‘24’ offers analogies

Mon., Feb. 6, 2006

Kevin McDonough United Feature Syndicate

What’s up with Jack? reviously on “24” (9 p.m., Fox), we discovered that an incompetent president has been snookered by an internal cabal of hardliners bent on planting weapons of mass destruction at a terror base.

They want to create a phony pretext for a U.S. invasion and the establishment of military bases that will guarantee the flow of oil for the next generation.

You don’t need a magnifying glass to find the metaphors and messages here.

“American Experience” (9 p.m., KSPS) re-examines the legend of “Jesse James.” Popularized in his time and after his death as a Robin Hood of the Wild West, James was in fact a homicidal psychopath who committed atrocities in the post-Civil War era and who shot many an unarmed victim in cold blood.

Raven-Symone (“That’s So Raven”) stars in “For One Night” (9 p.m., Lifetime), a fact-based cable drama about a high-school senior’s attempts to integrate her high-school prom in a small Louisiana town.

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