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Bill Clinton Loves Jack Bauer

by Diana on October 2nd, 2007

Those words are like music to my ears. For the 2nd time in a year, Bill Clinton has used 24 in his analogies about terrorism to Meet the Press host, Tim Russert. Below is an excerpt from Clinton’s remarks about the show:

Asked about the subject again by Russert on Sunday, Clinton backed off his previous endorsement of torture–but not his affection for the Bauer character. “It happens every season with Jack Bauer, but … in the real world it doesn’t happen very much,” Clinton said. “If you have a policy which legitimizes this, it’s a slippery slope and you get in the kind of trouble we’ve been in here with Abu Ghraib, with Guantanamo, with lots of other examples.”

Clinton said he didn’t know what he would do if confronted with the proverbial ticking bomb and terrorist in hand, but suggested — currying no favor with the intelligence community — that agents could torture but be prepared to face the consequences for violating the law or Geneva Conventions.

“I think what our policy ought to be is to be uncompromisingly opposed to terror–I mean to torture, and that if you’re the Jack Bauer person, you’ll do whatever you do and you should be prepared to take the consequences,” he said. “And I think the consequences will be imposed based on what turns out to be the truth.”

Clinton seemed willing to defer to the torturing Bauers of the world. “If you look at the show, every time they get the president to approve something, the president gets in trouble, the country gets in trouble. And when Bauer goes out there on his own and is prepared to live with the consequences, it always seems to work better.”

I’d really love just to sit in a room while Bill Clinton watches 24. Do you guys think the show ignites political debate in the Clinton household, or does Bill just scream, ‘GET EM JACK, KILL EM!’ like a true Bauer lover?

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