Janeane Garofalo

Actress and liberal activist Janeane Garofalo may have resurrected her Hollywood career by scoring a gig in 2009 on the hit Fox television series "24," but it seems the paycheck wasn't enough to keep her content with such a coveted gig.In an appearance on the " Going Off Track " podcast last week, Garofalo – who played Janis Gold, an FBI agent who often spoke out against torture tactics in anti-terrorism negotiations – claimed that the show's producer, Joel Surnow, attempted to demean her and her political views."He (Surnow) hated my politics and Air America (a progressive radio network she worked for). He was a real right-winger. He actually worked with the Republican Party producing propaganda campaigns with them," Garofalo told the show hosts. "Actually, Rush Limbaugh and Lynne Cheney would visit the set and stuff like that… But he wanted to make me look like a 'weak' liberal on the show. My character got yelled at a number of times by Jack (Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland). Then...

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