Comedian on Comedy Network Complains About a Guy Telling Jokes

RUSH: Speaking of narratives, let me ask you people a question. Do you recall first ladies being criticized or laughed at, ridiculed, or made fun of before Hillary Clinton? (interruption) Do any of you recall Nancy Reagan being laughed at and made fun of? (interruption) You do? What was she laughed at for? (interruption) Okay. That's exactly right. You know, you are exactly right. When Nancy Reagan came out and said "Just say no" as a policy for drug abuse, the media mocked her, the Democrat Party mocked her, called her a simpleton, said that certainly wouldn't work. "What do you mean, 'Just say no'?"

I remember that campaign. You had NFL players doing PSAs all over the country, "Just say no to drugs," that kind of stuff. And then when Nancy Reagan redesigned the White House china, that would be the plates and the cups and saucers, for those of you in Rio Linda, oh, they had a field day with that, didn't they? You would have thought the world was gonna come to an end. Nancy Reagan, there she was, typical, evil, rich white woman totally out of touch with the people of this country, making a big deal, maybe even did a little TV segment, on redesigning the White House china.

And then, when they learned that Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer, oh, did they have field day with that. Sam Donaldson and ABC News and the rest of the Drive-By Media just went to town with Nancy Reagan. Were there any people making fun of Barbara Bush? I remember editorial cartoons about Barbara Bush and her white hair and her age, looks like the president's mother. I remember several in the Drive-By Media, cartoonists and editorial panelists saying this.

Rush is making a good point about the hubris and moral rot that lies at the heart of the Prog movement.

Their self-seriousness condemns them. They will burn for that in centuries to come.

But he's wrong about the historicity of "don't make fun of liberals" -- people were making fun of Eleanor Roosevelt (I remember one joke involving a gas mask) and FDR in my grandfather's time.

2 posted on 05/13/2015 6:53:15 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)

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