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Elbowroom

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Mon May-03-04 11:05 AM
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white house correspondents....leno?

Did you guys catch this? He called Bush out on a number of things. Bush was not having a good time.

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goclark

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Mon May-03-04 11:08 AM
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1. Like What? n/t

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MallRat

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Mon May-03-04 11:09 AM
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2. If Leno was making him uncomfortable...

...then I can only imagine what Letterman would've done to him.

-MR

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liveoaktx

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Mon May-03-04 11:10 AM
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3. Yeah, that was a hoot! We Tivo'd his reaction to the gay-daughter joke

and he seemed to laugh extra hard at the Kerry hitting bus joke-maybe releasing some tension from having to hold in that fake smile the whole time while he was getting roasted.

Jaw dropped with the Condi-Sharpton joke! Wonder if SHE thought it was funny?

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wtmusic

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Mon May-03-04 11:11 AM
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4. He also reinforced the GOP Kerry 'flipflop' myth

Score is even--but he has some making up to do.

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Catherine Vincent

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Mon May-03-04 11:11 AM
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5. I'm surprised he did. He embarassed Clinton at one of those

dinners. Clinton just smiled and laughed like everybody else but I know he didn't really care for the joke. It was so bad that Leno apologized right after he said it. Leno showed some dog humping a cheerleaders leg and then he flashed Clinton's picture. I don't remember what the topic was but it was terribly low, imo, that he did that.

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Stephanie

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Mon May-03-04 11:14 AM
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6. The whole spectacle made me sick

I don't like seeing Richard Ben-Veniste yukking it up with Condi in her ball gown. DC is just Fraternity Row, I guess. They love to have thier Spring Formal in their fancy gowns. REALLY sickening.

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liveoaktx

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Mon May-03-04 11:16 AM
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7. Besides Leno, the corresp were sticking it to Bush about press conf

I mean, that whole first vignette about how many press conferences various presidents had and how they handled them, and then showing lame-o. I especially enjoyed what I'm sure was a pointed dig about one-term presidents,showing Bush... then immediately Carter, then Ford:)

Noticed also that a whole lot of the attendees, when they panned the audience, were NOT laughing. Wonder if Ben Affleck likes Leno anymore after that rude "bomb" joke (not that I don't agree, I don't like Bennie, but can't be funny to have it pointed out you star in failure movies).

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49jim

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Mon May-03-04 11:22 AM
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8. I watched Leno's monologue and

they were all recycled from his show. But he was playing to a whole different audience....many of the jokes didn't get alot of laughs...and I sensed the audience was a bit embarassed...they show the audience many were not laughing....even Leno admitted that he lot the audience several times. * smiled a few times but was not amused. I really don't care how he felt but Leno did a poor job.

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Elbowroom

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Mon May-03-04 11:40 AM
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11. leno did a poor job?

yeah, maybe if you are looking at the whole comedy thing. but I think leno had an agenda.....call out bush for the shitty things he has done and appear to be bipartisan by cracking one or two on dean.

he made fun of Bush taking so much vacation(bush didn't get the job for th emoney, he got it for the vacation time)

he made fun of Condi and her orwellian language(it isn't a menu, just a list of ......)

I need to find a transcript.

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Mon May-03-04 11:22 AM
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9. Two Bad Ones...Uneven Though...Blix Couldn't Find The Place...

but dag nabit BLIX WAS RIGHT...and Kerry will give his own SOU Rebuttle...Bull...

Really attacked Condi pretty hard...really didn't touch Bush much...
Got Carl Rove for peddling BS.

Crapped on Dean with that lying scream speech which drove him out of the race..TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR...

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Christ was Socialist

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Mon May-03-04 11:26 AM
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10. I was fucking pissed

I was so damn pissed that he did that. That's okay deaniacs will have thier revenge at the polls.

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