Posted on 05/11/2009 1:19:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oh, boy, Wanda Sykes is in trouble. That's what you get when you make fun of Rush Limbaugh.
But while conservatives were screaming Monday, let's face it: Sykes said something mean but also funny about the right-leaning Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night.
Boy, Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails – so you said you hope America fails ....To me, that's treason. He's not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, 'cause I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.
These dinners are supposed to feature sharp-elbowed humor, and Sykes delivered.
In fact, she also poked plenty of fun at President Barack Obama and others in his administration, a required part of the program.
But by Monday afternoon, her comments on Limbaugh were drawing ridicule from the right -- and a bit of admonition from the White House.
Spokesman Robert Gibbs said he hadn't talked to the president, but added:
"I think there are a lot of topics that are better left for serious reflection rather than comedy. I think there's no doubt 9/11 is part of that."
Then again, Sykes wasn't joking about people being murdered by terrorists. She was comparing Limbaugh to a terrorist for his comments about the Obama administration.
Over the top? Probably. Funny? To some, yes. As Sykes even said after her comparison of Limbaugh to a terrorist:
"Too much? But you're laughing inside."
Yes, plenty of Limbaugh critics were doing just that on Monday, even as they awaited the usual apology from the White House and others who attack the radio talk-show host.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.kansascity.com ...
This is precisely why we need Ann Coulter, she’s not afraid to throw it right back in the libs faces.
He laughed, but he didn’t inhale as he laughed!
How about his emphahsizing and, in turn, de-emphasizing his middle name: Hussein? Got to be a joke in there.
Anyone know? Has Rush responded? He will lace it into her good.
The Democrats and humor? You are kidding?
Their humor is political correctness to the extreme!
Their humor is hate speech!
Rush has a difficult job in trying to educate these idiots.
JFK smoked pot, used LSD, and painkillers while in the white house. The only reason he didn’t dabble in crack is that it wasn’t invented yet.
And yet, nowhere in her reported remarks do I see she jokingly equated him with a terrorist, or suggested it would be really funny if President Obama should die a horrible wasting death from failure of his internal organs (as my mother did, for that matter.)
Over the top? Perhaps if she had joked that the President was a terrorist who should be lynched? Now, that would be over the top.
DISCLAIMER: For lurking Democrats, Liberals, Race-baiters and other such ready to be offended idiots...did that just offend you? Good. Please note I do not wish any harm to the President (unlike the wish this speaker made towards Rush.) I do not wish or promote any pain or suffering towrds the President, my political opposite (unlike the speaker just did to Rush.) While I find his point of view dispicable and his recent political actions reprehensible, I think that something shouldn't be joked about...causing human suffering should be one of them. And yet...there I just did. And I hope that all of you People Who Are Always Ready To Be Offended understand now how offended we are that someone attacked Rush, and by extension, all of us, in this insensitive matter. The sad thing is, you won't. Because you lack the basic human empathy to project the feelings of others into yourself; thus you can be offended all day long when someone makes cruel fun of what you hold dear, but not have enough human sympathy to imagine that you might be offending and hurting others with obvious hate speech when one of your own suggests that kidney failure is funny...in a Republican. I wish you had half the human kindness you imagine you have, and I wish you could understand the horrible double standard you live with every day.
The funniest thing she’s ever done was a PSA urging teens not to use the term “GAY” when criticizing something as dumb or uncool! That gave me a good laugh!!
Who is Wanda Sykes?
I heard a portion of her stand up material from this past weekend. I had to question if it wasn’t one of the Chipmunks...
There was a joke aimed at Bristol Palin (her mother “pulled out” but that doesn’t count as abstinence).
Why no jokes about VP Joe Biden’s daughter’s recent cocaine use?
RUSH SAID HE HOPES OBAMA’S POLICIES FAIL. HE NEVER SAID HE HOPES AMERICA FAILS. Rush is one of the most patriotic Americans you’ll find anywhere. He loves this country and he is right to hope that Obama’s policies fail, because Obama’s policies are extremely un-American.
This woman who said these things about Rush is not funny. Anybody who jokes about things in anyway about 911, or that someone who they don’t agree with should get kidney failure, is despicable, not funny. And all of her ilk in the room who laughed (including Obama)are also despicable.
I do not agree with the direction Obama is taking the country, but neither I nor Rush would ever wish anything like that on him, not even in the form of a joke. I’ll tell you what is funny, I hope Obama gets the runny sh*ts while he is in the middle of his speech in Egypt. He needs to be knocked down a bit off his arrogant pedestal.
The Star gave Walter Cronkite his start. Looks like they're still trying to "contribute".
Admittedly, I don’t watch much television, or go to the movies these days...haven’t in quite a while, so Ms. Sykes’ name doesn’t ring a bell in my memory.
However, this story about her is granting her enough publicity to bring her to my attention, and to remind me that her kind of “entertainment” is precisely why I don’t watch much television or go to the movies these days.
It’s Barack Obama who said Americans are going to have to do with less. I’d like to see the President fail in forcing Americans into a lesser lifestyle.
:::throwing hands over mouth to stiffle laughter:::
Before the election, she was famous for saying that if Barack Obama wins, black people would need to find an excuse because you can’t go around blaming “The Man” when you ARE “The Man”.
The quote is all over the internet.
I guess she believes that Rush is now The Man in charge.
I’m sorry but they seem like everythign offensive went over their heads? Are they that stupid?
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