(Vanity) Johnny Carson show 10/31/1980

10.28.2016

[Az Joe]

Just watching Johnny Carson Show that originally aired on 10/31/1980, the Friday before the 1980 election 4 days leater. Near the top of Carson's monologue he mentions the election and says:

"How about this election? No one will call it, no papers, television...it's too close to call!"

Nice for the oldies network to air this episode it again, particularly at this time!

[o-n-money]

Thanks....for mutton.

[ifinnegan]

They’ve also run ads using snippets of old Johnny Carson shows.

They’ve used on that’s rather interesting.

It was a joke Carson made in 1992 about Gennifer Flowers, Clinton and Donald Trump. It’s almost unbelievable.

Carson says Clinton’s mistress has lost her job, but don’t worry because she found another job as a Donald Trump back up mistress.

That was a monologue joke in 1992.

[Az Joe]

More things change, more they stay the same

[Ciaphas Cain]

Ronald Reagan on Carson's Tonight Show, March 1975 (shortly after finishing his term as governor of California).

[DoughtyOne]

Very nice. Thanks.

[Bobalu]

Reagan Campaign event. 31 October 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inP4mEU4LVs

[cgbg]

Reagan won by ten points—the pollsters lied and hid the ball before the election.

They released polls showing Reagan ahead before the election _after_ the election.

After the fact the pollsters made up volumes of lies trying to explain what was blatant propaganda and polling malpractice.

[ETL]

Ronald Reagan on Carson's Tonight Show, March 1975 (shortly after finishing his term as governor of California).

I loved the JC Show, and, for the most part, still do. However, a few months ago I watched a rerun where Jane Fonda was a guest. And it wasn't too long after her despicable actions in North Vietnam. Maybe a few years. Yet he practically treated her as a hero, complimenting her over and over for her strong stance against the war, totally not getting that she wasn't really "anti-war", but rather sympathetic to the communist enemy we were fighting. That she was actually rooting for them to win the war.

[ETL]

Here's Hanoi Jane remarking on the agenda that Obama refers to as (quote)
"The fundamental transformation of the United States of America"...

November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas:
"We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react.

We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right." --Karen Elliott Dallas Morning News December 11, 1971

From 1972: "I am not a do-gooder, I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."

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February 16, 1971: Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland form "FTA" (F*** The Army), an anti-war, anti-American road show that tours near Army bases in order to undermine troop morale. Skits and songs portray American defeats, soldiers refusing to fight, and the murder of officers by their troops. FTA cast members mingle with soldiers after the shows, encouraging them to desert or to sabotage the Army.

http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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1971 FTA trailer (3 min youtube video): Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HlkgPCgU7g
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[ETL]

[OttawaFreeper]

My, back when late night television was still watchable (even during an election year). Sort of makes you also think of when many NHL players still did not wear helmets or shields and took a man out cleanly with the hips or shoulders and when fights were a good deal more common but accompanied with considerably fewer cheap shot type offences. Hope I am not being silly with this line of thought.