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Leno is a privileged elite entertainer who has some good writers. Millions and millions of dollars in rare and expensive cars, lavish lifestyle and all the best Hollywood has to offer.

His obvious deference and servile attitude to Obama and any of his minions on air is sickening. My guess is any of his Obama jokes are pre-approved by the White House.

You could see that Leno was armed with all the leftist talking points and tried consistently to land a punch. And, he did come close one or two times, but Cruz’ resiliency stifled him. You could also see in Leno that small air of being afraid - once or twice he meekly shrugged his shoulders on ending a talking point question.

I think that what I’m calling Leno-as-afraid is something he and all the other entrenched liberal (and GOP) politicians see as they go whistling past the graveyard in trying to attack Cruz. They see - THEY KNOW - that Cruz carries with him all the right stuff, that Ronald Reagan style, and a very, very seriously committed number of people out here in real America that are behind him more than money, fame, fortune or entitlement can ever be.

Ideology, whether religious or political can’t really be bought. It has been responsible for genocide; and, in another vein, it was responsible for the founding of this country - two wildly different outcomes from basically the same thing. Here is where I see them as ‘afraid’, scared to death in fact. They know they really can’t stop a Cruz crusade under the right conditions even will all the cash in this country, and it scares them.

I think that what I’m calling Leno-as-afraid is something he and all the other entrenched liberal
(and GOP) politicians see as they go whistling past the graveyard in trying to attack Cruz.
They see - THEY KNOW - that Cruz carries with him all the right stuff, that Ronald Reagan style,
and a very, very seriously committed number of people out here in real America that are behind him
more than money, fame, fortune or entitlement can ever be.
BINGO!

From www.rushlimbaugh.com:

Cruz Educates Leno on the Real Reagan
He's got Ted Cruz on there, and he said, "Look, I know you're a man of principle.
You have your principles.
Does that prevent compromise, when you're so set on what you do?"
CRUZ: My view on compromise is actually exactly the same thing as what Ronald Reagan's was.
Reagan said, "What do you do if they offer you half a loaf?"
Answer: "You take it, and then you come back for more."
LENO: I don't think Ronald Reagan could get in the Tea Party today.
CRUZ: You know, I don't think that's right at all. Look at what Reagan did.
LENO: Mmm-hmm?
CRUZ: Reagan led a grassroots revolution.
I think where we are today is an awful lot like the late 1970s --
LENO: Okay.
CRUZ: -- where we had economic stagnation.
We had people hurting because the government policies under Jimmy Carter, they weren't working.
Remember, Reagan challenged an combatant Republican president 1976 in a primary --
LENO: Right.
CRUZ: -- and there was I grassroots revolution where he said:
Listen, this isn't working; let's get back to free market principles --
LENO: Mmm-hmm.
CRUZ: -- back to the Constitution...

Now, let's go back to March 13th, 1975, on The Tonight Show, 1975, Johnny Carson had Ronaldus Magnus, and they had this exchange
CARSON: Everybody is confused. How are we gonna get out of this?
REAGAN: I think one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer,
and government's the problem. (applause)
A moment ago you asked, you know, about people and feeling not only confused, but low and down on America.
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around,
you triple our troubles and we're better off than any other people on earth.
And we've asked so much of government, and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking that government has the answers.
There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves.
And if the government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd never miss 'em.
RUSH: Ronald Reagan was the Tea Party.
But there's Leno, "Well, Reagan, he couldn't even get in the Tea Party."
You know, a lot of leftists say that.
"You know, the Republicans, they would reject Reagan in a primary election."
Bull shhh. Bull. It's a crock...

I agree with you that Leno appeared afraid. He was hunched over his notes, reading from them in a hurried manner, not looking up at Cruz too much. We watch his program for a little while almost every night. We watch his UNfunny standup routine and then if we like his first guest we watch for a few minutes.

Leno did not act like his usual affable self with Cruz, he acted very nervous.

I couldn’t agree with you more.

I can’t think of any comedian who’s taken more shots at Obama than Leno, so I’m surprised he was so aggressive with Cruz.