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Some will go to parades today. Some to memorials.
Bob Coburn will do something else for Veterans Day. Something that takes him back 62 years to the invasion of Saipan and what he saw from his gunboat that day.
"I'll tell you one thing," he says. "Before that, I used to look at the sunset when we were at sea. It was beautiful. And the stars at night were beautiful. Everything was beautiful. You go through a couple of those landings, and everything is ugly."
Orders to take the beach came just before 6 a.m. Two hours later, the 18-year-old Navy gunner's mate found himself at the front of an enormous line of craft carrying the first 8,000 Marines into battle.
Bullets pinged off his gunboat, a converted landing craft that could fire 500 rockets in 4 1/2 seconds. More whizzed past his ears as he stood on the bow at his 40-millimeter gun mount.
"Nothing was in front of us except the beach and Japanese," he says. "Our purpose was to lead the first wave in, lay down armament and get out."
The tide, however, was too low. Coburn's gunboat couldn't get close enough to launch its rockets over the beach. And the landing craft couldn't land, so the Marines had to wade in with little cover.
"I tell you, it was mass murder," says Coburn, 81, of Fullerton. "It was like a shooting gallery, but the Marines didn't stop. They just kept going. Those Marines won my respect that day."
Coburn felt lucky he didn't have to wade ashore. But over the next 10 months, the young gunner's mate would see five more beach invasions.
Each time from the bow of the first boat in.LARGE, SLOW TARGETS
You don't hear much about these guys who call themselves the Amphibious Elders.
They didn't fly planes, drive tanks or throw grenades at the Battle of the Bulge. They were sailors, but you don't even hear much about their ships - troop and supply transports called APAs, LCTs, LCIs and LSTs.
"Large, Slow Target," jokes one of about 20 men who meet monthly for equal parts fellowship, therapy and lunch.
It actually stood for "Landing Ship, Tank" - a 328-foot ship that could cross the ocean, open its bow and unload men and supplies - including tanks - for attack on any shore.
"No other ship ever built could do that," says Bob "Stretch" Brandt, who formed this group of veterans six years ago.
Brandt, 84, of Mission Viejo was blown off the bridge of LST 309 during the invasion of Salerno, Italy. He picked up body parts off Normandy, France, on D-Day. And he withstood 83 straight nights of German bombing in Tunisia.
Member Howard Bender, 85, of Mission Viejo was alongside the attack transport USS John Penn at Guadalcanal when a torpedo sank it.
"It had aviation gas on deck and ammo in its hold," he says, just like his own attack transport, the USS Crescent City. "It went down in about 2 1/2 minutes. That's the kind of fighting we did."
Some of the guys belong to other groups, too - Pearl Harbor Survivors, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. But nowhere else do they find others who went through exactly what they did. Who understand.
Like when Coburn recounts getting lost on Japanese-occupied Guam, one week before the U.S. invasion, and draws a round of laughter. Not because of what he faced in the dark that night, but how he ended up there.ADJUST OR GO NUTS
It was pitch-black and dead quiet when he got turned around on some far-flung hill.
Bob Coburn was gun support - this time on foot - for a four-man Navy demolition team. They got dropped off about 10 p.m. near Apra Harbor, at one of two beachheads that about 55,000 U.S. troops were preparing to take.
After scouting the beach and two hills together, the team disappeared.
"I couldn't hear anything," Coburn says. "I couldn't see much. And I didn't know where I was."
How did he get there?
"I volunteered," he says, drawing gales of you-should-know-better laughs from his amphibious buddies.
According to the group's "co-skipper," K.C. Hicks, 81, of San Clemente, the men often share stories they've never told anyone else. But they laugh a lot, too.
"We get together in fellowship and camaraderie," he says. "We've been wanting to tell these stories for years. And at our age, we don't have a lot of time left!"
Coburn admits he was young and idealistic to volunteer - but the skipper needed someone. So he raised his hand.
Just 18, he'd already faced death twice: once at Saipan and again when a torpedo struck a gunboat in his flotilla, killing about 20 men he knew.
"We went alongside and took off the survivors and wounded," he says. "Two died that night, and we buried them at sea."
You adjust or you go nuts, he says. So on that hill in Guam, he adjusted. He hiked down, found the beach and even found the pickup spot. But too late.
He'd have to spend the night and next day, hoping they'd return to pick him up.LUCKY
Coburn found a rock breakwater at one end of the harbor and walked to the end with his 30-caliber carbine.
If he had to make a last stand, it was as good a spot as any. He hid in the rocks all night. Dozing. Waking. Dozing. Into the next day, without food or water.
"I didn't know if the team was coming back or if the battlewagons were going to start bombing," he says.
Late the next night, an inflatable raft moved in.
"I jumped up and started hollering," says Coburn, who still keeps the commendation he received for volunteering in his den. "I'll tell you, when I crawled on that ship, it felt like I was home."
But he wasn't.
The next week, his 158-foot gunboat - the LCI-G 472, with a crew of 33 - led the beach invasion of Guam. Then, three months later, the invasion of Leyte, followed by the invasions of Luzon, Kerama Retto and Okinawa Jima.
The worst, though, was Saipan.
"I've never seen anything as bad as that," he says. "The tide was red with blood."
That's what he'll remember as he raises his flag and kisses his wife today. That's why he'll stick close to home - to appreciate the life he's been given.
"It wasn't only the screaming of guys being shot," he says. "It was everything. It sticks in your memory. Those guys were there, and now they're gone. It's a feeling of, gosh, I'm so lucky that I'm here and I have a wife and we have a son and we have a house and everything around it."
"I thank God I made it through, you know? That's the feeling I have."
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Skip to comments.Our Stained, Muzzled Military
Posted on 05/10/2013 4:15:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is hard to point to one thing as the worst element of the current scandal over the Benghazi cover-up. But theres something that belongs on the list that has not been mentioned enough.
Obviously, it is a consuming matter to absorb the deaths of four Americans and a subsequent campaign of deceit designed to protect those in power now and those who may seek it later.
But politicians have a long history of lying to protect themselves. What is different here, and disturbing to a whole new level, is the capacity of this administration to plow well beyond its own corruption to corrupt others.
There is no more distressing victim of this phenomenon than the hierarchy and culture of the United States military.
This White House has very little use for our men and women in uniform, and no proper instinct for the respect they deserve.
They become useful props when its time to crow again about the killing of Osama bin Laden, but the war that made that possible is a cancer the Obama team is radiating into obscurity, as we cut and run from Afghanistan, Iraq and every theater where we had a chance to boost democracy with our stabilizing presence.
There is little doubt that the Benghazi terrorists were energized by this American surrender. Does anyone believe they would have pulled this off if we had maintained a strong presence throughout the Middle East?
But even with our Obama-depleted ranks in the region, we now know we could have mounted some response to minimize the damage done by the Benghazi terrorists.
But those response teams were told to stand down. Reaction throughout the ranks apparently ranged from fury to disbelief.
Both are warranted, among our armed forces and across the American landscape. How in Gods name were responding forces restrained? And by whom?
If Democrats can stifle their chant that all questions have been answered, they might work on that one. And then they might join the chorus of curious souls wondering how officials who knew better could continue to parrot that stupid story about a YouTube video as the catalyst for the Benghazi attacks.
But again, much has been written about that. Not enough light has been directed at the last shred of dignity stripped from our military by this White House. The intimidation of whistleblowers, the attempted muzzling of witnesses who might have more to tell, the stunning disregard shown to the forces who were begging to be loosed to help their countrymen-- this is the work of a wholly unfit Commander-in-Chief.
And yet because of that title, the aggrieved troops cannot speak truth to power. This tragedy demands answers from various military levels on questions about how their trust was trampled by the current President and the former Secretary of State who may wish to be his successor.
This is just the latest dishonor foisted on our armed forces by this regime. Here in the season of sequester, The budgetarily minuscule Blue Angels and Thunderbirds are grounded, silencing their ability to create goodwill. But far more seriously, a carrier group that should be patrolling treacherous Persian Gulf waters is stuck in port, all because this President chooses to strand them there so that an inattentive public can think this is what spending cuts do.
This cries out for a military hero to step forward to proclaim, Enough!
I can imagine the testimony of such a valiant figure. The air shows did not need to be cancelled. Our ships certainly do not need to be shackled to their docks. This is pure politics.
But this will never happen. The hierarchy of military power precludes all ranks from publicly highlighting the duplicity of the President, a rule which probably serves us well.
But we need more. We need military heroes to step forward with details of any effort by Barack Obama to spread lies about Benghazi and its aftermath. And we need for even more courageous voices to share any measures undertaken by Hillary Clinton to obscure the truth, including the question of who ordered the silencing of Benghazi survivors and key players.
I am dreaming, of course. This would be the height of insubordination.
The Benghazi hearings, thorough as they were, merely scratched the surface of what people did at the highest levels of power, to keep power.
They simply could not have witnesses spilling out with a story of a terror hotbed that Obama somehow had not fixed.
So the cover-up began, and it continues to this day, a corruptive stain that spreads across multiple figures.
Military personnel are not used to being caught up in political self-protection games. But they surely are now, and it sickens them. Or it should
"But they surely are now, and it sickens them."
Obama's cowardly bullsh*t sickens a lot of people.
Look for more enlisted to call it quits once their time in the military is done.
When you sign up for the U.S. military, you do Uncle Sam's bidding no matter how objectionable it may seem. Frankly, I'm kind of surprised so many people have a problem with this.
I'm afraid our senior military leadership has gone the way of the liberal democrat.
Not quite true. You obey the orders of your superiors no matter how much you disagree with them, so long as they are legal orders. You have a duty to disobey illegal orders. Will you be court-martialed for doing so? Definitely. That doesn't affect your duty to disobey them one bit. If the officers of the court-martial are honest and honorable men, they'll consider the legality of the order disobeyed and will decline to convict if the order is illegal.
Cowardice is exactly what we are witnessing here, not just with Benghazi, but with everything that is going wrong. We are telegraphing a message of weakness, and it is inviting the enemy to strike.
There will be more attacks.
That's a big IF at the beginning of that sentence, isn't it?
You are wrong. You don't sign up to be a robot. The wonder of our military and what made it strong was that each was charged with exercising judgment and initiative in performing his/her duties. Now, brilliance is costly. This is sad
The hell you do.
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
It's not:
"I swear to to do Uncle Sams bidding no matter how objectionable it may seem."
While it is your duty to disobey an illegal order, there is a catch-22. You can still be punished for disobeying the order. Most legal folks will tell you to obey the order under protest and then report it after the fact. IOW, don't expect to come out of it unscathed even if it was a really bad order.
...this particular question is starting to get annoying....it's as though we have to dig through tons of s**t to find the rose. WHEN IN FACT, there is only one person that is responsible. OBAMA. others are culpable. BUT THIS REST AT HIS FEET. He is the Commander in Chief...THE PRESIDENT...POTUS....stop giving the media the out to protect him
...please keep in mind that over the last year or so GATES has fired or removed a lot of Generals that have had "problems" instituting Odungo's agenda. Those generals have been replaced.
Anyone in uniform that parroted that horsecrap about a Youtbe vid needs to be very publicly Court Martialled. Pronto. I can't imagine a faster, more sure way to completely destroy our defense than to let high raining officers blatantly lie in public.
"The Democrats knew how to play us......they used the budget. 'Go along with us on this, or we'll cut your budget.' They acted like they don't care about our country's safety, and I guess they don't."
Yeah; as it creates more work for THEM!
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?'
Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap,
to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Samuel Adams quotes (American patriot and Politician of the American Revolution. 1722-1803)
"........please keep in mind that over the last year or so GATES has fired or removed a lot of Generals that have had problems instituting Odungos agenda.".
IMO, removing the leadership of our militray only fits into Odumbo's goal of becoming "dictator" once he decides the timing is right. Who would be there to lead a coup against him?
That's why I left after 8 years. After a series of "disagreements" with my CO, I was handed an efficiency report that ensured I would never make Major. When I filed my resignation paperwork, I was required to be counseled by the first O-6 in my chain of command, who happened to be the Base Commander. I didn't have a "normal" unit to command, as my battery included the Commanding General's staff and five directorates, all headed by full bird colonels. On the items I could be measured on, my unit had a stellar record, to include a 99.5% pass rate on the PT test, and CG's Best Mess Hall.
I wouldn't have done anything different. I learned as a young butterbar that everything my unit did, or failed to do, was my responsibility. So, if it falls on my shoulders, then I'm going to do it my way. I was often brash and a PITA, but we got the job done in often difficult environments.
There was one time I deliberately disobeyed an order, and I got hammered for it. I never took that personally...my superior did what he felt should have been done. Six months later, the Battalion Commander & XO realized that he was wrong, and I was right.
The other times, it was a matter of executing an order for which I had a different "understanding" of what the superior meant. LOL. My application of Jesuit teachings to military science created some conflicts from time to time. I never had a problem with my superiors that demanded imagination and independence from their officers. Unfortunately, I served too few of these men. But it was my experiences with them that remain the best memories I have of serving my country.
The Colonels and Majors and Captains and Lieutenants. All the orders the Generals issue do not mean a damn thing unless the lower ranking officers follow those "illegal orders." They wont.
First, God Bless for your service and you sound like they type officer I would have been proud to serve under. There are even fewer who want those under them to use their own brains and initiative - doing so is a sure career killer. It's also politically uncool to try to take care of your troops - you get more scooby points for showing a willingness to slam them than to stand up and protect them. I had more control over my people as a E-7 in the 90s than my current commander does over the folks in the squadron (I'm a DoD Civ now). The Group CC micromanages the squadrons and they have no choice but to carry it down the ranks - really sad to see the deliberate dumbing down of the ranks and attempt to instill a blind followership without effective leadership.
That's an overall American culture issue, IMO, and is not unique to the military. Effective leadership is becoming like "common sense"...not so common as we used to expect it to be.
Actually, on several occasions I told my commander, "Put it in writing. I'll get it cleared by Legal, then obey it."
The handful of times I said that, my commander backed down. Fast!
I was pretty lucky...I never had to resort to that.
There was a 2-3 week period I let it all hang out. I was the Maintenance Officer for a Chaparral/Vulcan ADA battery in Germany. The Friday prior to our ARTEP (Tac Eval), the Group Cdr visits our tac park, a 90 minute drive from Group HQ. I'm the only officer out there, and my mechanics are exhaused from several weeks of 80+ hours. If just one of my Vulcans or Chaps goes down, we fall below 75%, the minimum acceptable level.
I suck it up and ask the Group Cdr for a 2 week extension...he knew our maintenance status, too. He said, "LT, you know this is going to bring the entire world down on you, don't you?" I replied, "yes sir."
Two weeks later, we underwent the evaluation with 6 Chaparrals and 7 Vulcans. I had to assume the role of XO as well, as the XO was scheduled for a Security Officer class at Vilseck, and Battalion didn't want to send a replacement. My 1SG was new to the unit: he comes up to me and says, "LT, I don't know anything about ADA". He was 26 years Infantry with 3 tours in Nam. My reply? I laughed, and said "Top, you know how to run a company CP? You handle that, and I'll take care of the ADA BS."
The second of 3 days was an unmitigated disaster. One of my Vulcan platoons missed their morning mission time by 30 minutes...completely unforgivable. I was called out of the field to get my butt chewed by the Battalion XO over our unit's maintenance status. After about 5 minutes, I start tapping the receiver, "Major? Major? You're breaking up...click"
When I get back to the CP, the 1SG is sitting down with his head in his hands. When he sees me, he says "It's over, it's over." Apparently, the BC improperly encoded the coordinates to a mission for one of the Vulcan platoons, and the Platoon Leader didn't challenge him. First time in the history of ADA that a Vulcan platoon provided a 10 KM long route defenxe. Pretty tall feat, considering the max effective range of a towed Vulcan was 1000 meters.
The BC was catatonic during our evening meeting...I was already piSSed. I was allowed to speak after his monologue, and I lit into the Platoon Leaders for a good 10 minutes. I told them what they would do the following day, down to what each of their squads would do when visited by the evaluators. I knew exactly what needed to be done, as I had passed 4 ARTEPS as a Platoon Leader, more than the current platoon leaders combined.
Those of you who had been in ARTEPs knew that, to pass, all you had to do was show significant improvement by the end of the third day. Considering our first two days, that was a slam dunk.
As I left the CP, who should I meet 10 feet outside the CP? None other than the Chief Evaluator. I thought, "crap". Instead, he gives me a big smile, and said "LT, that was beautiful!"
We passed, thanks to the efforts of the NCOs and EMs that worked for us. For my effort, I received the worst OER of my career.
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Today's environmentally conscious restaurateur treats Chilean sea bass with a respect once reserved for giant pandas. Now that overfishing has turned once-ordinary varieties like Atlantic cod and monkfish into endangered species, the hot seafood buzzwords are "line-caught," "wild" and "sustainable." That means local chefs are scrambling for safer seafood that still steers clear of scaring customers. (For more info on ecologically sound seafood, visit SeafoodWatch.org)
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Partners Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger are taking the risk of shocking ahi-loving Angelenos by removing all tuna and swordfish from their menus. "It's incumbent on us to try to be creative," says Milliken. "Calamari is replenished easily. I'd like to tackle sardines and anchovies, too. As the American palate matures, you'll see people liking things with stronger flavors."
Now on the menu: Seared calamari with white beans, peppers and Bilbao chorizo
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MONTPELIER — Union Elementary School Principal Owen Bradley will resign at the end of this school year.
School board Chairwoman Sue Aldrich said Bradley has worked with the district since 2010 and has had his contract renewed in the past.
Administrator contracts in the district last for one year at a time.
School board member Lowell VanDerlip said the board held two executive sessions this year in which it discussed the issue. He said the board used a "personnel" exemption in the state open meetings law to keep the discussions private. Boards can talk privately about certain aspects of employees, such as their contracts, evaluations and disciplinary or dismissal actions.
School board members declined to elaborate on details of the case.
The resignation comes before Superintendent Brian Ricca was able to issue a recommendation on whether to renew Bradley's contract, VanDerlip said.
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McAllister Believes Shafikov Win Could Land Amir Khan
Lee McAllister believes his EBU light-welterweight clash with champion Denis Shafikov early next year could be the gateway to a dream fight against Amir Khan.
After more than two months of protracted negotiations, McAllister's manager, Tommy Gilmour, announced on Wednesday that the unbeaten 24-year-old Russian will visit Aberdeen Exhibition Centre on February 25 to defend his European title.
McAllister, nicknamed 'The Aberdeen Assassin', believes Shafikov is the last barrier between him and world title opportunities including, he hopes, a fight against Khan, the unified WBA and IBF light welterweight champion.
In Glasgow to promote the fight, the 29-year-old Commonwealth light-welterweight and IBO international light-welterweight champion, said: "As soon as you have the European title, it's world title shots in America and things like that, big massive fights.
"The last light-welterweight European champion from Britain was (Paul) McCloskey and he got a shot at Khan.
"If I get a shot at Khan next year I will be buzzing. I would love a fight with Khan.
"But it would be a massive achievement to win this European title.
"I have only have a few years left and whatever I achieve in the next three years, that will be it, my dreams will be finished and I will have to go back to get a normal job like everyone else.
"Shirkov will come over and try to bulldoze me but he is in for a shock. I will be ready to knock him out.
"On paper it will be my hardest fight to date but I will prepare right and he will get sent back with his tail between his legs.
"But to be honest, I'm not really interested in him. I am quite happy to do my own thing and let him worry about me. He has no chance."
Gilmour, who will co-promote the fight with top London promoter, Frank Maloney, refused to look beyond Shafikov.
"I just want a win over Shafikov," Gilmour said. "I'm not looking beyond the 25th of February.
"Ask me what my plans are for Lee on the 26th and I will have a volume of them.
"Shafikov is without doubt the toughest opponent for Lee. He has won more than half his fights inside the distance.
"Lee will be a big underdog for this fight. Shafikov is a small, walk-forward type of fighter so we will get expert sparring for Lee."
Gilmour's reluctance to look too far into the future was perhaps due to the fact that this fight took so long to arrange.
"It was a very hard fight to make," added Gilmour. "The two of them last fought on the 23rd of September.
"It has taken me from the 24th of September to make this fight.
"Normally I can make things happen in two or three days but this has been quite hard.
"We needed a bit of help and Frank gave me one of his television dates to make it work so this will be live on television.
"We have had to go to the Exhibition Centre because this is a massive fight. It is a six-figure fight.
"We have set it up for a 2,000-seater arena but if tickets go better than expected we can move in to a bigger hall which holds 4,000.
"Certain guarantees have had to be made. I'm just glad that I have managed to deliver."
Im from Aberdeen I would love to see Lee go all the way he deserves it .... Shafikov vs Mcaliister would sell out NO PROBLEM IN THE EXHIBITION CENTRE !!! Khan would be a huge test thoughComment by whatismyname on 11-30-2011
Who? what?Comment by D-MiZe on 11-30-2011
He's not lasting the distance with Shafikov, let alone winning.Comment by wazaa. on 11-30-2011
I feel sorry for McAllister because I don't thnk Amir will give him a shot. It's all McCloskey's fault for stinking the fight up against Amir. I mean, Amir was being nice and offered an European champion like McCloskey a…Comment by FearAndLoathing on 11-30-2011
'mon the aberdeen assassin! i'll be there. no chance of a khan fight though, maybe a while back if he'd beat john murray. this is definitely his last chance for any form of a money fight, cant say i know…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (5)


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Stanley Cup playoff statistics show that a team that falls behind in a series 2-0 has very little chance of winning.
And certainly, the Flyers' 3-1, Game 4 loss last night to Pittsburgh is going to make their task that much more difficult.
In the last 20 series played in the NHL, every team that lost the first two games lost the series. For the Flyers, coming back from 0-2 has been done only twice in 13 attempts.
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EMMYS: 'Mad Men's Matt Weiner
Matt Weiner is a 15-time Primetime Emmy nominee and seven-time winner (six of them in the last four years alone). Now Matt Weiner is hoping his AMC drama Mad Men can capture its fourth consecutive Outstanding Drama Series Emmy and tie The West Wing for that many wins. But his biggest competition is HBO's Boardwalk Empire from former Sopranos colleague Terence Winter. This spring, Weiner emerged bloody but victorious from a brutal contract battle, inking a three-year, $30 million megadeal to continue his show. Problem is, every twist and turn was played out publicly in front of Emmy voters. He recently spoke to Deadline's Nikki Finke:
DEADLINE: Do you think it's going to be harder to win an Emmy this year just because of all the publicity about your huge contract and the delayed start of the show and everything?
MATT WEINER: I don't know how anyone survived the conversation that has gone on in public about the show. And one of the things that has been most frustrating to me is that I hope the fans know that my attachment to the show is very deep and, for some reason or another, it's been misconstrued that my negotiation was responsible for the delay of the show. And that's not true, and I have not been able to correct that anywhere. But the same way Breaking Bad was delayed, I was told in October that Mad Men would not be on until 2012. I fought to get on the air this year, I don't like not being on the air this year, and part of that is because of the Emmys.
DEADLINE: You talk about the fans, but Emmys are decided by people in the industry. Do you fear there is resentment of you because it's been so widely reported how much you are earning?
WEINER: Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any of that and I try not to worry about it. I hope that's not the case, you know. Most of the writers that I know and artists that I know understand what was going on. I think there's just as many things going on in the awards process that have to do with the show having won a few times. The Emmys are always plagued by the fact that, unlike the Oscars, a lot of times the same material wins every year and they like to spread things around. All I can say is that we feel like we did our best work last year and, hopefully, when people watch the episodes and the performances, they will give the award based on the show they think is the most deserving.
DEADLINE: My feeling is that if you have a show that people like, then pay you and everybody else connected with it all the money in the world. Why care? It's not my money.
WEINER: All I can say is the show is a very, very lucrative property that extends way beyond whatever message people want to get from the ratings. A very, very lucrative property, and they wouldn't have paid me what they did if it weren't. But all that stuff has been over-reported, and I think it was put out there to embarrass me in some way, and I don't know what to say. I've worked very hard. I've never been about money. I've walked away from money many times in my life, as I did during the negotiation itself. I'm about the show, and keeping the show the way it is, and in the end everybody was happy. And as far as the Emmy voting public being resentful of me and punishing me or punishing the show because of that, I actually in my heart don't think things work that way.
DEADLINE: One of the Emmy episodes that you submitted to voters was 'The Suitcase.' Why?
WEINER: Yes, I know how people keep track of this stuff, and I know they handicap everything. I think that the episode was kind of a culmination. You have two characters, Don and Peggy, whose lives are intertwined in a very interesting way. He knows about her secrets, she
knows about his secrets, but they don't talk about them when they're in a professional environment. And here was this moment where Don was very vulnerable. He had spent the season basically dealing with being divorced and alone, drinking too much, breaking a lot of his personal rules, sleeping with his secretary, just being very self-destructive, everything. And of course this person doesn't have a shrink or a bartender or any friends, and that's also part of his machismo on some level to hold his secrets inside. And Peggy has her own life. And the idea that they could collide at that moment of this historic boxing match that was over in 90 seconds was a chance for a lot of the unspoken tension in the show to sort of come out for people who had been holding in their feelings for so long. And it was beautifully directed, and the performances are spectacular, and I had nothing to do with that. These few actors just rose to the occasion, and you get this non-saccharine emotional connection between two people you really care about. So it became a very special episode in the old-fashioned Emmy sense.
DEADLINE: Like 'A Very Special Blossom'.
WEINER: I've been watching TV my whole life and I was thinking that when we did it. It felt like something that could happen in real life between those people, even though it was obviously a very tight dramatic environment. So that's why I think it's something that spoke to the audience and we knew it when we finished it, that it was something unique for the show.
DEADLINE: You told Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond over a year ago that you thought this episode would be Jon Hamm's ticket to Emmy — finally. One of the things that you did this past year in the series was to strip away all his veneer so he became the most vulnerable character. Was this at all self-conscious and on purpose to try and help him to Outstanding Lead Actor?
WEINER: Last season he had a great emotional depth. Jon is an incredible actor, but what he does is not very showy. I felt that this had more of the kind of performance where you could see all the range of what this man does in one place. I think he's deserving of an Emmy in everything he's ever been in. [For more, see EMMYS: Matt Weiner Lobbies For Jon Hamm]
DEADLINE: Boardwalk Empire's Terence Winter is a good friend of yours and a Sopranos colleague. And he beat you at the Golden Globes. And you were kind of upset that you didn't win.
WEINER: He sure did. We've gotten so much. But I was a freak of nature, you know what I mean? I've never gone to one of these things and lost. But, listen, Terry is one of the great writers, and he's a very close friend of mine. My wife is an architect and did his house. So we have survived far more tense things than being in direct competition at awards shows.
DEADLINE: What's interesting here is how much you really want to win these things.
WEINER: Is there someone out there on the planet who doesn't like to? There is no one who is not competitive. I'm a competitive person, and I always do want to win, and I can't be upset if I don't. I'm fine with it. I've won plenty. The show has been recognized in a ridiculous way. But if you ask me, 'Would you like to win?' then the answer is 'Yes.' And does Terry deserve the award? Always. Terry deserves every award that is out there. And the show Boardwalk Empire is fantastic. It's just a matter of like, you know, if there's a candy bar on the table, you would like the candy bar.
DEADLINE: And then you have HBO famously passing on Mad Men. Now Boardwalk is their big chance to come back to the table on a drama series. So there's a good backstory to the rivalry.
WEINER: Listen, let's turn back the clock and just think about the way television was before we started doing Mad Men, and what AMC was. And the pity I got from my friends that I was going to work on a channel where no one would ever see the show and where there's no money and where they're not going to promote it. And the fact that we are now a competitor to HBO is always a thrill. I'm not kidding. It's flattering when you have a company with that track record and those pockets and that talent competing with you.
DEADLINE: I have to say you sound like less of an asshole than I thought you were. But when you mention 'Matt Weiner' to the TV community, they describe you as 'arrogant.' And I think it dates back to a couple of things, like when you fired the woman who'd won the writing Emmy with you.
WEINER: Well, let's talk about that because I know that's a constant source of discussion. So, OK, Kater Gordon worked her way up. I rewrite almost everything. And some people take credit on it, and some people don't, and I take credit on it, and I always feel like that's better for my relationship with the writer and my relationship with the show when I've done the amount of work that I do. It has to be up around a 70% rewrite for me to do that. And everyone agrees to that. And with Kater it did not work out, and I did not think it was right to string her along. And she knew that it had not worked out. And I wasn't going to make her wait, as showrunners had done to me, until a week before staffing season to be told that she would be let go. I thought she had just won an Emmy and she would have the best chance of getting a job with this huge award in her hand. I was shocked at the reaction to it.
DEADLINE: What about the knock that you're a control freak?
WEINER: To be honest with you, being a control freak, I don't consider that an insult. I've never worked for someone or with someone who was successful and who was not a control freak. And the fact that I have an opinion and a vision or whatever you want to call it about every aspect of the show may seem overwhelming to people. That does not mean that I can't be talked out of anything. I think my interpersonal aspect of control is very lenient when it comes to human beings. But my control over the work is absolute. And it gets brought out even more when you're working on a budget like I'm working on. I can't afford to reshoot anything. So all you're trying to do is reduce the chances of failure. And it's not completely possible, but at least you can say, 'Well, I did everything I could.'
DEADLINE: Then there was your second Emmy acceptance speech which you began, '…As I was saying.' People perceived it as you having an attitude of ownership towards the award.
WEINER: I had been played off in the middle of my other speech. And I had not been told that I wasn't allowed to talk. And so that was my joke, because I was in the middle of thanking my wife, and the sound went out, and now I was getting to talk again. All I can tell you is I am a compulsively honest person and I have admitted all of my fears and failures and negative emotions in public. And the irony is, that has been transferred into arrogance, I don't know what to tell you. Nobody wants to be thought of as arrogant. If arrogance is anxiety plus insecurity, then yeah, I'm arrogant.
DEADLINE: I totally get that.
WEINER: And let me tell you, going up and speaking in front of an audience that looks like someone dumped your television set out in front of you is not something I can do. Where you can't hide behind the podium, and you don't know if there's pee spreading on your pants, and you're really excited, and there's a clock up there that says, 'Shut the fuck up.' So the fact that I was able to say anything and not swear by accident is surprising. I don't know how to explain this, but the show's success has been a surprise, having my name known by strangers has been a surprise. Because all I wanted to do in my life was to be known as being a good writer. And everything else that goes along with it I always feel it's like the evil eye. I've read too much Shakespeare to not think that the minute you feel secure about things, it will be taken away from you. And I'm Jewish. I've got all these superstitions.
DEADLINE: Like what?
WEINER: Oh, I can't tell you or it will take away their magic.
DEADLINE: Please tell me you're not wearing the same underwear each awards show.
WEINER: No, no, it's nothing like that. I mean I have talismans. I have good luck charms.
DEADLINE: Last question. If somehow you don't win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series again, are you going to feel you have failed the show?
WEINER: No, it's what I said: of course we want to win, it's my family, I think we deserve it, and I think we did a great job. But we've won a lot and it would be unseemly to suggest that anybody owes us anything or that there's an expectation. You never expect it to happen. I didn't expect it to happen last year. I really didn't expect it to happen the first year.
A brilliant douche.
Like you, except minus the brilliant.
Matt Weiner is not a jerk or an asshole. He's insanely honest here and gotta respect him for that. Can you imagine being in control of a show of this critical masterpiece? I'd be a control freak as would any of you. Let's be honest. Most great TV shows get re written by showrunners while a staffer gets the credit. I know writers rely of residuals etc but when someone wins an Emmy for something you did or wrote, that'd be hard to take. Matt's a genius at what he does and hopefully people will drop the BS "arrogant" label because he fired someone and likes to win awards. Most of you would be the same way but aren't in that position so it makes it easier to judge people who are in positions of success you aren't
So you hang out with Weiner a lot?
Emmys and Golden Globes … ! Who really cares? Well, obviously Matt does, as does the industry as a whole. And that's really why great art is so compelling, because it comes from something so inherently flawed as a human being, whose perspective is inevitably dragged down in the day-to-day minutia of life. And yet, somehow, from somewhere, springs something truly brilliant, in this case "Mad Men", the collective work of a cadre of great artists who managed to transcend the medium. In twenty years, nobody will recall how many Emmys "Mad Men" ended up winning. Instead, new generations will be discovering the show, and exploring and revelling in the wonder of it, the gold standard of what television could and should be, yet so rarely is. Put simply, it's the best weekly drama series. Ever.
Best weekly drama series? Have you not watched Breaking Bad?
As far as I'm concerned, the proof is in the pudding, or in this case, the quality of the show. This guy has nothing to apologize for and his show and track record proves it. Everything else is sour grapes from people resentful or trying to find a teat on him or his work.
By the way, AMC is still not in HD on DirecTV. THAT is embarrassing.
Just because you say you aren't arrogant, doesn't meant cease to be one.
Great interview. I do respect him for being honest and responsive here. He took on quite a few tough questions and answered them well.
It probably would be healthier for him not to care about the Emmys so much, to ignore the bullshit and just focus on the work. That level of insecurity could do with a little therapy.
Did you read the same interview I did?
I'm a competitive person, and I always do want to win, and I can't be upset if I don't. I'm fine with it. I've won plenty. The show has been recognized in a ridiculous way. But if you ask me, 'Would you like to win?' then the answer is 'Yes.' And does Terry deserve the award? Always. Terry deserves every award that is out there. And the show Boardwalk Empire is fantastic. It's just a matter of like, you know, if there's a candy bar on the table, you would like the candy bar.
That answer doesn't seem to be insecure at all. The guy answered honestly instead of using a falsely humble PC one.
Good for him.
Saw him speak at WGA events. Nice to try helping out fellow writers. He was shockingly forthright about his shortcomings and effusive in praising others, particularly Winter for his work on Sopranos. And oh yeah, the show is brilliant.
For those of us for whom the greatest of television shows just magically appear when we turn on the set, it's very interesting to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of those who make it happen.
Along with "Breaking Bad," "Mad Men" is truly one of the reasons to own a television set.
As a staff writer I've been re-written by some ridiculously hacky showrunners. It hurt. It hurt bad. But Matt Weiner can re-write 100 percent of my scripts any day of the week and you won't hear me complain.
He's a rare artist and Mad Men is ten thousand times better than Boardwalk Empire.
I agree with Staff Writer. Mad Men *is* 10,000x better than Boardwalk Empire. The real HBO competition to Mad Men is Game of Thrones, which just knocked Boardwalk off the HBO pedestal without looking back.
Mad Men will survive the long hiatus just like The Sopranos did. When something's worth the wait, the audience will wait.
The show just keeps getting better. Watch each season again and you will see the genius in the details.
Btw, how much is Janie Bryant pulling down for all of her fashion gigs? You think Weiner and AMC take a cut on things like her "Mad Men-inspired" clothing lines?
MAD MEN is like a dense, beautifully crafted novel. I can't think of another show with such likeably rich characterizations and interesting plot twists. This show is truly one of the greatest pieces of art we have right now and all credit to Weiner and everyone else involved. This delay in programming will likely give little Sally time to grow up and fully inhabit teenagerdom…
He's an asshole and the show is a stiffly acted over-written piece of community theatre crap. But you really have to hand it to him to pat himself on the back for firing a writer for winning an Emmy. EVERY SHOWRUNNER rewrites. That's THE JOB. That's why you get paid all that money. I repeat , what an asshole.
Staff Writer,
With that attitude you will continue to be rewritten, and probably 100%. I hate to break this to you but your job is to make our job easier. You should be riled up or chastised for every word of yours that is touched.
I don't watch tv so I'm only recently catching up with Mad Men. Oh my, what a brilliant work of art. I signed up for Netflix instant streaming specifically for this show and have been re-watching season 4 in awe. Breaking Bad is my other favorite show as well, but Mad Men is the only one I need, yes need, to re-watch. The stories are so compelling and Jon Hamm plays Don Draper so charismatically that I simultaneously love and hate his character's actions. Season 4 is the best in terms of range for Don's character and revisting seasons 1-3 for his backstory enriches it even more. I love this show so much. Thank you to everyone who works on the show for truly creating a work of art. You all deserve critical and financial success for your artistic talents.
Mad men is a great show. I watch it on netflix.
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