It has often been proclaimed that Fox TV's 24 glamorizes torture, and some have suggested that CIA agents and independent contractors who went beyond the authorized interrogation techniques on real life detainees were influenced by the fictional show.
Now it turns out that the country's most powerful person was preoccupied with a show that many say featured "torture porn."
Former President George W. Bush is evidently a big fan of the hit Fox network show that follows counter-terrorism agents in "real time" -- so big, in fact, that when he ran into 24 co-star Carlos Bernard a few years back, he immediately wanted to know if Bernard's character, Tony Almeida, was a goner for sure.
According to the UK's Daily Express:
The actor [said], "He grabbed me at a baseball game in the US. A big guy came up to me and said, 'Excuse me, the President would like to speak with you.' I went over, and it was George W. Bush, and he said 'Hey Carlos, when are you coming out of that coma? All I can do is watch that show of yours. Are you coming back?' I was like, 'You don't have anything better to do?"
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A Leader who can't tell fake from real now that says alot to the World about the US President. Even the actors on 24 think Bush is a joke. While thousands of soldiers were dying based on Bush/Cheney's lies, Bush was only interested in watching TV show 24. I wonder how the Families of our fallen soldiers think of all the bull Bush gave them about being sorry for their lost when he really never care in the first place.
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