THE PUSSIFICATION* OF 24….In tonight’s episode, Jack Bauer lets slip that he thinks launching an unprovoked nuclear attack on an (unnamed) Arab country would be a bad idea. “It’ll look like we’ve declared war on the entire Middle East,” he warns his boss. Jeebus. What the hell is wrong with him? Sounds like he’s been reading The Nation or something.
*If you don’t get the joke, here’s the reference. It was quite the butt of blogosphere mockery back in the day.
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