Female president next for Fox's '24' (Who will be accusing Fox of shilling?)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_6438909

The United States will have a female president next year—on the Fox TV series "24."
Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones will play President Allison Taylor when the show about the exploits of counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) returns in January for its seventh season, the network announced Sunday.

Jones' term will coincide with Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, but Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori said fiction and real-world politics will not intersect.

"It's a dramatic decision. ... The president is a very important piece of '24," Liguori told The Associated Press. "We've had a broad array of presidents on the show; why not a female president?"

The series has been an Oval Office groundbreaker before, with Dennis Haysbert playing President Palmer, the nation's first black president.

I know there are some who here who hate 24 cause there are many on the right including those in Bush Admin, Scalia, Limpballs, etc., who love the show and even use a TV show to justify their support of torture, etc. And of course Joel Surnow is a big-time conservative. I'm one of those Dems who also enjoy 24 though I will say last season sucked big time and it will be interesting if 24 can reestablish itself this season or has it already jumped-the-shark. Except for the over-the-top torture by Bauer and CTU, I haven't found the show to be otherwise politically inbalanced.

This is an interesting development. Now we don't know how they will portray this president. The 2 President Palmers of course were black Presidents and shown as very competent, capable, moral presidents. President Logan was a Nixion/Bush traitor. Freeper heads exploded at the short-lived "Commander In Chief" where Geena Davis portrayed the first female president (she was an independent put on the ticket as VP to balance the ticket by what had to be a Republican president). They were accusing ABC (hah) of paving the way for Hillary. If 24's President Allison Taylor is competent, fair and not RWing, will Freepers accuse Fox of helping Hillary? And if she's an incompetent, wimpy or dishonest will we?

On edit from WPost:

News of Jones's "24" role first surfaced late Friday in trade paper reports. In another sign of how preposterous the presidential race already has become, with more than 470 days to go, the Hollywood Reporter speculated the decision to cast Jones adds "another wrinkle" to the campaign, in which Sen. Hillary Clinton is polling at the front of the Democratic pack.

Which you want to write off as ridiculous, except that earlier this year the U.S. Military Academy at West Point confirmed to New Yorker magazine that Brig. Gen. Patrick Finnegan had traveled to California to tell producers of "24" that its torture scenes were a bad influence on U.S. troops. He even suggested they do an episode in which torture backfires.

The show, co-created by Joel Surnow, a guy who describes himself as a "right-wing nut," is so important to the current administration that last year our country's top homeland security official took time out from dealing with the unabated threat of terrorism to attend a forum about "24."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072002396.html?tid=informbox

[wtmusic]

1. Producer Jon Cassar is a RW nutcase

when the important points need to be made, the story goes right.

[RamboLiberal]

3. His name is Surnow

And no the show does not always go right. In fact in the cases of the president they are actually been a caution against a Bush/Cheney type presidency. But then many who comment on the show have never actually watched it. I have from season 1.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Not to mention the Republican presidents tend to be evil.

Palmer was far more sympathetic than Logan.

[JacquesMolay]

2. And let me guess. She'll be too 'soft on terror'. I bet Rupert Murdoch will ...

... do some work on the scripts himself.

[RamboLiberal]

5. We'll see - the two black President Palmer's have been

up standing men. The first was temporarily overthrown by his own VP and cabinet for what they perceived as being soft on terrorism but his caution prevented the U.S. from bombing a country when it was actually insiders in the U.S. government and the Global Industrial complex who were the string pullers behind the terrorists.

[RamboLiberal]

6. Wikipedia on Cherry Jones who will play the President

Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is a Tony Award-winning American actress.

Born in Paris, Tennessee, Jones is known primarily for her stage work, including her Tony-winning lead performances in Lincoln Center's 1995 production of The Heiress and John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt, which opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in March 2005.

Other Broadway credits include Nora Ephron's play Imaginary Friends (with Swoosie Kurtz); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, the 2000 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, for which she earned her first Tony nomination<1>. She is considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States.

In recent years, Jones has ventured into the film industry, in which she has played mostly supporting roles. Her screen credits include Cradle Will Rock, The Perfect Storm, Ocean's Twelve, Signs, The Village<2>.

Jones, who is a lesbian, has long been frank about her sexuality and romantic engagements. In 1995, when Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she thanked her then partner, architect Mary O'Connor. When she accepted her Best Actress Tony in 2005 for her work in Doubt, she thanked "Laura Wingfield", a character in the then-current Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie, played by actress Sarah Paulson, Jones' current partner <3>.

It was announced July 20, 2007 that Jones will be playing President Allison Taylor on the upcoming season of the Fox series 24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Jones