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from advocate.com

Comedian Wanda Sykes tore into Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday night, suggesting that the conservative commentator’s anti-Obama agenda makes him akin to a terrorist, specifically, one of the 9/11 hijackers.

“Rush Limbaugh said he hope this administration fails,” said Sykes, who was the featured comedian at the hotly anticipated social event in Washington, D.C. attended by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. “So you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails.’ He just wants the country to fail. To me, that’s treason. He’s not saying anything different than what Osama Bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight.”

“Too much?” asked Sykes, as the crowd responded in a mixed fashion.

”Rush Limbaugh? 'I hope the country fails',” continued Sykes. “I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a little waterboarding. That’s what he needs.”

By Sunday, Washington insiders were debating whether and how Limbaugh would retaliate against Sykes in the week ahead.

Sykes, who in November announced she is a lesbian, became the first African-American women and the first openly gay person ever to be the featured comedian at the dinner, an annual gathering for journalists who cover the president. She jokingly targeted numerous members of the Washington establishment in her remarks, including Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the Obamas, noting their tendency to be photographed in ways that reveal their nipples (the president) and arms (the First Lady).

Sykes even took a shot at Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who did not attend the dinner.

”She pulled out at the last minute,” Sykes said. “Somebody should tell her, that’s not really how you practice abstinence.”

Wow. What a lightweight she is.

-whomod

I thought you had to be funny to be a comedian?

We wish father would've pulled out rather than trying to pretend to care about us now.

-Zzap's Children

Women "comedians" should announce when they aren't gay. Same with women golfers.

And basement dwelling sock fuckers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090511/pl_politico/22369



I seriously don't want this to be seen as partisan but I've always believed 9-11 has been nothing of a joke to liberals and this is as straightforward of proof that there is.

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Her joke is bad enough, but she didn't ever quote Limbaugh right in the first place. He never said "I hope the country fails". He said he hoped Obama failed to institute his policies. Even if you disagree with the latter it isn't the same thing.

Wonder what the reaction would have been if, for example, Ann Coulter had joked that she hoped Keith Olbermann died of a lingering illness.

Stupid comments from her aside, I don't know why we are really focusing so much on a "comedienne" who spent most of the last decade failing to draw an audience.

Maybe because the president was seen laughing at the jokes?

If George Bush had been chortling over some inappropriate humor you can bet the center-left media would have a fit over it and claim it showed he was insenstive to others.

My reaction would be, "Hey I finally totally agree with her on something!"

sorry Pro

I think Obama owes the drug addict an appology for laughing. It was innapropiate to have her on really. While I like her nonpolitical stuff, the political stuff is pretty much along these lines. Stupid and nasty.

Keith Olbermann said "Saturday's White House Correspondent's Dinner was the best ever". Seriously.

But, that is completely different from what has been discussed in the story, the media's coverage, and--at the point I posted--this very thread. Everything was centering around a washed up comedienne and her off-color jokes.
Obama and so many of the press corps laughing at the has been's jokes should have been the focus of this story from the beginning. Apologies if I came off as ambiguous in my post, but I stand by my assertion that we've spent far too much time focusing on Sykes in all of this rather than critically examining what was happening on the other side of the podium. That's where the story lies. Sykes and her comments are nothing more than an arrow pointing to the true story of a President and his press corps that find jokes about a man's drug addiction and the unwarranted deaths of over 3000 American men and women.

Why would that be a surprise? He's really just a liberal version of Rush Limbaugh.

sorry Pro.

How is Rush handling this btw?

I doubt he even knows who Pro is.

Jon Stewart Defends Wanda Sykes.

There's a shock.