BREAKING: Tom Tancredo's Heart

By: Chris Guy
Published On: 8/8/2007 11:42:20 PM

Neocons love Fox Network's award-winning series '24'. The show, for those who don't watch (like myself), focuses on fictional character, Jack Bauer, who works for the U.S. government's counter-terrorism unit. Basically he winds up saving the day by finding a new and creative way to torture people on a weekly basis. Rep. Tom "even the Bush administration thinks I'm insane" Tancredo (R-CO) invoked Bauer in a GOP debate earlier this year.

And now? '24' is going........wait for it........GREEN!

The show's plan is to reduce and offset the carbon emissions from production throughout all of Season Seven, capping off with an entirely carbon-neutral season finale, The Washington Post reports.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Soundstages powered by electricity, production vehicles and generators running on a planet-friendly biodiesel blend, Toyota Prius cars to get around with, and scripts will be delivered by e-mail only. They even ditched plans to film an upcoming episode in Africa due to enviornmental concerns.


Comments



So much for their claims of being or acting like Christians (Dianne - 8/9/2007 7:02:03 AM)


24 isn't just for Neocons (desfido - 8/9/2007 8:01:12 AM)
While some seasons are very good, while others are just mediocre (1,2,3,&5 being examples of the former, 4&6 being examples of the latter), 24 is actually a pretty good show. I find it interesting that many people think it favors conservatives. While it's unrealistic in its depiction of torture, and pretty quick to resort to it in recent seasons (in exactly the kinds of situations where it is least likely to be effective), conservative characters are usually portrayed as power-hungry, war-mongering, paranoid nuts - unless they see the error of their ways on some issue or another.

This is not to say progressive, liberal, or libertarian views are favored - I'd say if "24" has a view it consistently conveys about political positions, it's that most of them have situations where they break down and don't lead to good results, and that everybody could stand to learn about other philosophies, the better to resolve difficult situations.



May come back (bherring - 8/9/2007 9:00:10 AM)
I had made the decision to abandon 24 which I had followed obsessively for its entire run, after Scalia based his torture policy on what Jack Bauer would do and that it helped him save the world several times (seriously, he said it).  This may persuade me to give it another shot.  I've never been pleased with the Limbaugh worship of the show's creators, but they've never really allowed their politics to color the show.  For instance the ideal of the president in the 24 world was David Palmer, an obvious though unstated Democrat, and the evil president, who orders terror on his own population for political reasons, is a Nixonian Republican.