I’m reminiscing now, but one nice thing about Johnny Carson is that you never knew just where he stood politically. And when he did do political jokes, he made gentle fun of people in both parties.
I guess we’ll never see anything like those days again.
Carson was leftist. He said some anti Bush stuff before he passed away in 2005. Granted we say anti Bush stuff now but at the time and in context Carson was saying what the left was. He basically followed the maxim of Michael Jordan when he said Republicans buy shoes too. He didn’t alienate half his audience unlike so many do today.