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Dear America,

Some of you have finally witnessed that Jay Leno is an insensitive, patronizing buffoon.

While interviewing Ryan Phillippe, over his first role as a gay teen on daytime television, Jay repeatedly teased his guest with requests like: “Can you give me your ‘gayest look?’.” Critics are now voicing their concern, most notably Jeff Whitty, who later blogged: “Would you ask a guest to make their ‘blackest face?’ Their ‘Jewiest face?’ Why not?”.

To tell you the truth, America, you could have asked us. We’re the French expatriates, whom years ago knew the embarrassment that is James Douglas Muir Leno!

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Is Jay Leno afraid of the Consul General of France? First, let’s deal with his latest anti-French monologues. Before losing his writing team to the WGA strike, Jay Leno could not reign in his obsession with the surrender of June 22nd 1940. Last October 19th, he mocked French President Sarkozy’s private life, and his monologue went something like this:

“And some sad news. France’s new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wife have separated. (…) I guess what happened was, Sarkozy’s wife came home early one night, and caught the French president surrendering to a German woman.” Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been quite a few months since Jay Leno last bashed the French on the Tonight Show. In fact, some of us thought the Educating Jay project had been met with some success (Comments made to James Woods of Shark on January 18 2007). Despite our efforts, Jay Leno and his team of writers decided to heap more scorn on the French by resorting to another stereotype: rudeness. Read the rest of this entry »

Jay Leno’s monologue, Friday October 13 - The Army has changed their slogan to “Army Strong”. It cost $200 million. That’s $100 million per word. Other countries are following with their military. Ireland’s slogan, “Bar Fight!” China is “One Billion”. France of course is “Helping invading armies feel at home for over 100 years.”

Jay Leno’s monologue, Monday October 9, 2006 - “That was the story today. All around the world people were reacting to North Korea’s nuclear testing. The U.S. condemned it. China said it was wrong. France surrendered. ”

Congratulations to Floyd Landis, young man from Pennsylvania, for winning the Tour de France. This is the eighth time in a row an American has gone through France and into Paris. Eighth times! Even the Germans only did it twice. - Jay Leno, Monday July 24th Read the rest of this entry »

Holy Hotel California, Educating Jay Fans! We have just finished two days in San Diego and we’re surprised by the humidity. But the beauty and the revitalized downtown was terrific to see, as well as surrounding Del Mar area. Currently we’re in a Starbucks in San Juan Capistrano, downloading our emails from Jay’s “people”. Fingers crossed that we get that “up close and personal” invite we’ve been seeking. Stay Tuned…

It has been an intense few days. While Jay went for lousy Anti-French jokes this week over the Tour de France victory by Floyd Landis, his staff was busy avoiding our questions and skirting our requests. Read the rest of this entry »

Jay Leno’s monologue, Monday July 10th: Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. … They won after France’s best player got ejected for head butting. That’s the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years.

For historical accuracy, we feel we need to point out the following:

• French Action in Afghanistan, about 4000 French military were involved in 2002.
• France takes part in ISAF (539 French troops maintain the security of the Kabul airport and its environs). Only the United States, France and the United Kingdom are providing officer training for the new Afghan army.
• French military participation is significant: in Macedonia (the EU’s Operation Concordia: 53 percent of troops); Bosnia-Herzegovina (10 percent of troops, the second-largest contribution after the United States); Kosovo (15 percent of the troops, the second-largest contribution, following Italy; United States number 8).
• Côte d’Ivoire: France deployed a continent of nearly 4,000 men, whose intervention saved American lives, in order to restore peace to that country and support African ECOWAS forces to which it, along with the United States, provides the greatest support.
• Liberia : France evacuated about 100 Americans from Liberia on June 8 and 9, 2003.

Source : French Embassy in Washington