Jay Leno sued over joke

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Comedian Jay Leno is being sued over a joke he told on his late night show where he called an opulent Sikh shrine “Mitt Romney’s summer home on Lake Winnipesaukee.”  The joke, intended as a riff on Romney’s wealth, instead offended an Indian-American doctor who complained in his suit that  Leno “falsely portray[ed] the holiest place in the Sikh religion as a vacation resort owned by a non-Sikh.”