Joel Surnow, the creator and man behind Fox’s 24 has not been shy about his conservative politics. John McCain had a walk-on role on the show a few seasons ago, and Surnow has cultivated a friendship with Rush Limbaugh into appearances at the Heritage Foundation. So, it’s not too surprising to see him saying stuff like this about the 2008 Presidential race:
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Hollywood producer Joel Surnow dismissed as “nuts” the notion that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton can be elected president and said he and other conservatives in the entertainment industry are leaning toward supporting Republican Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign.
The executive producer of Fox’s Emmy-winning counterterrorism thriller “24,” interviewed after a Saturday speech to a conservative student group, also predicted that the current screenwriters’ strike would be “hugely long” and settled to the disadvantage of the writers union.
“I’m not even sure that Hillary is a fait accompli [to win the Democratic Party nomination] at this point,” Mr. Surnow told a group of reporters and bloggers in a wide-ranging interview during the Young America’s Foundation’s (YAF) West Coast Leadership Conference. “Are we nuts thinking Hillary Clinton could be president of this country? Honest to God, just stand back and think about it.”
Saying that he was “probably going to get behind Rudy” for the White House, Mr. Surnow named comedian Dennis Miller as another entertainer who has “come out” as a conservative in the overwhelmingly liberal Hollywood environment and said that another popular comedian, Adam Sandler, “is going to come out and support Rudy Giuliani.”
What’s interesting about this isn’t so much that Surnow is a conservative, which we already knew, but that Hollywood’s monolithically liberal face is far less monolithic than it has appeared in the past.
December 30th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Joel Surnow IS A WARMONGER MIS REPRSENTING MUSLIM AND ADDING FEAR IN TO PEOPLE ….
IF U POYTRA MINIORTIES THE WAY HE DOES …. THE WORLD IS NAIVE AND WILL TAKE AS REALTIES ….