I Smell a Rat
Oh, come on. I mean, sure, a lot of America takes its cues from television and movies, but I think it's a dodge to try to blame "24" on bad treatment of prisoners. That feels like a cover story, like Dan Quayle blaming "Murphy Brown" for our cultural woes. More GOP secular culture-bashing, as pointless as it is meaningless.
More to the point, it tries to camouflage the very real responsibility the Bush League leadership has for creating the climate of lawlessness that led to the abuses to begin with! They knew just what they were doing the minute they get up the prisoner camps in Cuba, and when they adopted their rendition torture-go-round way of circumnavigating international laws.
It's not Jack Bauer's fault that prisoner abuse and torture has gone on. Rather, the fault lies with George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzalez, and many other members of the Bush League who think extremism in defense of imperial executive authority is no vice.
What next, blaming video games for Abu Ghraib?
I must've done something right, since I ended up with a trollbite, courtesy of Locutus, stargazer extraordinaire...
Article never said that "24" was to blame. The article indicated that some of the training cadre in the military are concerned that some individuals may be mimicking the show.
What a silly, pointless quibble! Poor thing! If the officials are concerned that folks are mimicking the show, then they're indirectly blaming the show for the problem, no? He missed the point of my comment, which was that the leadership are the ones we need to blame, not television shows (or individuals imitating television shows).
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