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The Jack Bauer Decade

John McQuaid | Posted 12.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taken, Terrorism, Stanley Fish, Jack Bauer, Enhanced Interrogations, Revenge, 24, Torture, Politics News

Let your agents go all Jack Bauer and they might kill a few terrorists. But there's going to be excesses, collateral damage, disastrous mistakes. In the movies or TV, such inconvenient fallout is airbrushed out. Not in real life.

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Kiefer Sutherland Pays $700 Morning Bar Tab

tmz.com | TMZ Staff | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 24, Kiefer Sutherland, Entertainment News

Kiefer Sutherland racked up the following $700 bar tab between 7am and 1pm. Yes, those times are correct. We've learned the "24" star and members o...

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Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero

Amy Goodman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Canadian Healthcare, Tommy Douglas, Rush Limbaugh, Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Medicare, 24, Barack Obama, William Kostric, Health Care, Politics News

Kiefer Sutherland, who plays a rogue intelligence agent in 24, is the grandson of Tommy Douglas, who is credited with creating the modern Canadian universal health-care system.

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Fearless Emmy Advice!

Ed Martin | Posted 07.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, Neil Patrick Harris, Glenn Close, Damages, 30 Rock, Jon Hamm, Friday Night Lights, Emmys, Toni Collette, 24, Lost, Tina Fey, Entertainment News

Here are my suggestions for the top programs and performers in the drama and comedy series categories.

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24 and the Tortuous Politics of Torture

William Bradley | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

For Dick Cheney, if there's a 1% chance of a terror plot existing, it should be treated as a certainty. It's one thing when that sort of manipulation is used to entertain, and quite another when it's used to govern.

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The Cheney Doctrine

Will Durst | Posted 06.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: 24, Cheney Torture, VP Cheney, Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, Comedy News

A National Journal poll of Republican insiders shows 57% of them think he's hurting the party. So pretty much everybody agrees, Dick Cheney speaking on torture is redundant.

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"24" Season 7 DVD Release Scheduled For Morning After Season Finale

New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

Read More: 24 Season Seven Dvd, Fox, 24 Season 7, 24 Season Seven, 24, 24 Dvd, Media News

After the seventh season of "24" on Fox ends on Monday night, loyal fans can awake the next morning, buy a copy of the DVD, and start watching the 24-...

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Kiefer Sutherland Surfaces In LA,' Headbutting Talk NOT Allowed (PHOTOS)

AP | MICHAEL CIDONI | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 24, Kiefer Sutherland Head Butt, Kiefer Sutherland, Slideshow, Entertainment News

(SCROLL FOR PHOTOS FROM MONDAY) LOS ANGELES — Kiefer Sutherland, charged with assault in New York, is getting support from his cast mates on th...

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Scrubs, Television's Best Show, Says Goodbye Tonight...

Scott Mendelson | Posted 06.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Zach Braff, Television, Abc, Scrubs, Series Finale, Nbc, Tv, 24, Lost, Scrubs Last Show, Entertainment News

I've made no secret of my complete adoration of Scrubs over the years. Ironically (or fittingly) for a show about the fragility of life and the inevitability of death, it feels like I'm saying goodbye to an old friend.

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The "Beautiful Kidnapper" and Other Simple Responses to Torture Arguments

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Bybee, 24, Jack Bauer, Torture, Ticking Timebomb, Beautiful Kidnapper, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Politics News

The next time somebody mentions the 'ticking time bomb' scenario, hit 'em with 'the beautiful kidnapper' - then ask them if they believe in marriage and the family.

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The Cause of Global Warming -- Put Down That Pie!

Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, Obesity, 24, Global Warming, Green News

Get out your aerosol spray cans, they're not the problem after all! Scientists now know the real cause of Global Warming: Fat people.

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The State of Play of "State of Play"

William Bradley | Posted 05.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: David Morrissey, Bbc, Michael Mann, Alan J. Pakula, John Simm, Robert Redford, Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Sydney Pollack, Kevin Macdonald, Paul Newman, State of Play, Journalism, Sally Field, Al Pacino, Blackwater, State of Play Miniseries, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Warren Beatty, 24, Blogging, Life on Mars, Body of Lies, L.A. Confidential, The Insider, All the President's Men, Lowell Bergman, The Parallax View, Jeffrey Wigand, Absence of Malice, Dustin Hoffman, Doctor Who, Entertainment News

State of Play is a political thriller wrapped inside a journalistic thriller that works better as the latter.

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What's Television Telling Us About American Men in Deep-uh-?

David Finkle | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Men's Studies, Damages, Monk, Burn Notice, Society Trends, The Fugitive, Rescue Me, Mad Men, Television, Series Television, Men's Psychology, Entertainment, Saving Grace, Eli Stone, Life, 24, Charlie Crews of Life, Ironside, Happiness, Pain-Killers, Gregory House, John Carter, Fox's House, House, The Sopranos, Er, Vicodin, Les Miserables, Tony Soprano, Paul Weston, Artie Gavin, Health, American Men, Jack Bauer, Don Draper, Entertainment News

Maybe this is an overdue recognition that men -- traditionally socialized to be strong, to deny their flaws adamantly -- are finally able to come face to face with them.

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Rubbernecking: An Additional Ten Reality Shows I'd Like to See

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Lindsay Hop - in which we follow La Lohan on her merry adventures tearing through Hollywood's party scene whilst destroying thousands of brain cells.

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24 Producer Making Mini-Series About Kennedy Family

The Live Feed | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kennedy, Joel Surnow, The Kennedy Family, 24, Kennedy Family, Politics News

Conservative co-creator of "24" Joel Surnow is shopping a 10-hour miniseries on the Kennedy family. The Canadian-based project from Muse Entertainmen...

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Kiefer Signs On For 8th '24' Season

AP | MIN LEE | Posted 04.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, 24, Kiefer Sutherland, Entertainment News

HONG KONG — Kiefer Sutherland will be back to play Jack Bauer for an eighth season of the hit counterterrorism drama "24," but the show's longev...

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

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The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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Rupert Murdoch and Fox Use 24 to Portray Black Men as Terrorists

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: New York Post Monkey Cartoon, Abc, Karl Rove, Ape, Rush Limbaugh, Black President, Palin and Secession, Chimp, Conservative, Liberal, Fox, Obama, Sarah Palin, War Crimes, Angry Black Men, Sean Hannity, New York Post, Jefferson Davis, Ron Robinson, Rupert Murdoch, Disney, Alaska Secessionist Party, 24, Revenge Fantasy, Fantasy, Dittoheads, Implicit Bias, Phillip Goff, World News

Can somebody spell the words, "advertisers" and "boycott," and then can the congregation give me a resounding, amen?

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"24" Goes Green

New York Times | Posted 04.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Green Business, Television, 24, Keifer Sutherland, Entertainment News

When a dark-colored S.U.V. raced through the streets of Washington, flipped over and burst into flames on Fox's fast-paced action show "24" last week...

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Panetta Shoots Down "24 Myth" In Testimony

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Leon Panetta, 24, Leon Panetta CIA, Panetta Hearing Cia Director, Torture, Media News

Earlier this week, Kiefer Sutherland, star of the television series 24, attempted to impose some sanity in an interview with the London Guardian. The...

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Hey Sutherland! Hire Me to Be Your Publicist

David Danzig | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media

Read More: TV and Torture, Kiefer Sutherland, Torture, Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland Gaurdian, Ga, 24, Media News

My first bit of advice: stop talking to the Guardian. Man, that interview with you that they ran this week did you no favors.

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24's Kiefer Sutherland Insists On Distinction Between Television And Reality

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media

Read More: 24, Torture, Kiefer Sutherland, Media News

24's Kiefer Sutherland recently asserted that there's some sort of distinction to be made between fiction and reality. This is an epochal breakthrough in elementary existentialism.

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What Jack Bauer Has Not Done

Brigadier Gen. David R. Irvine | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: 24 Torture, Jack Bauer Torture, 24 Tv Show, 24, Jack Bauer, Politics News

It is particularly regrettable that Jack Bauer, in his new season, is shown persuading a "naïve" FBI agent that torture is the ultimate weapon in democracy's arsenal.

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24: A Thriller With Few Surprises

David Danzig | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Interrogations, CIA Interrogations, Abuse, Brigadier Genderal Patrick Finnegan, Human Rights First, Terrorism, Junior Soldiers, Interrogation Techniques, Fighting Terror, Military Educators, West Point, Soldiers, Military, Abusive Interrogation, 24, Fox, US Military Academy, Torture, Entertainment News

Junior soldiers have imitated techniques they have seen on the program. And military educators report that "24" is one of the biggest problems they have in their classrooms.

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Distraught Conservatives Retreating into the Realm of Fantasy

Brandon Friedman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Redstate, Joe the Plumber, Defense Mechanisms, Conservatives, Humor, Fantasy, Jack Bauer, Torture, 24 and Torture, Primetime Torture Project, 24, Politics News

For conservative talking heads and bloggers, 24's Jack Bauer has become a surrogate -- a stand-in -- for the leaders they wish they had.

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