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Somehow "The Tonight Show" scored a trifecta of controversy tonight as they were able to book the most punk rock of punk rock bands, the most conservative member of Congress, and the wackiest Scientologist all to appear on its air in the same hour.
Tonight the Sex Pistols, Ron Paul, and Tom Cruise will all be in Burbank to tape the late night chat show.
Strangely, whatever wire service the LA Daily News used to announce this story, threw in some heavy editorializing in the lede of the story.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul will have the largest audience in his longshot bid for the Republican presidential nomination tonight when he joins Tom Cruise and the legendary punk rock band the Sex Pistols as guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."Pardon us, but aren't all bids for President of the United States longshots - especially when there's no incumbent? Who are these people who are pretending that being the first female, Black, or Mormon president is less of a longshot than a conservative Republican who has won several straw- and online polls?Paul, the only Republican presidential candidate to oppose U.S. involvement in Iraq, will attend a $2,000 per person fundraising reception in the Hollywood Hills after the taping, a campaign aide said.
Paul's "Tonight Show" appearance comes a day after his campaign began airing television commercials in New Hampshire, site of the nation's first primary.
The Paul campaign raised $5 million from July through September, with 78 percent collected online, The New York Times reported.
Shame on allegedly unbiased news services who find it necessary to inject opinion in the first sentence of news stories regarding elections that haven't even taken place yet. How about simply covering the news and letting people vote for who they want? If you want to be a blog, be a blog, but if you are attempting to be a news service, just tell us the news - a trait that very few news organizations seem able to do when covering Congressman Paul's run.
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wait, I thought Hillary already won...
Here, Here Tony! That paper continually pisses me off. During their fire coverage, TDN ran one headline that read, "HELL ON EARTH!" God damn it! It was like a screaming teenager took one look at the fires and told them what to write. I was expecting "APOCALYPSE" the next day.
It's good to see some outrage, but why are you venting at an entertainment fluff p.r. release? There are better targets out there.
That said, yes, Ron Paul (a libertarian, actually) is a long shot, because he will not win either of the estblishment party's nominations; thus he will not win the presidency. Whatever the quality of his ideas, whatever you think about the current structure of the US politcal system, it's not that he's a long shot...he has no shot. That;s the reality. Since you're into the whole skewed media-political paradigm, I would suggest you and any other interested folks to check out Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn if you haven't already to see how the allegedly "liberal" media intentionally define (i.e. 'twist") the parameters of public discourse. It's not just Fox...
PS - what's a "lede"?
Can someone explain to me how running once as a libertarian candidate vs 20 years as an ELECTED republican equates him to libertarian?!?! Please lets put things in perspective. He is a republican with old school republican values.
#4, I assume you we responding to my post (#3)Libertarian (big L) is different than libertarian (little l). RP & the old school "OG" GOP are way more libertarian (little l) than the religious zealots who hijacked the party...in fact, imnsho, the current GOP is extremely activist and way more "up in our business" than is healthy for too much longer.
A lede is the first sentence in a news story. It is typically supposed to be the most important sentence in a story and it is supposed to "hook" the reader into reading the rest of it.
Many journalists pride themselves on writing stong ledes that are witty, sharp, and summarize the story quickly.
from wikipedia:
The most important structural element of a story is the lede or lead —namely contained in the story's first, or leading, sentence. Lede (pronounced /lid/) is a traditional spelling, from the archaic English,[2] used to avoid confusion with the printing press type formerly made from lead or the typographical term "leading".[3] The lede is usually the first sentence, or in some cases the first two sentences, and is ideally 20-25 words in length. The top-loading principle applies especially to ledes, but the unreadability of long sentences constrains its size. This makes writing a lede an optimization problem, in which the goal is to articulate the most encompassing and interesting statement that a writer can make in one sentence, given the material with which he or she has to work. While a rule of thumb says the lede should answer most or all of the 5 Ws, few ledes can fit all of these.
gonzoworm, when the media, even in a "PR fluff piece", introduces someone as a longshot, that is skewed spin on a legitimate political candidate. you can talk like the election already happened, because you are just some yahoo prognosticating in the comment section of said fluffing. however, we expect more journalistic integrity from a professional media, at least until the primaries are over.
this writer gets high marks for fair and even courageous reporting. thank you for a very nice item.
Well, yesterday we were taught that Cruise was'nt interested by politics, but now he's behind a republican guy whose preferred reading is a Ron Hubbard's mediocre sci-fi work called 'Battlefield Earth'.
Perhaps John Paul and Tom Cruise ignore that that book is about a war between a cult and another cult, so as to get more money and more power? Perhaps Tom Cruise prefers to ignore that his guru Hubbard said that scientology was at war (and still is, bu the way).
I've been reading some comments here and some people are so funny! Some take it for granted that if two guests are invited to the Tonight Show the same night it means they support each other. It's so hilarious! I've seen Leno's show many times and I have never seen that. Some people have a very laaaaaarge imagination.
Another guy says that the book Battlefield Earth is about a war between a cult and another cult to get more money and more power. I have read the book and there is nothing like that in it. He obviously hasn't read it. This is so funny. I guess there are a lot of psychos out there.
Beware what you read. Don't believe anything just because someone says it - he may be crazy. Think for yourself and laught a lot about these nonesenses.
"Who are these people who are pretending that being the first female, Black, or Mormon president is less of a longshot than a conservative Republican"
That's because the female, the black, and the mormon, aren't polling at 3.6% in New Hampshire. While not even being above the margin of error in Iowa.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/republican_primaries.html
this link should work without cutting off:
www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/democratic_primaries.html
so you believe those polls, but you and Sean Hannity dont wanna believe the text page polls after Paul won the Fox News debates handilly?
typical.
Lets be resonable. Everybody besides Hillary/Obama/Edwards and Giuliani/Romney/McCain/Thompson is a long shot. That's the political reality.