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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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To: nnn0jeh

ping


61 posted on 01/21/2007 10:05:25 AM PST by kalee (No burka for me....EVER!)
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To: Beckwith

Maybe gabler gobbles goobers


62 posted on 01/21/2007 10:18:37 AM PST by WKB (Rudy V Hillary= There is no lessor of two liberals.)
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To: AmishDude

Nadia.....keep an eye on the beautiful, Arabic speaking team chief who's broken protocol record would have gotten her fired if it had not been for Chloe.


63 posted on 01/21/2007 10:32:36 AM PST by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: Beckwith

And don't forget Dee Dee Myers.


64 posted on 01/21/2007 10:42:18 AM PST by Bushiefan
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To: TET1968

Somebody posted pictures on the live thread of the end of the episode and Nadia was the only one without a shocked look on her face.


65 posted on 01/21/2007 10:46:55 AM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"It's bringing up that issue about terrorism, it certainly serves the Bush administration."

The left claims they will make America safer and implement all the 9/11 commission recommendations, but any mention of terrorism helps Bush.

Somehow I don't feel safer with the let's-not-talk-about-terrorism Democrats in charge.

66 posted on 01/21/2007 10:50:43 AM PST by Sender ("Great powers should never get involved in the politics of small tribes.")
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To: Bushiefan
And don't forget Dee Dee Myers.

What I will never forget about Dee Dee Myers was her comment, made on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1993 -- "We won the election, we can do ANYTHING we want."

And, as history shows -- they did.
67 posted on 01/21/2007 11:19:47 AM PST by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: beyond the sea
He is surely a hired gun. Who hired him is the million dollar question.

Could well be; other side of the speculation here; just as easily could be an earlier strike.

And why not; whatever happens; from here on in; they can have no doubt that whatever disaster they incur, on our behalf; it will be 'spun' their way.

Are you thinking close to 'Convention time'? Or some other meaningful Islamic marker?

68 posted on 01/21/2007 11:29:53 AM PST by cricket (Save a Terrorist - join the Democrats/Live Liberal Free; or suffer their consequences)
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To: oldbrowser

" So liberals believe that if they don't think about terrorism it won't exist."

When I was young, my tiny little redheaded neighbor Peggy Renfro used to squat down in their front yard and take a pee. Peggy was careful, though, to keep her eyes squeezed tightly shut believing if she couldn't see the people driving by, the people couldn't see her.


69 posted on 01/21/2007 12:55:12 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: Beckwith

bttt


70 posted on 01/21/2007 2:04:57 PM PST by Matchett-PI (To have no voice in the Party that always sides with America's enemies is a badge of honor.)
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To: Beckwith

You are absolutely right. Their arrogance is never questioned or answered. We need to get a back bone.


71 posted on 01/21/2007 4:58:15 PM PST by Bushiefan
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
But unlike the 9-11 show that was on ABC which specifically cited Bush as a great hero

I don't remember this. Is he talking about the Path to 9/11?

72 posted on 01/21/2007 5:06:03 PM PST by Excellence (Vote Dhimmocrat; Submit for Peace! (Bacon bits make great confetti.))
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To: Excellence

Think so but can't really say.


73 posted on 01/21/2007 5:07:23 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A Nuclear Filmography..

Stanley Kramer's 1959 antiwar movie looks like everything Kramer did: subtle as a car wreck but undeniably affecting. Gregory Peck plays a submarine commander looking for survivors in Australia after a nuclear holocaust. Ava Gardner is among them and, somewhat improbably under the circumstances, becomes his love interest. Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins are among the characters awaiting death from the gradual spread of radiation from the north. One might "scoff at Kramer's implicit finger-wagging about nuclear politics in this mad, mad, mad, mad world, but it is hard to stop watching this compelling drama all the same. --Tom Keogh ~ at Amazon

Two important films are Kurosawa Akira's "Ikimono no kiroku" (Record of a Living Being, aka "I Live in
Fear" , 1955) and Imamura Shohei's Kuroi ame (Black Rain, 1989).

Not to mention Godzilla which makes reference to nuclear destruction, and uses the premise that H-bomb testing accounts for Godzilla's resurrection from the primordial ooze and that the dinosaur gone wild has radioactive breath.

Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe worked the concept of an "accidental" nuclear exchange.

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the bomb, lent a humorous bent.. who can forget Slim Pickens' historical 8 seconds...

"The Day After" was disturbing and controversial as was "Testament"

"War Day," chronicled the destruction of the United States and its descent into third world destitution by a "limited strike" which vaporizes NYC and DC and parts of Texas.

The British film by Mick Jackson "Threads", takes "The Day After's" story a step further by portraying England blown to the dark ages of mutation and devolution.

Edward Zwick's "Special Bulletin," is about a crazed anti-nuke college professor who creates a Bomb and proceeds to hold Charleston as nuclear hostage until the US unilaterally disarms.

1989's "By Dawn's Early Light", a made-for-TV movie was an in depth portrayal of nuclear war..

Daniel Percival produced FX's "Smallpox," a vision of aterrorist release of the smallpox virus to devastating effect and "Dirty War" portraying what happens after terrorists release a dirty bomb that spreads radiation throughout central London.
Both are "what if" scenarios that serve as a warning for preparation to citizens and governments.
"Dirty War" was recently on HBO.. it's riveting and current.

We see and create on TV and in film the things we already know or suspect about nuclear warfare, what we fear and what we believe.

We know in our nitemares that art imitates life.


74 posted on 01/22/2007 6:54:19 AM PST by wildehunt
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