Jay Leno Continues to Lose in the Court of Public Opinion

I'm not a fan of Leno, but I don't think you are losing the Court of Public Opinion when you come back and win your time slot beating Letterman and getting better numbers the Conan did.

It's so pathetic that TV Squad has taken it upon themselves to bad-mouth Leno on a regular basis. Even Conan has moved on. Get over it!

Maybe Jay is a vegetarian.

I am no fan of Leno and hate his part in the whole late night fiasco and am hoping Conan goes to Fox and kicks his ass in the ratings, but I can't take the burger joints side in this. They are miffed that he didn't respond to a thank you?

Imagine you do something nice for a neighbor, like buy them groceries and they send you a thank you card and invite you over for dinner. Would it make it right that they start bad mouthing you to other neighbors? They should have taken the high road and left things as is with their first act of thanks.

Trevor: indeed. It really takes a special kind of asshole to retire and turn over your show to Conan - who has wanted the show his entire life, and then snatch it right back per the network's request. The only reason why Conan's Tonight Show wasn't getting good ratings (not like Leno's doing any better now that he's back) was because NBC has the worst shows on TV and that means no viable lead-in show at 10pm.

Leno is a cruel, cutthroat bastard. If he were the slightest bit funny I could probably overlook some of that, but the guy has never once made me laugh. He's a G-rated corporate shill who got where is is by doing everything possible to NEVER offend anyone. The Catholic Church will stop raping children before Jay Leno ever tells a joke that just might offend someone. Corporate sponsors love him - they never have to worry about their products being "tied" to an offensive joke. Leno doesn't care about anything or anyone - as long as he can have his huge collection of cars that he never drives, he'll continue to be a pathetic sellout of a jackass.

Leno has no morals and no ethics. None. I don't care about this burger thing, but to completely ignore them shows again how arrogant Leno is.

I can't remember the last time Judas Leno got any good publicity. Everyone knows what a bum he is now.

I hate Leno, but who the hell are these people to think they're somehow ENTITLED to a response from Jay Leno? Talk about a huge ego.

I think they really believe that if they name a greasy food product on their menu after a celebrity, they are entitled to have that celebrity fly cross-country to do a PR-stunt in their restaurant.

I named my toilet the "Obama Flush" - am I entitled to have the President come to my apartment and take a shit on my toilet? If I don't get a response, do I have a legitimate gripe against him? No, of course not. And only a sociopath would think differently.

It's just another example of how people involved with marketing and advertising are the most unethical, rotten, annoying people on the planet. As the great Bill Hicks once said, if you work in advertising, please go kill yourself. Put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Oh how clever, he's going after the anti-advertising demographic, trying to snatch up those anti-advertising dollars! No. Just kill yourself. Please. Especially these guys, as the only thing worse than people involved with a marketing stunt is people involved with a marketing stunt with an overblown sense of entitlement. "How dare jay leno not fly out to bumfuck hicksville and eat the hamburger my store named after him!" Unbelievable. You couldn't pay me to eat at this place - even if they named a burger after me.

Whether or not there's 'bias' Leno is tarnished. His numbers are down from when he last hosted the Tonight Show and he's now neck and neck with the Late Show. NBC handled the situation extremely poorly. I don't believe Leno came out looking great after all was said and done. And you are right, I'm not going to like Leno just because he visited a burger place. I didn't like when he got the Tonight Show the first time, I didn't like when he took over 10pm, and I certainly didn't like when he returned to the Tonight show at the expense of getting rid of Conan.

As far as the burger place, I would take them up on their offer if they named a burger after me. Never been to Michigan.

The difference creep is will that story get national attention? If it does then yes he should go if he wants to keep his popularity. After about two of those the public will loose attention and he won't have to do them though I doubt two will even get the traction off the ground to garner the attention. This one is already out there so he should do it or have the story eek on to hurt him in the future.

I'm not really a fan of Leno, but to let a small burger joint manipulate you is a bad idea. If he goes for it, the next thing you know Shecky's Game Shack in Nowheresville is gonna pull the same thing. "Come to our place of business and promote us or we're gonna turn on you." He'll just look like a pathetic puppet desperate for acceptance by anyone. I do think he still has some damage control to do, but not at the whims of everyone that demands it.