Sangala is a real African country
November 21, 2008 16 Comments
Sunday night on your FOX affiliate, Agent Jack Bauer–that favorite fictional hero of Republican presidential candidates, rightwing Supreme Court judges and neocon talking heads (because he doesn’t care niceties like the law)–will sort out the African country of Sangala.
Bauer is the hero of “24,” the popular FOX series opening its season with a 2 hour TV movie.
By now we all now that Sangala is not a real country, Sarah Palin. It only plays one on TV.
That it is a stand-in for American fantasies about foreign policy in Africa, is more real.
Sangala it turns out is a thinly veiled Rwanda; even some of the actors from previous movies on Rwanda are playing the same minor roles here.
There’s a coup. And a possible “tribal war.”
I am serious.
And Bauer will have the help of his former Special-Forces-buddy-turned-missionary-who-runs-a-school-for-kids. Get your head around that.
Bauer’s enemies: There’s a warlord who turns boys into child soldiers, “training — and drugging — them to be ruthless killers” as well as a United Nations peacekeeper, “… with a foreign accent [who] is an appeaser and a coward.”
Oh, and there’s the “establishment” in Washington D.C who prevents Bauer from doing his job.
The whole thing was filmed in Cape Town.
This kind of nonsense — what a New York Times critic referred to as the world according to a Chuck Norris movie — still gets made.
I am tired.
Sangala is a real African country.
Maybe it’s time to stop writing. And do something. The actors who agree to do this stuff… fuck me! Sean. Ignore it? Shout about it? Or… I don’t know. It’s incredible. Make something out of it. Make a play on it. Do something with it that’s better, cleverer, and cuts to the heart of it all?
Some of us left leaning Dems also love 24. Have you watched it?
Isn’t Sangala a city in Nigeria, too?
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Sangala is in Gabon, not Nigeria.
By the way, 24 is Joe Biden’s favorite TV show.
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right-wing. Conservative. talking heads. Spare me. If you think it is possible to catalog all human thoughts with two categories, right-wing and left-wing, you are stupid, and sadly representative of much of voting America. Why is 24 popular? Why does it get made? Because it make money. Why does it make money? Especially when liberal America-bashing propaganda pieces don’t? Because most Americans prefer a hero that does what is unpopular but necessary to the one who does what is popular but ineffectual. Most Americans realize that there are threats in the world that can only be faced with (unfortunately) force. Barack Obama would never have been elected if most Americans believed he was not a man capable of such choices. Whether or not he actually is, remains to be seen. My recommendation to you: watch more Fox News. And listen to more Rush. it’s like clear eyes: it gets the red out. Or in this case, the left.
Alright, G Man, I was with you for the first half of your post but the rest is ridiculous. No one watches 24 because they think it is or should be an actual reflection of reality (actually, I’m sure they do, but those people are fools). They watch it because it’s awesome to watch Jack Bauer jump-punch 8 people at once, get himself out of crazy situations, and single-handedly take down small armies of bad-guys with a pistol and a ball-point pen. It’s badass fantasy.
And all Rush gets out is your brain cells. Please.
True.
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big jock knew
What a typical liberal article calling fans of 24 neocons.
It is fiction.
Liberalism is the road to despitism.
Africa is a continent you moron!
O come on, the preview from the Wikipedia sites says, Sangala isn’t real. Lets take it as FICTIONAL.
Well.. So you are telling me.. Chamberlain, Cater and Obama are the Jack Bauer of the liberal left?
i think things that hapen in 24 have either hapened already or yet to occur in reality. we have already witnessed a black president an what was supposed to be an attack on detroit by an african (nigerian)
Oh, shut up.