Comments on: As Late Night Returns, Who Will Stand with the Writers? http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:32:41 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Michael Whitney http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177735 Michael Whitney Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:55:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177735 <p>Thanks Christy - it’s good to bring more attention to this ongoing strike. It is the most prominent labor struggle in a long, long time, and more than ever before cable news and other high-profile media outlets are showing the power of unions.</p> <p>This is really about the future of unions in America - let’s do all we can to stand by the writers.</p> Thanks Christy – it’s good to bring more attention to this ongoing strike. It is the most prominent labor struggle in a long, long time, and more than ever before cable news and other high-profile media outlets are showing the power of unions.

This is really about the future of unions in America – let’s do all we can to stand by the writers.

]]> By: Michael Whitney http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177732 Michael Whitney Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:53:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177732 <p>For those who don’t like Leno’s standup, you should at least give him props for consistently standing up for workers and taking on union busters. </p> <p>A couple of years ago, Leno <a href="http://www.ibew1613.org/library/leno.html" rel="nofollow">refused to perform</a> at an event because for-profit unionbuster Jackson Lewis offered “How To Stay Union Free” seminars, at $1500 a pop.</p> <p>Learn more about <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/for-profit-union-busters/jackson-lewis.html" rel="nofollow">Jackson Lewis</a> here, and about other <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/home/" rel="nofollow">anti-union</a> figures here.</p> For those who don’t like Leno’s standup, you should at least give him props for consistently standing up for workers and taking on union busters.

A couple of years ago, Leno refused to perform at an event because for-profit unionbuster Jackson Lewis offered “How To Stay Union Free” seminars, at $1500 a pop.

Learn more about Jackson Lewis here, and about other anti-union figures here.

]]> By: PetePierce http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177666 PetePierce Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:26:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177666 <blockquote><p>The rich will always have a way to keep their kids safe. </p></blockquote> <p>LOL. This is funny.</p> <p><em>What defines the rich? How rich? Are you educated and articulate? Nuanced? Well read? Rich? How rich is rich?</em></p> <p>What are the ways the rich will always have to keep their kids safe? I’ve seen a lot of very rich (money wise if that’s the definition) people bury their kids and war wasn’t in the dynamic at all. Parenting was a compelling coefficient though.</p>

The rich will always have a way to keep their kids safe.

LOL. This is funny.

What defines the rich? How rich? Are you educated and articulate? Nuanced? Well read? Rich? How rich is rich?

What are the ways the rich will always have to keep their kids safe? I’ve seen a lot of very rich (money wise if that’s the definition) people bury their kids and war wasn’t in the dynamic at all. Parenting was a compelling coefficient though.

]]> By: PetePierce http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177662 PetePierce Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:23:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177662 <p><strong>Only a Draft Will Stop the Fiasco in Iraq on a Dime; Nothing or No One Else will for years and years.</strong></p> <blockquote><p>You will draft my child only after you have killed me. Simple as that. The rich will always have a way to keep their kids safe. So you want mine? Come and get her.</p></blockquote> <p>Spoken exactly like Hillary Rodham Clinton. <em>Le Chelsea </em> ain’t goin’ either. Daddy got her a job in an investment house.</p> <p>I take it you don’t believe in sharing the Nation’s “war,” then. You believe in the shopping part of Dr. Bush’s prescription on how to fight a war. Go out and shop for more Blahnicks and oil guzzlers–the Nancy Pelosi way of Pelosing the war for other peoples’ kids to die. The blowing up is on your TV only, right?</p> <p><strong>You buck ass missed my point msuana. Did I mention you flat out missed my point?</strong></p> <p><em>The only way that this Iraq fiasco will stop on a dime is the day a draft is instituted. Otherwise Christy can Christy, Jane can Jane, Eli can Eli, Teddy can San Fran, and etc. And I appreciate how hard they work and how articulate they are. But nothing they do or write is stopping Iraq. Nothing and none of their Congress people and Senators are doing a damn thing to stop it. Ever.</em></p> <p>But whatever is written here Iraq is going to continue full steam ahead. <strong>For Years.</strong> No one can send anyone to the House and Senate that will stop it.</p> <p>Edwards can Edwards, HRC can HRC (hopefully for not much longer however–I want her off the TV screens and out of the race) and Obama can Obama. Iraq will continue and continue regardless and only a draft will stop it.</p> <p>My point is, and I’m spelling it out that Iraq is going to continue to fill Dover coffins. I want that stopped, and a draft would do that immediately. Because then the horror of a suddenly dead family member in the prime of life becomes real and not a TV drama which has receeded into the Ho Hum of the Main Stream Media.</p> <p>The surge isn’t “working” worth a shit; but since the media believes it is, and most dumbasses on the street think it is, Iraq is pretty much off the news media coverage for a good while, even though some of the biggest bombings happened within the last 48 hours.</p> <p>I don’t want your daughter harmed or even inconvenienced by a stupid fiasco that never should have happened and I was always against, and I’m not the one coming after her. </p> <p>I grew up with a draft, and we didn’t have a choice. We didn’t have daddys and mommys fix things for us like true chickenhawks, and plenty of us had very educated capable mommies and daddys. We didn’t perceive of hired help to get to the Dover coffins, but we also had real wars, not this jerkoff stuff that Cheney and Bush and the horrendous Condi Blahnik Rice have been pulling.</p> <p>That’d be Bush, Cheney, Addington, Fielding, and Gillespie. They’ve screwed your daughter out of their constitutional rights and protections, and by the way you too as apathetic America ho hummed and grooved on Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby.</p> Only a Draft Will Stop the Fiasco in Iraq on a Dime; Nothing or No One Else will for years and years.

You will draft my child only after you have killed me. Simple as that. The rich will always have a way to keep their kids safe. So you want mine? Come and get her.

Spoken exactly like Hillary Rodham Clinton. Le Chelsea ain’t goin’ either. Daddy got her a job in an investment house.

I take it you don’t believe in sharing the Nation’s “war,” then. You believe in the shopping part of Dr. Bush’s prescription on how to fight a war. Go out and shop for more Blahnicks and oil guzzlers–the Nancy Pelosi way of Pelosing the war for other peoples’ kids to die. The blowing up is on your TV only, right?

You buck ass missed my point msuana. Did I mention you flat out missed my point?

The only way that this Iraq fiasco will stop on a dime is the day a draft is instituted. Otherwise Christy can Christy, Jane can Jane, Eli can Eli, Teddy can San Fran, and etc. And I appreciate how hard they work and how articulate they are. But nothing they do or write is stopping Iraq. Nothing and none of their Congress people and Senators are doing a damn thing to stop it. Ever.

But whatever is written here Iraq is going to continue full steam ahead. For Years. No one can send anyone to the House and Senate that will stop it.

Edwards can Edwards, HRC can HRC (hopefully for not much longer however–I want her off the TV screens and out of the race) and Obama can Obama. Iraq will continue and continue regardless and only a draft will stop it.

My point is, and I’m spelling it out that Iraq is going to continue to fill Dover coffins. I want that stopped, and a draft would do that immediately. Because then the horror of a suddenly dead family member in the prime of life becomes real and not a TV drama which has receeded into the Ho Hum of the Main Stream Media.

The surge isn’t “working” worth a shit; but since the media believes it is, and most dumbasses on the street think it is, Iraq is pretty much off the news media coverage for a good while, even though some of the biggest bombings happened within the last 48 hours.

I don’t want your daughter harmed or even inconvenienced by a stupid fiasco that never should have happened and I was always against, and I’m not the one coming after her.

I grew up with a draft, and we didn’t have a choice. We didn’t have daddys and mommys fix things for us like true chickenhawks, and plenty of us had very educated capable mommies and daddys. We didn’t perceive of hired help to get to the Dover coffins, but we also had real wars, not this jerkoff stuff that Cheney and Bush and the horrendous Condi Blahnik Rice have been pulling.

That’d be Bush, Cheney, Addington, Fielding, and Gillespie. They’ve screwed your daughter out of their constitutional rights and protections, and by the way you too as apathetic America ho hummed and grooved on Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby.

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177627 Elliott Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:02:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177627 <p>Thank you Michael</p> Thank you Michael

]]> By: newspaperbrat http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177626 newspaperbrat Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:02:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177626 <p>Keith Obermanm’s leading off with Iowa caucus followed by CIA Criminal investigation.</p> Keith Obermanm’s leading off with Iowa caucus followed by CIA Criminal investigation.

]]> By: solai http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177625 solai Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:00:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177625 <p>Ooops. I see that The Daily Show doesn’t return until next week. Guess I’ll get an extra half hour of sleep.</p> Ooops. I see that The Daily Show doesn’t return until next week. Guess I’ll get an extra half hour of sleep.

]]> By: TeddySanFran http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177624 TeddySanFran Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:58:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177624 <p>Thank you, Michael, for this great post. Looking to folks with a platform to use it tonight, just as you propose.</p> Thank you, Michael, for this great post. Looking to folks with a platform to use it tonight, just as you propose.

]]> By: sadlyyes http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177622 sadlyyes Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:55:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177622 <p>tiresome, the know-nothings</p> tiresome, the know-nothings

]]> By: newspaperbrat http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177621 newspaperbrat Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:53:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/as-late-night-returns-who-will-stand-with-the-writers/#comment-1177621 <p>Watching Chris Noballs & Nora Nattering on MSNBC and hoping he retires sooner than later - or is yanked off the air when this election cycle is over at the latest.</p> Watching Chris Noballs & Nora Nattering on MSNBC and hoping he retires sooner than later – or is yanked off the air when this election cycle is over at the latest.

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