Leno is an ass.
I spent a little time talking to him about motorcycle issues, riding issues and riding land in California.
To hear him speak about them you would have thoguht that he was a Republican.
Screw him.
Jay Leno says, “I’m not conservative. I’ve never voted that way in my life.”
He “really worries” what a Dubya victory in November will do to the makeup of the Supreme Court.
He believes “the wool was pulled over our eyes” with the Iraq war.
He thinks the White House began using terrorism “as a crutch” after 9/11.
He feels that during the campaign Kerry should “make Bush look as stupid as possible.”
He believes “the media is in the pocket of the government, and they don’t do their job” so “you have people like Michael Moore who do it for them.”
He has on his joke-writing staff a number of former professional speechwriters for Democratic candidates. “No Republicans.”
When it comes to Bush, he doesn’t think his politics are much different from Letterman’s. “Does he show his dislike maybe a little more than I do? Probably.”
Q: The current crew in the White House doesn’t seem to laugh much at themselves.
Leno: The interesting thing is, I have found that the Republicans respond much more to jokes about themselves than the Democrats do.
Democrats take it very, very seriously.
You know, when Al Gore was here in 2000, we said we want to do this bit, and then it was, “Can we run it past our people?” “Can we make these changes?”
Then the day of the show, “We’re going to pass.”
Bush shows up. We had a bit where we’re playing Jeopardy, and he’s going to look kind of stupid. But then, in the end, the joke’s on me.
“Yeah, fine, whatever you want.”
It couldn’t have been easier.
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