24 Season Premier PC on steroids

Well folks if you thought the past islamist placating done on 24 was bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet. They have even wussified Jack this year. I am a little confused though, as one of the plot points involves a muslim family with some hippie, liberal neighbors that get all outraged when the muslim father is taken in for questioning. the tone is very anti-conservative until you find out shortly after that we ( the US government) actually had good reason to grab this man, and that he and his family are terrorists. Then there is the wussifying of Jack in a scene where Jack begins torturing a terroist for information and stops cold in the middle of it saying, "he is not going to tell us anything, I can see it in his eyes". Jack's companion then proceeds to further torutre the man by shanking him under the knee cap and gets the information they are looking for. So it seems to start out being anti-torture and ends up showing that torture really works??!!??**? There is also as Debbie Schlussel rightly points out a villan who, yep, you guessed it, turns out to be the only conservative in the current president's administration played by Peter Mc Nichol (of Ally Mac Beal and Numbers fame) who the writers have painted with what I now believe is the embodiment of the way most liberals view conservatives. He is stubborn, closed minded, cynical and evil. Another slightly confusing plot point... the charachter...his name is Tom, wants to heavily profile middle eastern muslim men and that is painted as wrong and a bad idea and against America's interest, but then they turn around and show us that every single one of the terrorists involved in the plot thus far are middle eastern muslim men???!!??? So far its a bit Bi-Polar for my taste and certainly leaning way left, but I am a loyal fan and will watch at least until I reach the point of nausea.

Blogs4Bauer has a great wrap up