Enough Jack

The media is notoriously liberal beyond redemption, so some say.  (No, I am not going to give a list of any kind.)  It comes out it stories and discussion (see the comments in particular this item) of state security and surveillance.  The irredeemables include television news, of course, but it is not clear if the rest of the products are included.  After all, there is Jack Bauer of 24 fame, who wanders about beating and killing to prevent some terrible event or other.  (I remain puzzled by how that character and his many similars can tell the lies from the truth when torturing people . . . and why they need the violence for detection.)  He and his are surely not liberal, redeemable or not, though those are th folks who write and produce the show.  Or Battlestar Galactica -- a weekly pean to authoritarian militarism which would make Putin or Franco happy. That show always shows democracy as whining and any concern for law as something for the confused, silly, and cowardly. There is also The Unit, which is about how one can be a good upstanding right thinking person and also make frequent trips overseas to assassinate the particularly objectionable, and not feel too bad about the ordinary folk who, being foreigners are patriots for the wrong country and so get shot up in order for the Unit to accomplish its more important goals.  The interesting bit is how these characters also manage to treat consequentialist moral thinking with disdain.  Maybe it really is a 'my patriotism is bigger than yours' sort of thing.