Jack Bauer - Bush's ambassador for torture

There is a very good article in the New Yorker that discusses the role shows like 24 have in shaping public attitudes to torture. 24 creator Joel Surnow is a conservative who calls Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh friends. The administration loves the show and so do many US troops. Apparently it's not uncommon for soldiers to watch the show in Iraq then interrogate suspected insurgents with some of the techniques Jack Bauer uses to illicit information from terrorists. Prior to 9/11 on average there were 4 acts of torture on prime-time television, now thanks to shows like 24 there are more than one hundred. It's no longer the terrorists doing the torture, more and more it's the good guys.