Hillary Clinton With Jay Leno On Tonight Show: Enters To "Rocky" Theme, Jokes About Sniper Fire

Hillary Clinton hit the humor trail Thursday night by dropping in on the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. Though she didn't attempt to go joke-for-joke with Leno by dishing out one-liners like McCain and Letterman, Clinton did attempt to score with her own brand of funny. Entering to none other than the theme from "Rocky," Clinton quickly jumped into a gag about her recent historical embellishments: "I was so worried I wasn't going to make it. I was pinned down by sniper fire," she quipped before briefly discussing her 'lapse' with regards to her Bosnia memories. Leno, for his part, dropped in a joke about answering the phone at 3 a.m. before the conversation moved on to the election, Bill's temper, and Florida delegates.

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More from AP:

Clinton said she was proud of her daughter, Chelsea, 28, who has been campaigning for her. But she said her "stomach is in knots" most days thinking about what she might encounter each day. Chelsea Clinton has fielded some tough questions in recent appearances, particularly about her father's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Her response has been that it's none of the questioner's business.

Asked about her daughter telling a voter that her mother might make a better president than her father, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton grinned and said: "She is such a smart young woman."

Leno also asked about moments during the campaign in which the former president has blown up at reporters and others.

"When you're supporting someone you love, you really do take it very much to heart," she said. "I said 'OK, honey, that's all right, we don't have to go get excited about it.' He's doing a great job for me but he does get a little carried away sometimes."

Comments

[Maya2008]

So who started it first, did Bill teach Hilary to lie or did he teach her?

[Independent voter]

It goes way back with the bleached blonde bimbo. hillary was fired from the watergate commission for lying.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/hillary-clinton-fired-from-wat.php

[Maya2008]

We had a liar in the white house for the last seven years and before him we had Bill Clinton, we don't need another lying Clinton sitting in the white house.

[tracylouise]

So, then Obama the liar is OK with you?

http://tinyurl.com/433epf

[KimberlyKay]

I was unaware that Senator Obama has ever claimed he was under fire at any time in his life. I have been watching this political process extremely closely. I linked on your post and found nothing that shows Senator Obama lied about being under fire.

I found something about an adviser to Senator Obama and what he would like to see. Something I would point out that Senator Obama says he will not do. I didn't attack Senator Clinton when her adviser said she certainly would not pull out of Iraq if the surge was working (whatever that might mean) -- but, if you think this sort of thing is fair game, I suppose maybe I should.

http://www.nysun.com/article/72209

Why don't you read that post and see if you are outraged (or if you feel like calling Senator Clinton a liar, since you were so free to place that label on Senator Obama for much less).

Senator Obama does not engage in these sorts of personal attacks. But, there is no reason I should not as I am not part of his campaign. Shall we go there? Shall we start to setting forth the enormous list of Clinton scandals past and present? Do you really want that? I don't think you do.

[Independent voter]

Try this one for size:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/hillary-clinton-fired-from-wat.php

[TRichards]

"This has been such a mismatch of words and actions." -- Hillary Clinton

Or, to translate it into ordinary speech: "Wow, I've been lying through my teeth (heh, heh). And, oh hell, I got caught. this time. No big deal. It's just what I do."

[MPeter]

Hillary is actually sick. She is worse than a congenital liar. She goes to the Leno Show and she lies again!!!!! What war zones was she asked to represent our country?????? This woman is worse than even Bill, who I thought was the worst of them all.

[JerseyBob]

OF BLOOD, OF RED

Ach! Debacle of governance
Upon us now;
Yet phantom bullets in Bosnia
Portend more of the same

Prologue to war arrogant lies.
A construct of fog the bill of goods,
An unbloodied receipt accepted
For deaths yet not known.

Prologue now mimes prologue past.
The lie on the hustings,
Less arrogant than desperate, still a lie.
Still a lie.

Beware the deceit;
The bill of goods
A reddened receipt
For bullets not fired.

[Maya2008]

LOL!

[rmreddicks]

JerseyBob,

Your close there. Refine, parse and pare. Keep going.

[rmreddicks]

and I can't spell you're.

[UCantPolishATurdblossum]

Someone please use the old vaudeville hook to yank this sorry act called Billary off of the national stage.

Or start passing out the tomatoes and rotten vegetables. I still have a pretty accurate arm

[Maya2008]

What kind of example is she setting for children? Lying is okay if you laugh about it later.

[scandals&skeletons]

its worse, chelsea when asked by the press her recollection of the bosnia landing said she remembers it the same way as her mother.
great parenting huh? great judgement huh? hillary only looked at her own selfish self promotion, never gave a thought how it might affect others including her daughter.
and what honesty she constantly exhibits.
the next one we will read about is when she said in a speech she tried to enlist in the marines, i kid you not. bill has repeated the same story.

[piezoid]

Holy Koresh! Give me a break. What a ridiculous reach. Ahhh the children, the children.

[Maya2008]

So the Clinton crazies are okay with Hilary lying. Are you guys also okay with Bush lying? Poor Chelsea both her parents are big liars.

[HowietheScreamer]

Hey, it worked for Duuhbuhya. Remember the jokes about looking for WMDs under the desk? Hey it's only a few dead people... no biggy.

[DocJ]

Wow, I love it: there was "a mismatch of words and actions" (re: Bosnian danger).

I wonder how long it took her brain trust to come up with that euphemism?

Lying is still lying, Hill, no matter what the definition of "is" is. Sorry!

[Eddy333]

Wait, Chelsea fielded difficult questions? I thought she was off bounds to reporters and told the people who asked the two most difficult questions to mind their own business.

How do people get away with writing stuff like that? Aren't pieces like this fact checked?

[HowietheScreamer]

Clintons are just like Bushies... they make up their own reality and have their own facts.

[k6007]

Has anyone asked her what its like to work for a HedgeFund lately?

[Rocky4356]

Really I find nothing funny about Hillary making light of coming under fire. When our sons and daughters are dying for real in Iraq and Afganistan she can make light of this lie she told. Really showed she is totally lacking in Class.

[KOisGod]

This sick sense of humor of Hillary's, where have I heard something like it before? Hmmmmmmmm,,,

Oh yes, she sounds just like George W. Bush.

"Can't find any weapons of mass destruction here...... What about over here? Nope,,,,,,,"

[KPinSEA]

"A viper ... a sniper ... and a piper .... "

"What are Geraldine Ferraro ... someone Senator Clinton never met ... and the person playing for her chances to be President?"

"Hey-oooooo!"

[Bobby]

She didn't even wear a dress on the Tonight Show! THANK GOD!!!

[KOisGod]

She's got legs like an elephant.

[Bobby]

No doubt. It makes sense though. She has been praising McCain lately. Isn't he a REPUBLICAN? And wasn't Hillary a Goldwater girl?

[UCantPolishATurdblossum]

Well, the symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant.

[piezoid]

Yeah and you've got the mouth of an uncouth twit.

[CBS]

Flagged as sexist pig talk.

[rmreddicks]

What's the point of going there?

[CBS]

I am waiting for Hillary to do a little tap dance and soft shoe the way Bush did when he was kept waiting by McCain. They seem lately to have a lot in common. Lies large and small. A little war mongering here and there (the three AM phone call.) Perhaps she is Bush in drag????

[Bobby]

No, I think Bu$h wore a cheerleader skirt. Hillary would NEVER do that.

[bobdob]

HILARIOUS!!! Hillary's joke last night was the funniest thing I've heard since George W. Bush made jokes about missing weapons of mass destruction after sending our troops off to die on the basis of his lies.

Hillary's "joke" was callous and crass and utterly disrespectful of our troops serving in Iraq, where they face the very real threat of sniper fire every day of their lives. First she helped to send them there. Now she's making jokes about the dangers they face? Screw her.

Hillary Clinton owes our troops and their families an apology.

[3811Billis]

Obama tried to approach the issues with Rev. Wright in a serious way, addressing the general public. The Clinton's tried to approach Hillary's "Misremembering" (Lies) about Bosnia in a lighthearted, joking way, in front of a live studio audience with "Laugh" and "applaued" signs to tell the audience when to react

[AnninCA]

*hooting*......are you some kind of actor on a daily soap opera?

My, my....such indignation should be paid for by someone! :)

[3811Billis]

Annin, how many American's should actually die by sniper fire before you can take the weight of Hillary's lies seriously? American men and women in Iraq are getting their brains blown out by snipers in Iraq almost everyday. Is that not enough? Or is it still a lighthearted joke for you and The Clinton's? :)

[DocJ]

You nailed it, bobdob: callous and crass and disrespectful. Also: calculated, patently manipulative, and insincere. Wonder how many times she practiced her delivery?

Finally - once again - utterly contemptuous of the intelligence and sensibilities of the American people (let alone the truth).

[etc]

All right. There was THREAT of a sniper fire! When there is a THREAT of a sniper fire, or suicide bomb explosion, or any other terrorist action, it's in a way even worse than the fire itself, because you don't know what to expect, when and where it may come from, you don't know how to react. As far as the girl on the photo is concerned, it was in the tradition of the former Soviet bloc countries to have children meet foreign dignitaries with flowers and poems, her presence in no way means that there was no real danger! Hillary did, what no other first lady had done before, so just let's tear her into pieces for that, let's cover her in mud. You, Obamans, are hooked onto the sensationalistic headlines of Huffpo and other MSM, which almost created Cult of Personality out of Obama candidacy. This is a dangerous trend that, in fact, has already ruined the Democratic Party. So, continue your meaningless agitation over cheap headline news fed to you by the unscrupulous media.

[k6007]

Sorry, this 'Obaman' has only to consult RECENT MEMORY, in order to have every reason I need NOT to vote for HillBill.

[apogee2perogee]

My! What an elaborate self-deceiving rationale! Kudos for being miles from reality.

[rmreddicks]

Usually greeted with bread and salt. Why are you so agitated?

[frappe]

and you are hooked on an irrational, emotional, sensationalist defense of the indefensible. I no longer trust Hillary Clinton. She is a demonstrated liar, and not in small, unimportant ways but in a manner that reveals something more disturbing about her ethics and personality. The Clintons are too wedded to the special interests that are tearing this country apart.

[AnninCA]

Oh, I can tell it burned Obamamaniacs up that she deftly has put this nonsense to bed. *haha

Way to Go, Hillary!

[bobdob]

"I remember landing under sniper fire," Clinton recounted. "There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."