Presidents Logan and Bush–One Fictional, one Real; Both Implicated in Crimes
by RonChusid
On 24, President Logan has been implicated in the assasination of former President Palmer, the terrorist attacks in Los Angles, and a scheme to get the nation involved in an unnecessary war. Television might be reflecting reality here as two different investigations point to real crimes from the Bush White House. The New York Times summarizes recent news on the Plame case:
But now White House officials, and specifically President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, have been pitched back into the center of the nearly three-year controversy, this time because of a prosecutor’s court filing in the case that asserts there was “a strong desire by many, including multiple people in the White House,” to undermine Mr. Wilson.
The new assertions by the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, have put administration officials on the spot in a way they have not been for months, as attention in the leak case seems to be shifting away from the White House to the pretrial procedural skirmishing in the perjury and obstruction charges against Mr. Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr.
Mr. Fitzgerald’s filing talks not of an effort to level with Americans but of “a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson.” It concludes, “It is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove the existence of White House efforts to ‘punish Wilson.’ ”
With more filings expected from Mr. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor’s work has the potential to keep the focus on Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney at a time when the president is struggling with his lowest approval ratings since he took office.
AP reports on evidence linking the White House to the New Hampshire phone jamming scheme:
Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.
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The link to this post from Real Clear Politics (via Daou Report’s link here) isn’t actually real clear. It looks like it is saying:
“White House Memo: With One Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush In Spotlight– has been implicated in the assasination of former President Palmer and the terrorist attacks in Los…”
I never suspected George Bush as being behind David Palmer’s assasination.
Actually Logan killed two presidents. Don’t forget he used to be the VP until the Air Force One got blown out of the sky in season three.
The death count for both presidents seems to be pretty equal at this point.
George would have killed both Palmer and Bartlett if he thought it would make the people like him more.
Great post, but the wrong parallel. Here’s the right one.
And honestly, I had this on on the back burner for a few days before I posted. Just needed your post to nudge me.
Kvatch,
I’ve seen the similarity between Logan and Nixon all along. Perhaps that should have tipped us off that Logan was really evil.
This goes full circle. There’s another parallel between Nixon and Bush which most people are unaware of. I’ll post a picture when I get a chance.
It’s all very well to sit in front of the TV and rage against the machine, but unfortunately it accomplishes nothing.
If we are to have any hope of taking back this country, then Americans need to turn off the TV, get their butts off the couch, and get back to being engaged with reality.
I urge liberals who like TV to read
“Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”
by Neil Postman
For a much drier exposition on the statistics linking TV to low voter turnout and low civic engagement read
“Bowling Alone” by Robert D. Putnam.
It’s all very well to sit in front of the TV and rage against the machine, but unfortunately it accomplishes nothing.
Uhhh…did you actually read Ron’s post? Did you click through and look at the one I linked?
Though I wouldn’t presume to speak for Ron, I know that humor is one of the main mechanisms that I can use to keep Blognonymous’ readers engaged and coming back. And if I have to do some silly, nothing post comparing a fictional character to Tricky Dick in order to get my readers to look at something more interesting and substantive, then I damn well will.
At least we’re out there every day putting our thoughts in front of our readers. What are you doing? Besides criticising, that is…
My apologies, my post was by no means meant as a criticism of Ron’s post. Instead I was trying (in my fumbling way) to point out an argument that probably most liberals haven’t heard. Which is that TV (no matter what the content) has done a huge amount of damage to these United States. America
is drowning in apathy, and most of this apathy has been caused by our addiction to television.
The left doesn’t have access to the unlimited funds that the right does, so we have to rely much more on civic engagement
by the American public. And civic engagement by the American public just isn’t going to happen when people spend (on average) 4 hours every day in front of the boob tube. That’s 4 hours watching TV, not just 4 hours with the TV on in the background.
It’s heartening that the internet seems to cutting into TV time at least to a small extent. And if it wasn’t for blogs
such as this, the American public wouldn’t be waking up to disaster in the white house.
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An excerpt from: http://www.jr.co.il/articles/tv.txt
“What is more surprising is that the sense of relaxation ends when the set is turned off, but the feelings of passivity and
lowered alertness continue. Survey participants commonly reflect that television has somehow absorbed or sucked out their energy, leaving them depleted. They say they have more difficulty concentrating after viewing than before.”
An excerpt from:
http://www.americanreview.us/putnmtv4.htm
“HOW MIGHT TV DESTROY SOCIAL CAPITAL?
Time displacement. Even though there are only 24 hours in everyone’s day, most forms of social and media participation are positively correlated. People who listen to lots of classical music are more likely, not less likely, than others to attend
Cubs games. Television is the principal exception to this generalization–the only leisure activity that seems to inhibit
participation outside the home. TV watching comes at the expense of nearly every social activity outside the home, especially
social gatherings and informal conversations.”
TerryE
I think most liberals are aware of what TV has done to our culture and our country.