thinkprogress.org - 1/14/2009
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The new season of Fox’s popular terrorism drama ‘24′ debuted Sunday night with a special two-hour episode. The season opened with the show’s main character, Jack Bauer, testifying before a Senate committee. Asked by the committee if he had engaged in torture while ...
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Daily Kos —
Via Think Progress, we get a compilation of how wingnuts talk when they're worshiping at the shrine of Jack Bauer:
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Brandon Friedman: Distraught Conservatives Retreating into the Realm of Fantasy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... and 2008, they'd rather take solace in pretending to be "warriors" locked in "battle" with their Democratic enemies.
But here's where they really start to make the stampeding retreat into fantasy:
Exhibit B: Repeated References to a Fictional TV Character as a Role Model and Source for Torture Policy
Just watch:
Ryan Powers does the honors for ThinkProgress:
The right wing's love affair with Bauer's use of torture is ...
Bye-Bye Ryan Powers
The Hollywood Liberal —
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