Jack Bauer's Creator Speaks By Philip Klein

Conservatives who lament the ideological bias in Hollywood need to stop acting like liberals.
That's the advice Joel Surnow, the executive producer of the hit television series 24, gave to hundreds of conservative students on Saturday at the Young America's Foundation West Coast Leadership conference.

"Our job is not to whine, that's their job," Surnow said. "Our job is to succeed despite the adversity."
Following the speech, Surnow sat by the patio bar of Fess Parker's DoubleTree hotel on a cool Santa Barbara afternoon with his wife at his side, and elaborated further to a group of conservative bloggers. He insisted that good material will see the light of day in Hollywood, no matter what the political bent, and pointed to productions such as 24, Path to 9/11, and the movie 300.

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