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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:16 AM
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Jay Leno's joke before two Love Ride bikers die hits a nerve
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Jay Leno's joke before two Love Ride bikers die hits a nerve

Jay Leno's joke before two Love Ride bikers die hits a nerve

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/jay-lenos-joke-before-two-love-ride-bikers-killed-touch-a-nerve.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29

Moments before two Love Ride participants were killed Sunday in a freeway traffic collision, the event’s grand marshal, “The Tonight Show” host Jay Leno, told a crowd of bikers that he wanted to see “somebody go down.”

“Every year, says, ‘Drive safe,’” Leno told the crowd in kicking off the 28th annual Love Ride in Glendale. “I’m gonna say, ‘Don’t drive safe.’ I wanna see somebody go down. So it’ll be fun. I want it to be in front or behind me and see a whole row of bikes go down. Get drunk, fall off the road. We’ve all become too damn polite … we haven’t had one incident.”

About an hour later, Romarino Zeri, 51, of Los Angeles and Julie Cameron, 38, of Venice were killed when their motorcycle collided with a big rig on the Golden State (5) Freeway in Pacoima, officials said.


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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:18 AM
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1. Leno is terminally not funny.




Tikki
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:19 AM
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3. Agreed.
plus, he's an arse.
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:26 AM
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6. He never has been...
...
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 12:09 PM
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17. I think he can be quite funny.
“President Bush announced he plans to help out homeowners in this mortgage-lending crisis thing that’s going on. He said millions of people could lose their house, and you know, he knows what he’s talking about. Last November he lost a house and the Senate.”

“Bush is upset, very upset that the Iraqi parliament has failed any major legislation since taking office. I guess, of course, on the other hand, it made him feel right at home.”

The White House announced President Bush is on the last page of the Harry Potter book. So, apparently, he's reading it backwards.

President Bush welcomed the prime minster of India to the White House today. Bush said, "While you're here, can you look at my computer for a second?"

One of the big problems in Iraq right now is agreeing on a constitution. They should do what the Bush administration does: Have a constitution, but just don’t use it.

Happy Birthday to U.S. President Bush, he’s 59. If you haven’t gotten him a birthday gift yet, I know he’s still looking for an exit strategy for Iraq.

U.S. President Bush met with Palestinian president Abbas. There was one embarrassing moment when he said to Abbas, “I love your hit, Dancing Queen.”

President Bush said he was anxious to see the film though he was a little upset when he heard it was in Aramaic and Latin. Bush said "Why make a movie only Arabs and Latinos would understand?"

According to a new poll, if the election were held today both John Kerry and John Edwards would beat George Bush by double-digit margins. In fact, the White House is so worried they're thinking about moving the capture of Osama bin Laden up to next month.

President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on ... his own.

Some sad news, President Bush's lap dog passed away. I didn't know Tony Blair was sick. I was shocked.

President Bush was on Meet The Press Sunday, a lot of his White House staffers thought it was a bad idea …"Hey…better than him going on Jeopardy"…Be honest…He didn't seem very well prepared…actually there was a reason he wasn't prepared, see Bush thought he was just gonna to meet the press, he didn't know there was gonna be questions….There was one kind of embarrassing moment where President Bush was asked if he was ever AWOL?" and he said "No no no I have Earthlink…we use Earthlink, can't get AOL"

The Bush administration says it will file a brief with the Supreme Court over the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy, saying it's wrong to determine acceptance based on race. Bush said acceptance should be based on fair things like what private school you went to, who's your dad, how much money you gave to the alumni fund."

"President Bush has declared Sunday to be National Sanctity of Human Life Day. He said we have to protect the weak, the imperfect and the unwanted. But first, we have to give tax cuts to the rich."

This Sunday, President Bush will be at the Daytona 500 for the start of NASCAR season. President Bush is a big fan of NASCAR. Bush says if it weren't for NASCAR, man never would have stepped foot on the moon. Finally, somebody said, "Uh, sir ... that's NASA."

A Newsweek poll said if the election were held today, John Kerry would beat Bush 49 percent to 46 percent. And today, President Bush called Newsweek magazine a threat to world peace." -

Today President Bush said he was "troubled" by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this, the people should make the decision, not judges - unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.

I was watching TV last night and I saw an interesting documentary on TV last night about the ninja - you know, the Japanese soldiers. According to the legend, the ninjas were warriors who could make themselves invisible whenever we fought in a war. You know, kinda like George Bush in the National Guard.

In his annual economic report to Congress President Bush said that the transfer of American jobs overseas is actually part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time. So basically, losing your job to someone else can be a good thing - of course we'll see how he feels about that in November.

Happy President's Day everybody! Today of course is the day we honor our presidents. We honor Bill Clinton by having a mattress sale, and as most people don't have to work today, we honor George Bush.

Earlier today President Bush spent some time with National Guard troops in Louisiana. When Bush arrived, the commanding officer said, "You're a little late."

A retired Alabama National Guard commander says he remembers President Bush showing up there for duty back in the seventies. He says Bush used to come into his office and read. However, payment records released by the White House suggest that was not President Bush. Hey, the fact the guy was reading I think suggests it wasn't president Bush.

Yesterday President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard again.

Does this bother a lot of people? Who cares if Bush did his job in the National Guard 30 years ago - I'm more frightened about the job he's doing now.

Today in the L.A. Times, one critic wrote that the problem with John Kerry is "he looks like he thinks too much." Well, you won't hear anyone accusing President Bush of that.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:18 AM
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2. Asshole.
He didn't cause the accident. Didn't make it karma because he said it. But that wasn't remotely amusing.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:22 AM
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4. hey wait... on another thread i am told that just a comedian.... suppose to say the offensive and
everyone must lighten up.

i guess we do have boundaries, with some things
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dtexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:24 AM
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5. A comedian is supposed to say funny things.
Instead it's a case of an asshole saying asshole things.
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Zyzfyx Donating Member (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 12:13 PM
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18. CO-NAN! CO-NAN! CO-NAN!
Ten times the comedian Traitor Jay will ever be.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:29 AM
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7. Even without the accident I fail to see the comedy in wishing for harm on innocent people..
Now if it had been Leno that went down I could see the comedy in that after his comment.

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JackintheGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:40 AM
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8. Well, technically it *is* possible
to go down and not get hurt. I've done it myself. Wreaked holy hell on my bike, but it can be done, and I imagine that's what Leno "meant."

That said, he's always been an ass, and an unfunny one. I hope he's wracked with guilt for having said it out loud or he isn't just an ass.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:51 AM
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11. I've been down three times myself..
Once at 70 mph, it's a miracle I'm even here.

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JackintheGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:58 AM
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13. I went down at 70, too,
but I didn't walk away from it.

But I also went down at 30 and did. Most surreal 5-10 seconds of consciousness I've ever experienced. As much as I hate Leno, as a rider I just gotta believe he meant this latter type of going down. Otherwise he's execrable.

Ride safe. :hi:
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 12:05 PM
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15. Keep it shiny side up and rubber side down..
:hi: back at ya'..
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SwissTony Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 12:01 PM
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14. Sorry, can't imagine that's what he meant.
If he wants to see "a whole row of bikes" going down, he's talking about people being taken down by people who've already fallen, and then maybe taking others down. In that situation, it'd be a miracle if someone wasn't hurt. The guy is an absolute creep.

As an aside, do Americans say "drive" when referring to bikes? We always said "ride".
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JackintheGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 12:08 PM
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16. Absolute creep, I agree
And I've always said 'ride,' except sometimes you 'drive' a sidecar rig.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:43 AM
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9. Oh, don't be too hard on him. The foundation of all humor is pain.
And excrement. I forgot excrement.
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:44 AM
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10. "Break a leg"....
may a show biz way of wishing luck, but clearly it doesn't transfer well to biking and horse racing.

I actually feel bad for Leno because I know in my heart he didn't really want to see anyone hurt. They say 90% of humor is timing, and Leno is a professional.
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-11 11:57 AM
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12. How is that any worse than people who joke about wanting to see big crashes before car races?
I've actually heard people say, "I only watch NASCAR for the crashes."

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