I saw on some liberal blogs recently that 24 is conservative propaganda because it shows What Could Happen if terrorists were allowed in the country–and in fact, liberals “hate the TV show ‘24′ because it dares to remind us” how dangerous our enemies are. And I’ve also seen on conservative blogs that 24 is liberal propaganda (”Features ACLU-CAIR-John Conyers Message“).

Okay, while I was writing this in my head a few days ago, here’s what I was going to write: liberals say conservatives hate 24 for the show’s liberal message, conservatives say liberals hate 24 for the show’s conservative message, and it’s funny how all these politically-minded people take the parts of the show that agree with their own views.

But now I can’t find the original post where I thought I read a liberal saying conservatives hate 24. So I had to go looking for it. And over the past half hour I had a hard time finding conservatives complain about the show. For the most part, it’s liberals complaining about the show’s conservative message, and conservatives laughing at liberals for complaining about it.

How can this be? If you’re going to take this fictional show to a level high enough to apply it to real life, how can conservatives not complain about it? Information collected on people without warrants for being the wrong race? Innocents scooped into detention roundups with no charges? The beginnings of internment camps? I mean, the liberals’ upset with torture and racial profiling is pretty obvious. But why aren’t conservatives saying “we wouldn’t mangle our American values in this way”?

I mean. I think I’m actually a little scared about this.