{"id":1279,"date":"2009-11-22T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2024-09-11T23:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T03:58:37","slug":"doonesbury-torture-remains-prime-time-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/doonesbury-torture-remains-prime-time-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Doonesbury: Torture Remains Prime-Time Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three cheers for Doonesbury!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, prominent half-wits take their own values from this TV show. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2007\/06\/20\/justice-scalia-hearts-jack-bauer\/\"><strong>told an assembly<\/strong><\/a> of judges in the summer of 2007: &#8220;\u201cJack Bauer saved Los Angeles . . . . He saved hundreds of thousands of lives&#8230; Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I would wager that many congressmen also rely on &#8217;24&#8217; as their primary info source on torture.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com\/Attention%20Deficit%20Democracy%20page.htm\"><strong>Attention Deficit Democracy <\/strong><\/a>at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three cheers for Doonesbury! &nbsp; 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: &#8220;\u201cJack Bauer saved Los Angeles . . . . He saved hundreds of thousands of lives&#8230; Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?\u201d I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,12],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attention-deficit-democracy","tag-torture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doonesbury: Torture Remains Prime-Time Entertainment - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/doonesbury-torture-remains-prime-time-entertainment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doonesbury: Torture Remains Prime-Time Entertainment - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three cheers for Doonesbury! &nbsp; Unfortunately, prominent half-wits take their own values from this TV show. 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