Seriously, Ben Silverman, if you had called me up and auditioned 100 possible things you were planning on saying to the press regarding the writers' strike, I think this would have been the one I would have put at the bottom of the list. It's the one about which I would have said, "If you say this, you will never be able to say anything useful during the course of the strike, and in ten years, people will still remember you for saying this, and they will still be angry."

Let me tell you something, Networks McGee. You have American Gladiators, and you have Deal Or No Deal, but you have no network without writers. There is absolutely a zero percent chance that you will eventually decide to run your network without writers. Your chances of going on without them are nonexistent. You don't get the best work out of creative people by treating them like their work is worth nothing -- how hard is that to understand?

Honestly. You're going to work with these people again. You can't not. Dude, you got here from The Office and Ugly Betty; what's the problem? Writers. WRI-TERS. What are you thinking?