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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:33 PM Original message |
Jay Leno brings donuts to striking writers, supports them on the picket lines |
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Bluzmann57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good for him |
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LibLover2813 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. Way to Go! |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Ack, my eyes are bleeding from that pun ;) n/t |
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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
27. Welcome to DU! |
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Annces (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. Very nice |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. Good for him! Tiny Fey is joining the picket line here at Rockefeller Center: |
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theoldman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. There is very little security in being a writer. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. Good for him. He's more than likely a member of SAG |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
8. Hell, why not? That's the least he could do. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. He could be on Grand Cayman vacationing right now, but he went to the picket lines |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
9. Nice but Jon Stewart still beats him by a mile |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. what did Stewart do? |
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Akoto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. He's paying his employees their salary while they strike. n/t |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. For two weeks. NT |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:11 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Thats a big donut indeed |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
32. Actually, Jon Stewart isn't paying them |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. Looks like that story's not true: |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
11. with them...he's not funny |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:51 PM Response to Reply #11 |
34. Really? I've seen quite a few Bush jokes |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 10:18 PM Response to Reply #34 |
49. Well , I stopped watching some years back (several years after Cllinton) |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-06-07 01:54 AM Response to Reply #49 |
51. Well, I watch it a few times a week |
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Elspeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
16. Good. I think this is helpful. And as a union member, I wish the writers luck |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. Another one of those damn California liberals |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:36 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. IF Jay is a damn California liberal I am a flaming rePIGlicker. Jay should cover their salaries |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:38 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I dunno. Do you think Jay can afford that? |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:48 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. He might have to scrim to get by on his $32 million / year How many $30K writers will that pay for? |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
20. Good for him at least he knows just how important they honestly are and how little |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
21. How do you survive on $30K in L.A.? |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:49 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Easy live in your mothers' basement and eat PBJ |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:55 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. There are no basements in California homes... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 10:05 PM Response to Reply #21 |
48. You share a house with 2 or 3 other 30K writers or you marry |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
25. My dad (a doctor) used to steal donuts from the physicians' lounge and bring |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 07:46 PM Response to Reply #25 |
43. I couldn't be in the union because I worked directly for the boss, but I gave sodas to the picketers |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
26. Jay Leno? Mr. Republican is helping a union? |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 06:23 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. Leno has stated before that he is a Democrat n/t |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 07:15 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. When did he become a Democrat? |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 08:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
44. Interview w/ LA weekly says he never was conservative |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 08:48 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. I remember a much different Leno during the Clinton years. |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 07:25 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. Jay Leno, "I'm not a republican" |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 07:26 PM Response to Reply #26 |
39. I remember him saying he is socially liberal and fiscally conservative. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 08:51 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. Very fiscally conservative, if I remember correctly. |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 07:26 PM Response to Reply #26 |
40. I remember him saying he is socially liberal and fiscally conservative. |
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Sabriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
28. He owns 100 cars and motorcycles but shows up with 3 dozen doughnuts? |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. You gave them a whole raisin? |
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Sabriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:26 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. A mouse had been at it, so.... n/t |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 05:50 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Considering the source? Three boxes of donuts is a grand gesture |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
36. If they are they ones who write his lameass material... |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
41. That's important too, that Leno was prepared to put his face on the topic lends allot... |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 07:36 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Here's her info from Newsmeat |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 11:17 PM Response to Reply #42 |
50. k... |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-05-07 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
45. So Where Are The Other Unions? |
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