I thought this was one of those parody things going around, you know, let's satirize the PTB in DC Onion-style. Scalia actually invoked Jack Bauer, a la Jonah Goldberg's LA Times editorial? And he's supposed to be one of the smarter cons?

(And did nobody in H'wood not realize that Hercules don't have ejectors, or did they just call it poetic [sic] license?)