Conservatives Have 'No Qualms About Torturing' Prisoners

[Robbien]

Centrists and Lefties say "Yeah, so what. Tell me something new."

Rightwingnuts are getting their panties all in a wad because the show "24" is telling the world that torture is all right with the rightwingnuts. Like it is a big secret or something.

In a gratuitous insult to all intelligent Conservatives everywhere, Mr Kane has declared you all to be slobbering Neanderthals who would rather beat your enemy to death with a club than use diplomacy and that the law obviously means nothing to you.

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The review with which the wingers have a problem is Milwaukee's Eugene Kane. He comments "It's also Rush Limbaugh's and Dick Cheney's favorite show, which suggests there may be something more than just television going on here."

The show's popularity with some political types was highlighted last June during a forum on terrorism in Washington, D.C., by the conservative Heritage Foundation that featured Limbaugh as moderator.

The forum, called "24 and America's Image in Fighting Terrorism: Fact, Fiction or Does It Matter?" included Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and various think-tank experts. According to Entertainment Weekly magazine, radio host Laura Ingraham and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas also attended.

Some speculate one reason "24" is such a favorite of the Bush crowd is that Bauer is presented as a guy with no qualms about torturing his prisoners in order to get information as quickly as possible. In light of criticism the Bush administration gets for its torture policies, it doesn't take a think-tank expert to see why some hail the show as a breath of clean air.

So of course the wingnuts are all in a tizzy for being exposed as neanderthals.

[Swede]

1. Violence begets violence.

Some knew that thousands of years ago.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Interesting

"Christians" get their panties in a wad too when told they hate homosexuals. Gosh not us, hate the sin, love the sinner you know all that nonsense. just let me pick and choose in my magic book here and it will explain my(our) position on the subject exactly.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Interesting

"Christians" get their panties in a wad too when told they hate homosexuals. Gosh not us, hate the sin, love the sinner you know all that nonsense. just let me pick and choose in my magic book here and it will explain my(our) position on the subject exactly.