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During his Wednesday appearance on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show,' President Obama made three factual gaffes; one of them involved the claim that cities not found along the Gulf of Mexico are. Were Obama a Republican, these gaffes would have led news coverage for the next forty-eight hours. Not only did most of the media ignore or downplay these gaffes; the Associated Press went so far as to cover one of them up.

State Sen. Mark Leno, who represents San Francisco in the state Capitol, is wading into international politics with a resolution condemning the recent anti-gay laws passed in Russia and urging the state’s retirement systems to refrain from investing in the country moving forward. Russia recently passed a law banning “propaganda,” around “nontraditional sexual relations” — vague language that continues a pattern of rolling back LGBT rights there. President Obama recently condemned the law; others have called for the International Olympic Committee to pressure Russia to repeal the law ahead of next year’s winter Olympics in Sochi. The Senate resolution, which...

Barack Obama delivered one gaffe after another in his August 6 interview with Jay Leno, but the networks that usually mock every mistake or slip of the tongue made by Republicans ignored the President's verbal mishaps. ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's This Morning and NBC's Today show, on Wednesday morning, all bypassed the chance to criticize Obama for: downplaying the threat of terrorism; falsely claiming Vladimir Putin once ran the KGB; placing the Atlantic coast cities of Savannah, Charleston and Jacksonville on the Gulf of Mexico; confusing the Winter Olympics with the Summer Olympics. [Video here in the original article]...

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Obama: Hillary Clinton ‘doesn’t have to measure’ White House drapes By Lara Seligman - 08/07/13 08:05 AM ET When Hillary Clinton came to lunch at the White House last month, she didn’t waste energy measuring the drapes, President Obama joked in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” “Keep in mind, she’s been there before,” Obama reminded Leno when the host asked about his lunch with the former first lady and potential 2016 presidential contender. “She didn’t need to measure them.” Obama said he was the one who proposed the White House lunch, adding that the...

Jay Leno ripped Barack Obama tonight in his monologue as the president waited to come on The Tonight Show. “President Obama has sent John McCain to Cairo to help solve the political problems that brought the Egyptian government to a halt. I got an idea. How about solving the problems that brought our country to a halt.”

When Hillary Clinton came to lunch at the White House, she didn’t waste time measuring the drapes, President Obama told Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show” Tuesday night. “Keep in mind she’s been there before,” the POTUS reminded Leno about the former First Lady and likely 2016 presidential hopeful. “She doesn’t have to measure them.” --snip-- Obama also had warm words for Sen. John McCain when Leno asked Obama about his “bromance” with the GOPer. “That’s how a classic romantic comedy goes,” he quipped. “You know, initially you’re not getting along and then you keep on bumping into each other.”

That headline is not a lie. The greatest orator since Abraham Lincoln had a serious policy discussion with . . . wait for it . . . Jay Leno. During that serious, I mean really serious, talk, Obama explicitly stated that it was unfortunate that Americans were less likely to die in a terrorist attack than in a car accident. Really: POTUS said the U.S. was not overreacting. POTUS said people can still take vacation, just do so in a “prudent way” by checking on the State Department Websites for up-to-day information before making plans. “The odds of dying in...

Jay Leno took a comedic swipe at ObamaCare Friday. After informing a somewhat stunned crowd about the exemption members of Congress were given from the Affordable Care Act, the NBC Tonight Show host said, "Why don't they call it what it really is - the 'Do As We Say, Not As We Do Act?'" JAY LENO: Well, it was reported today that the White House just approved an exemption in ObamaCare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Notice the reaction from the crowd? Not very pleased to hear this news, were they? But I digress: LENO: Yeah, well,...

President Obama became the first sitting president to appear on late-night when he visited The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in March 2009. Now he is set to return to the NBC show August 6 — it will be his sixth appearance, the most recent one coming in October.

“HERE’S A fascinating story,” the longtime host of NBC’s Tonight Show With Jay Leno told his audience last week, mentioning a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling “that a dentist could legally fire his female assistant because he found her too sexy, too attractive, and a threat to his marriage. She didn’t do anything. She’s just good-looking.” The payoff: “Hey, I’ll bet that’s what happened to me here at NBC!”

“HERE’S A fascinating story,” the longtime host of NBC’s Tonight Show With Jay Leno told his audience last week, mentioning a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling “that a dentist could legally fire his female assistant because he found her too sexy, too attractive, and a threat to his marriage. She didn’t do anything. She’s just good-looking.” The payoff: “Hey, I’ll bet that’s what happened to me here at NBC!” It’s the sort of joke that is rapidly becoming a staple of Leno’s monologue. (On Monday’s show, riffing on the royal baby, he confided that he was “a little bummed out,...

Okay, it's inevitable that Jay Leno will tell a bunch of Carlos Danger jokes tonight. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to predict the jokes that Jay will tell.

JAY LENO: Well, folks, the mystery is over. The winner has been revealed. After a month of waiting, it turns out an 84-year-old woman in Florida has won the $590 million Powerball lottery. $590 million, 84 years old. I bet her kids regret putting grandma in the nursing home now. Huh? Yeah, no. 'We love you grandma! we were just coming to see you next weekend. We didn't know!' It's already gone to her head. She already had big rims put on her Rascal scooter, you know. She's got the -- she's going all out. Now, as for how much...

Media members thinking the Republicans are overplaying their hand with the Internal Revenue Service scandal should pay attention to what happened on NBC’s Tonight Show Monday.

We've already seen audiences fleeing MSNBC, the network that religiously carries the Obama administration's water, as a number of scandals rock the White House. Now, it looks like the long-running battle between Jay Leno and David Letterman is also being affected by the toxic headlines swirling around the president. During this year's May sweeps, "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" posted a 39 percent lead over "Late Show With David Letterman" in the advertiser-cherished 18-49 demographic -- the widest May sweep margin over "Late Show" since 2004, and a 12 percent increase over last year's May sweep.... In total viewers,...

Jay Leno jokes target President Obama's problems By: Patrick Gavin May 23, 2013 09:27 AM EDT On the late night talk show circuit lately, President Barack Obama has been on the receiving end of a barrage of jokes from “The Tonight Show” host Jay Leno, who has spent the past week opening his nightly monologue with a series of jokes at the White House’s expense. May 16: In reaction to news of a prostitution ring being run out of a retirement home. “Boy, that Obamacare is amazing! It just provides everything!” On a new IRS commissioner: “They’re called ‘acting commissioner’...

President Barack Obama is a nightmare for political comedians. He's too cool, too smart, too ... good at this whole leadership thing. That was the bill of goods comedians sold us five years ago, an excuse which prevented them from mocking Obama as they did every previous Commander in Chief. Jay Leno wasn't buying that pile of horse manure. Leno has consistently tweaked Obama in his Tonight Show monologues since the early days of the president's administration, the same way Leno handled President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton. This week, Leno turned up the heat to scorching levels...

Leno: Obama Holds Press Conferences to Find Out What’s Going on Not Explain It By Noel Sheppard Created 05/22/2013 - 11:10am Jay Leno on Tuesday continued his humorous attacks on the current White House resident. The NBC Tonight Show host concluded a series of opening monologue jokes targeting the administration saying, “That's why President Obama holds press conferences: not to explain what's going on, to find out what's going on” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary): JAY LENO: Hey, President Obama gave a commencement address at Morehouse College over the weekend. Great speech, very inspiring....