Ron Paul Crosses Writers’ Picket Line

[Breckinridge Elkins]

by Seth Michaels, Dec 5, 2007

Who’s sticking up for striking writers? Not presidential candidate Ron Paul, the Republican congressman from Texas.



Paul became the first presidential candidate to cross the picket line of the Writers Guild yesterday when he appeared on ABC’s “The View.”



The television writers have been on strike since Nov. 5, seeking a fair share of revenue from online broadcasts, DVDs and other electronic formats. The union returned to the bargaining table yesterday in the continuing effort to achieve a fair contract. While so far no other Republican candidate has crossed a picket line, none has made a significant effort to support striking workers this year.



Other 2008 presidential candidates have taken a different approach: They’ve honored the writers’ picket line, and some have walked with workers on strike. Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) and his wife Elizabeth canceled appearances on “The View” to honor the picket line, as did Michelle Obama, wife of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was scheduled to appear on the show today. The Democratic National Committee last week announced it would cancel a planned Dec. 10 debate due to a potential strike by ABC News writers and staff. Both Obama and John Edwards marched alongside striking hotel workers in Chicago earlier this year, and all Democratic candidates except Mike Gravel issued statements in support of the 73,000 striking workers at General Motors in September.

This year, Paul voted against the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for workers to exercise their freedom to form a union.

All major Democratic presidential candidates support the Employee Free Choice Act, while the Republican candidates have either voted against it, expressed opposition to it or not taken a position.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/12/05/ron-paul-crosses-writers-picket-line/

[Randall McMurphy]

What a gift! Thank you AFL/CIO!

[il ragno]

Who’s sticking up for striking writers? Not presidential candidate Ron Paul, the Republican congressman from Texas.

Paul became the first presidential candidate to cross the picket line of the Writers Guild yesterday when he appeared on ABC’s “The View.”

Thank Gawd.

Somebody needs to forcibly remind America that Hollywood scriptwriters - like major league baseball players - do not credibly represent "labor" in any way shape or form.

Possibly the reason so many are confused is that, more and more often, the only unions that have been left standing at all are these kinds of Millionaires' Guilds.

Other 2008 presidential candidates have taken a different approach: They’ve honored the writers’ picket line

"Honor the picket line"? Are you frickin' high? You lot are lucky Bull Connor's fire-hose ain't handy....

[Eddy]

Lol, you guys gotta watch this video -

San Francisco Straw Poll Canceled After Paul Supporters Stream In (http://kpix.cbslocal.com/services/popoff.aspx?categoryId=127&videoId=29102@kpix.dayport.com&videoPlayStatus=true&videoStoryIds=29102@kpix.dayport.com&videoTime=1.645&)

[Breckinridge Elkins]

Lol, you guys gotta watch this video -

San Francisco Straw Poll Canceled After Paul Supporters Stream In (http://kpix.cbslocal.com/services/popoff.aspx?categoryId=127&videoId=29102@kpix.dayport.com&videoPlayStatus=true&videoStoryIds=29102@kpix.dayport.com&videoTime=1.645&)

I actually saw a similar sight at the Springfield, Missouri Straw Poll.

Fortunately, the Romney-supporters behaved like gentlemen and didn't try to weasel out by canceling the poll.

[Eddy]

Those ten internet hackers sure do get around!

[Winston]

Possibly the reason so many are confused is that, more and more often, the only unions that have been left standing at all are these kinds of Millionaires' Guilds.


Most writers are far from millionaires. They might not elicit the same kind of sympathy from you as actual labour, but they deserve a cut of the money that is, after all, making a lot of Jews very rich. Okay, so lots of writers are yids too, but do you side with the Jew-saturated upper levels over them?

[Breckinridge Elkins]

Most writers are far from millionaires. They might not elicit the same kind of sympathy from you as actual labour, but they deserve a cut of the money that is, after all, making a lot of Jews very rich. Okay, so lots of writers are yids too, but do you side with the Jew-saturated upper levels over them?

In the first place, most of these writers are Jews.

In the second place, all they make is a measely $250 K per year. Yeah, real far from being millionaires.

In the third, they write unadultered trash.

In the fourth, I would put these writers in concentration camps, if I were running the world. It's not about anti-semitism, its about suppressing bullshit.

[il ragno]

You're proving my point, kinda.

Most writers are far from millionaires.

While this is unquestionably true, surely the highest-paying echelon of scribehood (for what is often the lowest-quality work) is reserved for those toiling under the aegis of the Screen Writers' Guild.

Okay, so lots of writers are yids too, but do you side with the Jew-saturated upper levels over them?

Well, in the old days, the Head Jew would be a crass vulgarian ex-furrier or junk dealer, who came waddling down the gangplank to America straight from the shtetl so bone-deep afraid of triggering what he saw as The Inevitable Pogrom that he would sublimate all overt Jewishness in the product so as not to bring down the wrath of the very people making him as rich as Midas; and the Writer Jews weren't just commiesymps but actual dues-paying Reds, content to Gramsci their way along - an inch here, an inch there, but never retreating, always creeping forward -until HUAC dropped the hammer. (I'd like to say "inevitably dropped the hammer", but there hasn't been enough collective willpower on the Right in 25 years or more to sustain a HUAC today.)

Now it's a little different. Both the Head Jew and the Hive Jew are likely to be third, fourth, even fifth-generation "white", raised not just in affluence but in the same sort of cocoon of privilege that the hated WASPs (who the Jews first envied, then subverted, then deracinated and, finally, replaced) once did. Both are likely to define their Jewishness by an ethos of group victimization they personally wouldn't experience in ten lifetimes, let alone the cushy one they're actually living. They both are likely to have internalized other defining Jewish identity-markers as well. In other words, they're much more likely to be the same person, except for rank and seniority differences, than the Executive and the Screenwriter of 50 years ago. Thus, equally poisonous to the nation at large.

So from that viewpoint, yeah, I stand against the writers here. If you're looking at ten interchangable tikkun-olam hebes, all of whom with the effrontery to think reshaping America to their private specifications is their fuckin' birthright, and you're faced with a choice of starving one, or starving the other nine - considering they're pretty much all the same Jew, you gotta go for the numbers.

[Winston]

Right. You got me convinced, one ragno post often all it takes. Fuck those hacks.

[Jaybird]

You mean to tell me someone actually writes the crap they say on The View?

[ZOG]

You mean to tell me someone actually writes the crap they say on The View?

Dear god...

[The Exorcist]

Most writers are far from millionaires. They might not elicit the same kind of sympathy from you as actual labour, but they deserve a cut of the money that is, after all, making a lot of Jews very rich. Okay, so lots of writers are yids too, but do you side with the Jew-saturated upper levels over them?

Yea, but you're talking about REAL writers. The Walt Whitmans, the Orson Scott Cards, etc of the world.

We're talking about writers that make a shit load of money writing for films and sitcoms. Don't get me wrong though, some of these writers are geniuses and have written some of the best damn work to ever come out of a studio office.

As Pseudo's post of Network shows:

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[ZOG]

Most writers are far from millionaires. They might not elicit the same kind of sympathy from you as actual labour, but they deserve a cut of the money that is, after all

More so then the CEO of Viacom who got a 700 million dollar severence...

[Breckinridge Elkins]

Otto, I'm out of touch, but I assume ASIP is still running since those guys write their own material?

[il ragno]

More so then the CEO of Viacom who got a 700 million dollar severence...


As though giving the catamites and bottom-feeders who write WILL & GRACE and CSI MIAMI more money and sweetheart clauses is going to, in any way, affect that 700 mill.

Here's how it works: the minute that CEO is faced with a 500M golden parachute instead of 700, the decision will be made then and there to raise your cable bill.

This is why school shooters and mall psychos like Cho and Hawkins are so deeply troubling. Since you're gonna take yourself out anyway, why not fly out to LA first, take the Universal Studios tour, visit the Walk of Fame and then open fire on the lunch crowd at Musso and Frank's? Why kill innocent math teachers and gift-shop clerks - when you could be peppering Jerry Bruckheimer and Joe Eszterhas with large-caliber entry wounds, thus dying a patriot?

[ZOG]

As though giving the catamites and bottom-feeders who write WILL & GRACE and CSI MIAMI more money and sweetheart clauses is going to, in any way, affect that 700 mill.

Here's how it works: the minute that CEO is faced with a 500M golden parachute instead of 700, the decision will be made then and there to raise your cable bill.

This is why school shooters and mall psychos like Cho and Hawkins are so deeply troubling. Since you're gonna take yourself out anyway, why not fly out to LA first, take the Universal Studios tour, visit the Walk of Fame and then open fire on the lunch crowd at Musso and Frank's? Why kill innocent math teachers and gift-shop clerks - when you could be peppering Jerry Bruckheimer and Joe Eszterhas with large-caliber entry wounds, thus dying a patriot?

Cable has got to compete with satellites now.

The way god's sense of humour works is the ones they'll kill will all be from one of the few good shows.

Gunman kills all the writers for the Office and Its Always Sunny in Philidelphia

Im normally very unsympathetic to organized labor (and with civil service unions I think it should be met with threats and executions) but when a CEO who fucked up (its not like he was the owner) gets more for the year then all the writers share of the DVDs put together I have some sympathy. If I were running for president I'd do what Paul did though.

[il ragno]

Im normally very unsympathetic to organized labor, but when a CEO who fucked up (its not like he was the owner) gets more for the year then all the writers share of the DVDs put together I have some sympathy.

"Ordinarily if a guy's working for a living, trying to raise a family, I'm against him getting a living wage and health-care. Fuck him, I can replace him tomorrow with an overqualified gook who'll work for bus fare and thank me for it after.

"But I dunno....when it's guys who wear those Peter Bogdanovich fag-ascots and eat at Spago's, and make sure to write in a no-neck white racist villain to offset the interracial love scene already in his teleplay....I dunno....how do you not root for that guy? I mean, I'm still a human being, goddamit - I'm not some kind of monster."

Way to go, Weikel. Every time I'm about ready to quit huffing glue once and for all, you inadvertantly talk me out of it just in the nick of time.

[Beethoven Jones]

http://www.tvguide.com/movies/dbpix/images/34739a.jpg

I've got horse-sense, goddamnit. Showmanship. And also, and I hope Lou told you this, I'm bigger and meaner than any other kike in this town. Did you tell him that, Lou? And I don't mean my dick's bigger than yours, it's not a sexual thing - although, you're the writer, you would know more about that. Coffee?

[O'Zebedee]

+ 1 Barton Fink reference.

[bociek]

I'm a writer, you monsters! I create! I create for a living! I'm a creator! I am a creator!
[points to his head]
This is my uniform!

[ZOG]

[I]"Ordinarily if a guy's working for a living, trying to raise a family, I'm against him getting a living wage and health-care.

Im against easily replacable parts making 90 grand a year because they resorted to extortion under 30's era fedgov protections. Especially if they work for the government. Thats the big problem with New England. The government unions suck everything dry.

Boston cops make more then most fucking doctors around here.

I think if you write a whole successful movie though, you probably should get something for it. Especially since you probably worked on it and tried to get it made during your time off from your 3 resteraunt/bar jobs...

My point is its a talent and to get into it (unless your born into it) takes a lot more effort and balls then just punching a clock.

[O'Zebedee]

I think if you write a whole successful movie though, you probably should get something for it.

You, ah, seen most Hollywood movies these days?

[ZOG]

You, ah, seen most Hollywood movies these days?

Last one I saw was No Country For Old Men.

Great great movie except for the end, which kinda sucked. One loose end is okay... but they left too many.