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All the Rage--Wanda Sykes’ death wish is but the latest exhibit of leftist bloodlust.
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| May 13, 2009
| Ben Johnson
Posted on 05/13/2009 5:34:09 AM PDT by SJackson
All the Rage By: Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, May 13, 2009
THIS WEEKEND WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS DINNER DEBASED OUR POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN A WAY NOT EVEN THE LEFT HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY SUCCEEDED, but Wanda Sykes death wish was not the cause in itself. The Left has made bloodlust for its political opponents de rigueur. The moment that desecrated one of our national institutions affected a more fundamental aspect of character.
Another Leftist Death Wish: Ho-Hum
The media have focused on the controversy surrounding Saturdays Syke-o statements about Rush Limbaugh. Citing Rushs hope that socialism fails, Wanda claimed: He's not saying anything different than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, [addressing the president] because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was so strung out on Oxycontin, he missed his flight. After asking if she went too far, she barreled on: Rush Limbaugh! I hope the country fails? I hope his kidneys fail!
Disgusting as the statements were, they were sadly unremarkable for their illogic, hypocrisy, or murderous rage. Forget that Barack Obama has written book blurbs for more terrorists than Rush Limbaugh has ever met. Forget that when the media reported one person at a John McCain presidential rally yelled kill him about Obama a charge which Secret Service in crowd called unfounded Frank Rich of the New York Times treated McCain-Palin like the second coming of Robert DePugh and accused them of inciting vigilantism. Even the comments most striking feature wishing for someone to die because he disagrees with you is all-too-common on the Left and, indeed, was greeted with gales of laughter from the D.C. press corps and the commander-in-chief.
Perhaps the line got so much applause because so many in the mainstream media have expressed similar sentiments about conservatives. NPRs Nina Totenberg, who covers politics
at taxpayer expense, wished Sen. Jesse Helms would contract AIDS. (He instead suffered from
vascular dementia.) Totenberg later
publicly hoped Gen. Jerry Boykin would find he is not long for this world. Columnist Julianne Malveaux
proposed this nutrition plan for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter, and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease.
The closest thing the Left has produced to Rush Limbaugh is Air Americas Randi Rhodes which is rather like saying the closest thing a budding sculptor has produced to Michelangelos David is a snowball. Nonetheless, Ms. Rhodes repeatedly joked about
doing in President Bush. In May 2004,
Rhodes referenced President Obamas
favorite film,
The Godfather:Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and [sound of gunfire]. A few years later, she chuckled as an AA spot again threatened to assassinate her president. (Between those bits, the network
fumed Donald Rumsfeld ought to be tortured. Those kidders!)
Even the foreign press longed for Bushs death. In October 2004, UK
Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker declared Bush should be tarred, feathered and kicked in the nuts and
asked, John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. - where are you now that we need you? Not content with idle speculation, a foreign leftist
produced the film Death of a President to bring this vision to life.
Some Americans interested in the living arts attended
FEAR UP: Stories from Baghdad and Guantanamo, a play funded by tax-exempt,
charitable funds administered by Teresa Heinz and personally
praised by Sen. John Kerry. One of its plot twists involves suggesting a new reality television show that places 14 Bush supporters in Faluja [sic.] Yes, one need not be a public figure to deserve death in the Lefts eyes.
The New York Press pre-emptively danced at Pope John Paul II's wake. The leftist rag published a cover story in March 2005 entitled, The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope, which included such knee-slappers as, In his last days, the Pope was in tremendous pain; Beetles eating Pope's dead brains; and Pope pisses himself just before the end; gets all over nurse. Maybe theyre writing Wanda Sykes gag lines?
(Michelle Malkin has many more examples of unhinged leftist behavior toward those who dare disagree with them)
Unfortunately, leftist hatred does not end at the grave. Cartoonist Ted Rall has made a career of slurring the dead. Shortly after President Ronald Reagans death, Rall told a reporter Reagan was in Hell turning crispy brown right about now. Rall called Pat Tillman, the NFL star who enlisted after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan, an idiot. He berated the victims of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and their families as Nazis, and portrayed the grieving wives left behind after 9/11 as money-grubbing media hounds in his cartoon Terror Widows.
After Charlton Heston succumbed to a long bout with Alzheimers Disease, the loving Left at Democratic Underground wrote: glad to hear some good news for a change. I hope that spreader of misery spends all his glory days around the eternal flames of hell with ol Raygun talkin bout how they really fucked this country oh they probably wont even remember, lol.
The tragedy is not that Wandas whimpers pulled our national discourse down to the level of a chat room comment. By herself, she does not have that power. Nor is it even that the Lefts demonization of its opponents has led to acts of violence against conservative speakers like
David Horowitz,
William Kristol,
Ann Coulter, and
Pat Buchanan. (Indeed, an Indymedia observe
wrote, If Kristol had got what he deserved, it would not have been a pie.) Such rhetoric and its resultant violence is inevitable as long as the Left clings to a secular demonology. Socialist Utopians (sorry, Progressives) cannot love the sinner and hate the sin, because their Kingdom of Heaven must be built on earth. Their opponents are not merely terrorists but devils.
Living in Debasement
The real and unprecedented debasement of our national dialogue came from President Obamas Carteresque smile and titters of laughter as Sykes mused about his rivals death. The visuals and Obamas own rhetorical history prove Wanda was right about one thing: the president was laughing, inside and out. Given the opportunity to apologize at a Monday press conference, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs regretted only her comparing Limbaugh to the 9/11 hijackers, and then only with the now-standard dodge that others should determine whether such a comparison were valid. Gibbs said, there are a lot of topics that are better left for serious reflection, rather than comedy I think there's no doubt that 9/11 is part of that.
And kidney failure, Mr. Gibbs?
Obamas cackling while Wanda Sykes wishes his opponents dead is debasing, not merely in a personal, but in an institutional sense. The White House Correspondents Dinner is an annual convocation the last several presidents have observed, regardless of their opinion of its practitioners or their craft that is, rather like the National Day of Prayer every year before this. It is an annual observance at which, it is understood, the sitting president will be in attendance. In this and other ceremonial events, the president acts not in the personal but in the regal capacity.
Laughing at a joke, even a vicious one, is not a major personal flaw. Cooling his heels in Rev. Wrights church for 20 years; associating with an unrepentant terrorist; making jokes about an ailing Nancy Reagan performing a séance in the White House (she didnt; Hillary Clinton did); giving his primary and general election opponents the middle finger; crafting endless straw man arguments; and appointing a chief of staff who proclaimed his opponents Dead! Dead! Dead! all speak worse of Obama as a man. And undoubtedly, other presidents have made worse statements about their opponents in private. But at Saturdays dinner, something unprecedented happened: the man who happens to occupy the presidency on behalf of the American people chortled in public while contemplating the death of one of his citizens.
As with his pre-inaugural comments about Nancy Reagan, his campaign trail focus on Sean Hannity, his own recent attacks on Rush Limbaugh, and his snippy attack on Dick Cheney at the dinner, Obama has fused a thin-skinned obsession with his critics to his role as president, obviously giving little thought to how pursuing his private vendettas during official functions diminishes the reputation of the office itself. For someone so concerned about Americas image abroad, it seems a curious oversight. The presidency has been held by men of lower character, but on Obamas watch, the honor of the presidency itself is shrinking.
TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; blackcomedy; deaththreats; democrats; doublestandard; enemedia; hatespeech; liberalhate; liberalism; liberalmedia; liberals; msm; ninatotenberg; npr; obamedia; pravdamedia; publicradio; randirhodes; sykes; wandasykes
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To: SJackson
Sykes is a coward. Did she make one obozo joke?
Pray for America
21
posted on
05/13/2009 6:10:06 AM PDT
by
bray
(SarDate.2012)
To: SJackson
And what does Wanda Sykes have against hygiene?
22
posted on
05/13/2009 6:10:39 AM PDT
by
Verbosus
To: jersey117
I think Wanda Sykes bears a strong resemblance to the Buckwheat character in the Little Rascals series...
23
posted on
05/13/2009 6:13:38 AM PDT
by
astounded
(The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America.)
To: SJackson
Of course the left loves death. As Hillery said, “We are not a pro-life country”
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posted on
05/13/2009 6:27:01 AM PDT
by
Mark was here
(The earth is bipolar.)
To: astounded
you’re confusing her with Cynthia McKinney. “OOOHHHHttay”
To: jersey117
Sykes is nothing more than an illiterate (Sangria Chonga) blood monkey. Odumbo and her are both racists and anti-American zealots.
Molon Labe,
NSNR
To: astounded
Sykes looked like a field hand trying to impress the house boy. Ha Ha Ha. Aren’t I just hilarious with my little “joke”?
To: jersey117
What I think is funny is that Libs want Conservatives dead but they hate guns. HAHAHAHAHAHA...
28
posted on
05/13/2009 6:46:59 AM PDT
by
flying_bullet
(El Conservo tribe member)
To: flying_bullet
That’s not ironic at all.
Leftists use GOVERNMENT to kill dissenters.
Guns in the hands of the dissenters thwarts this desire.
“Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.”
29
posted on
05/13/2009 6:48:25 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, Bowman later)
To: SJackson
30
posted on
05/13/2009 6:52:34 AM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: bray
Sykes is a coward. Did she make one obozo joke? No, but she made him laugh.
31
posted on
05/13/2009 7:11:09 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(right of the mortgagee to insist upon full payment ... the essence of a mortgage, Justice Brandeis)
To: SJackson
32
posted on
05/13/2009 7:12:25 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(What happened to the end of the politics of personal destruction that Obama claimed to be bringing?)
To: bray
If she wanted to compare someone to Osama, she’d do well to start with the Commander in Chief. Both Osama and Obama have friends who bombed the Pentagon.
And she mentioned Obama’s tobacco use but skipped over jokes about his admitted pot and cocaine use.
33
posted on
05/13/2009 7:14:15 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(What happened to the end of the politics of personal destruction that Obama claimed to be bringing?)
To: JimRed
From the article, Columnist Julianne Malveaux proposed this nutrition plan for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter, and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease. Needless to say she's not particularly concerned about the health problems of black men either.
34
posted on
05/13/2009 7:15:58 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(right of the mortgagee to insist upon full payment ... the essence of a mortgage, Justice Brandeis)
To: SJackson
Regarding the Left’s ultimate desire for bloodlust and revolution, I think they should rise up right now. Bring it on.
35
posted on
05/13/2009 7:18:36 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
To: brownsfan
If conservative leaders would focus on alternatives, real policy alternatives and be vocal about them, its the way to eventually get the attention of the sheeple. If, after the whole mess crashes, and it will, there are conservatives with published records opposing what was done, and what should have been done, that will be the way out. Hopefully, though we're going to need leaders to establish themselves over the next year or two. Which will happen. Thus far BHO hasn't faced a crisis he couldn't blame on GWB, but even with the media in the bag, he will.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:18:41 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(right of the mortgagee to insist upon full payment ... the essence of a mortgage, Justice Brandeis)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
PS: I wouldn’t really have a problem killing them all. I don’t consider them to be my fellow Americans — but the enemy of all that I hold dear.
37
posted on
05/13/2009 7:20:57 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
To: Spok
Like what Mr. Savage says “liberalism is a mental disorder”!God Help the USA.
38
posted on
05/13/2009 7:24:16 AM PDT
by
jesseam
(Been there and done that!)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
PS: I wouldnt really have a problem killing them all. I dont consider them to be my fellow Americans but the enemy of all that I hold dear.We'll probably both get flamed for admitting it , but that's how I've come to feel about more and more of the two legged creatures occupying the North American landmass with me. :-(
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:26:08 AM PDT
by
kaylar
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Wouldn’t have to take any physical action against them at all if the weren’t trying to FORCE their worldview on the rest of us.
If we were able to restore federalism and state sovereignty, we could all move to “free” states and let them try to implement their socialist utopia where they live.
40
posted on
05/13/2009 7:29:43 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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