New Year Brings New Hope For Americans And The World

Let us all, both conservatives and liberals, welcome 2010 with great expectations  for America and the world. 

Happy New Year To All, And to All A Good Year!

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Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized While Liberals Display Hateful Remarks

Conservative Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii yesterday, after complaining of chest pains.

Limbaugh's guest host Walter Williams told listeners that the talk radio king "continues to rest very comfortably" at a Honolulu hospital, where doctors planned a complete medical exam.

"While those pains can be an indicator of a cardiac event, the cause of his discomfort cannot be confirmed at this time," Williams said. "But he's going to take a lot of tests."



Williams said Limbaugh is in "good, stable condition" and he assured loyal listeners that "he's in very good hands."


"He's aware and thankful for all the prayers and concerns and best wishes that have poured in to him," Williams said. 1

1 Rush Limbaugh is in 'good, stable condition' in hospital after chest pains
BY Michael Saul
DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Originally Published:Thursday, December 31st 2009, 1:55 PM
Updated: Thursday, December 31st 2009, 8:53 PM

Author's Note: Please pray for Rush Limbaugh's speedy recovery. Would any reasonable person, even if a liberal, want to be in a hospital on New Year's Eve? Liberal ugliness rears its head at wrong moments, and this is one of them.

Related Links -- Liberal Diatribe Aimed At Rush Limbaugh

For an extreme example of closed-minded, distasteful, liberal hatred, see Kossacks Display Hate by Rejoicing in Rush Limbaugh Hospitalization, a post referring to hateful language at its best, as published by the extremely liberal Daily Kos.

By P.J. Gladnick (Bio
Archive)
December 31, 2009 - 11:33 ET

Also see the following current Huffington Post publication.
 By Bill Shireman, President and CEO of the Future 500
Get Well, Mr. Limbaugh, But Don't Rush Back

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No Tears For 2009, Thanks To Economic Woes, Health Care, Homeland Security, And A Politically Correct Liberal White House

Why are most Americans glad that 2009 is ending? Is it because of the severe economic crisis? Is the troubled economy the only reason? Is it the health care situation? Is it worries about Social Security and Medicare? How about the Ft. Hood Massacre?

Sarah Palin on Ft. Hood:

I think that there were massive warning flags that were missed all over the place," she said. "I think that it was quite unfortunate that, to me, it was a fear of being politically incorrect to not, I am going to use the word, profile this guy.

The following rather shocking conversation took place between a journalist at Der Spiegel (a German magazine) and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, (Napolitano was appointed by our very liberal President Barack Obama):

SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?

NAPOLITANO: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.

There is no such word as "man-caused." I looked up the word at Dictionary.com, and this questions was posed: "Did you mean uncaused?" It is scary that Janet Napolitano, the person Americans are supposed to trust regarding their security from terrorists, particularly Islamic Jihadist terrorists, finds the word "terrorism" to be politically incorrect.

Just for fun, here is the definition of the word "terrorism," a real word Dictionary.com had no trouble in defining (in fact, there are three definitions of the word "terrorism" on Dictionary.com):

ter⋅ror⋅ism 

–noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.

2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.

3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

Origin:
1785–95; terror + -ism

Dictionary.com Unabridged

Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.

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Republicans Mitt Romney Or Sarah Palin: Will Either One Run Against President Obama In 2012?

According to a new poll by Utah TV station Fox 13 and Utahpolicy.com, 53% of the Republicans  participating in this poll believe that Mitt Romney will be the top GOP presidential candidate in 2012, while 4% are rooting for Sarah Palin. Mitt Romney, a top contender in the 2008 presidential election, has also written a book, published by St. Martin's Press, and scheduled for publication on March 3 of 2010. 1 

A national tour is also on Mitt's 2010 schedule. Tickets are now on sale for Mitt Romney's March 13, 2010 signing event at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah. If you are interesting in joining the 10,000 or Romneyites expected to attend this event, click http://www.mittromneyutah.com.%201/. 1

1 Taking page from Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney readies book blitz, written by Dave Wedge. The above information is a CONSERVATIVE WORDSMITH.COM summary. 

Author's Note: Utah is predominantly inhabited by Latter-Day Saints (commonly known as Mormons). Since Mitt Romney is also a Latter-Day Saint, this Utah-based poll should be taken with a rather heavy grain of salt.

I was an outspoken supporter of Mitt Romney in the 2008 presidential election (see my original Townhall.com Conservative Wordsmith blog to read my many popular published Mitt Romney posts).

Even so, I like Sarah Palin, and I believe that she has a good fighting chance to be the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Sarah Palin could be the first woman in history to become U.S. President, and that would also mean the first Republican woman.

My related posts can always be found by simply scrolling down, and clicking on a label. The Label category is located on the right-hand side of any page on my site. 

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Listening To Josh Groban On A Rainy California Night

It's raining heavily now, and even in the midst of a U.S. economic depression, thinking about Christmas brings comfort to many weary souls. Here is American's own Josh Groban singing his version of the Christmas classic "O Holy Night."





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Will 24 Hero Jack Bauer Be A Muslim Believer In Season 8?

Will Jack Bauer, the hero portrayed by Kiefer Sutherland in Fox TV's 24 series, be a Muslim believer in 2010's Season 8? In May of 2009, I wrote a post entitled 24 Saga Of Jack Bauer's Confession to a Muslim Imam Continues. The following quotation is an excerpt:

Earlier this morning, I wrote a post about Kiefer Sutherland's character, Jack Bauer, as he was portrayed on Monday night's final episode of 24. I have received many hits on my site since then. Obviously depicting Jack Bauer as making his final deathbed confession to a Muslin imam has struck a strong chord with many 24 fans.

I have been an avid fan and follower of 24 since Day 1, and I don't recall Jack Bauer's religion having ever been mentioned on any of the previous episodes. Jack Bauer, having been a crusader, in a manner of speaking, against terrorism in past episodes, Muslim Jihadist terrorism in particular, has never shown any religious interest in becoming a Muslim.

Even though the final episode of 24's Season depicted the dying Jack Bauer confessing to a Muslim imam, I don't believe that Jack Bauer will actually be a Muslim in Season 8. Whether Jack Bauer will or will not be a Muslim when Season 8 premiers in January of 2010 depends, of course, upon whether Jack Bauer is still alive.

I'm guessing that the writers of 24 have by now realized the mistake they made, in the first place, by writing the now infamous Jack Bauer/Muslim imam deathbed scene.   They have probably figured out a miraculous, never before heard of, scientific discovery that has revived Jack Bauer  from the nearly departed.

My best guess is that there will be no follow-up on 24's Season 8 of the Jack Bauer/Muslim imam deathbed confession scene at all. The writers, in my opinion, will simply pretend that the Muslim imam scene in the final episode of 24's Season 7 never existed, and hope that the many angry 24 fans will be a forgiving TV audience.

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Sarah Palin: "She's Not Retreating; She's Reloading."

I don't understand how any conservative could not like Sarah Palin. Now if you are calling yourself a conservative, but you secretly despise Sarah Palin and harbor fond thoughts about President Barack Obama, then that is a different situation.

In any case, Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life" is already a best-seller even though it is not scheduled to appear in your local bookstore until tomorrow, November 17. In the meantime, Sarah Palin appears on the Oprah Winfrey show today.

"One year later, Palin has seen more than her fair share of controversies but has emerged as one of the hottest Republican stars and is among the early leaders for the 2012 presidential nomination."

"We came back [from the campaign] to a new normal in Alaska. Everything had so changed in my administration," Palin continued. "There were so many opposition researchers up there in Alaska that were sent, probably, by the Obama camp. ... It was a point where my state of Alaska was being hampered by my presence there."

"Ultimately though, Palin made clear the move wasn't so much an end as it was a beginning."

"My dad's quote sums it up better than I sum it up," she said. 'She's not retreating; she's reloading.'"

Source: Sarah Palin tells Oprah about controversies, future 

The original date of this publication was November 16, 2009.

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Sarah Palin Is A Superstar Politician On Twitter And Facebook

If you think Sarah Palin is out of the political picture, think again. According to Matthew Continetti, associate editor of the Weekly Standard and the author of "The Persecution of Sarah Palin,"

"She has more followers on Facebook than any politician except President Obama. When I checked on Friday, she had close to 15,000 people following her on Twitter."

Source: Sarah Palin wants to friend you
 

My 550 followers or so on Twitter look rather humble in comparison. Maybe I should change my Twiiter Username from SusanBWordsmith to SusanBWordsmithPalin. There's a thought.


The original date of this publication was November 16, 2009.


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Sarah Palin On Oprah Winfrey Today; Los Angeles Viewers Watch ABC 7-1 At 3 PM

Attn Los Angeles CA Viewers: Watch Sarah Palin On Oprah on ABC TV 7-1 at 3:00 PM Monday, November 16.

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9/11 Remembered--Digging Through My Townhall.com Blog Archive

Here are links to four 9/11 posts previously published on my Townhall.com Conservative Wordsmith Weblog. I wrote and published the following 4 posts on 9/11/2007:

2007/09/11/jihadists_know_america_is_great.thtml

2007/09/11/my_handpicked_911_links.thtml

2007/09/11/theorizing_911_sole_intent_to_kill.thtml

2007/09/11/911_no_more_conspiracy_theories_please.thtml

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Are Americans Losing Confidence In Obama? New Rasmussen and Zogby Polls Indicate "Yes"

Is America's confidence in Obama slipping? According to recent polls, the answer is definitely "yes."

"The Rasmussen poll has his approval dropping to 45 percent, after several weeks at 49 percent. The Zogby poll has it even lower -- at 42 percent.

* Only 75 percent of Democrats, who formerly have supported Obama strongly, now approve of his performance in office. Zogby reports that this represents a slide of more than 10 points over the summer.
* Even among blacks, only 74 percent approve of the job he's doing (also a drop of more than 10 points).
* Hispanics, who voted for him by a margin of more than 40 points, now break even (36-36) when rating his performance."

Author's Comment: Will liberal Democrats pave the way for a Republican president in 2012? Liberals just might be fickle enough to make that happen. Liberals voted for Obama. Now they are going to have to live with the consequences. When it suddenly hits them even harder, who knows? Maybe some liberals will even vote Republican the next time.

Click POLL DISASTER FOR OBAMA By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN to read the entire article.

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Atheist Reader's Dan Barker Comments Rejected by Conservative Christian/Political Blogger

This post is dedicated to Atheist Jeremy, who tried to leave 2 negative comments on one of my Dan Barker posts this morning (Christian Minister Dan Barker Became Atheist Due To Reading Secular Books).


Jeremy, I screen comments because I value my CONSERVATIVE WORDSMITH.COM website. I think it is important to publish comments that are reasonable, even if they are not in agreement with what I have written. However, some people have hidden agendas whose sole purpose is to try to convert believers into nonbelievers, i.e., atheists.

Anyone who tries to post a comment on my site with the intent of taking believers away from the Lord will not see their comment published on CONSERVATIVE WORDSMITH.COM.

Also, comments that are hostile, with malicious intent, will equally not be published.


Jeremy, you stated in one of your comments that the Bible should be read from cover to cover, although you didn't mean that from a Christian perspective. I would like to pose a question to you, and that is this: Have you ever read the Bible from cover to cover? If not, I would suggest that you stop believing and hanging on every word Dan Barker and Annie say, and instead use your own mind to discern the truth about the Bible and about God.


Jeremy, if you wish to write a comment that does not bash Christians, the Bible, or Christianity, but rather simply express your thoughts about atheism, and why you are an atheist, then I will consider the publication of such a comment, although there are still no guarantees. That is one of the advantages of having one's own site, and I intend to use that option in order to keep my site free from extreme negativity of the wrong kind.

Sarah Palin and USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Sarah Palin For President In 2012? Majority of Republicans Say Yes!

Sarah Palin is a Republican fave for President in 2012, according to a Huffington Post article published today, July 9.


"A new nationwide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll has found that two-thirds of Republicans want Palin to be "a major national political figure" in the future. In fact a whopping 71% of Republicans say they'd likely vote for her if she ran for president in 2012. And this poll was done after her resignation!


In fact, announcing her resignation on the eve of Independence Day wasn't done so the deed could slide under the radar of a long holiday weekend.


No way. She did it BECAUSE it WAS Independence Day and she wasn't really announcing a resignation. No, she was actually proclaiming "my independence...no more politics as usual." 1

1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/saint-sarah-palin-is-alre_b_228466.html Click this link to read the entire article.

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Mayor Villaraigosa Vows To Put Prop. 8 Back on California Ballot

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in speaking about California's controversial Gay Marriage Proposition 8, vowed on Sunday, June 14, ""to put this issue back on the ballot." 1


If Mayor Villaraigosa succeeds, this would be the third time that Californians have been coerced into voting for Gay Marriage, when they have already made it clear that they are not in favor of two men, or two women, being called husband and wife.


By the way, Mayor Villaraigosa is a Roman Catholic, who, if you recall, was recently involved in a personal public scandal (cheating on his wife). It would be nice if Mayor Villaraigosa would set a better role model for young Latino men in the Los Angeles area, who look up to him as their Mayor.


1 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaypride15-2009jun15,0,1449845.story


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Did Jack Bauer Convert To Islam During His Deathbed Confession To The Muslim Imam?--Poll Results

The Jack Bauer/Muslim Imam Poll is now closed as of 5-29-09 at 1:53 AM. Thank you for voting. Here are the final results:

14 (32%)
Yes
14 (32%)

No
4 (9%)

I'm not sure.
1 (2%)

The script was not clear.
3 (6%)

I'm tired of liberal politically correct propaganda in the mainstream media.
11 (25%)

Jack Bauer did not convert. He merely had a pleasant conversation with the Muslim Imam.
8 (18%)

Jack Bauer's brain has been contaminated with unusual chemicals, and he is no longer capable of making a rational decision.
4 (9%)

Jack Bauer is a secular humanist atheist, and has no real interest in any religion.
1 (2%)

I want the old Jack Bauer back!
13 (30%)

I will vote tomorrow after I've had a chance to calm down.
4 (9%)

Votes so far: 43 Poll closed

POLL: Jack Bauer/Muslim Imam Deathbed Conversion Poll Closing Soon--Vote Now!

My Did Jack Bauer Convert To Islam During His Deathbed Confession To The Muslim Imam? Poll is closing soon. Now is your chance to vote about this ongoing issue with Jack Bauer and the Muslim Imam Deathbed scene as seen in the last few minutes of Season 7 on Fox TV's 24. There is no registration or email address requirement when you vote.

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California Supreme Court Finally Gets It Right (Almost) About Same-Sex Marriage and Prop 8: Gay Marriage No Longer Legal

The California Supreme Court finally got it almost right on Tuesday, May 26. Same-sex (aka gay) marriage is now illegal in the State of California.


Why shouldn't it be? California voters voted twice on this issue and made it clear that they didn't want same-sex marriage to be legal in California, but the liberal court system did not want to believe this truth. So it is good news that the California Supreme Court finally gets it.


The other side of the issue, though, is that the 18,000 same-sex couples who were already married prior to November 0f 2008, when the California Supreme Court was ignoring the wishes of California voters, will remain married! This seems odd, because how can same-sex marriage be legal for some gay couples, and illegal for the rest?


The California Supreme Court should have declared all same-sex marriages performed in November of 2008 to be illegal also, since the very legality of a California Supreme Court judge declaring that he has more authority than California voters is unethical, and maybe even illegal in itself.


An interesting sidebar to all of this is that prior to the Proposition 8 election, an ad was aired repeatedly by gay activists on Los Angeles television stations, declaring that gay couples have no rights in California, and that denying gay couples these rights was equal to denying rights to Jews in Nazi Germany's holocaust during WWII.


The fact of the matter is that even during the airing of those ads, full rights to same-sex couples were already in force, guaranteed by law in the state of California. The conservative rebuttal to Proposition 8 even mentioned the exact numbering of the law in my Official Voters' Guide.


So this was a downright lie on the part of gay activists, intent on deceiving the public at large. Fortunately, though, this deceptive tactic didn't work, because California voters still voted against gay marriage.


In this morning's Los Angeles Times   (May 27) article, the truth has finally come out about this advertising deception:


"'Proposition 8 merely 'carves out a narrow and limited exception' to the state constitutional protection gays and lesbians now receive, Chief Justice Ronald M. George wrote for the majority.'"


"The court majority said same-sex couples would continue to have the right to choose life partners and enter into 'committed, officially recognized and protected family relationships' that enjoy all the benefits of marriage under the state's domestic partnership law."


"'Like opposite-sex couples, same-sex couples enjoy this protection not as a matter of legislative grace, but of constitutional right,' George wrote."


"UC Berkeley constitutional law professor Goodwin Liu said the ruling shows "the court continues to be very deferential to the processes of direct democracy in California."


In spite of the above quotes regarding the legal rights of same-sex couples in California, an Associate Justice disagrees:


"In a separate, concurring opinion, Associate Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar noted some rights married couples have that domestic partners do not, and suggested that the state now has the duty 'to eliminate the remaining important differences.'"


What are those "important differences?" The Los Angeles Times article doesn't mention them.


The above quotations are from the Los Angeles Times article, California high court upholds Prop. 8. By Maura Dolan May 27, 2009 - Click this link to read the entire article.

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Memorial Day TV: ABC Airs Gay Lesbian Marriage On "All My Children"

I am totally shocked by ABC's decision to air a gay lesbian marriage on "All My Children", an ABC daytime television soap opera, on Memorial Day, when children and teens are home from school. Not only were children and teenagers, especially vulnerable female teenagers, able to watch two women being married, but also kissing on the lips.

This outrageously liberal scene was aired on KABC TV's "All My Children" just a short time ago, but note that "All My Children" is aired all over the country, maybe the world, in whatever time zones are appropriate for any given area.

There is no way this can be an accident, seeing as the California Courts are expected to make an official decision Tuesday, May 26, about whether the voters of California get to see their Vote Against Gay Marriage upheld or ignored.


The fact that ABC (owned by The Walt Disney Company, by the way) would make a choice to air this episode of All My Children at all is deplorable enough in itself, but to choose Memorial Day as the day of the airing is irresponsible, irreverent, and despicable.


Today, Memorial Day, is the day that Americans honor those heroic soldiers that died for the sake of American freedom. I am certain that the liberty Americans recognize in the United States of America didn't include gay marriage in the minds of America's founding fathers.

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Memorial Day In May Of 1868 and General John A. Logan

Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day. Memorial Day is a day to remember those who died in the service of the United States of America.

"General John A. LoganLibrary of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [LC-B8172- 6403 DLC (b&w film neg.)]
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states."


Thanks to http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html for the above information and quotation. The quote is a brief excerpt. Click this link to read the entire history of Memorial Day.

Memorial Day Prayer For Soldiers and Those Who Mourn

Here is an excerpt from a Memorial Day Prayer:

"God, lift the hearts of those for whom this holiday is not just diversion,but painful memory and continued deprivation.Bless those whose dear ones have died needlessly, wastefully [as it seems]in accident or misadventure.We remember with compassion those who have died serving their countries in the futility of combat." 1

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Kiefer Sutherland Apologizes For Head Butt Incident; Jack Bauer's Deathbed Confession to Muslim Imam On "24" Still A Mystery

Was Jack Bauer making his deathbed confession to the Muslim Imam in the final episode of Fox TV's 24, Season 7 , or was Jack Bauer merely having a pleasant conversation with him? You have a chance to vote on this, as well as 9 other fun questions, on my first Conservative Wordsmith Poll, entitled
Did Jack Bauer Convert To Islam During His Deathbed Confession To The Muslim Imam?.

Speaking of Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland (the actor who portrays American hero Jack Bauer on 24) recently apologized for the heavily publicized, although unwarranted, head butt incident with a Manhattan, New York fashion designer, and there's a good chance now that all charges will be dropped.

"'I am sorry about what happened that night and sincerely regret that Mr. McCollough was injured,' Sutherland said in the statement.The star of Fox television's '24' was charged May 7 with third-degree assault in the alleged incident two weeks ago at a nightclub at the Mercer Hotel in the trendy SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. The minor charge is comparable to a speeding ticket.'"1


"A spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's office declined to comment on whether the charges would be dismissed.But now that Sutherland and McCollough say they have resolved their differences, a prosecutor may go before a judge and ask that the case be dropped. That could happen at Sutherland's next scheduled court appearance on June 22.'"1

1 http://www.zap2it.com/news/zap-ap-us-people-sutherland,0,7707050.story

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Did Jack Bauer Convert To Islam During His Deathbed Confession To The Muslim Imam? Cast Your Vote Now In New Conservative Poll!

Cast your vote in my first Poll based on the 7th Season of 24. The Poll question is: Did Jack Bauer convert to Islam during his deathbed confession to a Muslim Imam?

This is an exclusive poll, created by Conservative Wordsmith Susan Baldwin, and consists of 10 questions. You will be able to view the results on my site. Hurry and join the fun, because the poll ends on May 29, 2009 at 1:53 AM.


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24's 7th Season: Jack Bauer's Muslim Imam Confession Continues To Perplex Fans Worldwide

Kiefer Sutherland's portrayal of Jack Bauer's deathbed confession to a Muslim imam on Fox TV's 24, Season 7, Monday night, has evidently created a huge controversy for puzzled fans.

On Tuesday, I wrote and published several posts about 24 character Jack Bauer's sudden interest in, and possible conversion, to the Islam religion. Both of my sites (http://www.conservativewordsmith.com/ and http://conservativewordsmith.townhall.com/) received many visitors from all over the world. Perplexed 24 fans continue to visit my sites today.

Jack Bauer has been merciless to terrorists of any kind, especially fanatical Muslim Jihadist terrorists, in many of the past episodes during previous seasons of 24. Granted, the Muslim imam is definitely not a terrorist of any kind, but Jack's sudden interest in choosing to speak to a Muslim imam, as a spiritual advisor, during his possible last days on earth, is perplexing to many 24 fans.

Thanks to one of my erudite commentators, I have been informed that the extremely conservative Joel Surnow, one of the original creators and a major producer of 24, resigned in 2008. I had not previously been aware of this. I checked it out, and here is an excerpt from ZAP2it regarding this fact:

"Joel Surnow, a co-creator of "24," is leaving the show to pursue other projects.Surnow had been thinking about leaving the FOX show for a while, and during the writers' strike he came to a firm decision. His departure is effective immediately, meaning he won't be part of the 16 episodes yet to be filmed for the show's seventh season, the showbiz trade papers report." 1

According to an an article published in the Hollywood Reporter, and cited in a libertas, A FORUM FOR CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT ON FILM post entitled 'Joel Surnow Exits “24″, "'The openly conservative Surnow, who jokingly labeled himself a 'right-wing nut job,' has been the most visible of the masterminds behind '24.'He hasn’t shied from speaking his mind and made headlines in November when he said: 'Are we nuts thinking Hillary Clinton could be president of this country? Honest to God, just stand back and think about it.' Ironically, the upcoming seventh season of '24,' slated to debut in January 2009, features the first female U.S. president, played by Cherry Jones.'"

Joel Surnow's resignation from 24 is one plausible explanation for the mystery of Jack Bauer's deathbed confession to a Muslim imam. I emphasize the word one, because I believe there is more to it than the resignation of Joel Surnow.

However, Mr. Surnow's resignation certainly is an important factor in understanding Season 7's overly liberal slant, not only on the Muslim issue, but other issues also, such as a female president who is completely against torture of any kind, including that of terrorists.

1 '24' Co-Creator Stops Clock
Zap2It.com February 13, 2008

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24 Sparks Jack Bauer/Muslim Imam Controversy In Monday's Episode

In the history of Fox TV's 24 series, the 7th Season, and final episode, depicting Jack Bauer's deathbed confession with a Muslim imam has sparked possibly the biggest controversy since the show first started.

I maintain 2 sites, this one (www.conservativewordsmith.com), and my Townhall.com blog (http://conservativewordsmith.townhall.com). Both sites have been receiving many visitors today upon publishing my initial published post earlier, "24 Hero Jack Bauer Confesses To Muslim Imam On Deathbed." *See My Related Posts below.

What exactly is a Muslim imam? According to Wikipedia, "An imam (Arabic: إمام plural ائمة A'immah‎, Persian: امام) is an Islamic leadership position. Often the leader of a mosque and the community."

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Answers.com states that a imam is

"In law and theology, the caliph who is successor to Muhammad as the lawful temporal leader of the Islamic community.
The male prayer leader in a mosque.
The Muslim worshiper who leads the recitation of prayer when two or more worshipers are present."

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24 Saga Of Jack Bauer's Confession to a Muslim Imam Continues

Earlier this morning, I wrote a post about Kiefer Sutherland's character, Jack Bauer, as he was portrayed on Monday night's final episode of 24. I have received many hits on my site since then. Obviously depicting Jack Bauer as making his final deathbed confession to a Muslin imam has struck a strong chord with many 24 fans.

I have been an avid fan and follower of 24 since Day 1, and I don't recall Jack Bauer's religion having ever been mentioned on any of the previous episodes. Jack Bauer, having been a crusader, in a manner of speaking, against terrorism in past episodes, Muslim Jihadist terrorism in particular, has never shown any religious interest in becoming a Muslim.

It is puzzling as to why the writers/producers (bear in mind that Kiefer Sutherland is one of the producers of 24) chose to do this. Are they that anxious to make fans of the Muslim population at large? Or are they now being overly zealous in their efforts to try to erase the memories in the minds of those protesting Muslims who were offended in the early days of the series, when the main focus of the show was to catch evil Muslim Jihadist terrorists, and even torture them?

Since I am not one of the writers or producers of 24, I can't claim to know the definitive answer to this perplexing question. However, I do believe that this tactic, that is to say, Jack Bauer's deathbed confession to the spiritual Muslim imam, has not set well with the general population of avid 24 fans. It is not at all in character with Jack Bauer's past actions, and it really makes no sense at all.

And the greater question is in the minds of many 24 fans: Is Jack Bauer now actually a Muslim? Did he convert to Islam? Is he going to convert to Islam if he doesn't die? Or did he just not have any religious ties at all to any religion, and just happened to decide, at the last moment of his possible death, to request a visitation from a representative of a religion to which he has previously shown absolutely no interest whatsoever?


Of course, there is one other possibility: maybe Jack Bauer's body and brain have been so contaminated by exposure to dangerous substances (this happened in another 24 episode during Season 7), that he is now totally insane. Somehow, though, I don't think this is the answer. What appeared to be a conservative show with sometimes liberal slants has now taken a turn into a previously undiscovered dimension. Maybe the 8th season of 24 should even have a new name: The Twilight 24.

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Annie Wersching is a newcomer to 24, this being her first season on the Fox TV show. I must say that she is fantastic as the equally new character, FBI Agent Renee Walker.

Renee Walker gradually becomes a sort of female Jack Bauer, and Annie Wersching is so good in her portrayal that I almost believed that Jack Bauer is going to die, and that she will succeed him as the new hero. I no longer believe this however, due to the final few moments on Monday night's final episode of 24.

In any case, Annie Wersching deserves to be nominated, and win, an Emmy for Best Actress. She added so much vitality to Series 7, and, if the producers of 24 actually do kill off Jack Bauer (still don't think that's going to happen), she would be a fitting replacement.

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