Jay Leno Rips Obama

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Jay Leno Rips Obama as He Waits Off-Stage: “How About Solving the Problems That Brought Our Country to a Halt” (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 10:58 PM



Jay Leno ripped Barack Obama tonight in his monologue as the president waited to come on The Tonight Show.

“President Obama has sent John McCain to Cairo to help solve the political problems that brought the Egyptian government to a halt. I got an idea. How about solving the problems that brought our government to a halt.”

Ba-da-Bing!

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August 7, 2013
Laugh track sorely missed as Obama does Leno
Thomas Lifson

President Obama played it straight, but friendly, last night on America's top-rated late night TV show. Jay Leno, whose rating have surged as he cracks more and more jokes about the president, played the straight man on the Tonight Show. For Obama, it was a chance to repair his soured imaged, as the campaign's claim that Al Qaeda is "on the run" now looks like a bad joke.

Edward-Isaac Dovere of Politico summed up the cosmetic nature of the effort:

...even in an interview that was the most gracious and substantive he's conducted in months, none of what Obama said mattered nearly as much as the underlying message of his sober, charming, occasionally smiling display as he sat cross-legged at Leno's side for most of an hour: He's campaigning to get back to being Barack Obama again.

As Obama works to reframe himself ahead of the fall budget negotiations with Republicans, he's got to win back the people and the places where the squeaky-voiced king of late night plays the strongest - those that most readers of Obama's interview with the New York Times last week might tend to lump together as "middle America."

The appearance on a late night comedy show, coming in the midst of a purported terror crisis so severe that it requires an unprecedented closing of American embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world, crystallizes the cynical propaganda approach of the Obama gang. On the one hand, he is using the majesty of the office of POTUS to gain access to and perhaps soften the barbs of a man who has become his most-widely quoted critic. On the other, he intends to make himself more approachable, friendlier, and aw shucks, just another guy sort of figure in the minds of a vast swath of the public.

It is far from clear that the effort is successful. Leno, who is on his way out from NBC - the most enthusiastic media claque Obama still enjoys - opened the show with a joke at Obama's expense, noting that "he was excited for a face-to-face conversation, since that would save Obama 'the trouble of going through my emails and phone calls.'"

Then there is the question of dignity. On the one hand, the public is supposed to believe that there is a real crisis overseas, but on the other hand, Obama doesn't miss his tee time and is out in Hollywood. Neil Cavuto noted that JFK certainly didn't go on the Jack Paar Show when the Cuban Missile Crisis was underway.



Obama did buy himself some good will from Leno:

The reward: Leno being the one to ask about infrastructure, "Why is that a partisan issue?" and wonder aloud why Republicans won't work with Obama to set up a WPA-style corps to rebuild crumbling bridges and be sent in to rehabilitate Detroit, among other projects.

Obama eagerly took the lob - once the crowd had finished applauding for Leno.

"Used to be Republicans and Democrats, they loved cutting those ribbons, and we've got a bunch of construction workers who aren't working right now - they've got the skills, they want to get on the job and it would have a huge impact on the economy not just now, but into the future," Obama said. "I'm just going to keep on pushing Republicans to join with us and let's try to do it."

Remember, Obama said, when he was the common sense guy who just wanted to bust through the silliness in Washington and finally get things done?

"We don't need a huge government, but we need government doing some basic things, and we should all agree on a sensible mechanism that can go ahead and pay for it, make sure we're cutting down on permitting times, delays," Obama said. "But let's go ahead and get it done."

But there was no laughter when Obama dropped this howler:

"We don't have a domestic spying program," he said. "What we do have is some mechanisms that can track a phone number or an email address that is connected to a terrorist attack. That information is useful."

Obama may have bought himself some time with middle America, but the serious scandals are not going away, despite the best efforts of the medias to deep six them. Stay tuned.



Read more: www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/laugh_track_sorely_missed_as_obama_does_leno.html#ixzz2bJn0eppG

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ba da bing

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Did You Catch the President’s U.S. Geography Fail on Leno Tuesday?
Aug. 7, 2013 9:52am Mike Opelka



Tuesday night, President Obama made headlines during his appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” one of his numerous appearances over the years (back in 2009, he was the first sitting president to appear on the show). The President talked with Jay about a myriad of topics such as the NSA (he says that we don’t have a domestic spying program), the threat from Al Qaeda, and Trayvon Martin. However, it was when the discussion turned to infrastructure that the president failed on some fairly basic American geography — and it’s not getting much attention.

How did he screw up? A clip from the official transcript of the interview — sent out by the White House* — says it all:

LENO: You mentioned infrastructure. Why is that a partisan issue? I live in a town, the bridge is falling apart, it’s not safe. How does that become Republican or Democrat? How do you not just fix the bridge? (Laughter and applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: I don’t know. As you know, for the last three years, I’ve said, let’s work together. Let’s find a financing mechanism and let’s go ahead and fix our bridges, fix our roads, sewer systems, our ports. [You know], the Panama [Canal] is being widened so that these big supertankers can come in. Now, that will be finished in 2015. If we don’t deepen our ports all along the Gulf — places like Charleston, South Carolina, or Savannah, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida — if we don’t do that, those ships are going to go someplace else. And we’ll lose jobs. Businesses won’t locate here.

The president was talking about deepening our ports along the Gulf, and yet he only referenced cities along the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Eagle-eyed Blaze Radio host Joe Pags caught the screw-up and posted it on Twitter (@joetalkshow):
Obama fails geography...again



Here’s a look at the Gulf of Mexico and the port cities (like Houston and New Orleans) where large tankers and shipping is big business.



Image: University of Texas

And here’s a look at the the map showing the three cities mentioned by the President. All three cities are along the east coast of the US, on the Atlantic Ocean:
Charleston to Jacksonville



Watch the comments below starting at the 2:15 mark: (Video at link)

TheBlaze spoke with Joe Pags about the Presidential faux pas, and the affable host wondered what the media reaction would be if President Bush might have made a similar mistake.

*We’ve corrected the official transcript against the video of the interview and updated it. We’ve indicated our additions in brackets.

www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/07/did-you-catch-the-presidents-u-s-geography-fail-on-leno-tuesday/

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I quess if I were born in Kenia I would goof up tooo!

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Rush Limbaugh: Obama Diminished Presidency by Talking National Security on Leno

by Tony Lee 7 Aug 2013 1304

On Wednesday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh harshly criticized President Barack Obama for diminishing himself and the office of the presidency by going on The Tonight Show to discuss national security matters with late-night comedian Jay Leno.

During his Tuesday appearance, Obama spoke for the first time about terror threats that caused the U.S. to close its embassies across the Muslim world on August 4.

"Last night, to show you how the country is changing in a very serious way, last night was the first time since this massive upgraded terror warning was put into effect on Sunday, this was the first time the president of the United States spoke to the American people about this," Limbaugh reminded his audience. "The president of the United States went to a late-night comedy show for his first-ever statement about this increased terror threat. A late-night comedy show."

Limbaugh added that though there is "nothing wrong with late-night comedy shows," this "would not have happened with any prior president."

"Matters of such consequence, matters of such seriousness would have been dealt with in a far more serious and appropriate way and forum and time of day," Limbaugh said. "There were serious items on the agenda in our relationship with Russia, and all of it was treated as a joke. All of it was treated as unserious, halfhearted, nothing to really be concerned about."

Limbaugh added that the "presidency was diminished last night" and Obama's appearance "made the country look small, made the presidency look small."

"No, I don't think JFK went on Jack Paar to talk about the Cuban missile crisis. I was just thinking about that, but I don't think JFK did that," Limbaugh said. "That might be too old, long ago for some of you youngsters out there. Jack Paar was the original Johnny Carson."

Limbaugh said Obama's appearance was "unserious" and it "made a mockery of what are serious world events."

"I don't know whether he thinks he did or not, but what he did was diminish the office of the presidency. He diminished the country," he said. "I just think it's a shame."


www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/07/Rush-Limbaugh-A-Shame-Obama-Diminished-Presidency-By-Talking-Nat-Sec-on-Leno