The strange case of the tv show 24
Dubious conspiratorial source though it may be…
Former New York City police detective Bo Dietl was Neil Cavuto’s guest today (January 17, 2007) on Your World. Dietl appeared along with Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, of the Islamic Center of America, to discuss a January 7 incident in which Northwest Airlines prohibited a group of 40 Muslims from boarding a plane in Germany, after a pilgrimage to the Hajj, on their return trip to Detroit. The group said that Northwest’s action was discriminatory and threatened to launch a boycott, whereupon Northwest apologized and agreed to pay for any expenses incurred as a result of the “snafu.”
At one point Cavuto turned to Dietl and said, “Bo, you have a problem with Northwest apologizing, right?” to which Dietl responded:
No, I have a problem because things have changed, Hassan. We have to look at — a bunch of Irish guys are not going to get on the plane now and blow themselves up or put themselves into buildings. The fact of the matter is, I mean, you don’t watch ’24?’ On Fox TV? They’re out there. They’re out there. There are cells out there. We have to protect ourselves against them as Americans.
That’s not the first time I’ve heard 24 cited in such a manner. Luara Ingraham once cited the popularity of 24 as evidence that America supports Bush’s definitions on torture.
So if Jack Bauer dies. [LOL], who will be foremost and most overt in taking up on the mantle on that post 9/11 meeting Hollywood executives had with the Bush Administration to create propaganda vehicles for our government actions? I mean, Threat Matrix tanked in the ratings.