Did "24" Go Too Far?

Townhall ^ | 1/22/07 | Hugh Hewitt

[clamper1797]

I truly believe that this will be a reality in some American city before another 10 years passes.

Which will very likely lead to another reality ... American mosques burned to the ground and Muslims along with their enablers and protectors in grave danger of retribution

[msnimje]

Jack Bauer and Simon Cowell need sensitivity training!

Simon should join the 24 cast. He could berate the pathetically wimpy terrorists for hours on end!

[presidio9]

Uh, it's on tonight at 9:00PM. Last night was Rome, which is available on demand.

[GOPJ]

If we leave Iraq with tail between legs, they will follow us home. And they'll be armed...

[Indy Pendance]

If TC wrote 'derogatory' (IE, the truth) things about muzzies (pick an 'oppressed' minority), and had a hit show, he'd get flack too.

[Indy Pendance]

"And they'll be armed..."

So will I.

[Cindy]

"Did "24" Go Too Far?"

OPINION: No.

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[50sDad]

Sadly, we have been asleep for five years. After 9/11, we were all on the same side, and the Liberal political weasels who have always bashed our own country and it's military were too scared to show their true stripes for more than a year. We saw flags everywhere, and we were, for a time, non-hyphenated Americans.

The day the Democrats openly whined that, sure, we liberated fifty million people from tyranny, but maybe it took to long, and was too expensive, I knew that unity was over, and we were rolling over on the couch, looking for the cheese doodles. The day some nameless Dem suggested that maybe they didn't really want to be liberated, America fumbled for the remote and was clicking the channels to see if something else good was on. And the day that the network news giggled that we had reached two thousand dead soldiers, I knew we had rolled back to sleep, safe in the knowledge that even though we had the highest Dow in history, and had to raise interest rates just to slow down our economy, it was the Democrats who, Chamberlain like, would save us from those poor, misunderstood Muslim freedom fighters we had oppressed all these years.

It will take a nuke in LA to make the big American bear wake up again. But thanks to the totally complicit MSM, Bush will get the blame for not stopping it.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Tonite. 9 PM. If the left hates it, it must be good.
If the fellow countrymen of the terrorists hate it, it must be good.
Nobody bother me tonite after 9...

[massgopguy]

Clancy had the chance. But he let the PC police in Hollywood change the bad guys in Sum of All Fears from Muslims to White Supremacists.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Blown up Los Angeles and left the most productive part of the national economy crippled and hundreds of thousands dead.

The writer went too far. LA the "most productive part of our economy"? Don't make me laugh.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

My family and I are loyal viewers of "24," one of the two best shows on TV (tied with "The Office.")

But I do think the nuclear explosion went too far. Some things are better feared, than experienced, even vicariously.

[diamond6]

Sorry, I'm new to the show and thought it's timeslot was Sunday night.

My bad.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Given that there are easily, oh, 10 million people in the world who would stand up and cheer at the real version of Monday night's fictionalized attack"

Daniel Pipes usefully estimates the Islamofascist contingent at 10-15% of Muslims. That's at least 120,000,000 who would cheer.

[50sDad]

Tom Clancy should get this kid of attention.

If Hollywood had the brass to let his movie terrorists stay Mussies rather than make them politically-correct white supremacists, he would.

[Spirochete]

So, according to this piece, Los Angeles is the most productive part of the U.S. economy.

[presidio9]

Tom Clancy jumped the shark when Jack Ryan became president. The same thing is beginning to happen to 24 (which is why I'm hoping they just go for broke this season and kill EVERYBODY). Once Ryan became president, Clancy moved into the realm of science fiction. Ryan's world is LIKE ours, but subtly different. The same thing will start to happen with 24, now that a nuke has gone off in LA. Thankfully, we don't live in a world where a nuke has gone off in one of our cities. Yet. If you think everything changed on 9/11, you can only imagine how different the world will look after that inevitable day.

One noteworthy exception was the prequel Red Rabbit.

[RobRoy]

Maybe it's just me, but I think "Earth vs the Flying Saucers" went too far.



On a number of levels...

[OpusatFR]

The left is fond of telling everyone, "Get over yourselves. It's just entertainment."

Yup. It's fiction, people.

[puppypusher]

NO 24 didn't go to far.If anything,I think they are being prescient,especially with the way the democraps are throwing obstructions against our national technical means(Also known as Intelligence assets.)

They tell the enemy what we are looking for,what our strength's are,etc.etc.etc.

The enemy is going to attack this country again and the Death toll will make the attacks on 9-11 look like a picnic in comparison.

Who will the dummies blame then?