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You don’t recall him telling an Obama joke because he didn’t tell a lot of Obama jokes. That’s not to say he never told them but he tried, like Carson, to be an equal opportunity offender. In that regard, he was very different than Letterman who was under the Svengali influence of his left wing producer.

Post #45 ludicrously retells a joke that supposedly Leno told but which is actually a very badly worded reworking of a line from Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters”. The line was said by Max Von Sydow in one of his few comic performances. The joke was written by Allen.

Do not expect freepers to know what they’re talking about most of the time.

he tried, like Carson, to be an equal opportunity offender.

Here’s Johnny—introducing commie traitor "Hanoi Jane" Fonda...

“Here’s a gal I admire highly,” ... “as a person who has taken a stand on issues that at times were unpopular ... called a radical.

It’s a funny thing, how people who were called radical at the time are now considered people who were right on.”

Hanoi Jane on the Tonight Show, 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrFKwUgozX8

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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."

January, 1971: Jane Fonda raises funds for the Winter Soldier Investigation through a series of benefit concerts. Participants include Fonda, Dick Gregory, Donald Sutherland, Graham Nash, David Crosby and Phil Ochs. Fonda is named Honorary National Coordinator of the event.

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

he tried, like Carson, to be an equal opportunity offender.

Granted, Carson did rarely go into politics (and thank God for that, given how outrageously far left his politics obviously were), very unlike damn-near every late night or daytime talk show hosts ever since, who regularly mock and attack republic presidents and other Rep politicians. Leno was practically alone in his occasional criticism of Comrade Obama. Of course the control-freak leftists would want him to go away.