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" In case you didn&amp;#039;t notice, politicians in 2012 are television stars. President Obama just happens to be an exceptionally smooth one. What was more surprising, or maybe not surprising at all, was how completely lame and sycophantic Jay Leno was last night when faced with the task of interviewing the president. He &amp;quot;uh-huh&amp;quot;ed and &amp;quot;oh, yeah&amp;quot;ed his way through the whole thing as if Sofia Vergara had just sat on his lap, while Obama delivered seemingly rehearsed punchlines about Donald Trump (&amp;quot;This all dates back to when we were growing up in Kenya together&amp;quot;) and the debates (&amp;quot;I was sort of getting the hang of it&amp;quot;). Leno even used the opportunity to interview a sitting president to make a not-at-all-self-effacing reference to his rivalry with Letterman, lest Leno&amp;#039;s detractors think for a moment that he is anything more than a boob. Finally, when Leno decided to ask a real question of Obama, about the senate candidate Richard Murdock&amp;#039;s horrifying rape comment, he stumbled all over it: &amp;quot;He made a statement today. At least I saw it today. I want to quote what he said. He said, uh. He was asked about, uh, rape, and\u2026&amp;quot; Obama delivered a moving response that then transitioned into a stump speech. Leno just looked happy to be there. It&amp;#039;s at times like these we can be truly thankful Jon Stewart exists. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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