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Gabler: '24' Creator 'Right-Wing Fanatic;' Hall: Show Plays to 'Paranoia' [Video]
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/21/2007 5:09:37 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Interesting panel discussion about "24" on last evening's Fox News Watch. On the one hand, lefty Neal Gabler actually defended the show. Mentioning that he likes Keith Olbermann "very much," Gabler continued:

"I disagree with Keith Olbermann in this situation. I look at '24' as being like a 527 [tax-exempt groups that engage in political activity]. It's bringing up that issue about terrorism, it certainly serves the Bush administration. But unlike the 9-11 show that was on ABC which specifically cited Bush as a great hero, this does not do that. It is entertainment, and I don't think it ought to be censored, or pulled off the air, or anything like that."

At the same time, Gabler later claimed: "I had dinner with the creator of '24' [note: IMDB lists Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran as co-creators], and let me say, he was a right-wing fanatic. Let's not pretend that he isn't."

Joshed Cal Thomas: "My kind of guy!"

Jane Hall considers it paranoid to be concerned about the threat of nuclear terrorism: "They're playing to the paranoia of this age, and conservative people are picking up on it and saying 'this could happen here. Mushroom cloud if you don't let Bush do what we think Bush should be doing.'"

Jim Pinkerton offered an ominous closing take: "An attack like that is coming, and we all know it."

View edited video clip here.Contact

Mark at mark@gunhill.net


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 24; janehall; jimpinkerton; nealgabler
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1 posted on 01/21/2007 5:09:38 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

'24' ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 01/21/2007 5:10:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

At least he did not say the creator was right-wing because he knows Rush.


3 posted on 01/21/2007 5:11:46 AM PST by mathluv (Never Forget!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"I had dinner with the creator of '24' [note: IMDB lists Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran as co-creators], and let me say, he was a right-wing fanatic. Let's not pretend that he isn't."

Who were all the sick lefties who put together The West Wing?

And that putrid Gena Davis vehicle??

4 posted on 01/21/2007 5:13:09 AM PST by beyond the sea ( All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Gabler is a gobbler.
5 posted on 01/21/2007 5:13:47 AM PST by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Jim Pinkerton offered an ominous closing take: "An attack like that is coming, and we all know it."

I agree........ soon after Iran is hit we will get hit. Not to say that Iran shouldn'r be drilled.

6 posted on 01/21/2007 5:14:50 AM PST by beyond the sea ( All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest)
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To: beyond the sea
Who were all the sick lefties who put together The West Wing?

Especially its producer, Larry "lies, lies, lies, lies" O'Donnell, undoubtedly a distant cousin of Rosie.
7 posted on 01/21/2007 5:15:53 AM PST by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Don't viewers get sick of Law and Order dusting off their tired old far right skinhead (Christian), terror plot? Evidently not.


8 posted on 01/21/2007 5:16:29 AM PST by hershey
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To: Beckwith; governsleastgovernsbest

Gabler is a good writer but he always looks like he had way too much coffee......... and acts like he has a pebble in his shoe and a tack on his chair.


9 posted on 01/21/2007 5:17:14 AM PST by beyond the sea ( All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Gabler is an ass.

Neither 'creators' of "24" are Right-wing fanatics. They never attend the meetings and are not dues paying members of Right Wing Fanatics of America. Neither of the 'creators' of "24" even subscribe to the secret RWFA newsletters or position papers.

Sheesh!

10 posted on 01/21/2007 5:18:35 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

" Jane Hall considers it paranoid to be concerned about the threat of nuclear terrorism: "They're playing to the paranoia of this age, and conservative people are picking up on it and saying 'this could happen here. Mushroom cloud if you don't let Bush do what we think Bush should be doing.'" "

Which leads me to wonder what Ms. Hall thinks (admittedly a question-begging phrase) about AlGore's movie and Heidi Cullen taking over the Weather Channel...

"Revealed Truth"?


11 posted on 01/21/2007 5:22:44 AM PST by Uncle Ike ("Tripping over the lines connecting all of the dots"... [FReeper Pinz-n-needlez])
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Cold case files panders to leftist advocates of long past social problems.


12 posted on 01/21/2007 5:28:28 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. .... It's spit on a lefty day.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"An attack like that is coming, and we all know it."

I'm really tired of this ominous statement that doesn't have to come true! If the western world would just take off the gloves and get down and dirty with the terrorists and the regimes that support them--like we used to do--it's unlikely a so-called suitcase nuke would be reality in the U.S.

There is a reason there were virtually no major acts of terrorism until the late 80's in the U.S. We now let politically correct techniques influence tactical and strategic maneuvers regarding the gathering of intel and the execution of countermeasures.

America became nice. America became fair. American became wussified.

13 posted on 01/21/2007 5:37:22 AM PST by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
They're playing to the paranoia reality of this age

There. Fixed it.

14 posted on 01/21/2007 5:45:46 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Temporarily Posting from Washington DC)
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To: SandyInSeattle

This shop is really bad. imho


15 posted on 01/21/2007 5:58:29 AM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: ClaireSolt

What shop?


16 posted on 01/21/2007 5:59:48 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Temporarily Posting from Washington DC)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals have to deny rational fears of terrorism, just as they must deny the reality of abortion versus their fantasy world, to assure no one notices the incongruity of the real world, their rhetoric about it, and the policies they pursue. Being a Liberal means being in denial. A Liberal would rather be fashionable than appear to be cognizant of the threats the nation faces. To have even the slightest concerns about the dangers our nation faces strikes a Liberal as being paranoid.


17 posted on 01/21/2007 6:00:06 AM PST by elhombrelibre (After 9/11, Bush went to war with terrorists and their supporters. Democrats war against him.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

America watches thi sshow becuase America wants a hero, a real man who is committed to his cause - the safety of Americans (and no one else counts for squat!)


18 posted on 01/21/2007 6:03:26 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Hollywood celebrities...what DON'T they know? - C. McGee)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
“But unlike the 9-11 show that was on ABC which specifically cited Bush as a great hero... ”

Eitthe Dhimmi Gabler didn't watch it... or he's making sh*t up again. Seeing that he's a 'media-critic' and it's his job to 'watch'... I'll go with the latter.

19 posted on 01/21/2007 6:10:55 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
With so many lies from Gabler, it's hard to mention them all, but no one picked up on this one: "But unlike the 9-11 show that was on ABC which specifically cited Bush as a great hero, this does not do that."

And why would the right-wing "creator" of '24' have dinner with Gabler?

20 posted on 01/21/2007 6:16:52 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
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