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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (17267)	11/11/2007 5:17:27 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Wisdom from Hollywood >'24' producer: Hillary as president is 'nuts' By Robert Stacy McCain, November 11, 2007 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 counter-terrorism thriller “24,” interviewed following a Saturday speech to a conservative student group, also predicted that the current strike by screenwriters 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] as this point,” Mr. Surnow told a group of reporters and bloggers in a wide-ranging interview during the Young America’s Foundation’s 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.” Former Attorney General John Ashcroft was the keynote speaker at yesterday’s conference, which YAF spokesman Jason Mattera said was attended by more than 500 student activists and foundation supporters. “Real leadership is not the friend of consensus, because the real leader is always outside the consensus,” Mr. Ashcroft said in remarks to foundation supporters at the Reagan Ranch Center, where he accepted YAF’s Torch of Freedom Award and paid tribute to former President Ronald Reagan as a leader who exemplified vision and values. The influence of Hollywood and the entertainment industry was a topic of discussion from the beginning of the weekend conference, when Internet newshound Andrew Breitbart gave an impromptu talk Thursday to a select group of top campus conservative activists. washingtontimes.com