Why "24" is so popular

Jack Bauer fan, Condoleeza Rice: "[Torture is] your baby, go for it."

From The Guardian via No Blood for Hubris:

[Staff Judge Advocate Lt. Col. Diane] Beaver [Yes, that is really her name] recalled that smothering was thought to be particularly effective, and that Dunlavey, who'd been in Vietnam, was in favour because he knew it worked.

The younger men would get particularly agitated, excited even: "You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas."

But there are also those would destroy 24's appeal. In doing so, they not only attack a television show, they attack every white Christian conservative male in America. Will the Sears undergarment catalog be enough for patriots like Ace of Spades? I think not. We must have our Jack Bauer.