The Big Lie About The Big Lie About The Employee Free Choice Act

It all started with an innocent-looking email, this one from the collective bargaining entity which represents me as a network television writer.  Along with the usual minutia there was a note requesting my support for the Employee Free Choice Act, a law which would allow employees to vote on unionizing while dispensing with some of the niceties we’ve come to associate with voting in this country— like, uh, the secret ballot.  Hence “free choice,” in the sense that it’s not free and it’s not your choice. 

Like most sentient, English-speaking people I oppose the EFCA because it would invite the browbeating of workers into unionizing whether they wanted it or not– which is why I suspect President Obama supports it.  I expressed these sentiments to the collective bargaining entity which represents me as a network television writer and before I knew it a lively exchange was underway between me and a self-described “union organizer”– which sounded suspiciously to me like “community organizer.”  That should have been my first clue. (more…)

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Tags: Employee Freedom of Choice Act, SAG, union, unionize, wga
Posted Mar 7th 2009 at 6:43 am in Entertainment, Political Humor | 7437893 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2009/03/07/the-big-lie-about-the-big-lie-about-the-employee-free-choice-act/The+Big+Lie+About+The+Big+Lie+About+The+Employee+Free+Choice+Act2009-03-07+14%3A43%3A51Ned+Rice

Californication

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Tags: California Budget, Taxpayer, Terminator: Salvation, union
Posted Feb 22nd 2009 at 10:03 am in Political Humor | 5705022 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cmuir/2009/02/22/californication/Californication2009-02-22+18%3A03%3A02Chris+Muir

Boycott George Clooney? How Un-American!

This recent attempt at a SAG Awards’ boycott of eight actors by some Hollywood members of the Screen Actors Guild got me thinking about an Oscar night from almost ten years ago when the Academy was honoring Elia Kazan with a lifetime achievement award.

I remember being on sets or in casting-session waiting rooms and getting into heated “discussions” with actors about The Red Scare Blacklist, and how we should “never forgive anyone who named names to save their own skin.” 

But Kazan only ever admitted to doing what he thought was right. But my actor friends, most of whom were born long after the period in question, and whose knowledge of The House Unamerican Activities Committee was usually limited to lectures from their favorite college professor, wouldn’t buy it. “Phooey,” they said. There was only one explanation: anyone who cooperated with HUAC was a coward motivated by ruthless career ambition. Anyone who refused to testify, however, did so only out of a high minded commitment to principles.

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Tags: academy awards, blacklist, Elia Kazan, HUAC, oscars
Posted Jan 10th 2009 at 4:06 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Video | 1430553 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tshillue/2009/01/10/how_unamerican/Boycott+George+Clooney%3F+How+Un-American%212009-01-11+00%3A06%3A10Tom+Shillue