Did "24" Go Too Far?

Townhall ^ | 1/22/07 | Hugh Hewitt

[sageb1]

I believe Rambo converts to Catholicism in Stallone's next movie.

[RunningWolf]

You must be about the same age as my Dad was, he was born in 1925 and could not serve active duty because he was deaf in one ear.

I did have other immediate relatives (on both sides of the family who did), and I heard their stories (those survived). In 1965, the end of WW2 was only twenty years gone.

I guess I just cant ever get into the fantasy that if the US never acts militarily, then nothing will happen to it. I guess a good example of that kind of thinking is the accusation that we 'made more terrorists' when we responded to 9-11.

Wolf

[cleveland gop]

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[secret garden]

Found it.

[Sherman Logan]

Would the BBC have been going "too far" if in 1937 it had broadcast a radio drama depicting life in a Hitler-authorized death camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews were being executed in gas chambers, one of a string of such camps springing up across Europe?

Well, yeah.

Unless they could foresee the future.

These types of camps didn't get going for 5+ years, basically after the Nazis decided it looked like they wouldn't be able to deport all the Jews to Madagascar, so they'd just have to kill them.

[Grut]

Great little film [Special Report] there.

Yeah, but the problem with defusing the bomb was hokey; since it was stated to be an implosion weapon, they could have slapped an explosive charge on one side and single-pointed it. HE yield, but no nuclear.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Huh? Are you saying no Arab American can be a patriot? I was pleased with their depiction of the "CAIR" clone guy ratting out his fellow Muslims in detention. It is a great role model for Muslim viewers.

Spot On!!! The crafting of the story line is what puts 24 head and shoulders above everything else on TV. There are so many nuanced characters. The low level, grunt traitor (who gets the bomb rigger off of the bus); the director of the CAIR-like organization who tells his lawyer to 'stop being a lawyer and get this message to the FBI.' Assad, who is now helping CTU find the other four suitcases.

24 didn't go too far...

My only complaint...they didn't show the 'aftermath' very well. Maybe they will between 11:00 a.m. and noon.

[presidio9]

A million tourists in NYC every day? I find that hard to believe.

I base that number on the fact that we have over seven million tourists a year, and the average stay is a little less than one week. Of course, there are times of the year when there are more than a million, and times when there are less. Additionally, every single day there are many many people who travel into the city, but do not book a hotel room. They can not possibly be accounted for.

All of this is irreleveant. There is not another city in the country that can even begin to approach anything like the population density of Manhattan.

[presidio9]

View post 76, and then get back to me.