“I told them a hundred times: it’s John Kerry first, puppet show second”

From today’s Boston Globe: “Biting remarks on candidacy by “canine” on “Tonight Show”:

BURBANK, Calif. -- With the kind of week Senator John F. Kerry is having, it only made sense that he appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" last night and wound up following a dog

Well, a dog puppet, actually -- a foul-mouthed Rottweiler named Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who was the first guest on the show.

Hopefully the Senator had a bigger dressing room than the puppet