David Feherty shouldn't get pass for tasteless joke - but neither should Wanda Sykes

DailyNews ^ | May 11th 2009, | Mike Lupica

[Joiseydude]

Here is what David Feherty, a golf guy who poses no threat to the memory of Lenny Bruce, wrote in a Dallas magazine recently:

"If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama Bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and Bin Laden would be strangled to death."

Not funny. An old joke, tastelessly retold.

[Joiseydude]

But you have to wonder how a similar joke might have played at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday night, as long as it was about a Republican.

Somehow Ms. Sykes got laughs with this material, and draws no fire. It is all supposed to be about the setting, or so we are told. President Obama was there, the dinner is always the Washington version of a Friars Club Roast, just without the Sopranos language.

So Sykes, a comedian, gets a pass because of where she was, and whom she was talking about. And maybe who she is.

[a fool in paradise]

I guess she got a pass because she didn’t say “macaca”.

[Joiseydude]

There’s also a poll at website.

[Carley]

Lupica needs to stick to sports.

But given the Daily News pathetic earnings maybe he has the sports desk and the political desk.

Blech.

[Carley]

Tee hee. I answered their poll. Said that Feherty should be punished by Sykes was fine! LOLOL..............

Sure sure sure,.

[GQuagmire]

Pelosi, Reid, and bin Laden in the same elevator seems entirely possible to me.....

[BubbaJunebug]

Would have been a funnier joke substituting BO for Pelosi...

[Anti-Bubba182]

Wanda Sykes is a Black Lesbian. Wanda Sykes can do no wrong.
F-Off Honkies!

[RexBeach]

I thought the elevator joke was very funny - and it was a joke.

What Ms. Sykes did was slanderous jokes.

My goodness, the woman can’t even speak English. Her monologues always sound like she’s hanging out on some street corner in a ghetto(not the inner city).

[bakoj]

She will get away with it because she is black. Get used to it whitey, it’s theyr tun now.

[4Speed]

There IS a SEVERE PENALTY for saying “The War is LOST” .....the Penalty is getting more severe over time.
I thought it was funny.

[jessduntno]

“So Sykes, a comedian, gets a pass because of where she was, and whom she was talking about. And maybe who she is.”

I wrote Applebee’s telling them she was unfit to be a spokesperson...in words to that effect...

http://www.applebees.com/guestcontact.aspx

I know - it’s a pain to fill out...and there might be a cookie...I just don’t care anymore, my spam filter is good and screw these idiots who love to use their celebrity and get no heat - let enough people write and she might have to put some of her repulsive skin in the game...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Democrat Playbook #4: He’s a racist, she’s funny.

[Wyatt's Torch]

"If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama Bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and Bin Laden would be strangled to death."

Not funny.

I beg to differ...that's funny as hell...

[MarkeyD]

You’d have to shoot Pelosi or OBL would be able to sue that the time spent with her was torture.

[Wyatt's Torch]

There’s also a poll at website.

Yeah...great options too:

What did you think of the jokes made by David Feherty and Wanda Sykes?

a) Their comments were tasteless, and both should apologize.

b) Feherty deserves punishment, but Sykes' comments were fine considering the setting.

c)It was all in good fun - neither should be reprimanded.

[Bender2]

Re: So Sykes, a comedian, gets a pass because of where she was, and whom she was talking about. And maybe who she is.

That depends on if she is black... on the right side or black on the wrong side, ya know!

Gadzooks! Looks like there is not any hate speech... if it is aimed at us Conservative Republican typical white people--

BTW If I had a nickle for every wise crack... a liberal Feminazi Lesbian said about me, I'd be rich.

Hey, I am rich. And... good looking, too!

BTW #2, Rush, if you are browsing FR... feel free to use this and I would not object to a free case of beer. Or two!

[snowrip]

I’ve never heard the original elevator joke before... hilarious because it’s true!

[Neoliberalnot]

How bout a pass for Napolitano or Hussein Obama poking fun at the tea parties.

[lado]

If Pelosi got shot twice in the head, I’d worry that it would reshape and reform, like the T1000 from T2: Judgment Day.

Sykes; just a black woman getting away with comments about evil oppressive white dudes.