Video: Leno asks Dems: How will you “stand up to terrorists when you’re afraid of Fox News?”
posted at 2:00 pm on April 11, 2007 by Ian
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Leno says what a lot of us are thinking.
Hat tip to Ken Shepherd at Newsbusters.
Transcript:
Jay Leno: Well, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards as well as a number of other Democratic candidates say they will not participate in a presidential debate next month because the debate is on Fox News and Fox News is biased. Well, how are you going to stand up to terrorists when you’re afraid of Fox News? [audience laughter]
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Now if only someone would ask that question in an interview with Hillary! or The Savior.
dalewalt on April 11, 2007 at 2:02 PM
How will you stand up against islamists if you’re afraid of public opinion. In our next war, and there will be a next war, we had better show strength. You show strength by destroying your enemy’s center of gravity which we haven’t done yet in this war.
Mojave Mark on April 11, 2007 at 2:05 PM
killer!
Opinionnation on April 11, 2007 at 2:08 PM
To watch the general election you will need 2 tv’s. The one tuned to Fox to watch the Republican and one tuned to PBS to watch the Democrat, because we know from the Kos Kids that CBS, ABC, NBC, etc are right-wing extremist propoganda machines.
pedestrian on April 11, 2007 at 2:09 PM
I have a question. Was the audience laughter a raucous one or a nervous titter?
Kokonut on April 11, 2007 at 2:11 PM
The last time we had a Leno clip some commenters accused him of leaning left, still think so?
Theworldisnotenough on April 11, 2007 at 2:13 PM
I heard both. If we could identify the percentages of each, we’d know the political demographics of Jay’s audience :^)
db on April 11, 2007 at 2:17 PM
Run the debates anyway, have some computer science geeks program up a random platitude generator based on the statements of each candidate, and put a picture of the candidate at the appropriate podiums
it’d be cheaper, and a whole lot funnier I expect
Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on April 11, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Once in awhile Jay hits a home run stating the obvious.
infidel4life on April 11, 2007 at 2:25 PM
How can Republicans win the war in Iraq if they can’t even win Congress?
HA! Jokes that make no sense are funny!
Nonfactor on April 11, 2007 at 2:26 PM
If Nancy Pelosi is any indication, they’ll kneel before Xerxes before they ever stand up to terrorists.
thirteen28 on April 11, 2007 at 2:29 PM
Dem answer: the solution to all our problems is to take down Fox News along with the conservatives in this country, as they are the biggest threat facing the world today.
Rick on April 11, 2007 at 2:29 PM
They can’t. That’s why we are going to lose.
pedestrian on April 11, 2007 at 2:29 PM
They won’t stand up to terrorists. That’s the problem. And it’s everyone’s problem.
ReubenJCogburn on April 11, 2007 at 2:38 PM
In all fairness, the Dems would welcome a debate held by an unbiased party. Like Bashar Assad, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But they just may be holding out for gift bags.
dorkafork on April 11, 2007 at 2:41 PM
Talk about hitting the nail on the head! I think he hit several Democrats’ thumbs at the same time with that hard-hitting joke.
flutejpl on April 11, 2007 at 2:43 PM
I saw that last night.
He also had a segment of worst selling items on Amazon.com.
He’d would contrast a real top seller with a spoofed/gag item.
Imagine my surprise when he held up Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The gag/counter product was In Fidel by Fidel Castro’s proctologist.
Kai on April 11, 2007 at 2:48 PM
Let’s give full credit; for my part, he thought of it before I did.
Kralizec on April 11, 2007 at 2:51 PM
But they did participate in a townhall type meeting sponsored by moveon dot org. Tell me again how the Dems are not taking their marching orders from the far left.
Moderate Dem is just as much a oxymoron as moderate Muslim. Except if you watch PBS.
The Republican strategist need to have copies of the transcripts and videos of all those Dems who participated in that moveon sponsored meeting and they need to beat the Dems over the head with them.
LakeRuins on April 11, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Their bad. If they don’t want to go on the most popular cable news channel because they’re afraid of a debate, then they’re toast. I’m starting to think that the GOP deliberately lost the congress in ‘06. If the GOP held the majority in all houses, there’s no way we could win the presidency in ‘08. The MSM would have turned up the heat to help Dems win, (because the Dems can’t win on their own ever,) and the GOP would have gotten blame for everything that would go wrong and many things that didn’t yet were reported to have gone wrong. As it stands, the GOP has veto power and the Dems’ are so drunk with power and over confidence that they are blindly shooting themselves in the foot over and over. And we’re onto them! There won’t be another “Macaca” incident because we know their secret police will be everywhere watching us and making up definitions of words they can’t even pronounce. Keep it up wimps; afraid of life and all that goes with it.
foxforce91 on April 11, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Afraid of Fox News? These people are afraid of their own shadows!
soulsirkus on April 11, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Ah, c’mon. The Democrats will stand up to terror just fine.
As soon as Los Angeles is a smoking, radioactive hole in the ground.
Uh oh. The truth isn’t quite as funny as the joke.
Don’t sweat it. As long as you don’t live in that future smoking hole, the Democratic leadership will rush to your aid! Well, after a few committee meanings. And a consulation with Elizebeth Edwards. And a quick talk with Kos. A check with Bill Clinton and Ned Lamont. And a few words with the ACLU to make sure we aren’t violating the rights of the terrorists that just nuked us …
… but AFTER that, I promise, the Democrats will protect us just fine. So there.
Professor Blather on April 11, 2007 at 3:16 PM
gumballs!
Ropera on April 11, 2007 at 3:21 PM
Who’s afraid of the big bad fox. Democrats it seems, and we all thought it.
I just wish we had a conservative in the running that I liked, or could get excited ( in a political way, keep it clean) about.
Kini on April 11, 2007 at 3:21 PM
EXACTLY
WisCon on April 11, 2007 at 3:23 PM
Well, at least you picked an appropriate nick.
techno_barbarian on April 11, 2007 at 3:30 PM
The answer is: they don’t plan to stand up to terrorists. That’s their plan.
That’s right, just hug the monster and he will nestle in your big mommy arms….
wordwarp on April 11, 2007 at 3:33 PM
And then bite your friggin’ head off.
Idiots.
techno_barbarian on April 11, 2007 at 3:34 PM
So if Fox is not legitimate, then what is CNN and MSNBC and the rest?
/rhetorical
Kini on April 11, 2007 at 3:42 PM
Sure they are. So are posts. BTW, shouldn’t you be burning down some synagogue or burning a cross in front of a Jewish house like the good Nazi you are? A$$hole.
Andy in Agoura Hills on April 11, 2007 at 3:54 PM
“The Democrat party, we bought it, we own it!” - Move-On.Ord 2004
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 11, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Clearly I meant MoveOn.Org
Please add editing feature :(
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 11, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Bashir Assad: Just needs someone to talk to
Brit Hume: Too evil to engage
TallDave on April 11, 2007 at 4:09 PM
Well, if you stay home in ‘08 we’ll get worse than what we have now. I partially blame those hardline immigration righties who stayed home last November to “teach those amnesty republicans a lesson.” We’re all feeling it now. And have your issues on immigration been resolved? No. Instead now the illegals will have free health care, in state tuition and a host of free benefits on our dime. Not saying you will - but don’t stay home!
foxforce91 on April 11, 2007 at 4:14 PM
heh! And probably just as informative…
lan astaslem on April 11, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Lets have Saturday Night Live actors run the debate. I still believe they helped GWB win against AL. (Those are still funny.)
It would certainly be more entertaining than a “real” Dem debate.
tbolick on April 11, 2007 at 4:36 PM
AP and the gang deserve some royalties. I think Jay has been reading Hot Air.
budorob on April 11, 2007 at 4:46 PM
Leno is a flaming liberal. But he’s liberal for the right reason–he believes it. Clinton, Gore, Kennedy, et al are liberal because that’s what they’re paid to be. Leno can thus still make a joke about how pathetic these folks are.
tbolick,
SNL debates probably were more intelligent than the real ones, in addition to being funny.
cmay on April 11, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Read page 372, Paragraph 6, subsection D of the Democrap handbook. Keep repeating lies until they are accepted as truth.
VikingGoneWild on April 11, 2007 at 4:49 PM
All good humor is grounded in truth….
Tim Burton on April 11, 2007 at 4:54 PM
How can the Democrats stand up to terrorists when they share their revulsion for free speech?
Tantor on April 11, 2007 at 5:15 PM
They aren’t Jay. Just ask Pelosis new best bud, Assad.
csdeven on April 11, 2007 at 6:03 PM
I smell a viral video idea.
csdeven on April 11, 2007 at 6:04 PM
You’re right, they are, but that is their strategy. To the ignorant sheeple who watch the MSM, anyone to the right of the far left appear moderate by comparison. This is why the MSM consider themselves the center of the political spectrum. The sanctimonious right stubbornly holds to the holier than thou montra erroneously believing people will be swayed by their rightousness. If the right had a vocal extreme that the moderates vocally supported (in theory, if not in word), true conservatism would be seen for what it is. Moderate and responsible behavior. Then, the people who are kowtowed by PCness, wouldn’t feel like they were aligning themselves with extremism on the right because there is actually an extreme right that establishes is clearly different from moderate conservatism.
csdeven on April 11, 2007 at 6:16 PM
You put that very well. ANY republican is better than ANY lefty. PERIOD.
csdeven on April 11, 2007 at 6:19 PM
At least now I can say that I’ve been called a Nazi on this website.
You didn’t read right below the section you quoted where I said “jokes that make no sense are funny”? Reason would tell you that the “joke” I wrote made no sense, much like the “joke” Leno told.
Nonfactor on April 11, 2007 at 7:43 PM
Wonderful!!!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on April 11, 2007 at 8:01 PM
Rush mentioned today how Pelosi said she wanted to open lines of communication and thus her trip to Syria…and yet she and they slam the door on Fox news . SOME COMMUNICATION!!
Mellen on April 11, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Uh yep….
sMack on April 11, 2007 at 10:09 PM
You know…….. having to work and being a single dad really gets in the way posting the “money quote” before someone else does………. csdeven “Money”!
PinkyBigglesworth on April 12, 2007 at 12:44 AM
Leno’s always been the most fair, reasonable, and equal-opportunity jokester on late night. Letterman et. al. are all tools and shrill little libs who wear their bias on their sleeves. Conan is the funniest, but probably only a notch below Letterman as an uber-lib Bush/conservative basher.
Patriot33 on April 12, 2007 at 2:29 AM
I think they are afraid that FOX would make them clarify their positions. Kucinich wins if this happens because he isn’t trying to deceive anyone with his views. That is why Kucinich wanted the debate.
Perchant on April 12, 2007 at 10:13 AM