{"id":2024,"date":"2007-01-19T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/01\/19\/2024\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T09:06:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T16:06:33","slug":"2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/01\/19\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The strange case of the tv show 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/articles\/january2007\/180107Fictional.htm\">Dubious conspiratorial source though it may be<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Former New York City police detective Bo Dietl was Neil Cavuto&#8217;s guest            today (January 17, 2007) on Your World. Dietl appeared along with Imam            Hassan Al-Qazwini, of the Islamic Center of America, to discuss a January            7 incident in which Northwest Airlines prohibited a group of 40 Muslims            from boarding a plane in Germany, after a pilgrimage to the Hajj, on            their return trip to Detroit. The group said that Northwest&#8217;s action            was discriminatory and threatened to launch a boycott, whereupon Northwest            apologized and agreed to pay for any expenses incurred as a result of            the &#8220;snafu.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At one point Cavuto turned to Dietl and said, &#8220;Bo, you have a            problem with Northwest apologizing, right?&#8221; to which Dietl responded:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No, I have a problem because things have changed, Hassan. We have to            look at &#8212; a bunch of Irish guys are not going to get on the plane now            and blow themselves up or put themselves into buildings. The fact of            the matter is, I mean, you don&#8217;t watch &#8217;24?&#8217; On Fox TV? They&#8217;re out            there. They&#8217;re out there. There are cells out there. We have to protect            ourselves against them as Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve heard 24 cited in such a manner. Luara<font size=\"-1\"> Ingraham<span class=\"a\" \/><\/font> once cited the popularity of 24 as evidence that America supports Bush&#8217;s definitions on torture.<\/p>\n<p>So if <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Jack Bauer dies. [LOL]<\/em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START-->, who will be foremost and most overt in taking up on the mantle on that post 9\/11 meeting Hollywood executives had with the Bush Administration to create propaganda vehicles for our government actions?  I mean, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Threat Matrix<\/span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> tanked in the ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubious conspiratorial source though it may be&#8230; Former New York City police detective Bo Dietl was Neil Cavuto&#8217;s guest today (January 17, 2007) on Your World. Dietl appeared along with Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, of the Islamic Center of America, to discuss a January 7 incident in which Northwest Airlines prohibited a group of 40 Muslims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}