Obama stumbles in debate

Watermark said:
I dunno, does anyone else get a bit angry whenever they see Jack Bauer on TV praised for torturing people and getting away with it? Even if all such situations were so fictionally clear-cut, it's still offensive to the senses.
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Yes, but even worse, I become terrified when I see Republican candidates for President talking about him as if he were a real guy.
 
Darla said:
Yes, but even worse, I become terrified when I see Republican candidates for President talking about him as if he were a real guy.
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Yeah. The real problem with that though is that the candidates are seeming unaware that the real people in charge of counter-terrorism have actually gone to the producers of 24 to ask them to knock off the bullshit:

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.”
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=3
 
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