George Carlin Disappoints Coulter Haters

"Ann Coulter and George Carlin are on the show tonight. That's the last time we have eharmony.com pick our guests," Jay Leno quipped at the beginning of his broadcast.

Harmony is just what viewers saw on the show, and that made libs very unhappy. Apparently, they were expecting comedian George Carlin to take fellow guest Ann Coulter apart with his patented wit.

The Associated Press had essentially set up expectations by describing Coulter as an "the acid-tongued conservative" while Carlin was heralded as a "quick-witted, antiestablishment comedian."

But Carlin was a classy, cordial gentleman and treated Coulter with respect. The only joke he launched came as he gave his Leno-adjoining seat up for Coulter.

"I never thought Ann Coulter would make me move to the right," Carlin cracked.

This did not please the TV Squad blog, which groused, "You would think that George Carlin, one of the most brilliant comedic minds around and someone who would give Ann Coulter a run for her money, would get in on the conversation."

The Web site called the show "a complete waste of time" and asked, "Where was the Coulter clash?"

Other mainstream media outlets took potshots as well.

Variety called Coulter "the ice princess of arch-conservatism" and described Carlin as "a crown prince of '60s iconoclasm."

Coulter was chastised for being "bent on making the most of her exposure via the mainstream media she professes to loathe."

"Whether calculated or not, the thin, tall, blonde Coulter comes across as a brainy Paris Hilton. And like Hilton, she appears impervious to criticism and single-minded in her pursuit of self-promotion," the Variety piece read.

A Los Angeles Times blog called Coulter "weirdly school-girlish," adding that "her evident pleasure in herself is in direct proportion to the revulsion she occasions in others."

Expressing dismay at Carlin's civility, the site blogged, "We sat through an entire 'Tonight Show' for this?"

The Left Coast Report says I read through a whole L.A. Times blog for this?