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Did Jay Leno really write this??

Posted on 07/18/2007 8:45:26 AM PDT by metalmanx2j

I got this message in a bulliton post on myspace. It is really well writen adn I agree with it. But the bulliton said Jay Leno wrote it. it doesn't sound like Leno. If anyone knows, let me know...

thanks! ---------------------------------------------------

JAY'S LETTER FOLLOWS

"The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?

The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the president. In essence 2/3s of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change.

So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What we are so unhappy about?''

Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter? Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job? Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?

Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state? Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter? I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough.

Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.

Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar o r prowler intrudes , an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell phones and computers.

How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world? Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy.

Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have , and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.

I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?

The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad?

Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the "Media" told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful ass every day.

Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an ''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable''discharge after a few days in the brig.

So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans? Say what you want but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells , and when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way......Insane!

Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad.

We are among the most blessed peoples on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative."

"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?"

Jay Leno


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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

21 posted on 07/18/2007 9:00:02 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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To: metalmanx2j

Ha! The original probably ended with, “Forward this on to ten people you love...”


22 posted on 07/18/2007 9:00:26 AM PDT by Lou L
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To: metalmanx2j
what is “bulliton”??? new word like blog????
23 posted on 07/18/2007 9:01:24 AM PDT by camas
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To: metalmanx2j

Nope. George Carlin wrote it.

Or maybe Ted Nugent.

No, wait, it was Larry Miller.


24 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.)
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To: Chief_Airframer

Regardless of who wrote it, it’s a good read.


25 posted on 07/18/2007 9:04:20 AM PDT by Pippin (World's tallest hobbit)
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To: Larry Lucido

Truly the great thinkers of our generation.

These three seem to author every intuitive mass-mailed e-mail that I receive.


26 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.


28 posted on 07/18/2007 9:13:42 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: metalmanx2j

Nope, and it’s not George Carlin or Ted Nugent either.


29 posted on 07/18/2007 9:19:35 AM PDT by RockinRight (FRedOn. Apply Directly To The White House!)
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To: metalmanx2j
No, it was the same mysterious person that always emails me with “MUST READ” in the Subject Box.
30 posted on 07/18/2007 9:35:22 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: metalmanx2j

If you forward it to 100 Freepers Bill Gates will come mow your lawn.


31 posted on 07/18/2007 9:38:15 AM PDT by Pookee
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To: metalmanx2j

Nope, it was Abe Lincoln.


32 posted on 07/18/2007 9:38:24 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: metalmanx2j
"Shut off the TV"...Jay Leno didn't write this.

But, it's a good editorial, nonetheless.

33 posted on 07/18/2007 10:31:49 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Pippin

Should have written... False but accurate


34 posted on 07/18/2007 10:33:34 AM PDT by Chief_Airframer (Initiated..... And PROUD of it!)
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To: metalmanx2j

Internet myth.


35 posted on 07/18/2007 10:34:42 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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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.
36 posted on 07/18/2007 10:53:48 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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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.

37 posted on 07/18/2007 11:04:46 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: TexasCajun

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53028


38 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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