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For discussion.

[RockinRight]

I need to start watching this show.

[rhombus]

ABC? What no mention of Path to 9/11? I guess they are back on the PC plantation.

[TomGuy]

ABC is just mad that there may be 4 more blasts this season.


24 fans understand the purpose. It was an eye-opener to Islamist terrorism.

[newcthem]

Perhaps if ABC and the rest of the MSM is so concerned about reality, they could show the Twin Towers falling..........but of course that might just feed American's un-justified distrust of Arabs and other CRIMINALS (like the Mexicans, perhaps) who are in our country NOW.

[SlowBoat407]

For those who say it sets a bad example, I have two words:

"Murphy Brown"

[freeperfromnj]

So how come Jericho was allowed to have a nuclear blast? Oh that's right - they're on NBC.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Television shows like '24' also reinforce stereotypes about Arabs, he said, and in this episode connections are drawn between terrorism, Arabs and nuclear war. With the U.S. wrestling with Iran over its nuclear capabilities, these associations are dangerous, he said.

Yeah, they might give people the right idea.

[dforest]

This guy needs to quit worrying about us. We can handle it quite well. After all, its just a TV show. Too close to the truth for him, I guess.

[OldFriend]

Fox loving every minute of this. They hyped the show, Drudge ran with a headline and flashing sirens......all part of the plan.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Since 911 failed to wake up a large portion of the US into the fact that we are at war which includes almost the whole Democratic party, how could they be so bold to suggest that a TV show would make any difference.
One of the questions 24 raised with me is what is the possibility some terror group could actually access the sattelite network like they have this season? Any Freeper experts out there have some ideas on that?

[popdonnelly]

I thought ABC would like the show's depiction of vigilante white men throwing Muslims into concentration camps.

[zeaal]

"Sut Jhally, co-producer and co-director of the film "Hijacking Catastrophe," says the dramatic action in the show creates a dangerous climate in which the public loses some of its perspective on what's real and what's not."

Well then, please, pull the plug on all television and movies.

[agrace]

"It fits into a mind set," Jhally said. "Iran is on the news about nuclear power, and now there is an American TV story on an Arab terrorist using nuclear power. It's dangerous because this present administration wants any excuse to attack an enemy. Fear is main enemy in our political culture and we have to cut through the fear to see the world clearly, and then we can find solutions to make the world safe."

OK, we get you now, thanks for the revealing quote.

And the support 24 actually got in the article - I don't know about the rest of you, but I always find it disconcerting when I actually agree with Ron Kuby. :)

And I'm so sick of people complaining about Arabs being portrayed as terrorists...as if they never actually are terrorists. What's more fair - depicting an Arab as one, or an 80-year-old grandmother from Des Moines? Oh wait, I forgot, airline security already decided that one.

[pgkdan]

Television shows like '24' also reinforce stereotypes about Arabs, he said, and in this episode connections are drawn between terrorism, Arabs and nuclear war. With the U.S. wrestling with Iran over its nuclear capabilities, these associations are dangerous, he said

What world is this pencil necked geek living in? People should be drawing connections between terrorism, muslims and nuclear war! And that situation in Iran makes that all the more so!

[UB355]

Stupid is as stupid writes

[Fresh Wind]

Is the president supposed to be Barak Obama?

[WeddingPlanner]

They have no problem with CBS' 'Jericho" with nuclear weapons going off all over the world?

[kidd]

Poll and results at the end of the article:
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At the end of tonight's installment of "24," a nuclear bomb is detonated near Los Angeles by terrorists who have been setting off smaller bombs in cities around the country.

Has '24' gone too far?

No. There have been other shows that have dealt with apocalyptic themes...4,568

Yes. I think the show has run out of conventional ideas, and now it's going nuclear...1,088

Total Vote: 5,656

[EmilyGeiger]

What a moron! He thinks the terrorists are getting ideas from 24? Hello, you idiot, they already have ideas, does 9/11 ring a bell for you?? I could list all the dates of every terrorist act they have pulled but evidently this fool has short term memory loss... I loathe the media and their little friends too.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Chloe seems to have a wierd taste in men.