WTF Is It Now?!?

The Recall Show With Jay Leno
'"What Leno's presence did is give legitimacy to the notion that it wasn't a partisan event, it wasn't a political event, it was somehow an American cultural event," said Marty Kaplan, associate dean of USC's School for Communication. "It was like welcoming home an astronaut from a safe voyage. In so doing, it played into a campaign strategy that this was a campaign for all, beyond politics. Which is not true; he's a Republican candidate."

'"This seems another step in the same muddy ruin of politics that we're trekking through," said Todd Gitlin, a journalism and sociology professor at Columbia University. "It's the same part played by Oprah in the process of sanitizing and normalizing Schwarzenegger as a legitimate politician." Schwarzenegger appeared with wife Maria Shriver on Oprah, in one of his very few televised interviews during the campaign.

'Schwarzenegger was the only candidate who had a sit-down interview with Leno.' - - WaComPo.