Diana West skewers Hollywood in her syndicated column, picked up here from Townhall, with thanks to all who sent this in:
Phew -- that was close. The creators of "24," Fox Television's thriller-diller starring Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terror super-agent Jack Bauer, almost put together a compelling television series rooted in the onerous reality of the war on jihad terrorism. But thanks, apparently, to a few helpful suggestions from the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), they managed to steer clear of all political and historical relevance.This couldn't have been easy. After all, CAIR didn't even come to their rescue until after the show's season had begun with a couple of episodes that featured a typical Islamic sleeper cell embedded in a typical American sleepy suburb. After these and other obvious blunders -- a terse exchange of "Allahu Akbar" between terrorists, for instance -- the creative types behind the hit series managed to get their act together and save the world for political correctness.
How? Two things: They laid down a suitably distracting Chinese subplot, and cast a bunch of Midwesterners, instead of Middle Easterners, to wear the key black hats. There was the ex-Air Force pilot -- obviously blond, obviously disgruntled -- who shot down Air Force One; a nefarious ex-marine; and a Patty-Hearst-like commando who just shot whatever.By this week's season finale, Marwan, the head jihadist, had been comically stripped of all religious identity and motivation, and cloaked in a heavy disguise of moral equivalence. As in: You think we're evil and we think you're evil. This is pretty much what hero-Jack actually said to Marwan, the terror kingpin, who had just that day blown up a train, kidnapped the Secretary of Defense, sent multiple nuclear plants into meltdown and lobbed a nuclear warhead at Los Angeles. Oh well. Marwan was ultimately overshadowed by someone worse -- the president of the United States...
Read it all, please.
We seem to be working at cross purposes
The administration is promoting respect for Islam and the Quran . The 911 report resolved correctly Islamic terrorism is a direct result of the words in the Quran put into action.
We should be all part of a government lead Manhattan type media campaign to discredit the apologist lies educate the populace of Islam’s goal of subjugation and genocide.
It is the fear of the already exhibited propensity to explode on conflict that stops us from fighting for our survival.
This is the final death throws of the entirely debunked killing PC ideology .The contrived idea that all ideas are equal and have some benefit to those who will look deeply enough.
This abandonment of reason that says we can see our reflection in any ideology if we just look hard enough .
We cannot find out survival in embracing its obliteration in any way other than mythological proportions.
Who will tell out story when we are gone.
Will it be televisied?
kj?
You keep railing against FrontPage, Townhall, NewsMax.
Funny how people who write articles for them, keep showing up here.
Can we see similar articles being written by the sites you favor? Please? Post some links here. We're curious.
I wondered about the red (sic) herring of the Chinese in this storyline. Were the writers trying to imply that China is equivalent to Al-Qaeda? That there are Islamic terrorist sympathizers in the Chinese embassy?
If the military traitor in "24"- instead of being an unlikely curly haired caucasian- had been like the actual one (the grenade-tossing, M-16 firing U.S. Muslim in Kuwait who killed several of his own officers on the eve of the Iraq Invasion, perhaps?) how could CAIR complain?
Reality trumps p.c.
The show was like a rocket that rose from its launch pad, but then fizzled under the extra load of we mustn't offend the guilty b.s. grafted on.
Either say it, or don't say it. But don't be half-assed about it.
It absolutely started out as one show, then took a 180 degree turn. I wouldn't doubt if it was completely re-written after CAIR started bitching.
24's plot device of having so many of the Muslim terrorist ringleader Habib Marwan's operatives be non-Muslim Anglo-Saxon mercenaries ("professionals", not "fanatics", as Jack Bauer aptly described one of them at one point) likely was a cleverly subliminal message: we can't profile Muslims for a very pragmatic reason -- because the terrorists might be using so many non-Muslim non-Middle Easterners in their terrorist activities!
Let's just hope this kind of PC irrationality has not infected our intelligence organizations too much.