Previous Leon, C-SPAN:

[beamjockey]

Peculiar thing showed up on C-SPAN this weekend: cast and producers of the TV series 24 on stage at the Heritage Foundation. Three producer-writers, three actors, two tank-thinkers, moderated (I hope he won't be offended if I use that word) by Rush Limbaugh. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, gave an introductory talk and answered audience questions.

I gather that Virginia Lamp Thomas, a Heritage Foundation official, had a hand in lining up the event; her husband, Justice Clarence Thomas, was in the front row of the audience sitting next to her, and several quips were directed to him.

Everybody reveled in love for the action-packed, terrorist-bashing, America-loving, down-counting show.

I found the event a bit creepy. I am trying to decide whether I would find it equally creepy to see, say, the NASA Administrator on stage with the cast of Star Trek, or whether I am simply a hypocrite.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

When I wrote this entry, I didn't yet know that in the days since the seminar Mr. Limbaugh has been detained by Customs over a bottle of pills.

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

Ironic that. Rush needing something to keep it up. I thought he could keep F-ing the American people all day long, but I guess he needs help for personal stuff.

I'd love a show with the Star Trek personel and NASA, but they have already sort of done this. Nicols appeared on a Nova and Nimoy has voiced over lots of things with NASA people. It's not the same, but I think you get the idea. The creepiness would be the terrorist-bashing, America loving fakes, because that kind of Americanism is the kind that matches Nazism rather than the Americanism/democracy of our forefathers.