Tina Fey and Jay Leno

Comedians--should they be influencing the news? Obama made a number of gaffes on Leno the other night, but the MSM covered for him. And they seemed impressed that instead of addressing the nation about the seriousness of the embassy closings, he went on TV with a comedian.   When Tina Fey, impersonating Sarah Palin, said she could see Russia from her house during the 2008 campaign, the MSM played it as Palin's gaffe. You really can see some Russian islands from Alaska, however, as Palin actually said. "They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." But in order to make her look like a doofus, they would quote Fey. It's not hard to catch Obama in terrible mistakes on geography, titles, pronunciation or founding documents, but the press don't report it.