I realize that my contention may not be all that feasible to many, but you tell me that the result of what's been pulled off the air and what's been left doesn't make us all a little less capable of making smart decisions.
Don't be surprised if the strike lasts until the last voter is disenfranchised on November 4, 2008. How else would you keep a Republican in the White House?
DISCLAIMER: Of couse, I may be completely off base and a prolonged strike is not a deliberate Right-wing criminal effort by the Producers. But keeping the voice of the dissenters silent...that is a crime. And for that, the well-healed producers and their corporations are seriously culpable.
Steve Young is an award-winning WGA TV writer, a Harper Collins published author and his weekly LA Daily News column appears in the same oped on as Bill O'Reilly's. He has also never been employed on staff at either The Daily Show or Real Time and isn't at all happy with their hiring practices.
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