Limbaugh: TV Show "24" Lucky 9/11 happened shortly after

[RamboLiberal]

Been offline a couple of days so don't know if anyone posted this story that 24 is a favorite with Chertoff, Cheney, Rummy, Clarence Thomas, Limpballs, etc. Gee, guess the traitorous President Logan went right over all their heads this season. Probably think they were referring to a Dem president. BTW, the producers are Bush fans, and yeah the show is over the top in torture, but it is still my Monday night guilty pleasure.

Maureen Dowd had a great column Saturday on this meeting of the incompetent real government with the world of 24 titled "We Need Chloe!" Dowd also reveals that in the Suskind book that CIA officials referred to Cheney as "Edgar" as in Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.

Take it from Michael Chertoff: The Homeland Security Department is no "24." Chertoff, the department's secretary, said Friday he doesn't have a way-cool, state-of-the-art Counter Terrorist Unit like the one on the Fox TV show. Bad guys aren't foiled on an hourly basis. And not everybody is romantically involved with co-workers.

So by the time the clock stopped on a two-hour panel that included "24" cast members, Washington policy wonks and Rush Limbaugh, some mythical similarities between the show and the government's counterterrorism campaign had been debunked.

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Limbaugh peppered the panel over whether "24" influences public perceptions about counterterrorism, and whether the actors are snubbed by Hollywood liberals for participating in what Limbaugh called a "pro-America show."

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Later, Limbaugh went back to the program's creation, saying: "You got lucky with 9/11 happening shortly after the show started." He quickly stopped himself, saying: "Sorry not got lucky bad choice of words." At another point, he offered a story line for a political cameo: Democratic Rep. John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a tough critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, as "head of the new KGB."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2113040&page=1

[Cocoa]

1. not as bad a choice of words as "fabulous"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011221-2.html

But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me.

December 21, 2001

[Ilsa]

2. This last season was awesome.

I watch it also. I always get intrigued by the tech stuff.

But this last season showed how it was possible for the real terrorists to be home-grown, elected officials who have no problem designating regular Americans as collateral damage as they seek to consolidate their power and protect themselves.

[Jawja]

3. I love "24"

And this season actually made it believable that the Commander in Chief could very well be responsible for the deaths of innocent Americans in order to further his political standing.

gee, wonder where the writers got the model for THAT idea? :shrug:

[zbdent]

4. Yet another lie:

According to IMDB ... Season 1, Episode 1: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
6 November 2001

Uh, that was two months after Sept 11 that the show went on the air . . .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285331/episodes#season-1

[FormerDittoHead]

6. Thank you.

...and the first episode had nothing to do with terrorists, rather, some Milosevic knock-off and a plot to kill the President, etc., but the point is that, even at the time when I was still a "conservative", I remember 24 being an "answer" to 9/11.

[David__77]

5. Well, this is one "far leftist" who likes 24.

There was one season that was a bit politically backward. But overall, it's progressive in content. It shows how nefarious the secret state is.

[zbdent]

7. I just e-mailed ABC News with something that Rush seems to abhor

a fact check.

I pointed out that '24' premiered 2 months after 9/11/2001.

So, when's he going to resign in disgrace? Oh, wait. He's a blue dress for the Republican party . . . he'll be on the air forever.

[AnnieBW]

8. Limpballs kissed Chloe!

There was a pic in the Washington Post on Saturday that showed Limpballs at a Heritage Foundation thing about "24" and real Homeland Security.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/23/AR2006062301804.html

Note the pic where he kissed Mary Lynn Rajskub. She looks like she's being bitten by a vampire. :D

[Ilsa]

9. Too bad she didn't throw up in his mouth; would've improved his breath nt

[frylock]

10. "24" is one of the worst situation comedies ever developed..

and now I have another reason to hate it.

BTW, the producers are Bush fans...