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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,...

Limbaugh mum on Sykes By: Patrick Gavin May 11, 2009 04:59 PM EST Although comedian Wanda Sykes' remarks on Saturday about Rush Limbaugh continued to generate buzz, the radio talk show host avoided the topic during his Monday broadcast. During her routine, Sykes issued a sharp and controversial rebuke of Limbaugh: "Mr. President ... you've had your fair share of critics. ... Rush Limbaugh, one of your big critics, boy — Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails. So you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails.’ You’re like, ‘I don’t care about people losing their homes, their jobs or our...

Today, on ABC's This Week program with George Stephanopoulos, the panel praised the president's performance at the White House Correspondence dinner on Saturday. However, Sam Donaldson criticized a speech delivered by comedienne Wanda Sykes, saying she had crossed the line when she stated: "I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker on 9/11"; "I hope his kidneys fail" and that he "needs a waterboarding". [VIDEO] From ABC's This Week Program: Donaldson: What I liked about [Obama's speech] was that all the zingers.... were in the Gridiron tradition. They singed, but didn't burn. They weren't mean. [However], from what I saw...

RNC Chair Michael Steele responds to Barack Obama's joking at last night's White House Correspondents Dinner.

Obama has asked that no tourists be allowed to tour Normandy that day because HE will be there. It's the 65th anniversary of D-Day and he doesn't want to let anybody else in. You have Wanda Sykes at the Nerd Prom last night telling people that Rush Limbaugh ought to be tried for treason because he said he hopes Obama fails. Okay, she's a comedienne and can say crap like that. But when a President of the United States releases documents that endanger troops and national security, when he releases terrorists onto United States soil, when he alienates longtime allies...

As one who is suffering from Kidney Failure, I take great offense to Wanda Sykes joke of hoping that Rush suffers from Kidney Failure! I can tell you, I would not wish this crap on my worst enemy, you have to sit on a dialysis machine for 4 hours a day, 3 days a week. You pray that you can find a new Kidney(living donor or someone who dies) because there is usually a 5 year wait and the side effects are just a major pain in the butt, but for some reason and full of hate both Obama and...

NewsBuster Tim Graham asked Saturday if comedienne Wanda Sykes, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, would really make fun of President Barack Obama or go all gentle. Well, the answer is likely worse than any of us could have imagined, for Sykes used this platform to attack conservatives rather than the person who is historically roasted at this event. In fact, her only real knocks on Obama were that he's constantly being photographed with his shirt off, and that if he screws up, everybody will blame it on "the half white guy!" After some respectful and largely...

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In a distasteful string of “jokes” (if you consider this funny), President Obama is seen laughing it up at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Wanda Sykes is delivering the punch lines. Jokes about Drugs, Kidney Failure, and water boarding…. Is this the best they have? Wow…. The video says it all:

In an attempt to be relevant, Wanda Sykes (a D-list so-called celebrity) accuses Rush Limbaugh of being the 20th hijacker and then goes on to wishing that his kidneys fail.

Here is unbelievable and disgraceful video of Wanda Sykes - a woman who is supposed to be a comedian - savaging Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night as President Obama looked on and laughed. Here is what he found so funny: 1. She accuses Limbaugh of perhaps being the "20th hijacker who missed his flight because he was strung out on Oxycontin" simply because he does not want Obama's policies of socialism to succeed. Obama laughed as she made the pathetic comments. 2. She also said she hopes Limbaugh's "kidneys fail" since he does not want...

Katie Holmes plays it safe as she covers up in frumpy magnolia at star-studded White House dinner [Pics of Hollywood for 0 in URL] By AMY OLIVER 10th May 2009 The world's top designers fall over themselves to offer her their clothes to wear, but for dinner at the White House last night Katie Holmes chose to go it alone. The 29-year-old chose to wear her own designs for the prestigious event - an ivory maxi-dress and mannish jacket selected from her Holmes-Yang collection, which has received mixed reviews from fashion critics. However, alongside the vibrant shocking pink of host...

What was Wanda Sykes thinking? Perhaps more to the point, what was President Barack Obama thinking when he laughed and smiled as the comedienne wished Rush Limbaugh dead? Although the Left is reporting her White House Correspondents' Dinner speech as "taking shots" at Limbaugh and mocking everyone, that's a gross misrepresentation of what turned into a hateful and disgusting diatribe. She then concluded: "Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs." Obama seemed to think this bit was pretty hilarious, grinning and chuckling and...

The Talk Shows Sunday, May 10, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Pakistan, the Taliban: U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus; the economy, bank solvency: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.); panel: Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, Kimberley Strassel, Juan Williams.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S. relations, the Taliban: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Vice President Dick Cheney.THIS WEEK (ABC): Afghanistan, Pakistan, closing Guantanamo Bay, torture: national security advisor Gen. James L. Jones Jr.; national security, GOP rebranding efforts: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.); round...

It was the hottest ticket in town, a black-tie dinner gathering of Washington's political and media elite but Dick Cheney couldn't make it. The former vice president was busy, President Barack Obama joked, working on his memoir "tentatively titled, How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People.' " As the star attraction of Saturday night's star-studded annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Obama enjoyed poking fun at his critics and the Republican Party. But his own administration, in power for just over 100 days, was also a target of the president's playful digs and one-liners. "I believe my next hundred...

...Sykes dropped her sitcom impishness and was all-Wanda, all the time. In the line that drew gasps from the posh crowd, she attacked Rush Limbaugh for saying he hoped the President's policies would fail. "That's treason," she said. "That's not saying anything different from what Osama bin Laden is saying... I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight." Yow. "Too much?" she asked rhetorically.

WASHINGTON – It was the hottest ticket in town, a black-tie dinner gathering of Washington's political and media elite but Dick Cheney couldn't make it. The former vice president was busy, President Barack Obama joked, working on his memoir "tentatively titled, How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People."

President Barack Obama ended on a serious note, pledging his undying support for journalists and specifically newspapers. President Obama spoke about media job losses and changes in the industry, then quoted Jefferson, “if he had the choice between Government with newspapers or newspapers without Government, he’d choose the latter.” The gushing was perhaps understandable at a press function, but it’s what he said next that foretold of a newspaper bailout. Obama told the crowd “Your ultimate success is essential to success of our democracy” before shortly saying “Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the...

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