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From Jeff Frazee (on facebook), who works for the Paul campaign as the student/youth coordinator or something like that:

“We just got a phone call here at HQ from an audience member at the Jay Leno show. They just finished taping, and he said “it couldn’t have gone any better”. Looking forward to watching it tonight. Sounds like a great interview.

More highlights from the show.

- Jay asked all the right questions. Did his research.
- Had Ron on for 2 segments. Brought him back after the commercial break.
- Plugged his book A Foreign Policy of Freedom.
- A woman who has gone to every Jay Leno taping for the past 3 years said, “the only guests to have this many people outside hoping to get a ticket were George Clooney, Justin Timberlake, and the kid from Harry Potter. Possibly the longest line for tickets in Tonight Show history, at the least in recent memory.”
- Ron has a great laugh line.
- Jonny Rotten of the Sex Pistols had a shout out to Ron Paul while on stage. After the show he told Ron it was an honor to meet him.
- Tom Cruise came by the dressing room and talked for about 10 minutes about legislation and came across very supportive.
- Jay Leno did the same and was very relaxed and friendly.”

Never mind the polls, Paul may have Sex Pistols endorsement  

The following video is from NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno, broadcast on October 30, 2007

Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane
Raw Story
Thursday November 1, 2007

When Jay Leno's interview of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on the Tonight Show was immediately followed by classic punk-rocker Johnny Rotten performing his song "Anarchy in the U.K." with the Sex Pistols, both men appeared to recognize a common bond.

According to libertarian blogger Todd Seavey:

"But what made the broadcast magic — and Leno himself noted it was fitting — was the Sex Pistols singing 'Anarchy in the UK' right after the Paul interview, with Johnny Rotten, after singing 'I want to be in anarchy,' adding a characteristically menacing but implicitly supportive 'Hello, Mr. Paul.'

"And, as I’d hoped, the two of them shook hands just as the show ended. Since they’d implicitly bonded during the song, the moment avoided being awkward in the fashion of that famous Elvis-meets-Nixon handshake photo, which The Weekly Standard rightly put on its cover a decade ago to accompany an article on the idea that rock and conservatism, all wishful thinking aside, do not naturally mix."

"I am an antichrist, I am an anarchist, don't know what I want but I know how to get it," Rotten's lyrics went. Paul himself, although hardly an anarchist, has become known for his anti-government views, and he received cheers when he suggested at one of his rallies earlier this year that "there may even be an anarchist or two" in attendance.

Paul had previously told Leno, "I would save billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining our empire around the world, and I'd bring our troops home and have enough money to cut our deficit. … It was a mistake to go in[to Iraq]. … Our national defense is in shambles. … I don't think we're safer at all. … Just bring the weapons home. We can defend this country. Nobody's going to touch us militarily. … Our greatest threat is a threat to our civil liberties here at home."