Ross says:
Meanwhile, even 24, ostensibly the most right-wing hour on television, features what Martha Bayles, writing in this season’s Claremont Review of Books, terms a “timid selection of villains,” including “vengeful Serbs, a bitchy German, red-handed Mexican drug lords, a turncoat British spy, a greedy oil executive, power-mad government officials (including one president), and—once in a blue moon, when the Council on American-Islamic Relations is looking the other way—violent jihadists.”
Once in a blue moon? Really? They happen to be among the main players in no less than three of the six seasons. Even if you take the view that they were phoning it in during the sixth season and simply recycling old plotlines from earlier seasons (e.g., Arabs with nukes, the Vice President trying to force the President out via the 25th Amendment, terrorist youths in our suburbs!, etc.), 24 has assembled a small army of Middle Eastern actors and extras over the years. Perhaps the only thing more annoying than general hysteria about “Islamofascists” is the rather bizarre obsession with pretending that American pop culture has not endorsed this hysteria with gusto.
cyrus 
Zarathustra 
Thoroughly unpersuasive, Daniel. If the best evidence you’ve got is that half of the villains on 24–which I assume is your very best case-in-point–are Muslim, well, I’m afraid you haven’t got much of a case. Not counting docudramas, how many anti-Islamic productions have come out since 9/11? Certainly not enough to warrant the claim that “American pop culture has [] endorsed this hysteria with gusto.”