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Did Jay Leno really write this??
Posted on 07/18/2007 8:45:26 AM PDT by metalmanx2j
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To: TexasCajun
No, but it's a good read!
It's an article that should be pasted to every school library wall
To: metalmanx2j
Ha! The original probably ended with, “Forward this on to ten people you love...”
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:00:26 AM PDT
by
Lou L
To: metalmanx2j
what is “bulliton”??? new word like blog????
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:01:24 AM PDT
by
camas
To: metalmanx2j
Nope. George Carlin wrote it.
Or maybe Ted Nugent.
No, wait, it was Larry Miller.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:01:58 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
To: Chief_Airframer
Regardless of who wrote it, it’s a good read.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:04:20 AM PDT
by
Pippin
(World's tallest hobbit)
To: Larry Lucido
Truly the great thinkers of our generation.
These three seem to author every intuitive mass-mailed e-mail that I receive.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:05:00 AM PDT
by
PBRSTREETGANG
(Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Larry Lucido
It would seem that nobody wrote it.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:13:42 AM PDT
by
Rudder
To: metalmanx2j
Nope, and it’s not George Carlin or Ted Nugent either.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:19:35 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(FRedOn. Apply Directly To The White House!)
To: metalmanx2j
No, it was the same mysterious person that always emails me with “MUST READ” in the Subject Box.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:35:22 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: metalmanx2j
If you forward it to 100 Freepers Bill Gates will come mow your lawn.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:38:15 AM PDT
by
Pookee
To: metalmanx2j
Nope, it was Abe Lincoln.
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posted on
07/18/2007 9:38:24 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: metalmanx2j
"Shut off the TV"...Jay Leno didn't write this.
But, it's a good editorial, nonetheless.
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posted on
07/18/2007 10:31:49 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: Pippin
Should have written... False but accurate
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posted on
07/18/2007 10:33:34 AM PDT
by
Chief_Airframer
(Initiated..... And PROUD of it!)
To: metalmanx2j
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posted on
07/18/2007 10:34:42 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: metalmanx2j
Nick Gholson of the Wichita Falls Times and Record News wrote the "I am A Bad American" that was circulated several years ago. I wouldn't doubt that he wrote this too.
To: metalmanx2j
I see others provided the link.
Snopes has this clarification of the confusion:
Origins: In October 2005, the U.S. was still reeling from the physical, emotional, and political fallout of Hurricane Katrina (and several other recent severe storms); fears involving terrorism and the bird flu were in the air; and national debate was ongoing about the Pledge of Allegiance and the appropriateness of its reference to the U.S. as one nation "under God."
That month, comedian Jay Leno riffed on the emotional climate of America in one of his Tonight Show opening monologues:
With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
A year later, Craig R. Smith penned the above-reproduced essay exhorting Americans to focus on the positive aspects of their country rather than the bad events that typically comprise our daily news fodder. By March 2007 the original had been altered through multiple e-mail forwards, with the closing paragraphs (which quoted B.C. Forbes) removed and Jay Leno's joke (with misplaced quotation marks) appended to the end, creating the mistaken impression that the talk show host was the author of the entire piece (as evidenced by its new opening line, "Jay Leno hits the nail on the head ..."). However, only the last sentence originated with the lantern-jawed comedian; the rest is the work of someone else.
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posted on
07/18/2007 11:04:46 AM PDT
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
To: TexasCajun
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:18:47 PM PDT
by
g33k355
("He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.")
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