Posted on 01/17/2007 9:41:06 AM PST by IrishMike
The night after the four-hour, two-night season premiere of Fox's 24 ended with a “suitcase nuke” being set off by Middle Eastern terrorists in a Southern California warehouse, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann saw a nefarious plot to aid President Bush: “Is 24 just entertainment or is it propaganda designed to keep people thinking about domestic terrorism to keep us scared?” He demanded Tuesday night: “Gripping drama or thinly veiled propaganda?” Leading into reciting a posting on NewsBusters by Noel Sheppard (Mark Finkelstein's post with video of Olbermann quoting from NewsBusters), Olbermann recounted how 24 “featured a mall attack, a would-be suicide bomber on a subway, and a successful suicide bombing on a passenger bus. Not in places where these things have already happened, but in a country called the United States of America. In case you missed the point, the show finished up with a nuclear weapon detonating in a major American city, literally conjuring up the administration's imagery for the war in Iraq, the good old mushroom cloud.”
Olbermann then posed a series of absurd questions to Robert Greenwald, producer of the comically anti-FNC movie, Outfoxed. His options for Greenwald: “Is 24 propaganda? Is it fearmongering? Or is it a program-length commercial for one political party?” Olbermann soon proposed that “if the irrational right can claim that the news is fixed to try to alter people's minds or that networks should be boycotted for nudity or for immorality,” then “shouldn't those same groups be saying 24 should be taken off of TV because it's naked brainwashing?” Suggesting some sort of Fox-White House conspiracy, Olbermann tossed up: “But does this not begin to look at this point like the blurring of the lines here,” between fact and fiction, “is deliberate?”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Who's Olbermann?
Of course, "West Wing" and "Commander in Chief" were just entertainment...
Sorry I don't watch Oldberperson, I can't watch anyone suffering worse BDS than Chris Matthews.
A "news" guy who should go back to doing sports.
He's a guy who just ticked off Keifer Sutherland. :-)
have no idea..(s/)
Keith Olbermann is what I expected they would find when doing Perky Katie's colonoscopy.
It is obvious I was right.
I'd love to see Jack Bauer interrogate Olberperson.
Jack will not be pleased..
Ya beat me to it.
Olbermann? Sorry, that name doesn't ring a bell. I have zero interest in his opinion of anything.
"Of course, "West Wing" and "Commander in Chief" were just entertainment..."
BWAHAHAHA! Both now cancelled!
OMG, we could probably do away with the national debt if we put that on pay for view!
Would he like it better if they changed the terrorists to White Supremists like Clancy did for Sum of All Fears?
Of course, "West Wing" and "Commander in Chief" were just entertainment...
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Yeah. The MSM is dripping in left-wing hypocrisy to the hilt. They will NEVER be any different -- ever since the Clintons walked away from more crimes than Al Capone did, they have been emboldened to the point of criminal lying, slander, misrepresetation and outright sedition.
Did Olberman sleep through 9/11? Somebody needs to tell him it wasn't a dream. Islomofascists really ARE trying to kill us.
To borrow a phrase from the late Senator Eugene McCarthy, in Olbermann's case a light rinse would do.
This just proves that they look for crap to carp about.
Sooner or later, they'll turn on anybody in their quest to trash Bush. I hope the people they malign appreciate the irony.
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