Reply #39: SCJ Thomas' "familiarity with the realities of warfare" ... [View All]

...comes from his never having missed an episode of

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: "24" :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: .


That purty much trumps the rest of the pikers.

What an UltraMaroon

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Conservative Lovefest for '24'

What Do Clarence Thomas, Michael Chertoff and Rush Limbaugh See in the Terror Fighter Show


By JAKE TAPPER

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2006 — It's not unusual for hit TV shows to attract fans and draw crowds at fan conventions…. such as for ABC's "Lost," or CBS's "CSI." But in Washington today, there was a fan convention that was a tad unusual.

At the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, the Heritage Foundation hosted a forum on the hit FOX-TV show "24" that can only be described as adulatory. Though the panel featured homeland security experts, the co-creators of "24" and three of the show's stars to purportedly discuss "'24' and America's Image in Fighting Terrorism: Fact, Fiction, or Does it Matter?" the event became a love-fest — a lofty, intellectual, probing one, but a love-fest nonetheless, with the amphitheater packed with rows and rows of the show's fans from the city's conservative power structure.

Front row center sat Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff gave the opening remarks. And it was a chance to see Rush gush.

"I am literally in awe of the creativity of the brains behind the program," said conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh, who moderated the panel. "The vice president's a huge fan. Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld's a huge fan."


http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2112624&page=1