During this week, NBC’s Tonight Show host Jay Leno took a couple of noteworthy jabs at the anti-Bush mainstream media in America, on Monday joking that the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush was "offered his own show on MSNBC," and on Tuesday quipping that "he was so anti-Bush, at first people just assumed he was an American journalist."
By contrast, CBS’s Late Show host David Letterman used the episode to jab Fox News as he cracked on Tuesday that the "hot head" Iraqi journalist with "poor journalistic skills" was "offered his own show on Fox News." Below are transcripts of the relevant comments from this week’s Tonight Show on NBC and the Late Show on CBS:
#From the Monday, December 15, Tonight Show on NBC:
JAY LENO: Well, the interesting thing was the journalist who threw the shoe was immediately arrested and then offered his own show on MSNBC.
#From the Tuesday, December 16, Tonight Show on NBC:
LENO: As you know, President Bush took a surprise trip to Baghdad over the weekend. At a press conference with the Iraqi premier, a reporter threw his shoes at him, almost hit him. And the guy who threw the shoes, this guy was so angry, he was so anti-Bush, at first people just assumed he was an American journalist.
#From the Tuesday, December 16, Late Show on CBS:
DAVID LETTERMAN: Turns out this guy was a, described as a hot head, described as a hot head, and he’s a guy who’s an Iraqi journalist, and they say he’s a hot head with poor, poor journalistic skills. Hot head, poor journalistic skills. Well, no surprise, today he was offered his own show on Fox News. So go figure.
—Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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Mr. Baker will disagree with
December 19, 2008 - 16:24 ET by Ken ShepherdMr. Baker will disagree with me, but Letterman is a talentless hack of a comedian. His show is lame and he's an a**hat when it comes to treating his guests with whom he disagrees politically.
I saw both of
December 19, 2008 - 16:29 ET by bigtimerI saw both of these...
Letterman is a poor excuse for a so-called talk show host...let alone a man, in my opinion.
For the life of me I do not understand why any politician who is running for anything, let alone President if they are a republican bothers to go on these type of shows in the first place....
Talk about dumbing down America.
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Their both wise-a$$ bores
December 19, 2008 - 16:33 ET by RR GOPOh, my, he's just so darned funny...he makes me slap my knee often.
Right
They're (Leno and Letterman) both wise-a$$ bores in my book.
They can't make fun of Obama or anything remotely connected to him, so they don't mind making some fun of the MSM now that their boy's been elected.
One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
You know you have problems
December 19, 2008 - 16:49 ET by fitzfongDAVID LETTERMAN: Turns out this guy was a, described as a hot head, described as a hot head, and he’s a guy who’s an Iraqi journalist, and they say he’s a hot head with poor, poor journalistic skills. Hot head, poor journalistic skills. Well, no surprise, today he was offered his own show on Fox News. So go figure.
You know you have problems when you become so partisan that your writers can no longer construct even a coherent joke for you. When in doubt, Letterman can at least resort to the pencil/broken glass gag...that one never gets old.
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as funny as a basket full of dead babies on Mothers' Day
December 19, 2008 - 17:08 ET by wizardjrLetterman stopped being entertaining, much less funny, decades ago.
We don't watch any of these hacks. There's always something good on TLC or the Military Channel or History International. Heck, the cartoons on Disney are better than this.
Letterman's comments make no
December 20, 2008 - 08:53 ET by eaglewingz08Letterman's comments make no sense. Even if one accepts (which I don't) his premise that Fox Newsies have poor journalistic skills, tell that to Chris Wallace, Brit Hume late Tony Snow, etc., the reason for that snark is that Fox is pro Bush/republican. So the poor journalistic skills means pro Bush, yet the poor journalistic skills of the mad shoe thrower was anti republican (ala Olbermad and Madhews of MSLSD). Thus, the whole joke of Letterman was completely insane and unfunny, whereas Leno's was right on target.