Given that title, and at that institution, his statement is the apex of hypocrisy..."
"DING DING DING! What do we have for her, Johnny?"
THAT was spot on, bill1952!
Posted on 01/16/2007 6:06:00 AM PST by rintense
"How much longer? I hear someone," says the nervous terrorist with a heavy Middle Eastern accent, just before U.S. agents storm a warehouse where a nuclear device is being assembled. Confusion reigns, drama builds, the device is detonated and a mushroom cloud looms over Los Angeles. Such is primetime television in the age of terrorism, or as some critics charge, has "24" gone too far?
"It's the closest television comes to roller coasters," said David Bianculli, television critic for the New York Daily News. "It works well dramatically, and as far as feeding fears, that's what '24' is all about."
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. Of course that may be a minority opinion given the show's enormous popularity.
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The first 4 hours of 24 this season was the first time I watched it.
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I know the muslims are fun loving people. They have fun torturing American soldiers they've captured, sawing off heads with a dull knife, sending a metal pole up the backside of someone then standing the pole upright and showing it on tv. Of couse everyone in the world saw these happenings on tv, except in America, 'cause it might hurt someones sensibilities. Bull, let Americans see what some of these people are capable of doing.
"24" is like a Rorschach test. People see what they want to see. Of course, movies are the same way. And newspapers, TV news, and radio. The age of "truthiness" reigns.
Oh oh oh -- you're talking about the balding guy with glasses, the one that seemed to President Logan's "puppet master" last season. I saw Jack talking to him in the preview's for next week's show. Can't wait to find out the story about who he is, where he's from. Last season we were thinking Big Oil or something cliche like that.
Possibly a preview of Osama Obama???????
Potty breaks? Why? I've never seen anyone on the show drink coffee or beer.
Not to worry. They'll soon explain why the one guy for whom they carried out that elaborate prison break is, in fact, not necessary to the plan. Along with the one component they aboslutely had to have. I love the show, but I sometimes think "24" refers to the number of gaping plot holes in each season.
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Haha! Me neither! And I imagine that if the end of the world were near the adrenaline rush of trying to save it would allow you to either a)hold it or b) wet yourself! And afterall, saving the world is a wee bit more important than using the toilet! :)
Yes. For example, Jack spent 2 years in a Chinese prison. 24 has never picked up from the previous season (day)
That's exactly right. The show is about a series of huge crisis days. This season occurs 20 months after last season. Things happen, new presidents arrive, we just find out about the happenings in the interregnum incidentally.
If someone has already posted this.. sorry.. I can't read over 400 posts:
The man who said that about 24 - Sut Jhalley- is a terrorist sympathizer anyway. I got this from IMDB about one of his docs:
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
It sheds much needed light on shocking use of the tragedies of September 11th 2001 by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others in the George W. Bush administration as a tool to implement their terrifying neo-conservative agenda.
Nice that ABC uses Jhalley's quote, not once revealing the fact of where he stands.
My first concern, as it should be for all of us, is how has it affected Hillary?
From what I've been able to figure out, the kids really are his but he had been estranged from the family for several years before showing up to get them out of Washington.
So long as we allow Mooselimbs into the country we will be in mortal danger. It is a cult of death with direct links to the Nazis of WWII. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who espoused all of this natred toward the Jews was Hitler's personal guest during the war. And then Arafat brought the modern era of terrorism to the ME in the late 1960s and we pretended not to notice.
"Haj Amin al-Husseini eventually died in exile in 1974. He never returned to Jerusalem after his 1937 departure. His place as leader of the radical, nationalist Palestinian Arabs was taken by his nephew Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini, better known as Yasser Arafat. In August 2002, Arafat gave an interview in which he referred to "our hero al-Husseini" as a symbol of Palestinian Arab resistance."
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php
Given that title, and at that institution, his statement is the apex of hypocrisy..."
"DING DING DING! What do we have for her, Johnny?"
THAT was spot on, bill1952!
Obama was my first thought when I saw this thread.
Perhaps ABC should start their own show and call it "100" as the first hours of their congress.
Lets see Jack Murtha takes on the Al-Tuna terroists who are Samoan and are demanding to be exempted from minimum wage laws.
The clock could be reset numerous times.
"Television shows like '24' also reinforce stereotypes about Arabs..."
Fox and '24' covered their butts by having a GOOD Arab terrorist and BAD terrorists
""In CTU headquarters — which is information central — they are always watching Fox News," Biancilli said. "Now that is ridiculous."
Years ago, it was always CNN. I have a "retired" military friend who now contracts. Some time ago he told me that CNN was always on at his place of employment and often was the conduit of something big coming their way.
They now watch Fox.
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