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In reply to the discussion: TAIBBI: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Is Osama bin Laden's Last Victory Over America [View all]another_liberal
(8,821 posts)18. I'll have to take your word . . .
Last edited Sun Jan 20, 2013, 03:25 PM - Edit history (1)
I'll have to take your word for the show's redeeming values. On the face of it, however, that seems a little like arguing the butchery at the Colosseum in ancient Rome should be excused as lessons in self-defense.
In all seriousness, though, I have never before heard the show "24" described (approvingly or not) as anything much more than a celebration of the "torturer's high." For the sake of all the people who were so devoted to that series, I do hope you're right.
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TAIBBI: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Is Osama bin Laden's Last Victory Over America [View all]
kpete
Jan 2013
OP
I think the Hurt Locker and now this is the way Hollywood shows that they are not as "liberal"
WCGreen
Jan 2013
#4
Hey, if Judgment at Nuremeberg can win an Oscar, so can its polar opposite. nt
raouldukelives
Jan 2013
#7
It showed that torture was completely ineffective and clever interrogation got restyles.
grantcart
Jan 2013
#29
Anyone ever think that that our involvement with torture now sets a precedent?
busterbrown
Jan 2013
#17
Nailed it. There's no "honesty" in alluding to torture w/o including its moral & practical failure.
DirkGently
Jan 2013
#21
EXCEPT the movie showed torture DID NOT WORK. but detective work over a decade did
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#40
I agree 100%. Torture happened and the movie didn't gloss over that fact. It's historical fact
Quixote1818
Jan 2013
#49
i liked the part when bruce willis rode in on a gold unicorn with twin mount .50 cal
datasuspect
Jan 2013
#48
Emphatic K&R! I refuse to fund the mass media glorification of extra-judicial
coalition_unwilling
Jan 2013
#54
Wonder how this drivel presents fucking CIA fake polio vaccination drive and how much harm it did.
idwiyo
Jan 2013
#55