manapp99…

No doubt a coporate scum bag. You sound like my former manager. at least until his fat ass got shit canned too.

I hear he’s gone from his standard 493 pounds down to somewhere around 230. Just as well for him I guess, since he doesn’t have that nice benefits package anymore either, to pay for all of those meds and other things that he didn’t think those union workers deserved.

Yep, he sure did save HIS company some money.

I have read mostly supportive comments about writers, regardless of how certain individuals have responded negatively to them - but I know lots of good writers who don’t make more than 5-10K a year in writing work. They do it because they are trying to stay in a business with it’s wagons circled already.

The business does not always hire the best people for the job, nor pay the most qualified ones what they are truly worth. That being said, it’s like virtually every other job in this way. Unions were/are the American thing to do.

I would imagine that there are several of those who have had their work postponed by this strike that are upset with the writers, but I bet there are more that would take exception to being called “Little People”.

Who gives a rat’s ass?  Just watch the Preview Channel and forget about it.  Oh, and remember to leave SpongeBob on for the dogs when you leave in the morning.

Sometimes you have to read a post several times to see if some pinhead really said what you think they said.  And damned if #122042 by manapp99 didn’t really rant on about the “evil” writer’s and their union and claim that unions are welfare for the less talented. Sometimes a person’s words stand for what they believe and sometimes they stand for what they are. manapp99 shows a person so mean-spirited and so small-minded that the words define who and what he/she is. Unions turned this country from a haven for the rich to a place where ordinary citizens, i.e. “little people” (although I think that means really little people as in short of stature?) became a vibrant middle class. The erosion of unions has made that process decline. Exactly as the Republican Party and our Corporate Government intended. As anyone with a brain knows.

#122042 by manapp99

All the “little people” are likely union members also and recognize the importance of collective bargining and the rising cost of living. 

Being union members means they likely have a comprehensive health plan and a pension or retirement plan which keeps them from having to opt for federally funded welfare programs.

Louise, You have a marvelous idea and I would like to see Colbert interview some of the striking writers to get their message out.  Maybe we can boycott some of the sponsers of these shows.

Guess a comment from somebody who never watches these two is in order. Last time [only time]  I watched Leno [years ago] I felt monumental disappointment, being a “Silver Bears” [his best movie] fan.

Conan was a mystery on my first and only visit. Proving the writers are indeed valuable. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s getting the audience psyched before the show begins. All those dirty jokes told off camera.

Who knows? Without writers, having to rely on their own special charm, the shows might be hilarious! Nothing funnier than watching a “pro” trip allover himself!

I mean, where would Bush be without his writers?
Hmmm ... I may tune in to see.

Sorry about the multiple posts. I kept getting an error message, thought maybe the bad-language police were on my case.  Now I can say it: Leno is a suppurating scab, an infected piece of hypocritical (“I support the writers”) shit.
Ahhh, that feels better.

First, I haven’t seen a lot of evidence from many commenters that they need confirmation of their beliefs by an utterance of some famous person/writer/sage.

Second, we’re all indispensible, for sure.  What little remaining power the unions have is dwindling.
My experience is that much of their power is in shaking down their membership for increased dues. 

I envy young people because I believe all this crap is going to implode someday and the middle class worker will come into his/her own shortly thereafter.  Then you’ll see real power. You might not be the United States then, though.

I could understand if someone like David Letterman who owns an independent production company signs a letter of intent to the writers union, agreeing to the negotiations final outcome retroactively.

The writers should think too, graveyards are full of indispensible people.

Sorry about my earlier mistaken cross post!  Here’s some writers doing their own web cast tv: http://www.mydamnchannel.com/

If Jay Leno or anyone else crosses a picket line to perform the people of America should make it” no see tv.“Many working people go through extreme hardships to support fellow workers on strike becuase in the long run it is good for everyone when we support each other.I am sure that the hardship Jay “the working mans friend"may endure will be bearable.He can stay home and count his money.If Jay Leno crosses pickets to perform I for one will never watch or attend any show that he is part of..I suggest that the rest of you get on board.

JimBob: The first version of your comment was just fine. No need to de-fang it, Leno is clearly an Uber-Tool, and has been that way a long time. O’Brien must be his protege’.

Either way, we can safely bet that hard-hitting political commentary and satire will not be forthcoming from these two vacuous shows. If I were a writer for Maher, Colbert, or Stewart, I’d consider putting the strike on the back-burner since the perspective those shows offer are contrary and rare in the MSM (and therefore valuable), and without them we might all end up trying to make our livings in an even worse situation than this one. There’s more going on here than a fight for compensation, and hopefully the Good Guys have figured out it’s long past time to take off the gloves.

Hey, Jay, why didn’t you sell a couple of your cars and keep paying your employees until the strike is over?  Greedy fat traitor.

Hey, Jay, why didn’t you sell a couple of your cars and keep paying your employees until the strike is over?  Greedy fat coward.

Jay Leno = chickenpoop.  Hey, Jay, why didn’t you sell a couple of your cars and keep paying your employees until the strike is over?  Greedy fat coward.

Jay Leno = chickenshit.  Hey, Jay, why didn’t you sell a couple of your cars and keep paying your employees until the strike is over?  Greedy fat bastard.

From http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/18/exclusive_yemeni_man_imprisoned_at_cia

Do you suppose this might be part of the reason why these tapes are destroyed?

“BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE: Yemeni Man Imprisoned at CIA “Black Sites” Tells His Story of Kidnapping and Torture
Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, a victim of the CIA rendition program—kidnapped, held in secret jails, and tortured—speaks out in his first broadcast interview. In the fall of 2003, Bashmilah was detained in Jordan and turned over to the CIA. He was eventually flown to a secret prison he later found out was in Kabul, Afghanistan. In CIA custody, Mohamed says he was held in a freezing-cold cell, interrogated, shackled, force-fed and subjected to sleep deprivation and loud music for days. He attempted suicide at least three times. He talks about his interrogators and the American psychiatrists or psychologists who also played a role. Bashmilah has brought a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary, accused of abetting his kidnapping. In an in-depth and detailed interview from his home in Yemen, Bashmilah tell us his harrowing story. [includes rush transcript–partial]”

I’ve heard the WGA are working to create their own web startup: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-webwriters17dec17,1,1468676,full.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage

That sounds like an excellent idea!