On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:

> Given absolutely no additional information, it's my blind guess that
> Leno simply didn't want to touch it. He tells jokes. There's no joke
> here. So he ignored it.


I think that is reasonable - and I would not be critical of Leno if that
was his rationale. Dave has in some ways taken the place of Walter Cronkite
for CBS - on matters of broad national importance he makes a space on his
broadcast and speaks for himself and from the heart, but also in a way is
the voice of the network. If that is even a little bit true in Dave's case
(and I guess it is a bit of a stretch), it is not even a little bit true
for Leno and NBC, who has Brian Williams, and still, I guess in some
capacity, Tom Brokow. Leno is seen at being good at some things, but this
is not really one of them, and given that NBC had both the SNL tribute and
the thing on The Voice, the feeling may well have been that the network had
sufficiently addressed it.

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