No matter what your political convictions are this is eye opener.
What a thankless people we are!!!
Subject: Jay Leno on President Bush (Surprising)
Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see....
As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I ever been, but this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and it seems to hit the mark
'The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?
The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the President. In essence 2/3 of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, 'What are we so unhappy about?''
A.. Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week?
B.. Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter?
C.. Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?
D.. Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?
E.. Maybe it is the ability to drive our cars and trucks from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?
F.. Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter?
G.. I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough either.
H. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.
I.. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home.
J.. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames, thus saving you, your family, and your belongings.
K.. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.
L.. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90% of teenagers own cell phones and computers.
M.. How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world?
Maybe that is what has 67% of you folks unhappy.
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S. , yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.
I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks? The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me?
Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad? Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the 'Media' told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day. Make no mistake about it.
The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an 'other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig.
So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans?
Say what you want but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by 'justifying' them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way......Insane!
Turn off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as country. There is exponentially more good than bad. We are among the most blessed people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.' 'With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks. Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
2 comments:
I appreciate J Leno's reminder of the importance of gratitude for the rights and opportunities we enjoy through the good fortune of living in this country.
For years, millions have enjoyed the late night entertainment he has given us and hold him in high esteem. It’s not easy to do comedy and do it well for the extensive period of time through which this showman found success in it. That comes only through intelligence, emotional and intellectual, and a great degree of stamina.
Knowing that the Leno we know must be possessed of these qualities; I find it hard to believe that someone in his position would have such an uninformed perspective on the concerns given voice within the writing forwarded to me. Perhaps it was actually written by someone else using his name or having a similar name.
Granted, the polling data cited is a bit dated. It’s taken time for us Americans, accustomed as we are to generally trusting our government and not having a great deal of time to look in depth at the complex issues of politics and policy formulation, to better understand what has been happening to them and their country over the eight years of the current administration. As Americans have come to understand, the polling data has not been moving in the President’s direction.
And if this piece, well-intentioned as it is, really does represent the extent of Jay Leno, the well-loved comic’s understanding why Americans are unhappy with the direction of the country and the performance of the President, it seems he would do well not to give up his night gig too quickly.
The ‘Mr Leno’ who wrote this piece is relying upon an obvious logical fallacy to advance to advance his point: He starts with the correct observation that most American are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and with the performance of the President, but then holds these reasonable concerns to be the same as the proposition that most Americans are unhappy with their country or are simply unhappy.
The two sets of assertions are simply and clearly not equivalents.
Not long ago a major polling organization released data demonstrated something like 90 – 95% of Americans are happy with their lives. The numbers where astonishing, but, as the writer of this article suggests, quite reasonable when we consider the conditions under which most of us Americans live. Introspection is not a particularly salient aspect of the American character, but when you get just about anyone who calls this country home to open up, they readily express the gratitude they do have over their role in this American experience.
I’m not sure who this ‘Leno’ has been talking with, but it hasn’t been very many Americans.
As obvious evidence of that gratitude, I offer the outpouring of patriotism that took place during the months following the 9/11 attacks. An ungrateful citizenry would not have behaved as ours did. We the people were unified and ready to look after our country.
I am myself, a registered Republican, one of those who voted this President in during the 2000 elections.
I thought he meant it when he ran as a conservative and never even heard of the term ‘neoconservative’, obvious oxymoron as it is, until the year 2003 when, trying to understand why we were in such a rush to go to war against a nation that had nothing to do with those who had attacked us on 9/11 and why we were so interested in moving forward on such questionable evidence. When I found out about the Project for the New American Century, I began to understand and felt a certain horror that such Un-American ideas could be advanced by such people in high places.
How is it that a good President, such as Ronald Reagan, can complete his term and two thirds of these American people who do so clearly love their country will feel that he left their country in better shape than it was when he came into office, and the concerns of the one third who generally felt that was not the case with that President are not particularly undermining to the legacy left by Reagan, a legacy which seems to grow in regard over time.
The reason is that our perception of history is written by history’s winners and Reagan was one of them.
We humans are unperfected beings, all of us flawed in many ways. But if in life, we’re able to accomplish two thirds of the things we set out to do, we will be well regarded and we will be able to count ourselves as having been able to make a net positive contribution to the human condition.
But if 85 percent of large populations of individuals are suspicious or certain that something has gone wrong, we do ourselves and our society, our associates, our loved ones and our country a disservice if we refuse to look more closely at such delphinic intelligence.
We Americans are a hard working people. Whether the work we do is with our hands or our minds, the electricity and running water, the air conditioning and heating, our automobiles and safe motels and restaurants, our medical system and our police and fire, our productive economy and abundant food supply, and the religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy, non of these things come about by accident, but only because large numbers of people invest themselves in acquiring the difficult to master skills required to bring these things about, and then follow through on their investment by determining, consciously or through habit, to do the right thing, almost every day, for the rest of their lives.
The number of Americans who are unhappy with the direction their country is headed is now around 85 percent. They feel that way because they know through their work experience that all these good things we Americans have are not here by accident of circumstance and these good things can be lost by poor leadership making poor decisions over a long period of time.
Americans are upset because we have a President who took his eye off the ball, failing to focus on those who attacked us on 9/11, making decisions that allowed bin Laden to elude our grasp when we almost had him at Tora Bora. We are rightfully upset because we have a leadership that choose, instead of taking care of business, to divert resources to the removal of a dictator who had absolutely nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11, and who was in fact an enemy of those who attacked us that dark day. We pay a great deal of our personal incomes to support this government of ours and we are not ‘ungrateful spoiled brats’ by expecting it to produce meaningful results.
It is ridiculous on the face of it to expect the American people to be grateful that this President who was not given wrong intelligence, choose instead to advance his diversion from the War on Terror we Americans wanted and supported by misrepresenting the intelligence we had on Iraq to the American people. Even though the UN Inspection teams sent to look for WMDs were producing evidence that Iraq no longer had those weapons, this President was able to accomplish his wasting of our resources because Americans want to trust their leadership. We have a noble tradition of Presidential credibility in this country and we are not being ungrateful by expecting our current President to live up to it.
The primary results of this President’s choices has been to leave bin Laden still at large while advancing the strategic interests of the nation of Iran.
We Americans are not being ‘ungrateful spoiled brats’ because we care about our country and do not like to see 4,000 good American patriots go off and die for no particular good reason, except to leave bin Laden still at large; and we do not like to see some 30,000 good American patriots lose their arms, lose their legs, suffer severe brain injury, and lose the content of the lives they thought they would live for no particular good reason, except to advance the strategic interests of the nation of Iran.
In an age of terror no reasonable person could be grateful for the open borders policy this President has pursued with our southern neighbor. Until the American people began putting their foot down last summer, the State of Arizona, alone, so was a highway for an estimated average of 1,000 illegal entrants per day, not all of them Mexican.
To assert that this administration has been keeping us ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ safe from terrorist attacks belies common sense as it would be no problem for them to simply stroll in from south of the border pretty much any time they wanted.
Last week Phoenix was shocked when armed elements of the Mexican Army, apparently in the employ of the drug cartel, were arrested in Phoenix after performing a cartel home invasion and murder. The weaponry they used to conduct this operation was considerably more powerful than the police were able to deal with and only the fact that they ran out of ammunition allowed law enforcement to apprehend them. It is naive to believe that trained commandos, armed to the teeth, cannot be similarly inserted at the time and to the places of their choice. Americans cannot be expected to be grateful for the fact that our Executive Branch has largely abdicated its Constitutional responsibility to insure domestic Tranquility and provide for the common defence. In this very integral aspect of any real War on Terror and hidden sleeper cells, this makes a mockery of the largely unexamined notion this President has been keeping all us ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ safe from terrorist attacks.
American people cannot be expected to be grateful to a President who fired his economic advisors for daring to suggest the his ‘Mission Accomplished’ diversion from the War on Terror might cost more than the $50 billion he wanted us to think it would. This Presidents War has now become the second most expensive in the history of our country and caused in excess of somewhere north of 600,000 deaths and 5,000,000 refuges to the nation he supposed us to be ‘liberating’.
As the realities of this President’s willful blunders slowly sink in, We the People are not grateful and that is because we care about our country and about its standing in the world.
Does ‘Leno’ mean to suggest we should be grateful our foresighted Vice-President was able to secure, in 2001, an emergency based no bid contract for Iraqi reconstruction after the 2003 War for a company of which he had been the CEO and with which he still maintains a financial relationship (Congressional Research Office).
Are we being ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ because Americans are concerned when successful athletes such as Barry Bonds purportedly use performance enhancing steroids during their careers. Athletes are role models for millions of young people and their behavior sets standards vast numbers will emulate.
Presidents are held in even higher regard.
And so when the President of the United States straps on a radio receiving set to enable his performance to be enhanced during the televised Presidential Debates, contrary to the Presidential Debating Commission rules, that President signals to an entire nation that its just fine to cheat when confronted by the tests we face in life, because that’s how our he would do it.
Think of the example this President thereby sets, not only for the millions of American youth preparing for the difficult tasks of making this society work, but for the millions of American adults involved in the difficult challenges of keeping it working and working right by following through on their determination, consciously or through habit, to do the right thing, almost every day, for the rest of their lives.
According to ‘Leno’, Americans should be grateful this ‘role model’ still sits in the White House thanks to the wonders of modern performance enhancing technology.
And we need to be grateful we can focus instead on the the relatively minor grievances some might have with regard to Barry Bonds.
This is the same ‘role model’ who bowed to elements within his own administration when they sought continuing tax cuts in 2002 even though he was asking, “Well, shouldn't we be giving money to the middle, won't people be able to say, ‘You did it once, and then you did it twice, and what was it good for?’"
Meanwhile, the fiscally irresponsible behavior of his Borrow and Spend Administration have begun their inevitable manifestation in the dollars declining value of the dollar, presenting itself to an entire nation of ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ when they go to buy gas at the pump. Had the fiscally conservative and somewhat more traditional policies of the preceding administration remained in place, its generally estimated by oil economists that existing supply and demand fundamentals would place the current price of a barrel of oil in the range of $40 to $70, meaning that gas, itself, would play out to about $2 a gallon.
Neither should the average ‘spoiled ungrateful brat’ living in this country be more thankful over the fact this President has put our country in the hole for more than $711 billion dollars during the past year alone; the worst record financially in the history of American government. Bush’s deficit, for just this last year of his presidency, represents $2,340 for every single man, woman, child, and baby in the country. Multiply that amount by the number of people living in your household and you begin to see what this man is doing to America’s future.
The other years of this MBA’s Presidency have been almost as bad, and remember, he took over a government that was in surplus. No, only someone like Dick Cheney, “You know, Paul (O’Neill, former Secretary of the Treasury who resigned over such behavior), Reagan proved that deficits don't matter,” – could possibly be grateful for such a mess and the effects such poor performance will have on the well-being of this country and the welfare of future generations.
The Bush administration uses the term ‘supplemental appropriation’ to describe how his Iraq fiasco is being paid and even right wing talk radio does not seem to understand that means its not being paid for as part of the federal budget. Even they, however, will probably not be grateful when the enormous cost of the incipient baby boomer retirement begins to collide with the enormous debt their financially irresponsible Presidential mistake is building up for them.
A little reflection on these powerful facts will develop a better picture of just where the highest concentration of ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ is in this country. Consider:
Although This President ran for office as a conservative, he has enhanced the size of Big Government by some 40%, more than any politician since LBJ. But even LBJ was able to produce a balanced budget.
Conservatives, by definition, are strict constructionists with regard to the US Constitution. But this President’s has little interest in limiting government and his approach to our constitution is best described as destructionist.
In 2002, this President informed Congress that the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was working well with regard to the necessary gathering of information for the newly launched War of Terror, then set out to illegally tap the communications of any Americans it choose to, without regard to the requirements of FISA or the US Constitutions Fourth Amendment.
No American, who considers the difficulty through which our Constitution came into being and has been sustained can be appreciative to that and could hardly be characterized as ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ for saying so. Most Americans value law abiding behavior.
The ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ who love this love this nation and understand that the Principals by which our Founding Fathers commissioned it were very hard won have little to be grateful for in this regard.
In guiding our country during the dark days after 9/11, this President took his attention away from the responsibility of capturing bin Laden (see the record presented by Gary Berntsen, the former CIA agent in charge of leading the team assigned to locate Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan during the 2001 campaign), deliberately manipulating the operable intelligence to steer this nation toward the irrelevant pursuit of Saddam Hussein, wasting vast amounts of American resources in the process of tearing a nation apart and enhancing the status of America’s enemies. For this, no ‘Leno’ need make presumptuous claims asking that we be more grateful.
Terror plots against the United States are real. There have been 19 such thwarted by the US government since 9/11 as of March of this year. Convictions have been reached in 6 of these with 1 later dismissed by the trial court because the prosecution presented false testimony.
But this Presidents failure to understand and adhere to some 800 years of Anglo-American legal precedent through his ‘terrorist’ detention policies (an estimated 75% of those we have incarcerated are innocents) has largely served Islamists recruiting points and significantly contributed to the potential of these movements.
No real American can be grateful for that.
Bush’s manipulation of American patriotism in the pursuit of erroneous objectives (spreading liberal democracy throughout the Middle East) has largely achieved the purpose of insuring a large supply of future recruits for fundamentalist organizations interested in striking back at the USA. To quote Middle East Correspondent, Robert Fisk:
In its dying days, even Saddam Hussein's own government was shocked. "The US administration is going to turn the whole world into people prepared to die for their nations," Saddam's vice-president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, warned. "All they can do now is turn themselves into bombs. If the B-52 bombs can now kill 500 or more in our war, then I'm sure that some operations by our freedom fighters will be able to kill 5,000."……..One of George Bush's most insidious legacies in Iraq thus remains its most mysterious; the marriage of nationalism and spiritual ferocity, the birth of an unprecedented huge army of Muslims inspired by the idea of death.”
That America has engaged in the torture of large numbers of innocents shames the good and hard won principles this nation stands for. No real American can take pride in, much less gratitude, for that.
We love our country, and that means us ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ don’t have much gratitude for the transition we have been taken through over the past eight years from being the leader of the free world to such near rogue nation status as came with Canada’s recent placement of the US on its Torture Watch List, placing us in the same category as China, Iran, and Syria.
In the middle of the 20th Century, the Arab peoples numbered about 90 million. They are expected to reach about 700 million by the middle of this Century. This exploding population is composed of young people who know almost nothing about the US as the arsenal of democracy during WWII and the leader of the Free World in the forty year struggle against communism. They see us instead undertaking a contradictory act of aggression against a Muslim country, seeking to gain access to its resources, indulging in misplaced liberal ideas of promoting democracy through likely illegal means (UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; US Supreme Court Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 2004, Stevens writing for the majority explaining the nature of War Crimes).
If the American are less than grateful with regard to an administration presenting us to the world like this, that hardly makes them ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’.
If we love our country, does that mean we should be grateful for this President’s Free Trade policies with their accumulated some $6 trillion in foreign debt, added on to our $10 trillion federal debt, nearly half of it his?
In his book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (taught as part of the curriculum at the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Army Academy at West Point), historian Paul Kennedy pursues a rigorous economic analysis to demonstrate that continued deficit spending, especially on military build-up, is the single most important reason for the decline of any Great Power.
Simply because ‘Leno’ doesn't understand how these things work, does that mean that Americans should be grateful for what this President is doing to their country’s future?
I’m not sure who ‘Leno’ has been talking to, but I’ve never heard from any of the foreigners I talk with that we are disdained by the world for our lack of gratitude for how well this particular President is running our country. Unfortunately, however, under this President most of the world has come to view our country as having a negative influence in world affairs.
Never, in our history, has this been the case. Are we to be grateful for that?
American hegemony is supported neither by the mandates of our Constitution nor in the advice of our Founding Fathers. To say that the world disdains us for our lack of gratitude for our government’s lack of regard for its fundamental warrants is simply preposterous. To say that it would appreciate it if our government would attend to the words of Hamilton, Madison, and Washington in that collective piece known as ‘Washington’s Farewell Address’:
“Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?”
The reason we have so failed so remarkably to do so of late in particular can be traced to our collective failure to heed another piece of wisdom given by these Founding Fathers in that same document:
“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.”
Contrary to what the Founding Fathers advised us, the leadership of this country seems now to be comprised of small minds that champion partisan politics. They no longer hold their responsibilities toward preservation of the profound character of this as primary, but instead orient around concern about the advancement of the party, and their advancement within, serving that above all.
How well served this nation would have been, how much an occasion of gratitude for a job well done We the People would have had, had only our current President and Vice President taken to heart Washington’s further words:
“As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repeal it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.”
Washington’s Farewell address was once taught in every public school in the land, and by its sort of Wisdom, we became a great nation. For that, the American people can have and have had a generous outpouring of gratitude. Aside from their obvious indifference to its Principles, it would be fair to say that people like Bush and Cheney have probably never read such magnificent words, much less given them their due consideration. For that, the American people will have no debt of gratitude.
Americans who complain about their government, be that for good or bad reason, do so because they are exercising one of the most important things being an American is all about. It is something to be celebrated, something, Mr ‘Leno’ to be grateful for, this exercising of a principle framed beautifully by our very American First Amendment.
Those who have misplaced concerns quickly lose them to the dust of the day. Those who give voice to issues of substance will see them rise, in their appropriate time, to become the means through which a better America finds reinvention. That is why the great ones, the Washingtons the Lincolns, the Reagans, find dissent to be little more than an ornament, if not an accessory.
As for the little ones, we’ve said enough about them.
For democracy to work, we must actively care. Our Founding Fathers gave us the Constitutional tools to do, advising us to always regard the actions of government with the proper eye of suspicion. For this, all real Americans are grateful.
For when we know that things could and should be better, does that mean we are ungrateful for living in a country that allows us to say so?
America has always been a place that’s all about making things better. A lot of countries run on the philosophy that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That has its place, sure, but its never been our prevailing orientation to life and be grateful for that. Show us enough people with an issue and we've probably found a great idea for a new business.
We are the country that invented reinvention.
Were American’s showing too much ingratitude for the clop, clop, clop of their nineteenth century methane perfumed roadways when they began thinking that Henry Ford had a better idea?
Was Edison acting like a ‘spoiled ungrateful brat’ with respect to the peaceful night sky when he determined to light it up with his electric bulb?
Did Steve Jobs and Bill Gates demonstrate a lack of proper gratitude for the technical advances of the typewriter when they insisted they had a better way for me to develop this note of gratitude for the better aspects of our American character?
Were this nation’s first citizens merely being ‘spoiled ungrateful brats’ with respect to the benevolent providence of the King of England when a noisy minority started to assert they had something else in mind?
Were our Americans just being ungrateful for the world they were given when the generation that raised us settled down after decades of economic depression and world war and built a relatively happy era of peace and prosperity during which they might talk, from time to time, about their youthful adventures and dangers but evidence little particular longing to return.
Are we Americans being ungrateful when we exercise our constitutionally protected (and encouraged) rights to gather and petition our government for redress of grievances?
No we are not.
We're being ungrateful when we don’t.
So if the moaning and groaning heard now grows louder, be grateful. It rises now because there are too many good Americans who know that this country is the best thing we've got going and we can’t afford to lose it.
That so many are unhappy with the direction of this country, be grateful. They have good reason.
Please keep this in circulation. There are so many people who need to read this and grasp the truth of it all.
"Enjoy life, it's ungrateful not to."
- Ronald Reagan.
This was not written by Jay Leno. It was written by Craig R. Smith. For a full explanation go to: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/hitnail.asp
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