Later today, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) will become the second presidential candidate to cross a Writer’s Guild of America picket line to appear on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Tonight’s appearance will not be the first time Paul crosses a picket line for a TV interview. In December, he appeared on CBS’s The View despite the show’s striking writers. According to Reason, who asked Paul about the strike, he “doesn’t care about the unions or the pickets.”
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