Is Getting Rid Of Jay Leno A Mistake?

Jay Leno

NBC reportedly was so determined to rid itself of Jay Leno, it agreed to pay him $15 million to get lost.

What a loss, writes Andrea Peyser at the NYPost.

At age 63, Leno isn’t your standard, liberal cup of java, according to Peyser. He’s witty and sprightly compared to CBS’s crankypants lefty David Letterman, 66, whose continued existence on the TV dial is a mystery for the ages.

And, amid the vast landscape of TV talkers, including, but not limited to, HBO’s odious Bill Maher, Leno harbors a filthy, little secret.

He’s the lone conservative to swim in the shark tank of Republican-bashing, President Obama-worshiping TV hosts. The kind of misogynists who demonize Sarah Palin.

Leno has been merciless of late when riffing on government scandals. Such as the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups.

“I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke,’’ he said this week, “but I don’t want to get audited by the IRS, so forget that . . .”

The alleged administration coverup of last year’s deadly terror attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya?

“The White House has a new slogan about Benghazi: Hope and change the subject,” Leno said last week. “Remember the old days when President Obama’s biggest embarrassment was Joe Biden? What happened to those days?”

This may explain why NBC, a network that screams to the left (remember when it censored the words “under God’’ from the Pledge of Allegiance during the 2011 US Open golf tourney?), can’t wait to see him go.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the trash heap of retired talk-show hosts: Leno has caught fire.

The ratings leader in his time slot, Leno positively crushed Letterman and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel in the just-released early May sweeps ratings.

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