the depiction of character Jack Bauer's, shall we say, short-cuts in interrogating prisoners his ways have now infected the US Military. Absurdly, the AP is advancing the case, in "Does Jack Bauer Influence Interrogators?", that "there are indications that real-life American interrogators in Iraq are taking cues from what they see on television." Are they indeed? Says who? Predictably the AP reports these claims are from the "advocacy group Human Rights First". No surprise there, eh? The scene from Fox's "24" is haunting,...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hank Bauer, the hard-nosed ex-Marine who returned to baseball after being wounded during World War II and went on to become a cornerstone of the New York Yankees dynasty of the 1950s, died Friday. He was 84. Bauer died of cancer in Shawnee Mission, Kan., said the Baltimore Orioles. Bauer managed the 1966 Orioles to their first World Series title. A three-time All-Star outfielder, Bauer played on Yankees teams that won nine American League pennants and seven World Series in 10 years. He set the Series record with a 17-game hitting streak, a mark that still...