Monday, January 30, 2012

Aren't you glad that at least one candidate has the guts to stand up to the striking writers?

These high paid "union people" make more in a week then the average guy does in a year and now they also want to shut down political debate! What a bunch of Hollywood privlaged jerks! This seals my vote for Huckabee! Screw those high payed pansy keyboard jockeys!



See: http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/

Aren't you glad that at least one candidate has the guts to stand up to the striking writers?
I really don't care about the striking writers. I don't know why any candidate is making that crap a priority. There are bigger things to worry about than late night tv. Vote Ron Paul.
Reply:For your information 42% of the writers guild is unemployed at any given time. They don't really make too much, being unemployed and all. They live of the residuals. And as for Huckabee, a) he didn't even stand up to the writers.The entire time he was crossing the picket line he kept throwing out lame excuses and saying he didn't know he was crossing a picket line. Also, he claims to support the writers. http://www.time.com/time/politics/articl...

and b) He claims that he didn't know he was crossing a picket line. The WGA called his lawyers well enough in advance that he could have canceled and explained to him that he would be crossing a picket line. So, to answer you're question, no, I'm really not too pleased.
Reply:But the heads of the studios make more in a week than the writers make in a year---a whole lot more. It just shows me that Huckabee is on the side of the big moneymakers. I thought he was a nice guy until he started talking about wives submitting to their husbands. I also thought it was tacky that he felt the need to break out the ol' bass guitar and show off. Not very presidential!



Obama in '08!
Reply:the union leaders will line their pockets until the union breaks. than they will slink off to the next victim.
Reply:I'm just glad the dozens of others who would have been laid off (camera operators, mic operators, makeup artists, wardrobe people, etc) are going back to work despite the writers' strike.
Reply:hold up hold up a god damn minute!!! these people create all the lines and do not reape the benefits for it... its like you workin at macdonalds makin cheeseburgers your whole life and knowing some fat guy is at home making the profit while your out their makin minimum wage, im a union rep and get payed 40 bux a hour to do my job if you dont like it kiss my ***!!!!!
Reply:I'm not sympathetic to the writers. I wish they would go the way of the air traffic controllers that Reagan fired.
Reply:IT would however when he was interviewed and asked about this yesterday he told reporters that the Tonight show had a special dispensation from the strike. That was incorrect only David Letterman got that dispensation. So it looks like his people aren't doing him any favors.
Reply:Not my cup of tea, but hey, its a free country, right?
Reply:I was hoping the rest of your question would say it was Huckabee!!! Yeah, I'm for him, he's a straight shooter but still "presidential" enough to make it.
Reply::) yes i am
Reply:Writers don't make that much. You're talking out of your ***.
Reply:I agree hopefully people soon will see why unions are bad and they make less jobs due to companies outsourcing to China and mexico. Thank goodness that I have Canadian pennies.
Reply:Huh? Make more in a week then the average guy?



Please please please get your head out of your a** and check your facts again ... and by the way, check your spelling as well. It is spelled "paid" !!!
Reply:You are misinformed on this issue. The average Hollywood writer makes about the same as a truck driver. Somewhere around 50 to 60k per year while those in front of the camera make millions getting laughs off their work. On the extreme side of course there are some highly paid people as in any industry and I don't have the link to prove it handy but some minor research will reveal what I have stated here as true.
Reply:As much mas I think this is insane, so are the many writers that write all the crazy strips for the shows, I like them. I don't like all the shows, but come on I'm not the only human being here. There is got to be other people with other sense of humor, Well I mean I'm not a funny guy, but I have a good sense of humor. Thank you writers, if it wasn't for you guys I wouldn't spill my guts laughing. How about a standing ovation for all the writers.
Reply:The writer's have every right to strike.



Their shows are being played on the Internet by their network.



They are not being paid a dollar extra for this even though the shows have commercials and rake in bucks for the networks.



That is what this strike is about.



Another thing . . . isn't it obvious Huckabee is pandering to the TV program watchers who miss their shows??? What could he actually do about this issue? Fire all T.V. writers like Reagan did with the air traffic controllers . . . wow, that would make for some fine viewing.
Reply:Well, those highly paid people are the Union 'higher ups', the higher ups on the other side of the strike are making more. The regular members that are going on strike (the people that the higher ups are defending) aren't really making that much at all.



I'm afraid I'll side with the Writers on this one, all they want is a percentage of whats rightfully theirs... Don't get me wrong, I don't like unions and the strike sucks pretty hard, but the writers are getting shafted at the moment.
Reply:I agree, when most unions go on strike, it is usually B.S.



But this time the union is right, they aren't asking for higher pay, they just want to get paid for the work they have done that Hollywood has found a new media with which to make billions more every year. The writers just want their cut, and they deserve to get it.



This will hurt Huckabee more then it will help.


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