Posted on 01/31/2007 8:03:24 AM PST by SmithL
Americans have yearned to see current geopolitical realities portrayed in popular culture ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Before then, Islamic terrorists were a staple, albeit a stereotypical one, of action films such as "Executive Decision," "Back to the Future" and "True Lies." But after Sept. 11, the arbiters of political correctness, fearing that fiction hit too close to home, all but erased such terrorists from the public eye.
Hollywood finally started coming around in the last year or so with films directly related to Sept. 11, such as "United 93" and "World Trade Center." But television preceded Hollywood by several years. Beginning in late 2001, shows such as "The Agency," "Jag," "Navy NCIS" and "The Unit" (all from CBS) have attempted to portray the war on terrorism through the eyes of those on its front lines.
None represent this burgeoning trend more than Fox's "24." Centered on a fictional CIA Counter Terrorism Unit based in Los Angeles, the show has become a favorite of those seeking "good guy vs. bad guy" moral clarity in America's battle against Islamic terrorism. Indeed, the lead character, Special Agent Jack Bauer, has become something of a counterterrorism icon. Played by actor Kiefer Sutherland, Bauer represents the take-no-prisoners approach to combating terrorism, complete with remorseless killings and torture. At the same time, the terrorists he fights have no qualms about using whatever means are at their disposal, including weapons of mass destruction, to take out as many civilians as possible.
To be sure, "24" has its critics, most of whom object to the show's focus on Islamic terrorism.
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Also, sad commentary when you have to see a TV show to watch the bare-knuckle approach that should be going on in real life. Listen up timid Republicans in congress. We want more 24 style WOT and none of the MSM-democrat-left PC we need to understand them crap.
The LIBYANS!!!!
I have actually found that clarity. I just wish our country would practice it
It seems to me that 24 has 'jumped the shark' with this season by having Jack's brother be a badguy.. It's somewhat ruining the show for me. Sort of like when they revealed that Darth Vader was Luke's father.
More cheese, please...
And his brother looks like Clint Howard, which isn't good.
Reading your post and then seeing your tagline...looks like you've made it a long way! ;-)
Well, Tantra was an antidote and my only cure...LOL!
Watch out for -- The Swiss!!
Of course, using the Leftist classification system, the Libyans weren't Islamic terrorists because Kadaffi was secular.
Think about this...
If "24" has C.A.I.R.'s panties in a wad...Thats a good thing...
Because it keeps them focused on something that has absolutely zero effect on us in the real world!!!
Go CAIR GO!!!
Besides...Imagine Entertainment is not run by a bunch of conventional Hollywood dunderheads!
Ron Howard, Brian Grazer won't let CAIR get the best of them...At least until the lawyers get into this fracus...
Then Kiefer will have to do another bleeding heart PSA or something...
Ping!!!!!!!!!!!!! and PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another good one was the beginning of "To Live and Die in LA". The Secret Service is trying to stop the assassination of the President by ... a middle eastern Islamic terrorist suicide bomber who screams "Allah Akbar!" as he falls from the top of the hotel after being shot, and pulls the cord on his bomb belt.
It seems in 1985 you could present middle eastern Islamic terrorists as suicide bombers or aspiring nuclear bombers. But not anymore.
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