I remember when David Letterman did this many years ago. I thought it was one of the most delightful and brilliant things I'd seen back then... the glorious display of Letterman power (re-routing half the traffic in San Fran for the day) for such a noble cause.

There is something strangely beautiful and extremely disturbing about this video. My hat's off to whoever put it together, a truly remarkable job is a short film that can make me feel enormous hope and crushing despair all at once.

Hahahahaha!

Ahhh that one gave me a good belly chuckle... a nice tonic to pour on all the despair anger and frustration. Keep on dancing people!

Damn I'm gunna miss that funny little guy. Corddry is a unique mix of comedy and angst. More than one of his skits surprised the heck out of me and made me laugh so hard I cried.

I hope he finds himself in a place where he is allowed to show his darker side again, because its damn funny and there just isn't enough of that kind of brutally honest comedy around these days.

And if he doesn't find himself there... I hope he quits and comes back to the Daily Show!

SCT... regarding your comments about Irwin being another kind of male role model (ie. a DAD who cares!) are very insightful and a welcome addition to the conversation.

Thank you, I couldn't agree more.

The point here is whether or not we the viewing public will allow a major television network to air blatant partisan propaganda in the critical period of time leading up to an election.

This is NOT about Clinton. Clinton's record is now a matter for historians to squabble over. Any attempt to make this issue all about Clinton is an attempt to obfuscate the real matter at hand (and as such, is a detriment to us all).

The continuing struggle to maintain our checks and balances that assure that democracy does not become a commodity that can be bought and sold by the rich IS the issue we should be concerned about. The major networks used to have a standard of decency to uphold, they used to have a sense of responsibility to the public and respect for fairness in the political process. We have never seen such an erosion of those qualities before and this film is a glaring example of that erosion. The people who are speaking out against this film are true patriots and defenders of real democracy. I salute them.

If you are looking for the email addresses of ABC / Disney execs someone kindly posted them all in a comment to the Alternet article on this subject found here:

http://www.alternet.org/movies/41427/

btw, there is some good lively discussion going on over there as well.

From the posts I'm seeing on here... the only people that don't agree with the article are those that haven't watched the show.

BSG is the best frackin show on TV. Bar none. If you don't "get" that yet... rent the miniseries that kicked it off and I guarantee you will see what the rest of us that are watching it see. This is the first show in a long long long time that doesn't follow "formula" of any kind, that addresses vital issues of humanity on every single episode, and somehow manages to do that in the most exciting edge-of-your-seat way. While all the network stations flop about trying to find a new "twist" to old formulas, the sci-fi channel is actually doing something new - teaching the often paradoxical lessons of history as they stand and leaving the interpretations up to the viewers.

I wish these people would at least watch the show before they go on TV to be an "authority" on the subject.

A few salient points about 24:

1. The really really scary bad guys are almost ALWAYS U.S. Administration types with a neo-con agenda.

2. The "terrorists" are almost always portrayed as mere "clueless pawns" serving the will of the neocons (without being aware of it of course).

3. The reason these administration types are causing/allowing these attacks to happen is usually to drum up fear in the public so the public will go along with some other ridiculous plan of theirs (ie. invading a middle eastern country in order to secure oil reserves).

4. Torture does NOT always work on this show, in fact the show's approach to dealing with the subject of torture is much more complex than that. (didn't these people notice that at the start of this season Jack Bauer had just spent 20 months on end being tortured himself and hadn't spoken a word the entire time?... or how about in season 2 when Jack realizes that torturing a suspect isn't going to get them anywhere so he uses a video trick to get the information he needs instead...)

And finally... what other TV show has the balls to get us talking about these things? Or should everything on TV be as bland and mind-numbing as possible so we can all be good little sheep and never even let these issues cross our minds for fear of... fear?