Poor little Conan!

The reason I'm up typing so late is that I feel so badly for Conan O'Brien that I can't sleep. Conan: "I wouldn't have done what Jay did." Oh really? Oh Holy Conan. By the way, by most first-hand accounts, Jay is a first class selfish jerk, but I'm going to torch Conan because his public seems to view him with victim status. First he leverages to take Jay's job years ago. OK, that's business, and he had the leverage. Then, he failed to maintain the ratings that Leno had. He considers that task to be an unfair challenge, but by combining all of his audience with what should have been a big chunk of Leno's, he should have come a lot closer. Both of these megalomaniacs have one job where the network is concerned: get ratings = make people watch commercials = maximize advertising revenue. It doesn't matter which guy is a better guy, or who is funniest. His job was to get ratings; largely in comparison to Leno's and he did a horrific job of this. So ultimately, Leno got busy with the leverage that he then had, as O'Brien had done years ago, and reclaimed a job that Conan had taken from him, and "Coco" has the audacity to complain? Oh, and let me not forget to note that this wasn't some poor shnook who lost his job and went crawling home. He negotiated a boatload of money that Tiger Woods will be hard pressed to earn this year. I think if the penalty for doing a bad job was a deep eight-figure pay-off, more people would be conscientious about doing a lousy job. So my hope for Jay and Conan is that both will admit that they too, like NBC and NBC affiliates, are driven by their own profitablity, that they are big boys, and that they don't deserve the public sympathy which for some reason has attached to Conan O'Brien.