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By Big Tent Democrat, Section Media
Posted on Mon May 11, 2009 at 06:45:27 AM EST
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You know how thrilled the Obama Administration is when that name gets said in the Media? I know Brian Williams loves Rush Limbaugh, but most of America does not. So Wanda Sykes has done Obama a great favor. I suppose conservatives will feel obliged to be "outraged" about it all, though I thought this was sort of half hearted:

TIME's Joe Klein: "comedy is by definition inappropriate. I mean, this is just comedy. And we're talking about a guy in Rush Limbaugh who is inappropriate half the time I hear him on the radio." "But he doesn't do it at a White House Correspondents' dinner." said [Amanda] Carpenter.

(Emphasis supplied.) Umm, so the problem was Sykes did it at the White House Correspondents Dinner, as opposed Limbaugh doing it on radio? Oookaaay Amanda.

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    i'm clutching my pearls! (5.00 / 3) (#1)
    by Salo on Mon May 11, 2009 at 06:58:58 AM EST
    smellin' salts if you please, miss Amanda. Ah do d'clare.

    I think Rush can handle... (5.00 / 0) (#3)
    by kdog on Mon May 11, 2009 at 07:54:20 AM EST
    a few wisecracks about his pill poppin'.

    Whether it be about Viagra or Vicodin, (5.00 / 2) (#4)
    by easilydistracted on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:03:45 AM EST
    right? Ole Rush has pretty much transformed himself into a comedian's dream come true. That's target rich territory I would say.

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    In fact... (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by kdog on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:07:48 AM EST
    I would say karmically speaking he's got it coming for what he has said about drug users in the past...namely that they belong in jail.

    Maybe Rush thinks Rush belongs in jail, but I sure as hell don't belong there, so speak for yourself Rush:)

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    So street drugs, as Obama did (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:58:52 AM EST
    are target-rich territory?  Oops.

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    Please, go back and retake (5.00 / 1) (#36)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:25:47 AM EST
    the course on logic.  Then you'll get it.

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    Nor mine. (none / 0) (#46)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:39:29 AM EST


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    Of course, I see the point (5.00 / 1) (#78)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:55:31 AM EST
    about hypocrisy.  And it's a good point, so I wish that Sykes had done her usual good job at skewering hypocrisy.

    But that's not the point in this subthread.

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    CC.... (4.00 / 4) (#50)
    by Dr Molly on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:47:41 AM EST
    May I humbly suggest that the squeaky rules apply here? From experience, this is a comparable and predictable game, and nothing productive will ever come from engaging...

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    Perhaps. Yet, I think it is the hypocrisy thing (none / 0) (#37)
    by easilydistracted on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:26:07 AM EST
    that makes Rush more vulnerable, especially in the case of the pain killers. Now in the matter of the Viagra, well, even he knew such a quantity would raise eyebrows because by his own admission that was the very reason he had a script is someone else's name.

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    That quantity of little blue... (5.00 / 1) (#66)
    by kdog on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:14:42 AM EST
    raises more than eyebrows...I cringe when I think of those poor Dominican working girls shacked up with Rush and a gross of little blue...cruel and unusual.

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    When once asked to describe the movie (none / 0) (#68)
    by easilydistracted on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:25:02 AM EST
    Slingblade with one word I said, "disturbing." I'd describe Rush's adventures in the Dominican Republic in the same context.  

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    It's beyond... (5.00 / 0) (#106)
    by kdog on Mon May 11, 2009 at 03:20:39 PM EST
    "Slingblade" disturbing and into "Requiem for a Dream" disturbing territory....if you've seen that flick:)

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    yes...disturbing in the worst sense (none / 0) (#108)
    by easilydistracted on Mon May 11, 2009 at 07:21:33 PM EST


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    There ya go. (none / 0) (#41)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:30:11 AM EST
    I agree on that, and I wish Sykes would have done her usual better job on pointing out hypocrisy.

    Of course, the problem is that a lot of libruls are hypocritical, too.  But that gets pointed out quite well at these events when conservatives are in power.

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    We are in full agreement.. (none / 0) (#42)
    by easilydistracted on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:34:46 AM EST
    now let's toast with our coffee cups.

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    Yeh, but I have to agree (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:10:31 AM EST
    that calling for him to die (or be on dialysis) was, well, not funny.

    For me, the problem is not where or when Wanda Sykes said it.  It's just not funny.  (Maybe you have to be among the millions who have watched family die from kidney disease to get that, Wanda.)

    For her, that Sykes was not funny when hired to be funny, and when given such a great stage to do so -- that's her problem.

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    Sure (5.00 / 0) (#8)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:18:05 AM EST
    sort of Imus' problem.

    I did not see Sykes performance though so I am not stating an opinion on whether she was funny or not.

    I do like her on Larry David's show.  

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    So do I. Different venue (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:00:51 AM EST
    and different audience.  I bet lawyers know how to tailor their comments to different courts, different judges, different juries. . . .

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    Sure (none / 0) (#21)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:02:03 AM EST


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    but that's too literal an interpretation of (5.00 / 3) (#10)
    by DFLer on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:19:28 AM EST
    her joke.

    She said Rush wants Obama and America to fail...followed by her comment about wanting Rush's kidneys to fail.

    So to me the satire was in pointing out how low a comment Rush's was about failure...and by putting the ball right back in his court, points out the depravity of his POV.

    Wanda is just too street for MSM to handle.

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    Well, kidney failure literally kills (none / 0) (#17)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:58:13 AM EST
    and she ought to have considered that, as smart comedians (and she usually is one) would do.

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    Starvation and cannabilism kill too (5.00 / 1) (#55)
    by DFLer on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:51:22 AM EST
    so should we also send Swift to re-write?

    (yes I know Sykes is no Swift....I'm just arguing my point)


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    Well I do, and they did, and I don't (5.00 / 2) (#86)
    by DFLer on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:19:22 AM EST
    call for Swiftian rewrite.

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    I do, too. And they did, too. But (none / 0) (#104)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 02:55:09 PM EST
    the great Swift was an entirely different level of social criticism.  Sykes is good, but let's be fair to her and not ask her to still be read centuries from now.

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    Dark Avenger thinks kidney failure (2.00 / 0) (#23)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:05:28 AM EST
    is funny?  Oooookay.

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    Drive-by troll rating (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by Radiowalla on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:16:10 AM EST
    anyone who isn't a Wanda Sykes fan seems to amuse him.

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    Meh (5.00 / 0) (#31)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:23:50 AM EST
    I hate discussions of ratings.

    Let people rate as they wish and not worry about it.

    It's not a moderation tool here (or anywhere anymore.)

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    Silly Avenger. Actually, I am a fan (none / 0) (#30)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:22:46 AM EST
    of Sykes most of the time.  That's what makes me sad about her blowing this gig with some bad lines, because that overshadows her good lines -- and her delivery, which really delights me.  So sassy.

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    I often have a dark and dry sense (5.00 / 2) (#38)
    by Militarytracy on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:26:29 AM EST
    of humor too.  It isn't that I want Rush to have kidney failure.  What makes what Wanda said funny is that Rush seriously wishes ill on all of us.  Through the format of comedy Wanda exposes his viciousness completely while reminding us all that loudmouth bull$h*t blabbery is not empowering, it just is.  And considering how serious Rush and his groupies take him, well that's just another hoot to hoot about.

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    Ah, but we quote correctly (none / 0) (#34)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:24:58 AM EST
    and you are misquoting, or perhaps you don't understand the difference between hoping that policies fail and hoping that kidneys fail.

    Or perhaps you do not get what is much more than nuance about politics.  Conservatives are perfectly within their rights to hope that liberal policies fail, just as I hope that conservative policies fail.  That does not allow me to call for conservatives to die.

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    Seek with such search terms (none / 0) (#80)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:58:06 AM EST
    and ye shall find on Google.

    Instead of going to what Sykes said he said, or what blogs said he said, I went to the actual transcript of what he said.  Ugh, the things we have to do to figure out what actually was said.

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    A question of taste... (none / 0) (#7)
    by kdog on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:15:58 AM EST
    more so than a question of appropriateness, imo...but then again my sense of humor may be darker than others.

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    My gold standard (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:21:08 AM EST
    the late Richard Pryor.

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    Dick Cheney would rather have Rush than Colin (5.00 / 2) (#9)
    by steviez314 on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:18:59 AM EST
    Powell in the GOP--now THAT's comedy.

    I love Wanda Sykes (5.00 / 3) (#15)
    by Militarytracy on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:46:00 AM EST
    And what makes comedy funny?  Many things, but comedy always crosses the line.  Rush crosses all the lines too constantly.  He seeks to generate a far different emotional response though than Sykes does.  As far as the White House Correspondence dinner goes and innappropriate humor, is inappropriate humor only allowed at the Radio and Television Correspondence Association Dinner?  Cuz that was where George W Bush did his heinous looking for the WMD's gig isn't it?  Making a big joke out of not being able to find the WMD's that got about two million people killed?  

    to be honest (5.00 / 4) (#69)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:25:26 AM EST
    if I thought any thing was over the line it was the joke about the kids stealing airforce one and buzzing NY.

    I have not lived in NY for many years but I still dont that that was funny.  not quite on the level of the WMD joke needless to say, but still, not funny.

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    You and I may be (5.00 / 2) (#89)
    by gyrfalcon on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:37:25 AM EST
    the only ones, but I thought that, too.  It reminded me too much, as you say, of Bush joking about looking for WMD under the sofa and behind the curtains.

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    Me too. (5.00 / 1) (#94)
    by lucky leftie on Mon May 11, 2009 at 12:18:47 PM EST
    Remember the people fleeing, panic-stricken?  Not a joking matter.

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    Meh (none / 0) (#79)
    by MyLeftMind on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:56:21 AM EST
    New Yorkers have indulged themselves in self victimization ever since 9/11.  I'm an ex-New Yorker, and even my upstate friends and relatives
    still obsess about the attack.  Their PTSD has become embedded in NY culture at this point.  It's as if the attacks somehow made them special.  It's as sad as Rudy Giuliani pretending he's a great leader just because he was the mayor at the time.  

    What NY has done to the world is far worse than what the terrorists did to NY.  It's time to start focusing on the good that NY can and has given the world.  One way to do that is to recognize that there is a reason that two of the planes were flown to NYC, specifically to the world trade center, and start trying to change the business policies that those buildings symbolized.


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    Maybe you could try out for a gig (5.00 / 2) (#83)
    by Radiowalla on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:03:10 AM EST
    at next year's WH Correspondents dinner.  This is the most hilarious post I've read all year.

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    I only heard it on the radio (5.00 / 2) (#18)
    by ruffian on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:58:46 AM EST
    and did not see the whole performance, but I did not find it funny, even as some kind of a matching statement to what Rush said about wanting Obama to fail. Plenty of people in the audience laughed - that's the thing about comedy - it works on some people and not on others.

    I think most people pretty much think Rush Limbaugh can take care of himself. I don't think anything about him is out of bounds after what he said about Michael J Fox.

    I thought both Obama and Sykes (5.00 / 0) (#54)
    by Dr Molly on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:50:48 AM EST
    were only barely funny, but there were a few good lines. It wasn't Obama's fault - he doesn't seem to have very good joke writers.

    But, anyway, I got no sympathy at all for Rush Limbaugh and couldn't care less what any comedian says about him. I'm just glad that the tone has changed to the point where it's OK to make fun of that jerk.

    I was mildly disappointed in (5.00 / 5) (#62)
    by Jjc2008 on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:09:38 AM EST
    Wanda Sykes. I LOVE her usually.  I think she is one of the better comedians/actresses.  But I felt like she was off her game.  It felt like she was nervous...uncomfortable and unsure.  

    But I was not offended.  Rush is an obnoxious human being who has been attacking in the most vile way for years, women, children, and anyone who does not worship him and his beliefs.  
    He trashed Clinton for years for being anti military and yet he used a boil on his fat arse to avoid Vietnam.  He and Cheney and W are sanctimonious hypocrites.....

    Michael J Fox DOES have Parkinson's and Rush trashed him.......
    Chelsea Clinton was an innocent adolescent who was trashed often by Rush....
    and ALL WOMEN have been trashed by Rush consistently.

    Sorry to those who feel it was "over the line.."
    Sometimes the only thing that works with an obnoxious bully is to give him some of his own medicine.

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    Exactly! (none / 0) (#59)
    by Radiowalla on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:03:11 AM EST


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    I realize why I stick out here (none / 0) (#107)
    by Iamme on Mon May 11, 2009 at 03:35:46 PM EST
    The posters here have a moral attitude different than mine.  In one thread its we would never do that we take the moral high road.  In other threads its well he did it so its ok for us to do also.

    Is it the moral high road or do you get to pick when you take the low road?

    The fine line of hypocritical must be very hard to walk.

    Stick to one side of the street please.

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    So (5.00 / 1) (#58)
    by jbindc on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:02:32 AM EST
    When Rush goes on his show today and says Sykes is a terrorist and hopes she dies, everyone will think it's funny, right? No one here will have a problem with that?

    Just because Rush is a blathering, mean, idiot doesn't mean it's ok for people on "our side" to do it too.  It doesn't make us "even" - it just brings us down to Rush's level, and then it's hard to say we are on the side of thoughtfulness and intelligence when we put up people who just as big of a$$holes as our mouthpieces.

    Guess I'm superstitious...My grandmother always taught me that I should never say I hope someone gets hurt or dies because I would feel bad if something really happened to them.

    He says stuff like that (5.00 / 0) (#61)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:06:42 AM EST
    all the time.

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    Yes he does (5.00 / 1) (#77)
    by jbindc on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:52:00 AM EST
    And by going down to his level in the gutter, all it does is justify his comments.  He always says "I'm an entertainer".

    So that's the accomplishment for the week - our entertainers are as obnoxious and disgusting as Rush Limbaugh.  Way to set the bar so low.

    Wanda Sykes - what a disappointment.

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    There's a big difference between (5.00 / 1) (#88)
    by MyLeftMind on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:28:41 AM EST
    hoping Rush Limbaugh dies of his own overindulgent nastiness and encouraging right wingers to hurt the rest of us, which is what Limbaugh does.  

    There's no way Sykes is as obnoxious and disgusting as Rush Limbaugh.  If you don't like her joke, fine.  But puhleeze, let's not even pretend that her joke about his kidneys failing after he said he hopes our president (and our agenda) fails, is anything like the cruel and malicious propaganda he spouts.  He is a horrid man, and the world will be a better place when he's dead.  Not saying anyone should kill him or revel in his death, or that Sykes implied that in any way, but Limbaugh is more than just a blowhard.  He's personally responsible for cultivating a hateful contingent of wretched creeps who revel in his nastiness and carry it back into society.  He's a little Hitler.


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    Meh (3.00 / 1) (#84)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:12:17 AM EST
    She's a professional comedian whose act I understand is actually coarser than that.

    If that is the gutter, then she was there long before that night.

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    BTD, I find it striking that the few dittoheads (none / 0) (#65)
    by easilydistracted on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:13:23 AM EST
    I have the the misfortune of knowing never tire of his incendiary b/s.  

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    Sometimes (5.00 / 1) (#63)
    by Jjc2008 on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:10:37 AM EST
    an obnoxious bully needs a taste of his own medicine...

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    Dont you insult posters... (none / 0) (#101)
    by Thanin on Mon May 11, 2009 at 01:57:30 PM EST
    that insult you?  What is it with the hypocrisy on this subject with you and Dr Molly?

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    Let this thing die (5.00 / 1) (#70)
    by KoolJeffrey on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:27:24 AM EST
    Watching the MSM and White House fawn all over each is pretty tiresome and embarrassing. It's become a shock contest where everyone is like "ooooooohhhh, no she did'ent".

    Bring back the Dean Martin celebrity roasts.

    I guess... (5.00 / 2) (#71)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:33:49 AM EST
    ...I'm supposed to be all offended that someone hoped that Rush goes into kidney failure.  

    Instead, I would much rather implore everyone to take the time and become an organ donor.  Not all of us can go out on the black market and buy a new kidney like Rush.  The rest of us depend on our fellow humans making the ultimate gift--the gift of life.  

    Please consider organ donation.  Thank you!

    I completely agree (5.00 / 1) (#73)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:38:17 AM EST
    I was the one who said I would be fine with mandatory organ donation.

    I see no sense at all in allowing a dead person to keep their perfectly good organs and by doing so sentence someone else to suffering and death.


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    Already signed up! (5.00 / 1) (#76)
    by jbindc on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:49:12 AM EST


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    It's on my driver's license (5.00 / 1) (#85)
    by DFLer on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:17:26 AM EST
    Do all states offer that option when you get a DL?

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    The states... (5.00 / 1) (#109)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon May 11, 2009 at 07:39:45 PM EST
    ...that offer registration with your DL are linked here, along with a PDF card you can fill out and carry with you.  Lots of other info at the website, including this fact...

    Each day, about 77 people receive organ transplants. However, 19 people die each day waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs.


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    Washington does...and (none / 0) (#92)
    by oldpro on Mon May 11, 2009 at 12:07:51 PM EST
    you can make a donation too!

    And now, to state parks as well...hooray!

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    Well...I never saw that one coming. (none / 0) (#72)
    by easilydistracted on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:35:55 AM EST
    Good Monday morning to ya, Mile

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    Same to you, Easy D! (5.00 / 0) (#75)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:44:18 AM EST
    I guess in the grand scheme of things, there are more important things than what some comedian said about some blowhard.  

    For too many of us, the important thing is finding a way to live from one day to the next.  

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    I thought Colbert was funny (5.00 / 1) (#87)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:25:35 AM EST
    last year and I think Wanda was funny.
    Rush Limbaugh (5.00 / 0) (#110)
    by Regroupthink on Tue May 12, 2009 at 10:18:14 AM EST
    Rush Limbaugh should be as scorned as Benedict Arnold. He has torn at the very fabric of our society and left his poor listerers in an alternative universe. He and Fox News have much to answer for.

    Colbert knew how to do it (4.00 / 4) (#25)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:09:19 AM EST
    even if the White House correspondents couldn't quite figure out what was being done to them.

    The difference is between a "rapier wit" and a sledgehammer.  Sykes usually is more sly but blew it.

    My mother's voice is echoing in my head (3.00 / 2) (#24)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:07:04 AM EST
    Twwwwo  wronggggs don't make a riiiiiight.

    Or is the new motto instead, "it's okay if you're an Obama supporter?"  

    I honestly don't know the incident that caused it, but I find Wanda Sykes generally objectionable.  I see her on TV and think, oooh change the channel.  And I usually do.  

    I've never been big on insult comics, a trait she tends to lapse into.

    I hate Rush Limbaugh, but wishing his kidneys to fail stoops to his level.  And that's so not where one should want to go.

    That's silly (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:16:51 AM EST
    I do not care about any of it.

    Except for the political effects, which are what I write about.

    The question of "wrongs" here is rather silly imo.

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    You know what I mean (5.00 / 1) (#33)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:24:38 AM EST
    Some things just aren't okay, no matter who you say it about.   I think that's what Cream has been trying to say too.  It's wrong, period.

    Political expediency be da*ned.  I'm sick of everything being about political wins.

     

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    I agree (5.00 / 3) (#40)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:28:16 AM EST
    But whether Rush wants Obama to fail or Sykes makes a feeble joke wishing Limbaugh kidney failure means nothing to me.

    That does not offend me at least.

    Let me put it this way, the way Keith Olbermann behaved throughout 2008 primary WAS offensive to me.

    This stuff? Not so much.

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    She's a freaking comedian (5.00 / 2) (#52)
    by Jjc2008 on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:49:42 AM EST
    who did a gig.  She does not sit on the radio all day and do schtick to influence the voting habits of listeners.  She did not lie.  She expressed the feelings of frustrations many people have but cannot, or would not say.

    Unlike Rush she was not attacking an innocent.....
    cause Rush is not innocent.  But where was the outraged press when Rush was making fun of Chelsea Clinton when she was an adolescent.
    Where's the outrage over the golf announcer's pathetic attempt at humor with assassination jokes about Pelosi?

    Give me a break.  The entire press corps is afraid of the bully named Rush.  They allow him to get away with nasty crap daily......and say "he's just an entertainer" when they know what he is doing is more than entertaining.  Sykes is an entertainer, a comedian and her purpose up front was to entertain, not influence.

    The right and the press and the sanctimonious "we are better than that" left, need to get over it.  
    You don't have to think she was funny....
    but some of us love her style of humor.  

    There is no right or wrong here...just humor.

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    Why does this Amanda person (none / 0) (#2)
    by Jjc2008 on Mon May 11, 2009 at 07:11:30 AM EST
    get this gig on Reliable Sources anyway?  What has she done other than written some hit job piece of crap on Hillary?

    How does someone like her get credence?  

    Her whining seriously offends me.

    There is nothing even remotely funny (none / 0) (#12)
    by Anne on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:39:01 AM EST
    about suggesting that someone needs to be waterboarded; making "jokes" about this only does one thing: it trivializes torture, and makes it less likely that we will deal with the issue in an appropriate manner.

    The funniest thing that could have happened at that dinner was for Limbaugh's name to have gone unsaid - the man is a publicity vampire, sucking up the bad with the good because it all helps keep his execrable radio show alive and the dollars flowing into his bank account.

    No, a Limbaugh freeze-out would have been way more hilarious than delivering sophomoric one-liners that weren't funny about someone who isn't worth the time it takes to speak his name.

    Maybe the funniest (5.00 / 2) (#14)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:43:45 AM EST
    But certainly this result is better politically for Obama.

    Talking about Limbaugh and Cheney is what the GOP should NOT want.

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    Probably true (none / 0) (#22)
    by ruffian on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:04:54 AM EST
    If the Republicans want to take this one on, they are really going to have to defend an interesting proposition: why it is wrong to want Limbaugh dead. I like having them argue about that instead of against helath care for all.

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    If you're going to defend Rush (none / 0) (#13)
    by lilburro on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:41:10 AM EST
    then you've got to defend Wanda.  How do you defend Rush without using Voltaire (or rather, Evelyn Beatrice Hall) as your standard?  

    Exactly. And I defend neither (none / 0) (#16)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 08:57:05 AM EST
    although I sometimes find Sykes funny but never find Rush funny.  However, let it be said that he called for policies to fail, not for the country to fail -- nor for the president's kidneys to fail.

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    Well Sykes at least (5.00 / 2) (#32)
    by lilburro on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:24:38 AM EST
    was trying to be humorous.  I don't recall Rush saying "I hope he fails" as a joke.

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    Except that (2.00 / 0) (#43)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:35:31 AM EST
    I actually read what Limbaugh said, and he said that he hopes that the policies fail.  Ugh, the things we have to do -- reading what Limbaugh said -- to be informed.  And I gather that he thinks he's humorous, too, ugh.

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    quote (5.00 / 2) (#48)
    by lilburro on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:41:18 AM EST
    "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at?


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    Pretty thin distinction there CC (5.00 / 1) (#49)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:41:41 AM EST


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    But do you see that it is (none / 0) (#82)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:02:25 AM EST
    a distinction.  And, of course, the thin ones are the triekiest ones.

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    isnt that the whole point of this (none / 0) (#35)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:25:07 AM EST
    gathering?
    Susan Boyle was smart enough not to come.

    Why, no, now that you ask, Cap'n (none / 0) (#45)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 09:38:39 AM EST
    that's not what the correspondents claim is the point of this gathering at all.

    It's to raise money for journalism scholarships.  of course, these days, with the outlook for job prospects in journalism, that's not funny, either.

    (Wouldn't the overpaid White House press corps, and the celebrities that turned out for the event this year, raise more money for financial aid for students if they either just stayed home and sent checks -- or stopped trying to find tax shelters?)

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    Now that is offensive (the linked (none / 0) (#90)
    by oculus on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:54:06 AM EST
    article).

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    for the record (none / 0) (#57)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:01:02 AM EST
    I also hope Limpbaughs kidneys fail.

    He's rich (none / 0) (#64)
    by MyLeftMind on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:12:03 AM EST
    He'd just buy a new pair of kidneys.

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    Maybe he could convince himself (none / 0) (#100)
    by Anne on Mon May 11, 2009 at 01:43:27 PM EST
    they were testicles?  'Cause I'm not sure he has any.

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    IMO, people are overreacting (none / 0) (#74)
    by vicndabx on Mon May 11, 2009 at 10:39:10 AM EST
    A comedian named Talent who I find pretty funny says it well....

    it's just caaaaahmedy
    I think it's a slow news day. (none / 0) (#91)
    by oculus on Mon May 11, 2009 at 11:56:47 AM EST


    So we're taking a comedy (none / 0) (#93)
    by oldpro on Mon May 11, 2009 at 12:08:52 PM EST
    break...

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    On of my early-Obama-supporting (none / 0) (#97)
    by oculus on Mon May 11, 2009 at 01:18:31 PM EST
    friends proclaimed both Obama and Sykes were funny.  'Nuff sd.?  

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    HuffPo (none / 0) (#102)
    by Dr Molly on Mon May 11, 2009 at 02:08:09 PM EST
    said they 'brought down the house'! Hee.

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    I sd. to my friend: what about Obama's (none / 0) (#103)
    by oculus on Mon May 11, 2009 at 02:13:40 PM EST
    riff on Hillary Clinton?  Funny; he has a good delivery and joke writer.

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    That one just went flat, too (5.00 / 2) (#105)
    by Cream City on Mon May 11, 2009 at 03:01:00 PM EST
    but the one joking about the council for women and girls and, ugh, Summers got a really weird audience reaction -- almost sounded like a raspberry.

    I think Favreau must think he's a jokewriter.

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    Gibbs channeling Obama re (none / 0) (#98)
    by oculus on Mon May 11, 2009 at 01:29:23 PM EST
    Sykes:  AP

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