Chuck DeVore, a California state legislator and Tea Party-backed candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, has a new Web video claiming that “Jack Bauer,” the protagonist of the action-adventure show 24, would support him for Senate.
“Ask yourself this question, Jack Bauer fans: Which person would Jack want as his U.S. Senator?” the announcer says. “Barbara Boxer, a Guantanamo-closing, tax-raising, big-government growing ultra-liberal who reads Miranda rights to foreign terrorists? Or Chuck DeVore, a U.S. Army Reserve intelligence officer, who likes Guantanamo Bay as it is, thinks foreign terrorists should have an interrogator, not a lawyer, and supports lower taxes and smaller government?”
Of course, it should be noted that “Jack Bauer” is a fictional character portrayed by the actor Kiefer Sutherland. In real life, Sutherland is a Canadian democratic socialist whose grandfather, the late Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas, was the founder of his country’s single-payer health care system. The real-life Kiefer Sutherland remains a staunch supporter of his grandfather’s left-wing New Democratic Party, and is a vocal advocate for single-payer health care.
Eric Kleefeld
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