It’s the Monday after Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner, and the media, particularly the Conservative World part of it, is going ballistic. It’s great. The right’s wingnut pundits are vying for the title of Most Likely To Have a Stroke Today, all because of comedian Wanda Sykes’ jokes about Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. If you haven’t seen Sykes’ performance, we won’t ruin it by telling you the Limbaugh jokes, but we will tell you that she chided Palin, who was supposed to attend the dinner but backed out, by noting that the Alaska governor had “pulled out at the last minute,” adding that, “Somebody should tell her that’s not really how you practice abstinence.” Afterward, Sykes compared Limbaugh’s hatred of Obama to Osama bin Laden’s hatred of America, and, er, commented on it. Imagine the audacity of comedian Wanda Sykes being hired to tell jokes at the dinner and coming onstage and telling actual jokes! Now those jokes are an issue — which is odd, considering that the event was hosted by the Washington press, which laughed heartily at the jokes when Sykes told them. Yep, it was vindictive humor, and yes, it was funny as hell, and yes, Limbaugh and his supporters deserve every joke, jibe, figurative slap and even possibly waterboarding the world can hand them, considering the mess they made of things during the last eight years, a period during which they somehow considered themselves the cocky, natural born rulers of the world. Now they can’t even take a joke. Like I said, it’s great. Here’s Syke’s performance.
This article appears in May 5-12, 2009.
Funny how those hypocritical Republicans saw nothing wrong when Limbaugh made those comments about Ted Kennedy dying. They even got plenty of comedy material out of it.
Further, to quote from a great post:
“I have to admit, I never really understood the right-wing sense of humor.
Like when Ronald Reagan joked in 1964 about the 17 million people who then went to bed hungry every night in America, saying that “they were all on a diet.”
Or when Rush Limbaugh called 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton a “dog.”
Or when George W. Bush yucked it up over the issue of the non-existent WMDs in Iraq during a “comedy” skit in the Oval Office.”
Read the full article about GOP humor at http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2008/05/ted-kennedys-hospitalization-prompts.html, and then tell me that the right-wing morons really have a case here.
Who is Wanda Sykes? Is this a celebrity? In the United States?
This press conference thing was the first I’d heard of her. She appears to be just another hoodrat associate of those hoodrat Obamas. But reading other blogs today I’ve learned she is considered a comedian and has been on late-night TV. And she is apparently a homosexual.
All this together worries me a little. I know Supreme Court justice Souter is retiring this fall. Let’s hope Obama does not choose Sykes to replace him. As a gay minority female she is the poster-ho of political correctness.
There you go, spreading false information again.
Grooms ended his post with a link to the entire skit. And, the skit was ended with a quote about the Obama’s dog.
Sykes did say she wishes Rush’s kidneys would fail, only after reminding the audience that he hoped Obama would fail and about his drug addiction.
What’s worse? One bloated jack ass, or our country?
You wrote: “Fred any case the democrats have of past jokes by republicans is dwarfed by jokes and bad behavior perpetrated by the left. It would be neat to show the number of mean spirited democrat clips pile up beyond count.”
I think: You’re insane. You post vitriolic bull shit on this site every week day, spreading hate-filled propaganda from the unRIGHTeous.
Ah, you lefties. Winning the battle of ideas. Rush Limbaugh! He was addicted to drugs!! That’s what you’ve got? Heck, even Obama’s media wing joins in the fray. Dick Cheney goes on “Face the Nation” and says Obama’s policies are making the country less safe. Unlike the lib Internet chattering class, Cheney would know. So what does Schieffer turn it into? “You side with Rush Limbaugh, not Colin Powell!” We know that’s how you all view the world, that anybody who disagrees with you as an evil villain.
But do you really think those of us paying attention can’t see through these tired, ridiculous games? That the Rush Limbaugh as boogeyman act isn’t perpetuated due to some polling results found by Rahm Emmanuel and his buddies Carville, Begala and Stephanopoulis?
But hey, at least you’ve got the utterly corrupted, utterly in the bag for Obama press continuing to carry your water.
You guys are so full of Right-Wing talking points I bet your vision is blurry.
For some real fun, watch Steven Colbert (another one of your heroes) roast President Bush at a past WH correspondent’s dinner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSE_saVX_2A
WHAT KIND OF HUMOR WOULD YOU EXPECT FROM A HOMOSEXUAL NEGRO. HER MOUTH IS FULL OF IT SO SOME OF IT MUST SPEW OUT.
Am I the only one who things Wanda Sykes is not that funny?
Comedians make fun of people.
Steven Colbert is a comedian, Wanda Sykes is a comedian.
She made fun of your backwards demigod. Deal with it. Limbaugh, also an entertainer, makes fun of the collective intelligence of the United States daily, and for that he’s rewarded with his much bragged about salary.
I’m pretty sure they can all handle themselves and don’t need your excessive commentary.
I’m embarresed to be a democrat now and days. Obama with his corrupt relations, acorn being investigated for voters fraud, obama closing down gitmo when thousands of our citizens died by their hands, apologizing to our enemies for us having pride in our country, going to a church that damns whites and america! And these liberals just LOVE him to death. Theyre brainwashed by this idiot. He is putting our country in debt. I’m switching to republican party. VOTE REPUBLICAN BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE CAN BE ON WELFARE!
“She made fun of your backwards demigod. Deal with it. Limbaugh, also an entertainer, makes fun of the collective intelligence of the United States daily, and for that he’s rewarded with his much bragged about salary.”
Exactly. The Right’s embracing of Rush while condemning Sykes is the ultimate in hypocrisy. Sykes’ comments pale in comparison to the utterly reprehensible quips Rush has made time and again over the years. At least Sykes attacked another adult; as someone else mentioned above, Rush attacked Chelsea Clinton, A CHILD. If any of you right-wing posters on here support that, then you’re as big a moron (and as hideous a person) as Rush.
I see. So Rush’s mean comment about Chelsea was, like everything else in the country, the Democrats’ fault. Funny how it always works out that way in the minds of Republicans.
You can verify the following on various sites: “On November 6, 1992, three days after her father won the elections, when Chelsea was still in braces, Rush Limbaugh said the following on his television show: ‘Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat; Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?’ He then pointed to a video monitor, which switched to a picture of Chelsea. Limbaugh has claimed that it was a technical error, despite the fact that the show was taped in advance of its broadcast, giving Limbaugh ample time to fix the ‘error.'”
And it’s not like Sykes fired the first shot. Anybody remember when Rush joked about the way to cut down on crime was to put a basketball in each black person’s hands? The Right has been laughing at him for years now for making jokes like this, yet Sykes makes one crack, and they’re all like, “Aw, poor, poor Rush.” Give me a break!