Yo, Ted:
I love your comics, but I must take exception to your latest and its call for violence against Jon Stewart. I posted the following to your blog, but I haven’t seen it yet:
How does the advocacy of violence against Stewart and Colbert aid the WGA? Both are WGA members and member of AFTRA - What would you have? 400 jobs lost or the two on the air to keep their crews together? Judging by your “call” to “holy struggle” you would prefer to have a few hundred people out on their asses adding to the misery of the strike. And, where is your vitriol for the AMPTP? THEY walked out of the negotiations after offering a mere $230 for streaming and downloads. Where is your “Jihad” against them?Oh, yeah your paychecks just happened to be signed by…
AFTRA has a no strike clause. Comedy Central has an AFTRA Contract. both are in an untenable position. but yet, you call them out for being placed in such a position by the AMPTP. whose ass is the sweetest? Viacom, Disney or News Corps.? You are nothing more than a lackey of major media, to be confounded by traffic to take on those who NEED to be taken on - the AMPTP.
Indeed, In all of your scathing illustrations, I have yet to see you go after the Media Corporations, that by their intransigence, are the cause of this work stoppage. Not Stewart or Colbert. nor Jay Leno of Jimmy Kimmel. the AMPTP. You sir, are a base and vile coward. To chickenshit to, unlike Colbert and Stewart, to bite the hand that feeds. Tell me , Ted, what will you feel like should someone decide to emulate the Union goons and beat Mr. Stewart. Will it make you feel good, that your “Holy struggle” against these two has resulted in a good hide tanning? Will you stand up and defend the assailants as being good little jihadists? After all, they will be martyrs to your “holy cause”.
UPDATE: My comment, above has been approved and is posted over at Rall’s Blog “Search and Destroy”. However, he has chosen to not respond to my comments over at the Daily Show News blog. Now, does that make him smart or a coward? I still think a coward in that he, at this moment, as of this update, not responding.
Not bad…it starts out really strongly. It seems like it kind of falls into a pattern of rhetorical questions and figurative language, which kind of takes away from the strength of the ending. But overall, not bad.
Comment by Nicole — January 19, 2008 @ 7:06 am
“whose ass is the sweetest? Viacom, Disney or News Corps.?” ALL OF THE ABOVE…
Love the comment… and your blog
Comment by Enza — January 19, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
do your parents know you’re gay?
Please read up on the situation, we’ve been following it closely for the past 11 weeks. All of us at the colbert nation support the writers whole-heartedly, and based on any and all evidence, returning to the air, sans writers, is the best course of action for EVERYONE, writers included.
Comment by aegisknight — January 19, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
aegis, I trust your comment is for ted and not your own MadMoll…
Comment by Cheap Laugh — February 3, 2008 @ 6:37 am