Re: Leno boycott

["Neil E. Weissman" <neilweissman@xxxxxxxxx>]

My point was about the jokes and how Leno pokes fun at a lot of people,
not the individual cases.  Every night he is making fun of a celebrity or
what a celebrity does.  Unfortunately for Townshend, and fans, this is
going to happen.

Yes, the cases are totally different.  I was just saying too that Leno is
just a dumb late night host trying to warm a crowd up with his monologue. 
He does not even write his own jokes.  Townshend's situation happens to be
topical and people are going to make jokes.

--- Keithjmoon70@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/20/03 2:46:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> neilweissman@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > I read Jay's jokes.  There is no humor in child porn.  Leno made
> joke(s)
> > about Pete Townshend situtation not about child humor.  It may have
> been
> > in bad taste, but is no more distasteful than recurrent Micheal
> Jackson,
> > Bill Clinton, or Jennifer Lopez jokes.
> > 
> 
> According to what Gary Graff (rock and roll "insider") said on WCSX,
> (the 
> local classic rock station in Detroit), what Michael Jackson did was
> settle 
> out of court in a case with a real human being.  He pointed out that
> these 
> cases are in no way the same.  As he put it, Michael Jackson did do
> things 
> and continues to do them.  Pete is only suspected of looking at images
> on a 
> computer, and according to Pete, it was not because he is a pedophile 
> pervert.  He did call Pete an "odd duck" that has the habit of running
> his 
> mouth and says things that tend to get him into trouble.  He said also
> that 
> he feels that if Pete is not charged with an actual crime, this probably
> will 
> not hurt him much at all in the long run.  He is too well respected and
> his 
> stature is too great.
> 
> My point with Leno is not to just "boycott" him, but to call him to the 
> carpet personally for what he did to another respectable human being
> with a 
> noble cause. Maybe he is sore because The Who wouldn't appear on his
> show or 
> something?  Who knows. 
> 
> To make distasteful jokes is one thing.  To infer and even "say" that
> someone 
> is a child molester in front of a national audience full of
> impressionable 
> minds is a grotesque use of the stage. Insert your name where he used
> Pete's 
> if you don't agree.
> 
> Everyone knew what Clinton was doing from way back.  The similarities
> are 
> Galaxies apart. Ok, well, solar systems at least.
> 
> Jon in Mi.
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