Smallscreen News

Bill O'Reilly offers support to Lindsay Lohan on Leno, full monologue July 26

By April MacIntyre Jul 27, 2010, 2:28 GMT

US actor Lindsay Lohan (L) listens as her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley (R) EPA/AL SEIB

Tonight on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, "Papa Bear" FOX pundit Bill O'Reilly covers it all from 2012 Election predictions to Lindsay Lohan, and Adam Shankman talks "So You Think You Can Dance" and Step-Up 3-D.  Lyle Lovett and His Large Band perform.
  
Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly took a tough stance on several issues including whether or not actress Lindsay Lohan should be in jail on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” (Monday-Friday, 11:35 p.m. ET) on Tuesday, July 26.

When the audience began to laugh at Lohan’s now infamous mug shot as it was shown to them, O’Reilly was tactful: “You guys shouldn’t be laughing at this.  This is a woman who is on the Marilyn Monroe track.  Monroe died at 36.  She’s from Long Island where I’m from.  Very talented actress, if you’ve seen her she is talented, but she is very confused right now and she can’t stay away from the substance abuse.  So, if I were the judge I would have done exactly the same thing.  Send her in, send a message.”

O’Reilly continued: “But this woman needs to be saved and I think we should stop with the tabloid stuff, stop enjoying this kind of stuff.  I think she’s 24 years old, I think she’s been exploited by her parents -- nothing worse, nothing worse on this earth than being exploited by your parents.  And I just hope and I pray -- I do, I’ve said some prayers for her – that she can get out of there, find somebody, somebody to basically say, ‘Listen Lindsay, knock it off.’”

The full interview can be seen tonight on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”

Other guests tonight include Adam Shankman and a musical performance by Lyle Lovett and his Large Band.

JAY LENO’S MONOLOGUE HIGHLIGHT  MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HAS DECLARED THAT THE HEAVY LIFTING IS OVER FOR THE YEAR AND IT'S TIME TO BEGIN CAMPAIGNING AND TALKING ABOUT ALL THE WHITE HOUSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.  YOU KNOW SOMETHING; THE HEAVY LIFTING MIGHT BE OVER, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THE HEAVY SHOVELING IS JUST BEGINNING.  JUST BEGINNING.

ARE YOU FOLLOWING THIS SHIRLEY SHERROD STORY?  FIRST SHE GOT FIRED FROM HER JOB AT THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT, THEN THEY SAID THEY MADE A MISTAKE, THEN THEY OFFERED HER JOB BACK…  TODAY GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL SAID, “CAN I GET MY JOB BACK?”

FOLKS, I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS.  TONIGHT’S ENTIRE MONOLOGUE TURNED UP FIVE HOURS AGO ON WIKILEAKS.

A WEB SITE CALLED WIKILEAKS HAS POSTED 90,000 CLASSIFIED MILITARY DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.  THIS IS A HUGE DEAL.  THE PENTAGON IS OUTRAGED, THE WHITE HOUSE IS FURIOUS.  OF COURSE, BRITISH PETROLEUM IS RELIEVED: "FINALLY -- A LEAK THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH!"

I LOVE THIS STORY.  ACCORDING TO AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED BY BP THEMSELVES, THEY DETERMINED THAT BRITISH PETROLEUM IS NOT AT FAULT FOR THE GIANT OIL LEAK.   BP HAS CLEARED BP!  I GUESS WE ALL OWE THEM A HUGE APOLOGY.  HERE I WAS THINKING THEY WERE SOME KIND OF SLIME BALLS.  AND THEY ARE NOT AT FAULT AT ALL.

I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS TONY HAYWARD GUY.  THINK ABOUT IT; HE IS BRITISH, HE’S RICH, HE’S HATED…I THINK WE FOUND THE REPLACEMENT FOR SIMON COWELL.  I THINK THIS IS THE GUY.  THIS IS THE GUY WHO COULD DO IT.

IN "US" MAGAZINE REPORTING, LEVI JOHNSTON SAYS HE WANTS TO GET HIS GED AND BECOME AN ELECTRICIAN.  IF HE DOES EITHER ONE OF THOSE THINGS, PEOPLE WILL BE SHOCKED.        

HERE’S SOME GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICAN BUSINESS.  FORD MOTOR COMPANY HAS MOVED AHEAD OF TOYOTA IN SALES, AND THEY SAY THEY'RE NOT STOPPING UNTIL THEY SEE EVEN BETTER RESULTS. "NOT STOPPING"?  THAT’S WHAT SCREWED UP TOYOTA…  SLOW DOWN.

A WOMAN IN NEW YORK CITY WHO'S BEEN TRYING TO MARRY OFF HER 31-YEAR-OLD SON HAS NOW STARTED A WEB SITE SPECIFICALLY FOR PARENTS LOOKING TO MARRY OFF THEIR SINGLE KIDS THAT ARE LIVING AT HOME.  YOU KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN HERE; THIS WOMAN IS GOING TO END UP WITH TWO KIDS LIVING IN HER BASEMENT.  IT’S NOT GOING TO WORK.

FORBES HAS COME OUT WITH AN ARTICLE THAT EXPLAINS 10 WAYS TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS LYING TO YOU.  THE #1 WAY—IT'S 1 A.M., YOU’RE IN A BAR, AND HE'S A GUY