Doonesbury: Torture Remains Prime-Time Entertainment
11:00 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Torture | Uncategorized
Three cheers for Doonesbury!
Unfortunately, prominent half-wits take their own values from this TV show. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an assembly of judges in the summer of 2007: ““Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles . . . . He saved hundreds of thousands of lives… Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?”
I would wager that many congressmen also rely on ‘24′ as their primary info source on torture.
This is Attention Deficit Democracy at its best.
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Dirk W. Sabin
Comment on Friday 27th November 2009 @ 10:24 am
Would that the big fat lout of our Babylon on the Potomac became a participant in “The Biggest Loser”
We have art imitating life and vice versa, now we have Government imitating Television…..complete with commercial interruption…or in some cases, the drama interrupting the commercials.
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