Why The World Is Not An Episode Of 24

Please cite a specific post.

 

A specific post? I'll be happy to.

I'll wait for your response, which I sure will be filled with witty rejoinders and rock-solid evidence.

 

I don't think I name-called. I used verbs. Nouns were used to describe activities, such as the coming-out parties you throw so well, the former convict turned free and clean housemaker guru ought to give you your own division of her megacompany.

 

Damn, Redd. You're right.
Mea culpa to is Holiness.

 

You're kidding, right. That weak-assed attempt to CYA is the best you can do? Seriously, dude, you suck at this if your only defense ... after claiming you didn't display homophobia ... is verbs and nouns.

A real man can admit his mistakes, his errors. Since you're obviously incapable of such an action, then I can only assume you're either an immature adult intentionally trolling just so you can get juvenile jollies out of stirring up crap on a message board, or you're in reality a teenage wannabe who is in way over his head and struggling to maintain a shred of dignity.

 

Turns out the producer of 24 is, surprise, a rightist fathead with all the correct friends -- Rush smokes cigars with him! -- and a devotion to the Fredo Administration that is quite well requited.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070219fa_fact_mayer
Here's my favorite part.

'This past November, U.S. Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, the dean of the United States Military Academy at West Point, flew to Southern California to meet with the creative team behind “24.” Finnegan, who was accompanied by three of the most experienced military and F.B.I. interrogators in the country, arrived on the set as the crew was filming. At first, Finnegan—wearing an immaculate Army uniform, his chest covered in ribbons and medals—aroused confusion: he was taken for an actor and was asked by someone what time his “call” was.
In fact, Finnegan and the others had come to voice their concern that the show’s central political premise—that the letter of American law must be sacrificed for the country’s security—was having a toxic effect. In their view, the show promoted unethical and illegal behavior and had adversely affected the training and performance of real American soldiers. “I’d like them to stop,” Finnegan said of the show’s producers. “They should do a show where torture backfires.”
The meeting, which lasted a couple of hours, had been arranged by David Danzig, the Human Rights First official. Several top producers of “24” were present, but Surnow was conspicuously absent. Surnow explained to me, “I just can’t sit in a room that long. I’m too A.D.D.—I can’t sit still.” He told the group that the meeting conflicted with a planned conference call with Roger Ailes, the chairman of the Fox News Channel."

So this yahoo blows off a brigadier general with expertise in the very field in which the yahoo's program is completely full of crap in order to take a call from the uber-hack of the 20th century. Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to the reaction on the Right if, say, Aaron Sorkin bolted on a scheduled meeting with a general in the middle of the West Wing's fifth season?
I wouldn't watch this torture-porn again now on a bet.

 

FB, you're late to the party. See page 1 of the thread.

I have to admit that I'm a devoted follow of the show, maily because I can suspend all my critical faculties for an hour. It's a preposterous comic book and has about as much to do with reality as Ninja Turtles.

Remember watching George Reeves as Superman when you were a kid? Same thing.

That said, Sournow comes across as a pig.

 

JR --
Yeah, but Ike didn't have an administration full of dangerous yahoos who watched the show and came away thinking they could fly.

 

Point taken.