Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer: 24's 007
Friends have been trying to get me to watch "24" since it appeared on national television five seasons ago. I resisted. Pressure rose. Still I resisted. Three weeks ago, I could hold out no longer and, assigning my friends financial responsibility if I didn't like it, I bought Series 1-4 on DVD and sat down in front of my TV to prove a point. The point proved over the next three weeks was not mine, it was theirs.

Jack Bauer
How can Jack Bauer be fictional when the venerable Wall Street Journal writes about him, the National Terror Alert Response Center of Homeland Security, writes about him, and so do the Christian Science Monitor, Esquire magazine, and the New York Times. Maybe he's not fictional.