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Ann looked good and came across as a formidable intellect for the political right on the Jay Leno show. Jay was polite, even helpful. He obviously read "Godless" and felt that it's criticisms had merit. Carlin was subdued after an interesting social commentary poetic monologue that wanted to proove that he was still a hip and happening comedian. The show's producers didn't pull any subtle MSM camera tricks out of its hat or show any reaction shots of Carlin during the interview, it was all about Ann and she was given a level playing field.

She needs to study the tape closely for future TV talk show appearances. TV is x-ray, ask Joe McCarthy. Any self-referrential comments absolutely need to be wrapped in humor laced with a bit of analytical humility otherwise you come off as egotistical, something that does not play well even in Jerry Springer's demographic. Her observations are keen but need to be presented slightly more at the layman's level, I think she may have talked over her TV audience's head a tad.

Some of her humorous remarks such as the one about "Dorothy's house" went totally flat, but Leno didn't leave dead air for the flatness to sink in. He was a gentleman. As he said during the interview, he's a social liberal and a fiscal conservative and enjoys debate with those of his friends that are conservative.

Perhaps this breakthrough appearance will open the door to other conservative spokesfolks on the TV talk show circuit. It would be a coup if Ann could get on Oprah. Perhaps the conservative radio hosts could be tapped as an informal "speakers bureau". We need people who are totally bulletproof on the air. Print commentators and think tankers are far from trap proof.

The studio audience, BTW, were well behaved, no boos or shouts, and some of her fans cheered. My take is that any liberals in the studio audience were instructed by the producers to chill. One can assume that there was an attempt by the lefties to insert provocateurs into the studio. A sop to the radical left appeared as the last act, a singer whose guitar had the logo "This machine kills fascists" on it (given a closeup, needless to say), just like 1930's Wobbly IWW anarcho-marxist troubador Woody Guthrie's guitar.

The issue here is not so much Ann's message or her book which was doing great on the charts before Leno (which fact probably got her on Leno to begin with). The issue is that she was given a major TV platform that was not set up as a hatchet job. I hope conservatives can exploit this opening with other class acts. I think there is a growing realization in mediaopolis that the struggle is about western civilization; you know, Mr. Producer, the folks who brought you those nice studio cameras and attendant electrical grid. Conservatives need to express this central strategic issue in a civilized, non-trailer trash manner.

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