John Gibson: Why Is NBC No Longer Worried About Terrorism?

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244319,00.html

Why Is NBC No Longer Worried About Terrorism?
By John Gibson

I must stick up for Jack Bauer and "24," the hit FOX show that has had America on the edge of its seat for a few years now.

This week in the season launch our hero Jack failed and the terrorists managed to set off a nuke bomb. A CNN piece had someone wondering if the episode was, in fact, a neocon sex fantasy. And MSNBC calls Jack and his suspense program right-wing propaganda.

So what has happened to NBC that it doesn't worry about terrorism anymore?

It's one thing to make the argument — as MSNBC does — that George Bush has carried the 9/11 reaction too far, that we didn't need to go to war against Saddam. But it's quite another thing for NBC to argue that we have nothing to worry about at all, and the idea of a nuke attack by terrorists against the U.S. is a subject for ridicule.

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If NBC believes that we live in a 9/10 world — a world in which terrorism is simply a fiction created by an evil president who wants to militarize the planet — then NBC is doing a disservice to the public. Any number of statements from overseas enemies of the United States back up the notion that we are a target for terrorism on a massive scale, and there is not a scintilla of evidence that it is all made up, or fiction, or the kind of stuff NBC should ignore or diminish in importance.

[maveric]

1. ...(Rolls eyes and makes the masturbation gesture)...

Gibson is a tool who by the command of his Fax masters, spreads fear and misinformation.

[wtmusic]

2. Get your comic books John

and go crawl in a hole.

[Poiuyt]

Maybe it's because we have a greater chance of being killed by our own

appendix then being killed by terrorists.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. or a better chance of winning the lottery.

n/t

[Bluebear]

3. ooh, a "9/10 world", skeery.... nt

[Mz Pip]

4. Oh good grief.

I don't agree that "24" is RW propoganda. Last season the evil doer was a RW President. But good grief, criticizing the show is hardly proof that NBC doesn't care about terrorism.

What an amazing leap in logic. Is part of Gibson's brain missing?

Perhaps a better question would be why the neocons use the TV show as some evidence of proof that Americans want the government to ditch the Constitution. Another leap in logic. 24 is a popular TV show and the fact that people like it, is proof of nothing.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[ProfessorGAC]

5. That Leap In Logic Would Win A Gold Medal At The Olympics

No human has ever jumped as far as Johnny-boy did.
The Professor

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Words of wisdon from an albino woodhuck.

[gratuitous]

7. Grow up already, Mr. Gibson

Quit wetting yourself everytime a shadow moves or at every loud noise.

[Bobbie Jo]

8. Why is Fox "news" not interested in reporting reality? n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Hey Gibson! Neah neah-neah neah neah.

:P :P :P

:boring:

[KG]

11. John Gibson probably considers himself one of them 'conservative intelectuals'

:rofl:

[Flubadubya]

12. 'conservative intelectuals'

That's the biggest OXYMORAN I have ever did hear! :eyes: