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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:33 AM
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OMG! I've been brainwashed by 24!!
That show has convinced me that we've got to fight them over there or we'll be fighting them here! Where's my tinfoil hat?! I now trust authority and distrust my neighbors!! I'm being conditioned to give up my civil liberties!!! I want more propaganda. I NEED more propaganda. Watching 24 makes me want to listen to Rush and Fox News.

And on this theme we should also get rid of all books because heaven knows what people might do if they read them... and don't get me started on all the video games teaching people to kill and rape and steal cars!! :eyes:

:sarcasm:
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:36 AM
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1. What are ya, some kind of freeper?
:sarcasm: :rofl:

I wonder what sufficiently liberal shows the 24 haters would have us watch instead.
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:37 AM
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2. Um, DUH! The West Wing!
;-)
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:39 AM
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3. But it was canceled by the BFEE!!!!!!
:rofl:
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:41 AM
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6. NOOOOOO!!!
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:40 AM
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4. According to GD, I guess I am.
It's a freaking tv show. They're making way to much of it. They sound like the freepers... worried that people might get ideas or be brainwashed by being exposed to something that is just meant to be entertainment. Oy!
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:41 AM
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5. They probably think Colbert is a real RWer, too.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:43 AM
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8. Someone needs to buy them a sense of humor.
Yep, times have been tough for us Dems the last few years but we can't forget to laugh at things.
I'm thankful for the Lounge. It's helped to keep me sane.
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zonkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:42 AM
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7. The A-bomb in Granada hills was a bummer. I know its just TV but I dont want to watch anymore.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:44 AM
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9. That shocked me!
A nuke has gone off before on the show. I didn't think they'd do it again... and in a populated area.

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zonkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:56 AM
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12. And it really bugs me that L.A. surburbia is always the hotbed of terrorism. Perhaps its just Fox
and Murdoch taking a stab at Hollywood's cultural elite -- hoping they can will something awful to happen.

I like "action" but the whole show is a bit too gruesome for me and my family -- from Jacks torture scars to that bomb. I'll stay away from that stuff for a while.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:59 AM
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13. That's one thing that bugs me a little.
It's seems as though LA is always the epicenter of terrorist activity. You'd think the city would have emptied out in a panic by now.
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zonkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:13 AM
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20. FYI, my secret escape plan if a nuclear bomb ever hit L.A. was to jump on a boat and
hide behind Catalina. Shhh. Don't tell anyone.
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:03 AM
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16. or maybe it's just a show based around the LA division of CTU
Just maybe
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kay1864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 12:23 PM
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27. I thought it went off in Valencia
Granada Hills was where Jack was, right?

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slj0101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:51 AM
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10. Oh the horror! I can't distinguish fantasy from reality!
I must have been psy-opped!!!! :eyes: :P

PS- I was more shocked over the Curtis thing. I kind of saw the bomb coming.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 10:55 AM
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11. I now want to give up my freedom to get a little security.
:P 24 will do that to ya!

I liked Curtis. He kicked ass just like Jack!
So who's left from a few seaons ago? Chloe, Jack (of course), Bill Buchanan? Anyone one else?
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slj0101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:21 AM
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21. That Milo guy from the first season. That's about it.
And Kim, if they ever bring her back. And we can all use a little Elisha every now and then. :P

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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:01 AM
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14. yeah and all shows should portray black people as criminals.
give no lead roles to women. etc.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:09 AM
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17. Isn't it great how women and all the different races
are both good and bad on 24? Just like in real life.

But I'm still waiting for a woman President on 24!
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:12 AM
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19. The president is a black man, and there are several female leads.
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kay1864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 12:25 PM
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28. C'mon, don't go confusing us with facts...
:eyes:
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:02 AM
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15. Funny you should connect 24 to Rush....
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0706062rush1.html

Rush Limbaugh was traveling with four other men--including the producers of the hit show "24"--when he was detained over a mislabeled bottle of Viagra found in his luggage during a Customs search. A Department of Homeland security passenger manifest shows that Limbaugh and his four buddies flew from the Dominican Republic on a Gulfstream IV jet owned by Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates his radio program. Limbaugh returned to Palm Beach, Florida on June 26 with Joel Surnow, "24"'s co-creator and executive producer and Howard Gordon, another of the Fox hit's executive producers (Hollywood agent Jeffrey Benson was also part of the Limbaugh quintet).
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:11 AM
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18. That's what I was thinking of.
And some in GD were saying that since 24 is a fav show of Rush's they wouldn't watch the show.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:25 AM
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22. That's like the "Hitler is a vegetarian" fallacy in logic
Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore vegetarianism is wrong.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:45 AM
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23. Just FYI: Hitler's "vegetarianism" was mostly propaganda
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:53 AM
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24. wow, fascinating
and a historical debate all of its own cool.
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kay1864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 12:27 PM
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29. ALL VEGETARIANS ARE NAZIS!
AND ANYONE WHO WATCHES 24 IS A FREEPER AND LOVES FOX NEWS!





Oh wait is this the Lounge? My bad... :+
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 11:54 AM
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25. Context please? -nt
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 12:05 PM
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26. I think some people need to get a life.
It's called e-n-t-e-r-t-a-i-n-m-e-n-t. :wtf:
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