WH Dings Comedian for Joke at WH Correspondents’ Dinner

Limbaugh can dish it out He can take it besides the Fat drug addict deserves it!

Good for Sykes.
This is just one among many quotes that have passed though the lips of el Rushbo:
“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” He was speaking to black woman.
That’s not just a kind of accidental slip of the tongue. This is a pattern he’s lived up to for years.
The sad thing is that Limbaugh is being held up over Colin Powell and over Michael Steele as the future of the party. You don’t need to read between the lines to see what people like Cheney see as the future of the GOP in the age of Obama.
What’s shocking is that it is so obvious.

Seemed plenty funny at the time. Even Obama was laughing at the joke!

Limbaugh on African-Americans: “They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”
Yeah, Sykes sure was mean to poor Rushbo.

Dumb, ridiculous, and just plain foolish.
Comedy clubs are one thing, where nothing is held back (or should be), but a WH event is completely different.
What an asinine thing to do, to put the WH and POTUS in such a position–and what an idiotic thing for the WH to do to schedule Wanda Sikes, or anyone, without making sure that jokes like these aren’t used.

If the WH was displeased with the joke, WHY WAS OBAMA LAUGHING ABOUT IT!!!!???

The White House does not pick the host for these events.

Must have polled badly.

So it’s okay for Rush to say that he HOPES THE ADMINISTRATION FAILS, that is, an entertainer can take a shot at the president but Sykes can’t take a shot at another entertainer??
GIVE ME A BREAK.

Limbaugh critizes
our troops
african americans
women
michael j fox and his illness
the fat slob deserves everything he gets!

Just to keep the holiday concern trolls happy, I won’t use toilet paper on Arbor Day, out of respect for trees.

Waterboarding is torture, Obama doesn’t believe in torture.
But waterboarding is a great form of humor and he finds it very funny.

=== No one cares about her poking fun at Rush, it’s the use of the terrorist attack to do it.===
You’re right. No one really cares if she pokes fun at Limbaugh. She didn’t poke fun of him. She wished him dead. But I guess that is funny in some circles. Dead Americans because you disagree with their politics.

Why can’t you make reference to 9/11? We’ve been using 9/11 to promote the Republican Brand, to silence Democrats, and to justify everything under the sun–from torture to tax cuts.
As far as I can tell, 9/11 is like the Holocaust, one of those things that Republicans use to justify whatever it was that they were going to do anyway.
That’s vastly more insulting than making a joke about Rush Limbaugh.

“She wished him dead. But I guess that is funny in some circles. Dead Americans because you disagree with their politics.”
That attitude has made Ann Coulter millions selling to right wingers.
Suddenly because the bloated one is the target, its not ok.

So glad that liberals have finally started to fight back against a Republican media hate machine that has been dishing out insults for more than 20 years. Limbaugh is the founding father of the very media system that coarsened our Democracy. Don’t worry about Wanda, she is just an “entertainer” the same thing Rush calls himself.
Republicans are now so reviled and such a laughing stock, that only 21% of Americans identify with the party.
It’s called karma, fellas. You started this fight, the Democrats ended it.
Now the young people are moving forward with rebuilding this economy and cleaning up after the Bush administration.
Please stay out of the way.

Yo it’s humor. Limbaugh as a”troubled asset” was funny.

Some people cannot take jokes.
They think that Wanda Sykes wants Rush Limbaugh to die.
But when Rush Limbaugh says: “I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”
You say, he’s just kidding!

9/11 jokes–poor taste by any comic
A president laughing at 9/11 jokes is indefensible.
BO needs to grow up and start acting like a president that can actually represent everyone.

Our Smartest prez was laughing as Cluelessly with the 9/11 joke as he was laughing Cluelessly of the Handicap Olympians.
You cannot blame cluelessness of the Smartest One, can you?

“Cocaine like he was in his younger days”
Obama was in high school, doing as many ambitious high school kids do…partying like the big boys. Rush’s ordeal happened deep into middle age, while hammering people from a pulpit for a living. Get the difference?

If I recall correctly Limbaugh said something like……… If Obama is going to take this nation down the road to socialism, then yes I hope he fails….., but of course the only thing they mention is the I hope he fails part.

Making a joke about anyone being the 20th hijacker is so cruel.
And to do it at the WH Dinner…
Does she not have any compassion for what happened that day?
I am afraid Obama is promoting a pre-9/11 mentality that is very dangerous.

“A president laughing at 9/11 jokes is indefensible.”
George Bush for the 2005 WHCD made a video is which he jokingly searched for WMDs under his desk.
Don’t you right wingers get it? There are millions of examples of your horrid behavior.
All that said, the only one reporting Obama laughing is a right wing editor of a right wing paper which makes it as believible as pigs flying.

I see addiction to painkillers somewhere in Wanda’s future.
I see 9/11 family members very hurt by the president laughing at those mean-spirited jokes.
I’m psychic.

===Get the difference?
Posted by: Silky | May 11, 2009 2:40:39 PM===
Yeah, actually I get the difference. One isn’t president of the US. Minor difference. Not to get in the way of your defense of Obama. You might want to read Obama’s book. High school indeed.
Posted by: Axey | May 11, 2009 2:43:22 PM

“If I recall correctly Limbaugh said something like……… If Obama is going to take this nation down the road to socialism, then yes I hope he fail”
Its amazing that right wingers are able to recall the CYA quote but not the original.
f I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he’s talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “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? See, here’s the point. Everybody thinks it’s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can’t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what’s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what’s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don’t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody’s gotta say it.
What baffles me is why the GOP kiss his ring given that he has shown little ability to motivate people to the polls.
He hated McCain and vigorously campaigned against him during the primaries.

===Axey, I know you have a hard time telling them apart. But Wanda Sykes is not the president of the United States.
Posted by: blip | May 11, 2009 2:45:38 PM===
Why would I have a hard time telling them apart?
===She’s a comedian.===
So is he, only I’m not laughing.

Obama thought it was funny at the time.
This is just more typical liberal character assassination. It is what liberals always do. They excell and calling other people names while avoiding the real issues.

BUSH HAD CLASS
HAHAHAHAH LOL
Yeah Falling down Drunk at the Olympics Feeling up the German lady and Trying to feel up the Soccer girls at the Olympics WHAT A CLASSY GUY LOLOL HAHAHAHAHAHAH

Is this a class act or what? The media would have called for Bush to resign, and Laura would not have stood for this trash in the WH. Okay, Katie, Charlie, and all of you elitists at NBC, where is your outrage? I’m waitingggggggggggggg!

Ryan C,
Was that supposed to refute what another poster said? If so, you only proved their point. Thanks for finding the exact quote.

===Last week you were flipping out that he ate Dijon mustard.===
Weird analogy. Dijon mustard = class.

Last time I checked Wanda Sykes was a comedian. Just like Ann Coulture is an author and Rush limbaugh is a radio personality. Lets just keep thier occupations and position in perspective.

Gibbs had to do damage control.
Even the UK media was commenting about Obama laughing at Syke’s jokes about 9/11,Rush, kidney failure.
Sometimes I don’t think Obama gives a rip.
Obama is so arrogant and full of himself
and probably believes he is “too big to fail”.

“BUSH HAD CLASS?”
Yes he does.
Ever heard him say anything bad about Obama?
Obama uses Bush as a punching bag because he knows Bush won’t right back. Obama is a sissy.
You’ve got a 2 trillion dollar deficit courtesy of Obama, an $800 billion “stimulus” package that won’t create ANY jobs this year according to Romer, stimulus money that’s not going to where it’s needed, no way to even track it and this is all you got?

I am certain Sykes will receive a Walter Cronkite journalism award for her jokes about Palin, Rush, Cheney.
She was just as professional as others who have received it.

===He hopes the President fails and by natural association that also means the American people and the military. ===
Natural association? It might be natural to you but it certainly wasn’t to me. Limbaugh is a huge supporter of the military.
===He accuses Michael J. Fox of faking his Parkinson tremors. ===
He repeated what Michael J. Fox himself admitted to.
===He has spewed such bigoted hate speech that I won’t even repeat it here. ===
Why? What could be worse than wishing someone dead?
===I just think Rush and his followers just got a BIG dose of his own medicine and found it very hard to swallow.===
Not me. Rush is a big boy, literally and figuratively. He can take care of himself. In fact, if the president hadn’t cackled at the joke, I wouldn’t even be commenting on it. The story isn’t Sykes/Limbaugh, it is Obama. If only someone would notice.

===and even I think that’s funny.
Posted by: Silky | May 11, 2009 2:58:32 PM===
I’ll just bet you did.

Bush’s problem is that he was in office for a really long time and people got really tired of him. He’s been unpopular for a long time and for a variety of serious reasons.
People like Obama because he has only been in office for 100 days, and so far, he is doing a great job.
If Obama fails like Bush did, and in 8 years, we find ourselves in another pointless war and another pointless recession…. the media will be mean to him.
It’s silly to think that you are being singled out for persecution simply because America is anti-Republican. We voted for Bush? Remember?
But we got sick of him after he sucked everything up.

“I’ll just bet you did.”
Then again, I actually have a sense of humor…so, y’know. There’s enough serious stuff in real life to get bent out of shape about.

“Why? What could be worse than wishing someone dead?”
In Rush’s case, wishing he live?

There is no need to ask what the President’s “reaction” was. I saw it on video. He grinned and chuckled through the entire Sykes screed. I guess this is his idea of a “higher level of discourse”.

The real reason Obama allowed Sykes to be so controversial?
He needed a huge distraction for today:
The deficit is much worse than expected and BO has admitted there will be no job growth this year.
In spite of the $800 billion stimulus bill he rushed through–No Job Growth.
Keep focused on Wanda not on the economy.

“Obama was in high school, doing as many ambitious high school kids do…partying like the big boys. Rush’s ordeal happened deep into middle age, while hammering people from a pulpit for a living. Get the difference?”
Rush had a back injury and got addicted to PRESCRIBED pain killers. Obama snorted coke for strictly RECREATIONAL purposes. Get the difference?

I love how everyone knows exactly what to do and even how I think based on some vague generalities. I would also love to see the true state of your lives. Most of them are probably a complete mess. Have you ever achieved anything that has ben a benefit to the world? I haven’t so I keep my mouth shut.

On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, “Did you know there’s a White House dog?” Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time. He should donate BOTH his kidneys!

Obama’s new era of civility.
A new era of responsibility.

The real reason Obama allowed Sykes to be so controversial?
He needed a huge distraction for today:”
Which is why FoxNews (the supposed Dissent* Network) is wall to wall Rush vs Wanda.
* – Dissent only operable during Democratic administrations.

If you’ve ever seen the Aristocrats, you’ll know that it is really easy to laugh at horrible things once you get rolling.
Comedy shouldn’t be confused with reality.

“Rush had a back injury and got addicted to PRESCRIBED pain killers. Obama snorted coke for strictly RECREATIONAL purposes. Get the difference?”
Yeah. Obama was a cool, partying high school kid who took a taste and then moved on. Rush is a fat, filthy middle-aged cancer on society who can’t handle his drugs. And they were not PRESCRIBED pain killers. If they were PRESCRIBED, he wouldn’t have been in trouble. Get the difference?

What about Limbaugh’s Viagra arrest?
Was that medically prescribed, too? Dude was coming back from a vacation to the sex-trafficking capital of the hemisphere.

“Rush is a fat, filthy middle-aged cancer on society” – Silky
Don’t you just hate those Republican hatemongers?

And there goes Wanda Sykes…under the bus…with the gays and Reverend Wright and everyone else who ever did anything for Obama but then created an obstacle for him.
Posted by: paul | May 11, 2009 3:12:37 PM
This is a really popular theme for Obama-haters. Is he supposed to nominate her for the Supreme Court or something?

The thing that I am really surprised about is that everyone is talking about about the Rush Limbaugh joke, but no one is mentioning the joke about Sarah Palin, AND HER HUSBAND WAS IN THE ROOM WHEN IT HAPPENED!

DR JOHN
Asked WHY ARENT THE TROOPS HOME ALREADY
Because the Drunken tasteless Idiot Bush Invaded Iraq with No exit Stragety Because the Man was Dumb as rocks!

I have had a chance to digest some of Wanda’s barbs.. I thought the POTUS/Capt. Hook was really the only reference that might have had collateral damage to civilians..
.. really things aimed at Rushbo.. I consider him a uniformed (yes, uniformed) combatant.. he loves negative attention.. so long as you keep the zingers in the family.. which they did.. what the hey..
I was also going to express that maybe this is a Lenny Bruce or Bikini Atoll kind of happening.. where we leave the past level of destructive speech and weaponry behind and trade up to the next level.. this is, after all, what the Obama administration is all about ‘Change’.

Wow, even Gibbs the Clueless dissed Sykes at the WH Press a few minutes ago. Won’t stop the Sykes-type garbage from their robo-spew, though.

“In 2006 51% of Democrats wanted Bush to fail.”
You mean the poll FoxNews never reported on until Rush got in trouble which coincided with Bill Sammon suddenly reporting Carville making a smiliar remark on 9/11.
Now I understand why you guys continue to swallow the WMD lies.
Its the gullibility.

1. Get the economy back on track by plugging the holes and restoring regulation.
- OK, what’s he done with this?
2. Spend federal money on infrastructure to create jobs.
- What part of the stimulus package creates jobs?
3. Create a socialized healthcare plan.
- This would be a disaster.
4. Draw down in Iraq and establish order in Afghanistan.
- How’s all that going? Bush was already doing this.

I love the Sarah Palin joke. That was hilarious.
It’s gross, of course. But funny. Especially since all the morality stuff, apparently, is bs. I mean, she so career focused that she didn’t know her daughter was burning up the bed with some loser in their house!

So drjohn,
Where were all the WMDs if the premise for invading Iraq was based on the truth?
Rumsfeld claimed that not only did we know they have them but that we knew were they were.

Fox News Poll August 8-9 2006
You have a tendency to dismiss things you don’t like.
But yes, Carville also wanted Bush to fail.
That coming on 9-11.

It’s unfortunate that both sides have become so distracted. Many of you have become such passionate cheerleaders for your party that you are missing important issues.
Obama is a smart/savvy guy. He lacks polish, but that will probably come in time. Laughing at a joke can happen if one takes it at face value without thinking of every implication of the actual content. Small potatoes.
Bush went into the war without demanding more concrete evidence. There are many who think that there were chem/bio weapons that were moved out of country, but the evidence is thin. He took a calculated risk and was wrong. But make no mistake, Saddam was an evil, evil man. Had we not dealt with him then, we would have had to sooner or later. Let’s not be overly naive. Personally, I didn’t understand the ‘urgency’ of the whole thing. And I felt it was a distraction from Afghanistan. But hindsight is always 20/20.
As for the economy? Don’t blame Bush for the greed of those on wall street. And don’t give Barney Frank and Reid and Pelosi a pass on it. They were just as engaged in this mess as Bush was. To think otherwise, is to wear blinders and to deny addressing the problems and required solutions.
The Bush deficit? Would have been higher had he not pushed back when Dem’s wanted to expand the budget (remember they held the purse strings). And if Bush’s spending was an issue, shouldn’t Obama’s spending be of at least a ‘little’ concern?
Look the real issue is… are we all willing to take a hard, hard look at our own party’s leadership? Nobody listens when it’s the other side critiquing. But if we critique our own party just as hard (and using the same criteria) we might actually get somewhere. The problem is… most Dem’s aren’t willing to ‘honestly’ evaluate/critique Obama… much like many (not all) Rep’s weren’t willing to do it with Bush.
Want progress? Come up with criteria you believe is crucial and apply it EVENLY to both parties.
PEACE

drjohn,
If Bush was drawing down in Iraq and refocusing on Iraq, everything he and McCain said running up to the election indicated the opposite. I can only vote based on what McCain promised to do.
As far as health care…. well, I think it would be great, seeing as I know many people who have no health care… and their lives pretty much suck because of it. Maybe the medical industry can get its act together before Obama does…. but if not, well, you’ll get some disastrous change that will make a lot of sick people feel healthier and happier.
As far as infrastructure. It’s only 100 days in, but already my state has started working on road and bridge projects with the stimulus money.
As far as plugging holes and regulating things… I think he has gotten some good work done. I think forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy was a good move. It is changing the whole attitude of the auto industry in the state. I think they were all just hoping for free money. Now they are all scrambling to change.
Like I said, it’s kind of lame to compare Obama’s first one hundred days to Bush’s 8 years. But, so far, so good. Not perfect. But good.
At the very least, people feel like things are going to be better…. and that counts for something. Of course, it would benefit the Republicans in the next election to instill a panic and a feeling of gloom… but so far, I don’t see any reason to feel doomed.

“Bush was doing so because of political pressure at home and by the Iraqis.”
It was always what the Iraqis wanted.
If we had listened to Obama the war in Iraq would already have been lost.

“Bush was doing so because of political pressure at home and by the Iraqis.”
Bush was doing so because he won the war in Iraq, and he won it because he knew how to do so. Obama is gearing up to lose it for the sake of mindless promises he made during a political campaign.
As for Afganistan, well, he won that one four years ago:
“I assume that the war in Afghanistan is over, or is the contention that you have that it continues?” she said to a reporter.
A few moments later, she said: “This isn’t about the duration of the war. The war in Afghanistan is over.”
–Nancy Pelosi, June 21, 2005
And then there’s always Pakistan…

The most delightful part is that the Obama people are now repudiating the very same strumpet whom the knuckle-dragging sycophants here were praising 24 hours ago.

drjohn,
I’ve long maintained that Carville is a jerk, who cares more about his career than what is good for the country as a whole.
I’m sure as hell not going to fall all over myself trying to construe Carville’s comment as anything but a mean-spirited jab by a conniving political weasel.

“yes a story told by Bill Sammon who has lied so many times on the air he personally makes a mockery of Fox’s fair and balanced pitch.”
Give us an example of a lie Bill Sammon has told on the air. Thanks.

“yes a story told by Bill Sammon who has lied so many times on the air he personally makes a mockery of Fox’s fair and balanced pitch.”
Carville acknowledged it as happening. Then he went to say that he really didn’t mean it as soon as the jets struck the buildings.

“I love this. Saddam Hussein wanted everyone to believe he had WMD. The lies are his, not Bush’s. Bush called his bluff. The UN gave him permission to go and so did Democrats.”
Bush speech to UN
“If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.”
“We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.”
And since you brought up Powell:
“We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons — the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.”
There’s quite a bit more of Bush admin officials telling lies.
Hans Blix after the invasion in Dec 2003
Speaking to the BBC’s World Service, Mr Blix said he was more certain than ever that there was no WMD in Iraq.
Mr Blix and a team of UN weapons inspectors spent more than three months searching for WMD in Iraq in the build-up to the war without finding anything they deemed significant.

Posted by: Silky | May 11, 2009 3:35:19 PM
You wish.
Actually, I have a couple of businesses.
I pay more in taxes than you would likely pay in twenty years.

===partying high school kid who took a taste and then moved on.===
Is this part of the narrative? Make sure everyone believes Obama’s drug use ended in high school? Because you really, really need to read his book.

Is this the same Wanda Sykes who tells us in her public service announcement that saying “that’s so gay” is wrong, but yet wishing death upon someone and talking about someone’s daughters is ok? Oh, I see. More liberal hypocrisy. They evidently don’t eat or make fun of their own. Its not enough they won, they still beat the dead horse that left office already since they’re too afraid to talk about The One-oooh can’t make fun of him. You lefties all all about moving on, why don’t you and start calling your guy out, comedically?

Posted by: Ryan C | May 11, 2009 3:35:46 PM
Oh come on, Ryan, grow up.
You want me to post all the Democrats saying the same thing?
They of course are all liars too, right?
Bad intel is bad intel.
But Saddam has every intention of reconstituting his WMD program once sanctions were lifted. Those 500 tons of yellowcake weren’t for nothing, nor were those centrifuges.

Wanda why did your humor turn into hatred?

===
The most delightful part is that the Obama people are now repudiating the very same strumpet whom the knuckle-dragging sycophants here were praising 24 hours ago.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | May 11, 2009 3:32:58 PM===
Almost as funny as spending an entire day defending Caldera while Obama is accepting his resignation. I tried to warn them. Nobody is safe around Obama if they cause him bad publicity.

COLMES: Well, we found out, Bill Sammon, a lot of the things in this book are not factually correct: Dates that had sermons, as Doug suggested, he attended, he wasn’t there, saying Obama dedicated the book — or didn’t dedicate it to his family, when he did, other inconsistencies in terms of dates, times, people, and places. Why should we believe anything in this book, given that’s the case?
SAMMON: Well, the nature of those inaccuracies, I think, is relatively innocuous. In other words, the first thing the Obama camp –
COLMES: That he’s doing drugs?
SAMMON: Well, no, let me finish my sentence, Alan. I only got one sentence. I just got started.
COLMES: Go ahead.
SAMMON: The first thing on that 40-page document that the Obama camp points out is that the author got their wedding date wrong — the year of their wedding wrong. OK. Well, that’s not a good thing, but it doesn’t go to the ideology of Obama.
I think — I agree that Obama — it’s understandable that he would fight back and not make the same mistake as John Kerry did, which was to be slow to respond to the Swift Boat attacks. But there is such a thing as protesting too much. I agree that this perpetuates the story. And I also think that the blowback from the Obama camp is so heavy-handed and so brutal, calling him a liar, and so on and so forth, that I think that raises some eyebrows that perhaps they’re protesting too much.

“Well, you’ve got your PBS program and your circumstantial evidence; I’ve got two independent bipartisan commissions who found just the opposite and made a substantial, permanent record of their findings.
P.S.–the term “slam dunk” was used by the CIA Director George Tenet, a Bill Clinton appointee.”
So, you’re not willing to watch it? It’s the most conclusive piece of research on the ramp up that you’ll find. You’ll have a whole new take on the “slam dunk” line after seeing it. Just watch it. It won’t kill you. It might not even make you lose faith in your dark lord.

I would say Rush and Wanda both will win, in the long run.. I would take either one of their places.. on the way to make bank deposits.

“So, you’re not willing to watch it? It’s the most conclusive piece of research on the ramp up that you’ll find. ”
Almost as good as that research that was done showing that John McCain caused the disaster on the Forrestal, huh?

“Nobody is safe around Obama if they cause him bad publicity.”
He resigned. Do you have proof that he was fired? Even if he was, that’s life in the NFL when the boss believes in accountability for one’s job performance.

“There’s no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat… Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He’s had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001… He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn’t have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we.” — Wesley Clark on September 26, 2002
“What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad’s regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.” — Jacques Chirac, October 16, 2002

“You want me to post all the Democrats saying the same thing?”
Relying upon cooked intelligence as provided by the Bush admin
They of course are all liars too, right?”
Nope. You’ll notice I do not quote GOp Congress people as they were relying on the dishonest Bush admin
“Bad intel is bad intel.”
Which is why the Bush admin pushing out any dissenting intell was so disturbing.
“But Saddam has every intention of reconstituting his WMD program once sanctions were lifted. Those 500 tons of yellowcake weren’t for nothing, nor were those centrifuges.”
When were sanctions scheduled to be lifted?

Oh c’mon, 8 years and it’s still not comedy material? Comedy and Tragedy are joined at the hip.

“There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years. And that may happen sooner if he can obtain access to enriched uranium from foreign sources — something that is not that difficult in the current world. We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction.” – Jay Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002
“Saddam’s existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq’s enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.” — Jay Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002

“I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I’ve talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House. The president and I have met with them, various groups and individuals, people who have devoted their lives from the outside to trying to change things inside Iraq. And like Kanan Makiya who’s a professor at Brandeis, but an Iraqi, he’s written great books about the subject, knows the country intimately, and is a part of the democratic opposition and resistance. The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to the get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that.” (Cheney, Meet the Press, 3/16/03)
“I think that the people of Iraq would welcome the U.S. force as liberators; they would not see us as oppressors, by any means. And our experience was after the Gulf War in ’91 that once the United States acted and provide leadership that in fact, the community, the region was more peaceful for some considerable period of time. That is what made possible a lot of progress in peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians back in the early ’90s.” (Cheney, CNN American Morning, 9/9/02)

“As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.” — Nancy Pelosi, December 16, 1998

“I think the Iraqi people are crying out for liberation and freedom. And they’ve been denied it. They’ve been living in fear for a very long time. They’re a very industrious people, and they have an awful lot to contribute to their own society as well as to the world, and they’ve been denied that chance to do so…I think the Iraqi people would welcome freedom with jubilation.” (Andrew Card, Fox News Sunday, 1/26/03)

“The point, again, to be – to work with our international coalition, to work through the U.N., to work through our military, to make certain that there is stability in the region. But I think that can be a force for stability and a force for improvement of people’s lives. And take a look at what’s happening in Afghanistan now, and the event that the president had in Afghanistan today to mark what’s happened in the improvement of people’s lives from where they were a year ago. The fact is that people want to be free. Around the world, it doesn’t matter what country they are, whether it’s the United States or anywhere in the world. Nobody wants to live under a brutal dictatorship.
(Fleischer, Press Briefing, 10/11/02)

[Rejecting Army Secretary Eric Shinseki's assessment that the mission would require large numbers of troops for a long duration:] “We can’t be sure that the Iraqi people will welcome us as liberators, although based on what Iraqi-Americans told me in Detroit a week ago, many of them – most of them with families in Iraq – I am reasonably certain that they will greet us as liberators, and that will help us to keep requirements down. In short, we don’t know what the requirement will be, but we can say with reasonable confidence that the notion of hundreds of thousands of American troops is way off the mark.” (Wolfowitz, House Budget Committee, 2/27/03)

And who told all these people these things were going on???

I wish I knew why everyone is all of a sudden talking about Rush Limbaugh every week. The guy’s been around forever, is not as influential as he was, and is supporting a failing, backwards Republican party that has like, three people left in Congress. Not to mention, he is just one of many offensive screaming heads on both sides of the aisle. Just get over it, or “Move On” as Democrats are fond of saying.
Please, Democrats, show us independents that you will not be trivial and vindictive as the party in power like the Republicans were. So far, all I see is the same nonsense…from both the party and its diehard supporters.

“And the people of Afghanistan view the United States as liberators..”
And of course they did just that. Remember when their president, Hamid Karzai, appeared before the congress to a thunderous ovation? No wonder Pelosi was able to salute our victory there in 2005.
Now the hapless Obama is threatening to fritter it all away, and the terrorists are returning to Iraq now that they know they have nothing to fear from this president.
And then there’s Pakistan…

“Most Americans, Rep or Dem believed that at the time, also.”
We believed it because our leaders told us it would be that way.
What we found out is that our leaders lied to us..repeatedly.
“To say that every Iraqi today does not appreciate what we have done to help a free Iraq would be naive.”
To claim that every Iraq feels the same about our country and actions is the height of naivete.
I am sure there are some that love us just as there are some that despise us.
We killed 100,000 of their friends and relatives.
Think of our reaction when 3000 of our citizens died.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 40% would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 39% would choose the Democrat.
Looks like the Klan is gathering…and wait till we get all those crazed returning veterans and their machine guns. Look out, stupes!

A well-funded new organization whose stated purpose is to launch a “right-wing youth movement” will make a splashy debut tonight at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Washington, D.C. CPAC is billed as “the largest annual gathering of conservative students, activists and policymakers.”
According to CPAC materials, the group, Youth for Western Civilization, is one of the official co-sponsors, or major donors, of this year’s conference. The group has a booth in the CPAC exhibition hall, and its “Inaugural Reception” is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. EST in the Palladium Ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.
In the past, CPAC organizers have shielded the reputation of their mainstream conservative enterprise by forbidding racist organizations like the Council of Conservative Citizens from participating. They may want to take a closer look at Youth for Western Civilization.
One of the group’s founders, Marcus Epstein, is a frequent contributor to the white nationalist hate website VDARE.com.
“Diversity can be good in moderation — if what is being brought in is desirable,” Epstein wrote in one VDARE.com essay. “Most Americans don’t mind a little ethnic food, some Asian math whizzes, or a few Mariachi dancers — as long as these trends do not overwhelm the dominant culture.”

===And there is certain civil war coming down the pike.
Posted by: Silky | May 11, 2009 4:03:56 PM===
Where? In Iraq? Iraq has been in a civil war for so long no one will pay attention if they really do have one. In fact, most on the left will wonder why it is making news again. It’s from crying wolf, in case you’re wondering.

“Why are Rassmusan poll numbers always so far right of all the other poll numbers? Hmm…”
Simple he vastly overweights Republicans.
He has self id’d GOPers at 32%.
No other poll has the same group above 25%.

Gee we can’t make fun of Boss Hogg anymore? What’s this world coming to? O.K. Well…How about…I think Rush Limbaugh is a kind warm hearted man, a military veteran, who is health conscious, man enough to admit his mistakes, environmentally conscious, who doesn’t do drugs, who’s still married to woman after all these years. Hey!….That is funny!

The Iraqi civil war is not very ‘civil’.

===But THE SURGE! It’s WORKING! Mission Accomplished! They love us! All Iqaqis LOVE US! They want to have our Beanie Babies!
Posted by: Silky | May 11, 2009 4:12:28 PM===
You do know what a civil war is don’t you? Maybe not. I forget who I’m posting with.

Wanda is corny, but not Saturday. She was impressive. Rush joke was cruel.
It was a joke and its trivial matter that media wants to make more out of.

“Wanda is corny, but not Saturday. She was impressive. Rush joke was cruel.”
She’s hilarious on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Wanda Sykes is just showing the country how tolerant and loving liberals are. They are just so full of mercy and compassion. Ms. Sykes displays the leftwing’s open-mindedness and sense of measure perfectly. She is truly an inspirational example of socialist tendencies. Bravo.

“…It would seem to me all you people who want to help our fellow human beings with health care reform and tax reform might be able to extend your sympathy towards people who were being gassed and killed for no reason other than they were born in the wrong region.”
Posted by: Defining | May 11, 2009 4:45:23 PM
AND who was President when the mass Kurd gassing occurred in 1988??? REAGAN!!!!

Y’all do know that Obama has distanced himself from Sykes, don’t you? The joke is now on all of you Obama defenders. Again.

“agree with Tom Friedman. That war helped keep us safe here.”
Chuckle…atrios actually coined a term called the Friedman in reference to how many times Friedman has promised huge progress in 6 months.

Why doesn’t the media report the evil retort issued by Rush Limbaugh? I’m sure he said something nasty and mean about Wanda. I’m sure he’s on his radio program vocally musing that he wishes for Wanda to die.

Why doesn’t the media report the evil retort issued by Rush Limbaugh? I’m sure he said something nasty and mean about Wanda. I’m sure he’s on his radio program vocally musing that he wishes for Wanda to die.
Posted by: http | May 11, 2009 5:59:21 PM
Wrong Rush has not said anyhting about Wanda and I did not hear him say anything about her today. If he had said anything about anyone that way the press would have jumped on it.

It’s a scary time to live in when people like this are in the White House, and when their supporters, instead of condemning such attacks, support them, and then attack anyone like myself for daring to disagree.

I have to admit I’m a big fan of offensive humor. It’s best if all are equally skewered, rather than allowing for some sacred cows. It’s also best if there is no suspicion the person making the joke actually hates his target.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker have it about right.

I thought the purpose of the correspondent’s dinner was to poke fun at the administration and the reporters who cover politics – not to poke fun at critics of the administration.
This is change that makes me a tad uncomfortable.

I’m amazed that this thread about a comedian making a joke about an obnoxious, foul, hate-mongering talk-show host warrants upwards of 240 comments; however, Martha Raddatz post on the US Commander in Afghanistan being replaced only receives 14 comments and another on Health Care reform only receives 12.
Right Wingers – Here-in lies your problem.

Sykes really knows her politics.
She happened to target her most hateful jokes at the three people that scare Obama the most.
Palin, Cheney, Rush.
Those three also said things that embarrassed The One.
Guess Obama got his revenge via another one of his useful idiots.

Ouch, those tire markets on Wanda’s back look painful. Bet she didn’t see that one coming.

What is it about Obama that turns grown men and women into giggly school girls?
I just don’t see it.
His supporters, the media, other professionals–will they wake up one day and say
I’ve been a fool over this one man.
So maybe it’s not so much about Obama as it is the ones who worship him.
He completes them! Wake up.

“Those three also said things that embarrassed The One.’
Any thoughtful review of Obama’s history will tell you that he has never been challenged or criticized as part of his development. He is accustomed to be being praised. This is why he is so thin skinned and revengeful towards those who criticize him.

Melanie — how is the quote about his Rush’s cat relevant? He learned about unconditional love from his cat …. lots of people learn things from their pets.
And how is the quote of Rush calling himself a male chauvinist pig hateful to anyone other then himself. He’s saying he’s stupid, he thought women liked chauvinism?
I’m not sure why you included those quotes that make Rush appear human and almost fragile in your rant about all his inappropriate comments.

Melanie, I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh. I’m responding to your comment. Why don’t you enlighten me because I don’t see anything hateful or anti-woman in that comment about his cat!
Anyway, even if it was hateful or anti-woman, that’s ok now right? Wanda Sykes’ performance last night, and Obama’s laughing reaction to it, pretty much put the stamp of approval on hate speech, as long as it’s in joke form. It’s Ok now. We can be mean and spiteful and maybe even the president will laugh.

Melanie, I’m asking you to explain your comments. Are you unable to do that without insulting people?

Rush deserved every bit of the jokes. Shawn and Mark are two other guys that represent Rush and should also be highlights of jokes. They often call Obama “MILL HOUSE” so go get them Sykes.

Melanie…Are you a professional woman?

We never hear such right-wing complaints and calls for civility when Limbaugh maliciously crosses the line (like saying Michael Fox is faking his illness). A right-wing outrage that exclusively and opportunistically tracks the political ‘right’ party line does not translate as a “real” moral or ethical issue. Nor does it even translate as “moral outrage.” Instead, it can only be described as entirely consistent with the sociopathic dogma and propaganda of the ‘right’ — which strategically and selectively wears its plastic morality like excessive makeup on a hot-house prostitute. There is no genuine right-wing “morality” ethos here. Just feigned, opportunistic expressions of “indignation” solely calculated to extract some political advantage, while fanning the flames of hate and division (note the right’s illegitimate determination to tie the joke directly to Obama, solely because they seek political advantage). The malice of the right is lengendary. The Republican political right has staunchly established this image for itself. It’s a malevolent skin they feel quite comfortable in.

This joke is not offensive to me; the cartoon chimp wasn’t offensive either. What a bunch of crybabies. This joke, however, doesn’t make any sense and isn’t very funny.

I think she had a really good point. she made it a joke, however, Rush Limbaugh going public with his hope that Obama fails, is akin to saying you hope our economic recovery fails, that we have economic collapse, which IS EXACTLY what the terrorists want! Sorry, but that is SPOT ON accurate. It’s IS treason and many many folks were saying it. What’s the matter, she can’t say it out loud???? Please. Cheney outed a CIA agent which endangered national security for the sake of his hissy fit that, God forbid,the truth that there WERE NO WMD was actually something we knew, and while Cheney DID commit treason, he dared accuse people of treason for simply trying to figure out the truth of whether or not we were waging an illegal war. Oh, that’s FINE with Rush! Hiding hte premise of an illegal war, trumping up reasons, exposing a CIA agent, all treasonable actions is FINE with Rush and republicans, calling for the downfall of the US, just like the terrorists, oh that’ sFINE with the republicans????? I’m GLAD someone called them out on it. DOnt like being a terrorist to your own nation??? then stop acting like one! Go girl, Wanda! Love it!

The Whitehouse had a full copy of Wanda’s jokes beforehand and approved them. How can they now try and distance themselves from her?

HAHAHA. I thought it was HILARIOUS. Politically Correct is not funny. This was meant to be FUNNY, and it was. Wanda, hunney I LAUGHED at all the jokes, I thought they were great.

“The Whitehouse had a full copy of Wanda’s jokes beforehand and approved them.”
When in doubt, the right wing makes it up.

“on hate speech, as long as it’s in joke form.”
Hate speech?
Was Wanda making a statement about bloated balding white guys who need viagra?

It is lovely to see that both the White House and Rush Limbaugh are moving forward and ignoring the ugliness of Ms. Sykes’s antics at the dinner. Her performance was par for the course– she’s not the first second-tier performer to try to gin up his/her notoriety when according such a public platform by going over the top. The president’s joke regarding Rush LImbaugh was much funnier and cutting without being nasty.
So Limbaugh ignores the controversy (no, I didn’t listen to his show but I know what I read on that there internet) and the WH lets Gibby slap Ms. Sykes down and move on. Very good. Let’s hope everyone else decides to act like grownups as well.

moderate…This is why the country is so divided ..Obama should do everything in his power to put a stop to these things before they happen…Obama was given her jokes and should have told her no way clean it up…The joke about 911 i seen nothing funny about it..And alot of american’s seen nothing funny about it…Obama needs to grow up and start acting like he’s our President because the more he lets it happen and then says oh it’s just a joke is a shame…And if he doesn’t put a stop to it it’s going to cost him in the next election…People are sick of it!!!

I think the reason you see so many people commenting on how the left seem to worship this unfunny creep. Many in our modern times have forgotten that all people everywhere always end up worshiping SOMETHING!! It may be money, sports, celebrities, ect. Most of our younger generation have forgotten God. If you mention any kind of morals, beliefs, they just think you’re uneducated, stupid and foolish and most of the time, all three. We are a nation who has forgotten that there is a God…and it’s NOT Obama. The liberals just mixed up who they were SUPPOSED to worship.

The uproarious cheers when Obama “joked” to the press corps that “all of you voted for me” says it all. Our mainstream media is morally bankrupt and worse, they know it, and don’t even care.

per The Brother Gibbs:
..we regret that the horse got out of the barn.. we would have shut the door and are shutting it now.. if it were our door, but the lady in charge of the horse and the door was sitting in the front.. she did open the door after all and we are sorry that the horse did so much damage.. but we didn’t book the horse…

The kicker here is how Liberals & the media would have reacted to jokes about black civil rights leaders or Obama coke use in his earlier years, or bad taste jokes about Obama father and other family members…etc if it had been a comedian who went after the president and his administration.
Jokes that attecked the various tax problems of so many Obama appointees.
Would all of you have been enjoying the laughs, or complaining ?

Where is a link to video of Obama laughing at the Limbaugh joke?
Posted by: Silky | May 12, 2009 9:21:45 AM
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You know links aren’t allowed here. The video is all over the internet. Google it. There are enough videos of it out there to keep you busy for the rest of the week.

I can’t stream media at work, but my google search doesn’t indicate that he laughed at the joke.
This is straight out of a West Wing episode, btw.

Is the loading dock clear? I have a pallette of faux outrage I need to unload.
First of all, I can’t find where she said she wants him dead…just a cheeky comment about if he wants the country to fail, how about if she wants his kidneys to fail.
Secondly, I still haven’t seen video, or even acknowledgement of video, of Obama laughing at that. Not that I’d care, because she didn’t say she wants him dead.
Now, back to that faux outrage…

“Secondly, I still haven’t seen video, or even acknowledgement of video, of Obama laughing at that.”
Would it matter if you did? You would just dismiss it as a series of muffled sneezes or a look of concern while rapidly nodding his head in disapproval.
This is the same man who didn’t bow to the anti-gay, anti-women, anti-American, anti-religious freedom, anti-Israel King of Saudi Arabia after all.

I think we all, everyone posting and complaining about anything someone says needs a reality check. Words are just that words. Why spend hours worring over what a person says rather it’s Rush, Hannity, Combs, O’Riley, Janeane Garofalo, or whoever. Instead we should care what is actually done. If you have issues with comedians or pundants stop listening to them. They have a right to say what they want without having to care what you or anyone else thinks.