Posted on 10/03/2008 8:43:15 AM PDT by tcrlaf
One of Barack Obama's staunchest supporters and prized campaigners and film biographers from the motion picture and television business has just been accused of union busting, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board.
Before the exposé, writer/actor/director/producer Tyler Perry invited the presidential candidate to the grand opening of his entertainment studio on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, this coming Saturday night. But if Obama attends he will be met by picket lines thrown up by the Writers Guild of America with support from other unions including the Teamsters, even though the latter union has officially endorsed the Democrat.
"This is just the first step. We've got a lot more planned," a WGA insider told me last night, indicating that the Perry picketing may widen to Time Warner's TBS and Warner Bros which broadcasts his hugely popular House Of Payne sitcom, and an upcoming TV spinoff of one of Perry's movie's Meet The Browns.
Perry is much more than just another Barack Obama supporter. He is a donor of the maximum $4,600 to the campaign. (In fact, he donated $6,900 but then took back $2,300 when it exceeded the limit.) He also has announced plans to make an Obama film. Perry told the press he is already writing, and plans to direct and produce as soon as late this year, a love story inspired by the relationship between Obama and his wife Michelle. (Perry has said he dreams of casting Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett in the lead roles.)
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Perry also has been stumping for Obama, most recently in the battleground state of Florida in front of faith-based groups because of his religiousness. The entertainment mogul and native Southerner spoke to several hundred people at the New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale Friday to encourage them to register and vote for Obama.
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A lawyer for Perry is claiming that the firings had nothing to do with contract negotations but was related to "the quality of their work". But the timing of the firings is especially suspicious since it comes just as House Of Payne was being syndicated (which is when the big money starts to roll in) and just when the writers were working on the development of Perry's new comedy premiering in January on TBS. Perry's lawyer admited that all the contract issues were pinned down except one -- residuals from repeats shown on broadcast TV stations. Those small residuals are vital to the financial security of showbiz writers. By contrast, Perry signed a $200 million 100-episode deal with TBS for the show. Besides residuals, Perry has refused to agree to a WGA contract that would give the writers health care benefits or pensions. On Tuesday of this week, Perry fired the writers, after warning them some weeks ago that they should “be careful about pushing the WGA deal or you could be replaced,” according to one of the axed scribes.
But then, if the media thinks being friends with Marxists, Socialists, Domestic Terrorists, Black Muslem Radicals, and criminals is no big deal for Obama, I don't this is going to be mentioned by them.
Why do I immediately think of Michelle Obama when seeing the ads for Tyler Perry’s “Diary of an angry black woman”?
Oh yeah, and Tyler Perry and his unabashed support of Obama and Michelle based on skin color makes him a racist. Not like we didn’t know that down here.
I don’t think a whole hell of a lot embarrasses libs they just stick to the lie and move along.
so true... and the actress really does look like Michelle in that movie... i hate the ending of that movie...
Jeez, I HATE it when I don’t know who to cheer against!
Colonel, USAFR
Everything to do with Barry is an embarrasment.
Perry also has been stumping for Obama, most recently in the battleground state of Florida in front of faith-based groups because of his religiousness. The entertainment mogul and native Southerner spoke to several hundred people at the New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale Friday to encourage them to register and vote for Obama. >>
So much for the tax exemption of that church...oh wait..it was for a Democrat.
And by the way...all of his movies SUCK. BAD. House of Payne is not “hugely successful” either. Far from it. It has never broken the Top 25 shows on cable...who are they kidding?
HH Rating
Viewers Live+SD (000)
1 WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE RAW) USA MONDAY 3.1 5,831
2 BURN NOTICE USA THURSDAY 3.4 5,385
3 SPRINT CUP RACING/CHICAGO TNT SATURDAY 3.2 5,129
4 IN PLAIN SIGHT USA SUNDAY 3.3 5,087
5 WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE RAW) USA MONDAY 2.8 5,059
6 LAW & ORDER: CI (ORIG) USA SUNDAY 3.2 4,899
7 ORIGINAL MOVIE: PICTURE THIS!) FAM SUNDAY 2.6 4,270
8 CAMP ROCK DSNY SUNDAY 2.6 4,056
9 SPONGEBOB NICK WEDNESDAY 2.5 3,978
10 MONSTERS, INC. DSNY MONDAY 2.2 3,864
11 SPONGEBOB NICK WEDNESDAY 2.4 3,831
12 LAW & ORDER: SVU USA SUNDAY 2.6 3,812
13 SPONGEBOB NICK SATURDAY 2.4 3,691
14 SPONGEBOB NICK SATURDAY 2.4 3,594
15 FAMILY GUY ADSM TUESDAY 2.3 3,560
16 ARMY WIVES LIF SUNDAY 2.6 3,549
17 SPONGEBOB NICK SATURDAY 2.2 3,526
18 FAMILY GUY ADSM WEDNESDAY 2.2 3,514
19 DEADLIEST CATCH DISC TUESDAY 2.1 3,460
20 SPONGEBOB NICK SATURDAY 2.2 3,443
Full Top 20 Cable Results for the week ending 07/20/2008:
Rank Shows NET DAY(S) Live+SD HH Rating Viewers Live+SD (000)
1 HOME RUN DERBY ESPN MONDAY 5.5 9,116
2 CLOSER, THE TNT MONDAY 5.2 7,809
3 HOME RUN DERBY PRE ESPN MONDAY 3.8 6,030
4 MONK USA FRIDAY 3.6 5,639
5 AVATAR: SOZINS COMET NICK SATURDAY 3.1 5,585
6 SAVING GRACE TNT MONDAY 3.5 5,156
7 PSYCH USA FRIDAY 3.0 4,890
8 BURN NOTICE USA THURSDAY 3.3 4,865
9 LAW & ORDER: CI (ORIG) USA SUNDAY 3.1 4,834
10 WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE RAW) USA MONDAY 2.8 4,789
11 WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE RAW) USA MONDAY 2.6 4,715
12 IN PLAIN SIGHT USA SUNDAY 3.2 4,688
13 AVATAR NICK FRIDAY 2.7 4,530
14 AVATAR NICK THURSDAY 2.5 4,230
15 AVATAR: BOILING ROCK NICK WEDNESDAY 2.4 3,971
16 LAW & ORDER: SVU USA SUNDAY 2.6 3,890
17 HANNAH MONTANA DSNY SUNDAY 2.5 3,797
18 SPONGEBOB NICK SUNDAY 2.4 3,748
19 WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE DSNY SUNDAY 2.5 3,693
20 ARMY WIVES LIF SUNDAY 2.6 3,653
Full Top 20 Cable Results for the week ending 09/28/2008:
Rank Shows NET DAY(S) Live+SD HH Rating Viewers Live+SD (000)
1 NFL REGULAR SEASON L (JETS/CHARGERS) ESPN MONDAY 7.5 11,881
2 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE(S)-09/26/2008 FOXNC FRIDAY 4.5 8,211
3 ON THE RECORD W/GRETA FOXNC FRIDAY 4.3 7,413
4 SR/PRES DEBATE 1 2008(S)-09/26/2008 CNN FRIDAY 4.2 7,140
5 COLL FTBALL-SAT PRIME L (ALABAMA/GEORGIA) ESPN SATURDAY 3.9 6,683
6 ANDERSON COOPER 360 CNN FRIDAY 3.8 6,502
7 COLL FTBALL-THUR NIGHT L (USC/OREGON STATE) ESPN THURSDAY 4.2 6,456
8 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE CVG(S)-09/26/2008 FOXNC FRIDAY 3.6 5,850
9 SUITE LIFE ON DECK DSNY FRIDAY 3.6 5,666
10 SUITE LIFE ON DECK DSNY SATURDAY 3.1 5,129
11 PRES ADDRESS/ANALYSIS(S)-09/24/2008 FOXNC WEDNESDAY 3.2 4,967
12 PRES ADDRESS - ECONOMY(S)-09/24/2008 FOXNC WEDNESDAY 3.2 4,808
13 WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE RAW) USA MONDAY 2.6 4,745
14 WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE RAW) USA MONDAY 2.6 4,737
15 PRES DEBATE/ANALYSIS(S)-09/26/2008 FOXNC FRIDAY 2.9 4,654
16 SUITE LIFE ON DECK DSNY SUNDAY 3.0 4,538
17 THE OREILLY FACTOR FOXNC FRIDAY 2.9 4,531
18 SUITE LIFE ON DECK DSNY SUNDAY 3.0 4,486
19 SPONGEBOB NICK SATURDAY 3.0 4,429
20 THE OREILLY FACTOR FOXNC THURSDAY 2.9 4,313
white or black, nobody wants to be extorted by some group of people they have never met or gotten any benefit from.
It’s just funnier when the union mobsters go after one of their own ‘supporters’ instead of a Republican.
Next, somebody is going to accuse Tyler Perry of being a Republican!!!! He’s making lots of money and we wants to keep it? He doesn’t want some outside group telling him what he should be paying his employees? Sounds like a Republican.
(Disclaimer: I have no idea whether Tyler is being honest, dishonest, an a-hole or anything else about this matter. He could be the worlds biggest dictator on the set for all I know but I do not reflexively believe anything I read in the media when it fits the liberal template of accusations)
I love Perry movies. I am very disappointed that he in for Obama. I gave him more credit, I guess for seeing beyond the BS. He may wake up too late.
O & Perry both claim to be Christians. Should someone break out a Bible and start reading aloud they and their minions would scatter and flee like roaches w/ lights on..
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