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   Thursday, February 15, 2007

   TIME KEEPS ON TICKING, TICKING, TICKING...

Love it or hate it, the TV show 24 sure has everyone talking. By coincidence, my friend Darrell, my 'Ottawa correspondent' Guy in DKNY and Vanity Fair's mighty James Wolcott all weighed in this week on 24 and the depressing 'torture is fun' debate we're all subjected to these days.

Darrell linked to an article in the New Yorker on the show's producer Joel Surnow, a self-described "right-wing nut job" who smugly decries the liberalism of Hollywood while he makes a fortune within it:

Surnow, for his part, revels in his minority status inside the left-leaning entertainment industry. "Conservatives are the new oppressed class," he joked in his office. "Isn't it bizarre that in Hollywood it's easier to come out as gay than as conservative?" His success with 24, he said, has protected him from the more righteous elements of the Hollywood establishment. "Right now, they have to be nice to me," he said. "But if the show tanks I'm sure they'll kill me." He spoke of his new conservative comedy show as an even bigger risk than 24. "I'll be front and center on the new show," he said, then joked, "I'm ruining my chances of ever working again in Hollywood."

I love the logic: if The 1/2 Hour News Hour fails, it's because the liberals can't handle his manly take on politics, not (not!) because his "Daily Show for conservatives" just isn't funny:



Wow, I never thought anything would make me wish for PJ O'Rourke but hey, torture is moral and Joel Surnow is oppressed -- clearly, we're living in Bizarro World:

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