I honestly hadn’t given too much thought to Wanda Sykes’ rather predictably meanspirited attempts to skewer Rush Limbaugh at the correspondent’s dinner last evening — it being de rigeur these days for the wannabe edgy to take shots at Limbaugh, and to receive at least tacit official sanction for doing so.
And the President’s reaction suggested that she’d done just that. Had I more respect for Obama, I’d have expressed surprise and revulsion. As it stands, however, I was hardly surprised — either by the joke and its venue, or by Obama’s ostensible approval.
— This latest from the White House being only reason I bring this up at all:
[…] today White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, as he well knew, was asked about the reaction of the president, who also spoke at the annual banquet but as another invited guest of the correspondents association.
To protect the president, no doubt no fan of Limbaugh’s, Gibbs said he had not talked to Obama specifically about the “joke.” And the White House had nothing to do with booking such celebrities.
But Gibbs put the White House down firmly on the side of Sykes’ critics, saying some things should be subjects of serious reflection and not comedy and he felt the president would list 9/11 as one of them.
Evidently, Obama’s method of “serious reflection” on subjects that shouldn’t be joked about is to laugh at the jokes made about them, then to declare that such laughter is inappropriate — though, given his reaction, presumably he means inappropriate for others.
Otherwise, the White House would be apologizing for the President’s reaction rather than declaring that what he laughed at shouldn’t be funny to anyone else going forward…
It’s good to be the king.
He threw Wanda Sykes under the bus? No fucking way!
Did anybody there have the balls to poke fun at the current President, like they normally do at one of these things?
Jeff, what’d happen if you made a “joke” wishing that the President would have liver failure?
The reactionary left would be nuking you in about 3 milliseconds.
Fucking hypocrites, every one of them.
Wanda “poked fun” at Obama only being half black. I think that was the extent of it.
Anytime they can score another Rush Limbaugh headline it’s a win for them and that’s why the dirty socialist’s spokesdouche made his little statement I think. It’s not like the media was gonna press the issue.
“He threw Wanda Sykes under the bus? No fucking way!”
Come on, its so EASY for the President. The media and the entertainment industry are his ‘hos, his sluts, and they’ll keep wearing he kneepads even if he knocks them around. As scarborough put it, screaming teenage bay-city-roller-level mind-numbed fans. He can throw them under the bus and they STILL will be parrotting the favorite talking points of the White House. We are talking a serious and delusional amount of rapture by a lot of people.
Wanda Sykes probably enjoys getting thrown under the bus. “Hiya Rev Wright! Hey Joe Biden, what are you doing here?” All for a good cause – bashing patriots like Cheney… Mike Savage was right: Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Yes, Arrested Development.
They have the emotional and intellectual maturity of 12-year-olds.
hey but he’s a good man
O continues to display all the class, decorum, and sober propriety of a street thug.
Anybody hear Rush’s response today?
Kelly – Did Rush vivisect that nappy-headed krazy-eyed ho?
Gibbs “What Obama meant to do was frown sternly at Sykes, warning her that such jokes were not appropriate”.
He’s got his hands full with Biden and teleprompter jesus.
The money phrase:
Well, that’s just it. Our 44th President wildly raised expectations amongst his supporters concerning how great a president he’d be — personally, I was somewhat disappointed that he didn’t walk across the Reflecting Pool on Inauguration Day — but he greatly lowered our expectations concerning the class a president is expected to demonstrate.
President Obama makes Bill Clinton look classy, and no, that is not a compliment.
As many others have poined out the worst part of Sykes performance was the fact that she’s a lesbian and didn’t say a SINGLE THING about Obama being against gay marriage, or the recent dust up over the Asian gay Arab translator who got fired from the military.
So much easier to make drug addict joke about Rush, I guess.
Truth to power indeed.
I think Wanda is actually married to some hoochie. No one tells me anything but I think I overheard.
People keep things from you happy ? That’s not cool.
I give em credit for not having Rosie O’donnel there. Course that was probably a cost cutting measure, considering the per plate charge.
Mr. Gibbs does not have an adroit tongue, does he?
Unless you truly hate a person, jokes wishing death on that person really are not funny.
What is funny? Trying to figure out why MSNBC had to edit out the president asking for Dijon mustard, a condiment that is very common, so common that it is made by KRAFT (the mac-and-cheese people*), so common grocery stores carry it under their house brands, so common that only the most isolated people would think it was special in any way.
Isolated people, such as MSNBC.
*I made that note especially for MSNBC employees. They may want to devote a three-part investigative series to this little-known comestible.
Anyone remember Don Imus smarting off at the Clintons at one of these functions in years past?
i listen to most of rush’s show today. i don’t think he mentioned it.
One moment which I haven’t seen commented on in all the online analysis of the Correspondent’s Dinner is Sykes’s joke about the iPod given to the Queen of England.
Sykes jokingly asked “who’s idea was to give the Queen an iPod?”- at which point Michelle Obama smirks, raises her arm !OH THAT ARM! and points directly at Barack for several seconds.
So the gift was not the result of any bureaucratic mis-step or a bad decision made by an inexperienced staffer- Michelle O just put the blame squarely on Barack’s shoulders. I’m surprised no-one has mentioned this, as I followed the iPod imbroglio pretty closely, and I don’t think the White House ever admitted that it was Barack himself who decided to make that gift.
Any strange and seemingly inexplicable behaviour from this White House should be seen as the result of decisions made by BO himself-
including the bizzare Air Force One flyover of New York.
And Wanda Sykes? I can’t think of anyone for whom the phrase “Nappy-Headed Ho” presents such an apt description.
If they ever fire Gibbs, she’d make an excellent press secretary.
#5 haps:
Everytime they can get a headline about Rush Limbaugh it is a win for Rush – they just admitted that he is the political equal of the POTUS. They don’t so much raise Rush, they lower Obama – he ceases to be this rarified figure and becomes another petty being, the equivalent of a political talk-show host.
Yeah, it’s almost like the leftards want to boost Rush’s listenership. Rush comes out of this better than that tinplated harpy with a disabled sense of comedy. Interesting: It was more important to attempt a swing at a conservative with real influence than to use her time to gently rib The Unicorn God to come out for gay marriage. That could have been productive, but not nearly as primal as a scream. Rush has them mesmerized. Even the Unicorn God Himself. His Hooves, recall, personally mentioned Rush in a passive-aggressive remark a few weeks ago. Nothing blares insecurity like calling out those who are supposed to be beneath you.
well maybe maha rushie did respond:
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Rush was the 20th hijacker, but he decided to have the plane flown to Barbadoes and spent the week getting stoned on Oxycontin instead … allegedly.
~ tap tap tap ~
Is this thing on?
So, anyway, Rush, Sarah Palin, and Sean Hannity are standing at the Pearly Gates – it’s a strip club outside Dallas – and Saint Peter, that’s the bouncer’s real name, says “What can I do for you?”
Rush says “The donkey I ordered should be at the back door by 8:45, see that it’s taken care of.”
Sarah says “Here’s my music, I go on at 9:00”
Sean says “Can you break this one dollar bill into quarters,
I want to make it last. Thanks, you’re a great American.”
~ tap ~
Michael Steele, Michael Steele, Michael Steele
That reminds me: What do you call a black man serving as Republican National Committee Chair? Doesn’t matter. Rush Limbaugh calls the shots.
~ Tap ~
tip your waitresses.
I don’t think it works like that. Rush’s audience is just a single thinger no matter how many people are in it. Hatey Rush and his hatey audience can represent everything proper thinking people want to rend and tear and the need for that since Bush is gone is almost physical. Like withdrawal. It’s the plan and they don’t have another one they like better.
OT – Did you know that the CDC offers a selection of health related e-cards you can send to people? My favorites are the ones congratulating women on getting married. Since these come from the CDC is the underlying message here a thanks for reducing the possibility of becoming a disease ridden whore?
that’s not America, Makewi. I don’t know what that is but it’s not America.
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what do you call a man with no arms and no legs on an ice floe adrift in the Bering Sea?
Levi.
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{For Andrew Sullivan}
Why did Sarah name her baby Trig?
Because Todd had to cosine the paternity paperwork.
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What’s huge and furry and craps white trash?
The Kodiak bear Sarah Palin order released into the Johnston household.
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gong
I’m not proud ..
… hell, I’m not even tired.
.
~ Knock Knock ~
Who’s There
Obama.
Obama who?
Take her to the reeducation camp.
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OT but vital to the republic: e-mail Donald Trump and tell him to let Carrie Prejean keep her title!
http://www.trump.com/Contact_Us/Contact_Us.asp
You just can’t make this shit up.
I don’t often get to listen to him, JD. But if this is true, it speaks volumes (if you will permit me) to a certain someone’s forebearance.
And it isn’t me or you or a dog named BOO travelin’ and a-livin’ off the land…
All those people thrown under the bus are still holding it above the waves and moving it forward under the direction of Bus-master Obama. It’s just that now only their anonymous hands can be seen as they themselves are underwater, but still marching in unison.
That’s unbelievable, B Moe.
Item #157399 in obtained evidence that parody is a dying genre.
In other news, this might explain why my comments are so few and far between. Then again, I wish I we’re half as clever as Iowahawk and his pupil, Jonathan Swift.
i know of “trailer trash” but is there “inner city trash”?
Wanda Sykes probably enjoys getting thrown under the bus.
I think she does, I think she would lie down for 40 buses for the mulatto telepromter jesus.
router: i know of “trailer trash†but is there “inner city trash�
Yes, there is.
No, he didn’t. Gibbs expressed his best sense of what The Won probably thinks about it. It is explicitly NOT The Won’s opinion. Apparently, he didn’t see Him laughing. Or, he’s full of shit.
how much longer before the emperor seems like he has no clothes on?
I note that nobody is calling Obama an octoroon, because nobody can prove it. This Sykes is trashy, and Obama’s response was probably uncomfortable laughter. I think what all these missteps will result in is that Rahm is going to yank the chain and get everyone back on track. I like Obama, but I don’t think he’s political smoothie. In some ways that’s a plus, but he’d better learn fast.
Obama is increasingly reminding me of Clinton, although he lacks the charm of Clinto when playing both sides of the ball. He laughs at the joke (and lefties love him for it), and then half-heartedly condems the joke (and righties buy it). He rips into CIA for torture, then does nothing about it. He rips into Bush for war in Afghanistan, then increases troop presence there. This guy must have got some real lessons in triangulation!
yea that’s right because he’s half white
I’m puzzled at Obama’s laughter as well. It’s possible that when he laughed at Wanda’s inappropriate humor he was attempting to communicate his disapproval. Obama is off to a good start, but incidents like this where he reveals himself to be raw unrefined Chicago street trash could undermine him I think. However much this may appeal to his base, I think he’s better off raising the level of his game if he hopes to fulfill his potential.
knock knock knock knock
go away queer
i’ll stick ur bumper
way
OT, but: OUTLAW!
Very OT
Go Caps.
Piper is cuter than those little pickles I don’t know what they’re called.
So Obama can either just sit back and let Gibbs throw Sykes under the bus by proxy, or he can now speak out and throw Gibbs under the bus. Or he could probably do both.
He’s a player, gotta give him that.
why’d sarah palin cross her feet?
the better to nuke u/fool
megan mccain was abducted by terrorists on 24 now jack has to free her
meaghan mcain is patty hearst
spartacus!
Wilt Chamberlain never laughed when Don Rickles was doing his negro-voice during a roast. Wilt’s unprotected stilt stuck more ladies than the health dept. during flu-shot season and he still is smarter than Obama.
Who isn’t though?
I think it was more like very staccato booing. All the cool kids are doing it now.
Gibbs never apologized or voiced any opinion of the joke about wishing Rush had kidney failure and died, only that joking about 911 was “inapropriate”. Wishing Rush Limbaugh was dead and equating him as a terrorist are still fair game. Hell they probably all still have the signs saying Bush is the worlds #1 terrorist in their closet.
Who cares though to be honest. As if the guy you want pointing out what is inapropriate is the same guy who thought the words “God damn Amerikkka!” were an applause line for 20 years. Fuck his opinion.
i am chamberlein
well/ i dribble
Posted earlier in the Pub, but possibly still good for a few laughs, a reply to Wanda by CBrooksKurtz, firing for effect. h/t R.S.McCain
knock knock knocety knock….
defecit spending….
knock kno…
well hello…would u like to join my tea party?
“fuck off”
Come on people it is not as if you didn’t chuckle when you heard that Pearl Harbor was faked? Or that the US of white America invented the AIDS virus? This is just part of the new era of civility and bipartisanship people calm down. I mean every American president laughs when he hears a joke wishing an American citizen’s death right?
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my ass hurts
Right now Mr. Pink, I’m thinking that the good Rev. Wright can kiss Dave Steckel’s pimply white ass. Wheeeeee!
Mr. Pink: It’s all about the black puckered ass vs. the white pimly ass. Prioties, pilgrim.
The list of folks would pay her ransom is shrinking rapidly.
i thought scooter mclla[sp
was an idjut
dana perinno was [hot)
but this dude…aye carumba!
of course/ we paranoid/ he be fakey and shit…
left hand save u billions/ right hand makes big
balloon deficit animals…
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I have a “p” dysfunction.
burning man pee hurts
but he can mimic crosby
stills nash and poopy
pd buttons is the brilliant gnat that won’t go awawy.
the train is leaving
i wave buh-bye at the cynn
my buttons do burst
[smile)
[smile)
i really hate gettin shot
duck duck goiose
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bobby orr
i said it!
What’s with you pdbuttons? You’re a freak.
ssshhh/ i’m hunting wabbitts
pd’s cool. Cynn, you’re mellowing with age I think. Like a brackish wine. )
i just want to say i lurv all u people and u been nice to me
and i thank u…
now
can we get back to being sarcastic assaholes?
me first!
a button was snapped
and healey lammar was capped
that’s headly/headly
Well, I left this comment at my Tale of Two Jokes post over in the Pub (from early this morning; mid-afternoon in Australia) but it might as well show up here too.
Imagine you’re supposed to get roasted, but the whole roast-apparatus, out of some mixture of worship and terror, bails out of mocking you and stages a hate rally against your enemies list, without jokes.
And you knew that would happen, because nothing else could.
You might get a little chimp-smirk going, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Now, where’s Dan when it’s obviously time to post a wildly off-topic and jaw-dropping link?
dirge?
how about that surge?
surely u jest…
don’t call me shirley
He didn’t
hear hatey speech from the Rev Right, bowlaugh.So our “press” is now not only censoring what he eats but his physical reactions? Freakin beautiful. All without any sort of follow up when it is denied dispite video taped evidence just like when he bowed to the Saudi King. Anyone with the courage to confront the truth should realize they are propagandists for the most part by now.
Wanda is female, black and lezbo?! She’s hit the grievance group jackpot! The only way she could ascend any further up the affirmative action ladder would be if she was unemployed, handicapped and in foreclosure. (Some might suggest a certain mental handicap was on display the other night, but I wouldn’t suggest such a thing, as it would be mean spirited)
Obama’s response was probably uncomfortable laughter.
Sorry, he didn’t at all uncomfortable in the video I saw. He looked like a man who was enjoying a good joke at someone else’s expense. But then again, I don’t look at the world through Obama-is-the-Messiah-and-can-do-no-wrong glasses, so your experience may differ.
Obama’s response was probably uncomfortable laughter.
Sorry, he didn’t look uncomfortable at all in the video I saw. He looked like a man who was enjoying a good joke at someone else’s expense. But then again, I don’t look at the world through Obama-is-the-Messiah-and-can-do-no-wrong glasses, so your experience may differ.
“and Obama’s response was probably uncomfortable laughter.”
On what do you base that rather unusual opinion?
HOPE!!
In some ways it’s probably a good idea not to elect a president who hasn’t learned that lesson already.
Others may disagree.
Liberals never do angry comedy well. They take themselves and what they’re saying way too seriously, and what should be incisive if rough commentary (Carlin, Dennis Miller), or a sending up of your own rage (Denis Leary the last time he toured), becomes nothing more than Two Minutes Hate with a laugh track.
Liberals can do non-angry comedy well, and can even be political when they do it, but when they get angry they stop being funny.
Well you guys can’t seem to do comedy anymore at all.
What Kyle said.
Your whiny pity party about all the funnie comics being liberal (and academy and the media and everything else lol) reminds meh of muslim outrage! over the Muhammed cartoons.
Don’t get mad….get even.
Grow your own.
It’s definitely a lot more okay to make fun of everything I think than it is for the president to laugh like a fool at everything. He just has no discernment I mean class. It’s a problem for him.
Shut the fuck up, you ignorant fascist.
Not you, ‘feets. The nishi
bitchcunt.It’s ok but she doesn’t not have a point in that our dirty socialist media is using the outrage! what they engender as a gauge of how successful their dirty socialist propaganda is at any given time. Republicans don’t have the balls to get even. This here blog did a weeklong or so buzz campaign for Paramount’s Star Trek which was a lot helpful to the same people what gave us Stop Loss. It strikes me as unserious.
That’s because you’re a fucking idiot. And you remind me of Aiden.
Your whiny pity party about all the funnie comics being liberal
You didn’t think the spikey b-ball bat thing was funny. It gave you grief, if I remember. Some thought it was funny. That’s as weird as that free-range chicken thing.
What did he throw under the bus again?
Why are people arguing with a string of blank comments? (Heh)
American sovereignty? The ability of the US to project power anywhere in the world?
The extent to which our media is dirty socialist fags is mind boggling really. NBC-Universal dickhead in charge Jeff Immelt is a super flamey fag it turns out.
I didn’t have anything to do with that.
I don’t give a fuck about Star Trek.
I know, and no one meant nothing by it. I just couldn’t not say that after all even though I didn’t say it and I didn’t say it and I thought I wasn’t gonna say it.
It’s cause dirty socialist homo Jeff Immelt pissed me off with his dirty socialist gayness and got me to thinking.
Don’t look now but GE is the Military-Industrial Complex. And Jeff Immelt loves him some O’Bammy. Olbermann will be mentioning this any day now.