Newsweek is kind of like a “National Enquire” to keep the liberals feeling all warm and fuzzy. . . 

It ain't the sex, it's the seriousness.

We long to see the messengers of truth present truth.

That's it.

“At a moment when President Bush is squeezing our civil liberties to fight a war on terror, the writers of ‘24’ have come up with a story that asks whether something could ever happen here in America that makes civil liberties a luxury we can no longer afford.”

Mmmm, so an exciting TV series is managing to ask powerful and relevant questions that nobody in the network news departments can be bothered to think about.

And this has a dope like Devin (made up name) "worried."

Hey Devin, go back to reviewing such realistic series like Desperate Housewives -- the dumbover liberals sex fantasy.

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

Liberals are obsessed with sex.  Everything they believe in is based on it. Pro-abortion, gay marriage, AIDS research funding etc. Liberal women use sex to both get, and complain about, men.  Liberal men…, well it’s the same, I guess.  Every human problem can be traced to sexual repression, deprivation or some similar thing.

In light of this, it’s not surprising that they would look at a T.V. show about terrorism as a sex fantasy.  They see the world as a sex-driven phenomenon.  These people are warped, and they assume everyone else is just as warped as they are.  They just can’t fathom normalcy.  Things that aren’t perverted, deviant, irreverent, depraved, irreligious, etc. do not register with libs.

Also note:  The libs consider 24 to be propaganda and fear-mongering...could it be that they think this way because they are practitioners of propaganda and fear-mongering themselves?  I think it's definite.

I think most liberals see the GWOT as more of the cold war propaganda we used to see in the movies.  Think of Red Dawn or any of the other doomsday movies where the USSR blows up the USA.  They saw the USSR go down, of course we see it resurrecting now, and they believe the current crop of terrorists will go down the same way.

The problem with their analogies is that the USSR and soviet blocks were at least somewhat sane and realized they wanted to survive and live.  The Muslim terrorists on the other hand don’t care a whole lot because their ideologies are religious in nature.  History has proved that religious causes are the most virulent.  This goes for the countries they represent also.  Even China realizes even though they can afford to lose half or more of their population if their country or the world is filled with radiation then they wont be in power any more.

The ideas are different.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark. -- save my gun, shoot a liberal.

Noel, it's difficult to say which is more outlandish, this one:

Nothing that happens on this show would ever happen in real life (yea, like commercial jets being flown into the WTC's, Pentagon, and capital building?)

Or, this one:

If ‘24’ is true, then everything the neo-conservatives have been saying all along is true.

But with the second one, I think the Devin Gordan (the MSM) should understand that much of what '24' projects as possible scenerios, have often been offered up by numerous leading Democratic folks as well. For years, they also have been wondering out loud - who knows what they say in private? I suspect the list includes, Bill Clinton, Carl Levin, Cohen, Kerry, Gore, etc. But there is one more group (and a  collection of groups) of people that have been not only involved in active planning for such scenerios for over a decade now, they have also publically (and privately - much has been intercepted) aired what they are warning will happen here.

I'll rephrase the comment I had down in the Olbermann post. Just what is it about 24 that has these "critics" and Olbermann so worked up in a lather? They are really overplaying their hand here. If the conversation was about "The West Wing", they would be sneering that conservatives were overreacting to "just a tv show". No, they must really be worried that this plot line will strike a nerve with some. God forbid that we remain vigilant...

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

So we finally get a TV show that appeals to conservative fantasies and suddenly the idea of boycotts and censorship becomes attractive to the liberals.  But I suppose only us Neocons can afford those fancy television sets with the channel selectors and "off" switch that they keep telling us about.

The Bodie Specter - "I'd rather be hit with Dick Cheney's shot than with Bill Clinton's wad"

Actually, my "Neocon sex fantasy" involves girls in bikinis, not nuclear explosions. I think those idiots at Newsweek don't get out that often.

"At an end your rule is, and not short enough it was!" -- Yoda

...mightn’t folks like Gordon have said the same thing about many ... novels and films such as those authored by Tom Clancy?

I wonder how many people, having read the final chapters of Clancy's 1994 thriller Debt of Honor, closed the book and said to themselves, "Clancy's lost it. Does he really expect anyone to believe that someone would deliberately crash an airliner full of passengers into the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C.? Totally unrealistic..."

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