Jay Leno watch:

Over the past year Jay Leno has had a number of conservative figures on the Tonight Show. They include Bill O'Reilly, Shepard Smith, and others. Dennis Miller has also been on to pontificate. Of course, Leno has liberal guests as well, but we did think it strange to see O'Reilly and Smith, who strike us as uninteresting, offensive, and puerile. Some time ago we suspected that Leno had a conservative streak in him, and that seemed to be justified when Fox News Sunday ran a clip of Leno during last week's roundtable. The topic was Al Gore's potential move to start up a liberal radio network (or some such thing). To make a point, Tony Snow showed the following clip:

LENO: "Gore says there's no outlet in this country for the liberal viewpoint. You know, except for ABC, NBC, CBS, HBO, Bravo, BET, Showtime, Lifetime, MTV, Oxygen, National Public Radio and IFP."

"Other than that, there's nothing."

Leno's joke was repeated in the Washington Times by Suzanne Fields in her Op-Ed.

We think Leno has every right to do what he does, and we're not calling for any action. However, it does seem strange to us that he's promoting people and notions from the bellicose right. But then, they have become the voice of "mainstream conservatives".

posted by Quiddity at 6/26/2003 11:43:00 AM