Ellen Degeneres has been crossing the picket line during the ongoing Writer's Guild of America strike. Her peeps aren't thrilled by this. Ellen did skip a monologue on her show, and pledge her allegiance with the writers. But still - she had a show. The WGA released a statement complaining that she seems to care more about canines than her writers. Well, yeah, she's a lesbian. They're distrustful of men and like pets!
In a statement released by the Writers Guild of America, East, union leadership says they are "extremely disappointed to see that Ellen has chosen not to stand with writers during the strike."
the writers say, "We find it sad that Ellen spent an entire week crying and fighting for a dog that she gave away, yet she couldn't even stand by writers for more than one day - writers who have helped make her extremely successful."
They've got a point. Ellen seemed pretty invulnerable up until this time. It seemed like her status as America's Boyish Sweetheart was pretty cast-iron. But, the one-two punch of the weeping dog scandal and now this? Nobody's perfect, I guess. Roseanne had some words for Ellen over on her blog. Keep reading.
Photos: Flynet Onilne
More photos (Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gary Marshall, Norman Lear, Ray Ramano, Tom Arnold) of the celebs supporting the WGA Strike are after the jump.
"Hey, Ellen, you're a writer, you should strike," Barr wrote yesterday on her Roseanneworld.com. "Everyone has a contract, not just you, that's the point hun! Support every pro union thing in this country while we still can!"Well, at least she didn't rank on the dog scandal. I'm guessing that we're gonna see Ellen changing her mind and shutting down her show next week. You don't want to cross a picket line or get involved with striking people. When J. Harvey was a tyke, he was an intern at a suburban newspaper and he had to cover striking union workers at a demonstration. And there were police dogs and pepper spray. And the union just didn't give a f*ck! J. Harvey got caught in a pepper spray cloud! That stuff sucks! Granted these were electricians and tin knockers. The writers are probably more prone to giving forbidding looks over their lattes, but still unions are nothing to trifle with!
Photos: Flynet Onilne
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