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WHY NBC GOT RID OF JAY LENO
email from friend and research ^ | 8/10/2015 | not shown

Posted on 06/15/2019 4:21:04 AM PDT by sodpoodle

News is leaking out from Hollywood executives in-the-know that the Obama White House had been leaning on, pressuring executives at NBC for two years to replace Jay Leno because the comedian was criticizing Obama every night. Obama didn't like it and considered it a racist attack on him.

After data came to light that $100's of millions had been spent on First Family vacations during a recession, Mrs. Obama's unpopular new laws that changed food in America's schools and other negative news including the disastrous Obamacare roll-out & website mess, Jay Leno took his comedy to a new level and his ratings skyrocketed -- none of the other comics were so bold. NBC couldn't stomach the fact that Leno's jokes about Obama were always right on target about the first black president.. And left-leaning Democrat executives at NBC were being harassed by Obama himself who thought the comedy was a racist attack on him.

GOLDEN OLDIES FROM JAY: "I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don't want to get audited by the IRS."

On NSA surveillance: "We wanted a president who listens to all Americans -- now we have one."

On a new IRS commissioner: "He's called 'acting commissioner' because he has to act like the scandal doesn't involve the White House."

On closing the Guantanamo prison for terrorists: "If he really wants to close it, turn it into a government-funded solar power company. The doors will be shut in a month."

Concerning the Benghazi, Associated Press, and IRS scandals: "Remember in the old days when President Obama's biggest embarrassment was Joe Biden?"

On saying he didn't know about the IRS scandal: "He was too busy not knowing anything about Benghazi to not know anything about the IRS."

"The White House has a new slogan about Benghazi: Hope and change the subject."

"It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records."

"It is not looking good for President Obama. Today his teleprompter took the fifth."

"Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'"

On commencement address: "He told the young graduates their future is bright unless, of course, they want jobs."

On a Chicago man who set a record for riding a Ferris wheel: "The only other way to go around and around in a circle that many times is to read the official report on Benghazi."

On White House claims of ignorance on the scandals: "They took 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' out of the Pentagon and moved it into the White House."

Now the last and I think best..... "These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. It's gotten so bad that people in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American."


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: bias; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; jayleno; mediawingofthednc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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On the money!!!
1 posted on 06/15/2019 4:21:04 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

... and which treasonous seditious criminals did NBC
then sign on, or continue (to this day)?


2 posted on 06/15/2019 4:29:55 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Diogenesis

Great jokes !!


3 posted on 06/15/2019 4:32:14 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: sodpoodle

4 posted on 06/15/2019 4:34:09 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: sodpoodle
The real Obama on display once again.
5 posted on 06/15/2019 4:34:15 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: sodpoodle
Fake but accurate. This is why we don't take emails from friends at gospel.

Jay Leno still works for NBC.

6 posted on 06/15/2019 4:34:43 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: sodpoodle; Delta 21; bitt; LS
On closing the Guantanamo prison for terrorists: "If he really wants to close it, turn it into a government-funded solar power company. The doors will be shut in a month."

______________

They're all great, but this one ...ROFL

7 posted on 06/15/2019 4:37:46 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: sodpoodle
Nathan Bedford's first maxim of American politics:

all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.


8 posted on 06/15/2019 4:39:23 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: Diogenesis
"Now the last and I think best..... "These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. It's gotten so bad that people in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American.""

_________

No wonder Obama was losing it.

9 posted on 06/15/2019 4:41:54 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: sodpoodle

I got to meet Leno. Super nice man.


10 posted on 06/15/2019 4:42:01 AM PDT by buffyt ( It's not a choice, it is a child.)
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To: Yo-Yo

I just wanted to post the jokes - but after posting, I checked his bio on Wiki - you are correct, he has been back and forth with different shows on NBC.


11 posted on 06/15/2019 4:42:13 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: sodpoodle

Of course, the fact that he wanted to leave had nothing to do with it.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be about politics?

You post an “email” without any sourcing and full of “leaks.”

And you think this is real? This is junk.


12 posted on 06/15/2019 4:42:47 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: nathanbedford

bingo


13 posted on 06/15/2019 4:43:02 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: sodpoodle
I just wanted to post the jokes - but after posting, I checked his bio on Wiki - you are correct, he has been back and forth with different shows on NBC.

Yes, the jokes are good, but without research, I'd be willing to bet that they weren't even Jay Leno monologue jokes.

If you read Wikipedia, Jay Leno announced his retirement in 2004, during the Dubya Presidency.

14 posted on 06/15/2019 4:45:20 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: nathanbedford

I think you nailed it.


15 posted on 06/15/2019 4:45:21 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: sodpoodle

I’m glad Ears is gone.


16 posted on 06/15/2019 4:46:14 AM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: Yo-Yo

No, we don’t know the accuracy of a passed-around email.

But Leno was retired from his prime position while still young by such standards and at his peak, which was bizarre for a network to do. Beyond understandable that he ended up leaving the gig altogether.

And he was at least more politically balanced, with some shots at Obama, than any of the leftist toadies put on in the evening by the networks since.


17 posted on 06/15/2019 4:46:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Yo-Yo
"Jay Leno still works for NBC."

Being on the payroll is NOT the same as hosting the Tonight show on a routine (or even stand-in) basis. Probably just part of the bribe package to get him to "go quietly".

18 posted on 06/15/2019 4:47:20 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Yo-Yo
Jay Leno still works for NBC

The only listing I see in the line-up is "Jay Leno Garage."

Not exactly hard-hitting stuff. Am I missing something?

19 posted on 06/15/2019 4:47:43 AM PDT by Ace's Dad (Trump in 2020!)
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To: sodpoodle
Maybe NBC should have hired Letterman instead of Leno. /s/


20 posted on 06/15/2019 4:48:19 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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