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24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot

A video meme that’s going around: “24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot (Jack Bauer saves the world with AOL 3.0).

Don Boudreaux commends it to “those who believe that America’s middle-class has been economically stagnant.” It’s also pretty funny even if you believe no such thing.

via Megan McArdle, who’s recently gotten a new haircut.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Classic stuff--and I have never seen 24--the tech jokes are fantastic.

Posted by Steven Taylor | January 21, 2008 | 09:43 pm | Permalink
 

Hilarious! Thanks for that

Posted by FireWolf | January 21, 2008 | 09:46 pm | Permalink
 

Of course the middle class hasn't been stagnant economically. There's way more debt than there was thirty years ago.

Posted by grampagravy | January 22, 2008 | 08:23 am | Permalink
 

Of course you might want to look at the actual data and discover that consumer spending on internet connections actually amounts to 0.3% of the typical consumers basket of goods and services.

Posted by spencer | January 22, 2008 | 04:41 pm | Permalink
 

consumer spending on internet connections actually amounts to 0.3% of the typical consumers basket of goods and services

But that's not really the point. Even the lower middle class have richly improved access to information that simply weren't available even to wealthy Americans a decade ago. That's something pretty incredible.

Posted by James Joyner | January 22, 2008 | 05:01 pm | Permalink
 

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