An e-mail:

In revealing next season’s 24, you’re missing the key facet of the opening plot line. Just as 24 has traced the popularity of Bush’s “anything to stop terrorism” policy, and the reflexive opposition the other way during the past two seasons, the next season of 24 figures to be the opening commercial in the John McCain for President advertising strategy.
Here is Jack Bauer–the most sympathetic American counter-terrorist–the guy who we all want to run our Homeland Security–he is going to the Chinese version of the Hanoi Hilton. If that doesn’t translate to a groundswell of support for McCain, I don’t know what will.