Matthew Yglesias, a fine political writer despite the fact that he’s
not even old enough to remember Carter’s term, points out some
brilliant comments about last season of 24:
I must say that, in retrospect, the whole show seems rather
touchingly naive. We’re supposed to believe that the possibility that
the country was headed for war based on forged documents would provoke
a crisis at the highest levels of government, and then when the people
duped by the forgeries saw their mistake they would resign in shame. If
only they knew.