Those offended by Wanda Sykes need to get a life! We are talking about BOSS LIMBAUGH here

[wndycty]

Cross posted at: http://snurl.com/hsnbk

Boss Limbaugh BUILT his career by being a divisive, bigoted, demagogue, those offended by Wanda Sykes jokes need to get a life

This morning America awoke to news that comedian Wanda Sykes crossed a line when she joked that Rush (Boss) Limbaugh was “the 20th hijacker” during Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner.

Looking for and manufacturing controversy where one does not exist is an unfortunate practice of many in the mainstream media, talk radio and the blogosphere. Dealing with issues such as the economy, health care and other things impacting Americans on a daily basis must be too bothersome.

Folks like Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News and the London Daily Telegraph’s Toby Harnden have taken Sykes to task and some have even called out President Obama for laughing at the joke. One can only wonder how much time cable news will dedicate to this manufactured controversy and whether or not White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will be bombarded with questions about it during his next briefing.

While Lupica acknowledges that, “Limbaugh is another gasbag in this country who has gotten rich on meanness,” he also asks what would happen if Limbaugh dared to cross the line with jokes that Sykes is “half-a-terrorist?”

Well Mr. Lupica the answer is: he would and has already become a mega-rich, influential power broker that no Republican would dare cross.

Limbaugh will most likely respond to Sykes today so lets see if he “keeps it classy.” The speculative moral equivalency about what would happen if Limbaugh did the same thing is BULLSHIT!

For the last 2 decades he has DOES THE SAME THING and has gotten rich and famous as a result. This behavior has become so accepted that he has inspired other divisive, bigoted, demagogues like Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage who have also laughed all the way to the bank.

For years Limbaugh and his ilk have had no problem calling folks they don’t agree with un-American, socialists, fascists, feminazis, etc. They also rail against political correctness run amok, HOWEVER whenever anyone swings back and lands a punch they scream bloody murder.

As for President Obama laughing at a joke about a man who calls him an Halfrican American, Barack the Magic Negro and has wished that he will fail? Get over it and get a life . . .Boss Limbaugh had it coming.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Boss Hogg called. He demands an apology from you, immediately.

[Bolo Boffin]

2. Limbaugh's kidneys haven't failed yet?

Damn.

[rvablue]

3. There are DUers offended by Wanda Sykes?

Where? :shrug:

I have seen nothing but praise for her fantastic drubbing of Pigboy.

[wndycty]

5. Not talking about DUers

:kick;

[rateyes]

4. I'm with you. To hell with Limbaugh, Lupica, and Harnden.

[ErinBerin84]

6. I think Jonathan Capehart had a good take on this this morning

That organ failure jokes are always going to be controversial, but Rush has put himself out there as the spokesperson for the Republican party and has made tons of comments that have been controversial over the years, so he is going to have to learn to take it.


Contessa also said that Kathleen Parker is taking issue with Obama making fun of Biden. Seriously. WTF. Is that all they have? Contessa also said that she talked to the Gossip Girl actor who was at the Fox table, and he said that you could cut the tension with a knife over there.

[Cha]

30. Did not P Obama make

fun of himself, too?

All those "jokes" about limpbaugh were nothing compared to bush looking around for WMD.

[jazzjunkysue]

38. Anything that makes the Fox whores squirm is OK with me.

[Jakes Progress]

48. Did jonathan have a good take

on asshole rush when he bounced around in his chair making fun of MJ Fox? Why don't they run that video with the Sykes joke?

[firedupdem]

7. These people are something else. Defending this evil, racist,

unrepentant drug addict! The hypocrisy never ends!

[ShortnFiery]

16. Well, in certain circles out of ear shot there's another EDGE to this because the comedian

is not only Black but also a woman. Neither of these categories does Boss Limbaugh nor his brethren consider EQUAL to the White Man.

It's unspoken, but THE EDGE is more raw because "That BLACK BITCH dare disrespect our Rush!" :wow: :nuke:

[firedupdem]

17. That's even more of a slap in the face! How dare she?! n/t

[nxylas]

24. And gay too

The wingnut trifecta.

[TeeYiYi]

8. If you want to laugh out loud, . . .

. . . check out Wanda Sykes on youtube.com. She's funny as hell and youtube has an endless supply, including the segment mentioned in the OP.

I love me some Wanda Sykes. :loveya:


TYY

[Captain Hilts]

9. So we should be divisive, rude and bigoted also? Count me out. nt

[wndycty]

11. Syke may have been rude, but tell me how she was divisive and bigoted. . .

. . .besides this was the White House Correspondents dinner AKA JOKE TIME!

If you believe that Sykes joke is anywhere near on the same level as the shit Limbaugh puts out there I don't know what to say.

[Captain Hilts]

12. Where did I say Sykes humor is "anywhere near on the same level as the shit Limbaugh puts out"???

[a kennedy]

65. remember the sh*t about Michael J. Fox???

pigboy is just despicable...... :mad: :puke: :grr:

[ShortnFiery]

15. Hello?!? She's a comedian.

I swear, the Ghost of Sam Kinnison is rolling over in his grave right now.

Comedians are SUPPOSED to cross the line.

Poor whiny brats in the GOP are always being attended to because of their wealth and influence inside the beltway.

This is bullshit! Who cares if that BULLY'S feelings are hurt.

There's a first time for everything and it's a long time overdue.

[snowdays]

35. those who make fun of drug addition are no better that fish that stink--

like Rush. You can swim with Rush--get down into the cess pool with him but count me out. Dems are better than that. Or so I thought!!

[Political Tiger]

47. When Wanda Sykes gets a radio show and uses that as a vehicle to attack

people over and over for the next couple of decades you get back to us, okay?

Comparing one joke Wanda Sykes made to the years of unfettered HATE that Limbaugh has spewed shows there is something wrong with your thought process!

[BlueMTexpat]

64. I must have missed the "drug addition" part.

:shrug:

Wanda is a comedian. Even so, her remarks were actually spot on. When comedians tell the truth better than the MSM, we are truly in trouble. Oh wait ...!

Limpballs is quite clearly a public figure and even Darth Cheney wants the Repugs to be more like him. The more ridicule that is heaped upon him, the better. Wanda's remarks were nowhere near the kind of "cess pool" quality that most GOPers spout continuously. But they and their media puppets have to focus on inane "issues" like this as distractions from the very real problems that need to be addressed because they clearly have nothing else to offer.

I would fully agree with your analogy of Rush to a fish that stinks if it were not an insult to all fish.

[Orangepeel]

10. it's funny how the complainers are ignoring the treason and oxycontin and focusing on the kidneys

it seems like Wanda hit a nerve!

:rofl:

[The_Commonist]

13. I don't particularly like Wanda Sykes.

I find her voice shrill, and most of her humor is just not funny to me.
I'm certainly not offended by her, however.
Her thing at the press dinner was OK, but to me, not much more than OK.
I don't find someone making an obvious joke at the expense of Rush Limbaugh to be any great, defining moment.
I'm sure this will give her career a bump, and good for her.
If she ends up with her own TV show, I won't watch it.

I just don't think she's very funny...

[ShortnFiery]

14. Hey, neither do I. Sometimes she does cross lines - but I'll be damned if I support her ...

slobbering all over "Boss Limbaugh" with an apology.

It's like many hard-edged comedians, they sometime cross the line (Denis Leary, Chris Rock, Carlos Mencia, Whopie Goldberg), but like MY FRIENDS unless they are totally gross, I overlook the times they irk me and can enjoy other facets of their humor.

Damn, only Republicans are supposed to genuflect at Boss Limbaugh's golden mike. :puke:

Since Cheney has UNILATERALLY declared Powell as "not a Republican" - Colin is thankfully off the hook. :silly:

If you want a BORING but POLITICALLY CORRECT correspondent's dinner they need to stick with Bill Cosby and/or Billy Crystal types.

[CatWoman]

19. how many times are you going to post that?

[The_Commonist]

22. Who, me?

That's the first time I've said that.
So I guess the answer to your question is "one time."

[nxylas]

25. I didn't find the routine very funny either

I predict Rush's reaction will be hilarious, however.

[emilyg]

27. I didn't either.

[Reterr]

70. Shocking.eom

[firedupdem]

33. That's funny...nothing rush has ever said is hilarious to most. It's

usually vile, filled with lies and hateful...sometimes it's even aimed at children.

[nxylas]

51. I meant it'll be hilarious watching the idiot blow a gasket

Hell hath no fury like a wounded narcissist.

[chill_wind]

18. Decades of his toxic sewage on the public air waves, and his party has been steeping in it

up to their necks. Time to drain the swamp and see the ugly malignancy for what it is. That he and a lot like him had it coming is an understatement. She nailed him like no politician in Washington DC ever could or would.

"I hope Obama (his government) fails--- isn't that basically what Usama Bin Ladin has been saying for years?"

THAT's the real money quote lost in all of it that they don't even want to touch. All the rest is just faux outrage and noise.

[Political Tiger]

20. Wanda Sykes ROCKS!

I think she's great!

And for the puke's to feign outrage over her routine at that dinner is the height of hypocrisy!

[Aloha Spirit]

21. I agree--and frankly

non-female comedians are given way more slack with PC jokes than women are.
Comedians are supposed to cross the line, make people uncomfortable, then reel it in, that's how I see it anyway.

[snowdays]

36. Go ahead and swim in the cess pool with Rush. --you are no better

than he is when he makes fun of Micheal J. Fox.


edit for typo

[SemiCharmedQuark]

39. Yes, because Rush and Fox are exactly the same with the exact same circumstances surrounding both

incidents.

[snowdays]

41. my emphasis is on "making fun of" The WH is smart to shy

away from smot like that.

[Political Tiger]

40. Well, aren't we all holier-than-thou?

The difference is Limbaugh has made a career out of and become a very rich man by "swimming in the cess pool." He does it for a living, every single day....and has done so for decades.

Wanda Sykes made an off the cuff remark that was in poor taste but unlike Limbaugh, she has NOT made a career out of being hateful and hurtful.

And who is "Michele j. Fox?"

[snowdays]

42. I do not make fun of drug addition. Enough said.

[Political Tiger]

46. Who cares?

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh

And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"We're going to let you destroy your life. We're going to make it easy and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don't destroy our lives on drugs, we'll pay for whatever messes you get into."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say people are going to do drugs anyway let's legalize it. It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea and those who are for it are purely 100 percent selfish."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"If (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them.
-- Rush Limbaugh

"Some folks believe I shouldn't go after the President's brother. They say that is unfair. Out of bounds. Well, you know, Roger Clinton isn't just the President's brother. He is a man who has by his own admission abused drugs....so I have the right to comment on his drug abuse. It is something that is more than political with me. I abhor the use and abuse of drugs!"
-- Rush Limbaugh

"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"Compassion is no substitute for justice."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"If you commit a crime, you're guilty."
-- Rush Limbaugh

[rasputin1952]

52. he's also a drug trafficer...anyone who buys narcotics by the thousands...

with a cigar box full cash is a drug trafficer. Somehow, he wasn't taken to court on that...but if any of us were in the same situation, we'd never see daylight again. But if you have gobs of cash and "friends in high places", you get off scott free. Justice is not just blind, but deaf, dumb and crippled as well.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

57. So you consider Limpballs a sympathetic character? Per his own words (#46), that bloated pig...

should have been "sent up" long ago.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

43. It's like not allowing people who discriminate against AAs or Hispanics into your home, and then

people telling you "Why, you're no better than they are! I don't discriminate!"

[RoadRage]

23. Ironically...

those who were most "offended" by Sykes comment to Limbaugh.. were the first to laugh it up and defend the comment by the CBS Sports Golf Commentator who joked about any US soldier shooting Pelosi twice, and then strangling Reid.

I see "Faux" outrage on both sides of this coin... and I think that anyone who is disgusted by one but not the other is a total partisian hack. I think those who are outraged by both may just lack a sense of humor (but that's OK)... and I find myself in the last catagory where I see the humor in both.. people just like to make jokes sometimes!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

54. I share your sentiments.

Thanks for phrasing it so well. :thumbsup:

[cwcwmack]

26. the Pubs are hot about this...

another site I hang out at has all kinda nasty stuff posted.

[wndycty]

28. It tells you a lot. . .a comedian makes a joke and they are outraged. . .

...however the shit they pull and the rhetoric that comes out their heroes mouths everyday is far worse.

[Cha]

29. Fuck the limpdick whiners and apologists.

limpbaugh is a traitor and a terrorist to our country.

Glad he got called out.

[Jennicut]

31. After all the crap he has said about liberals and Obama in general, well I just hope he stays fat

[Arugula Latte]

32. But whad if poow widdle Wushie's feewings were huwt!

:cry:

[snowdays]

34. Go ahead and swim in the cess pool with Rush. Those who joke about drug

addiction are like Rush who made fun of Micheal J. Fox.
And lots did here on DU--we have had wall to wall threads singing her praises. It is shameful.

[Political Tiger]

44. Oh please! It's about the HYPOCRISY, stupid!

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh

And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"We're going to let you destroy your life. We're going to make it easy and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don't destroy our lives on drugs, we'll pay for whatever messes you get into."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say people are going to do drugs anyway let's legalize it. It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea and those who are for it are purely 100 percent selfish."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"If (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them.
-- Rush Limbaugh

"Some folks believe I shouldn't go after the President's brother. They say that is unfair. Out of bounds. Well, you know, Roger Clinton isn't just the President's brother. He is a man who has by his own admission abused drugs....so I have the right to comment on his drug abuse. It is something that is more than political with me. I abhor the use and abuse of drugs!"
-- Rush Limbaugh

"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"Compassion is no substitute for justice."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"If you commit a crime, you're guilty."
-- Rush Limbaugh

[Number23]

53. Snow job, errr...days, who do you think you're fooling??

[Reterr]

69. Very few I suspect.eom

[ima_sinnic]

60. right--it's all about "drug addiction"

no, it's about an overstuffed hate monger who routinely suckers his stupid sheeplike listeners with the most foul blather, including mocking and denigrating people like Michael J. Fox in order to push an agenda of intolerance, greed, and outright lying. He has made a career, literally, out of pushing the most outrageous lies about Democrats and "do-gooders"--but the truth is, he is nothing but an overweight HYPOCRITE who buggers little boys (with the help of Viagra) while popping OxyContin and mocking "drug addicts" and saying they should be locked up for life etc. etc.

why the need to defend the sack of shit? and who is "joking about drug addiction"? the truth is, he IS addicted to a painkiller, yet he is held up like some big icon of truth and morality. like every republican, he is just a hypocrite and devoid of any real ideas or morality. wake up! he is playing you like a fool. he doesn't give a shit about you or anybody else.

[Reterr]

68. Bullshit

It is shameful.

Oh so horrible and shameful. We should have a national dialogue about Wanda Sykes' OFFENSIVENESS :grr:..
(but please lets ignore that whole you know torture debate thing....)

[jazzjunkysue]

37. I turned her off. I didn't think she was funny. Bad choice.

It doesn't help when someone drags up old ugly racist jokes like she did.

What you think and what you say at your dinner table our at your local bar doesn't necesarily make good international comedy.

Freedom of speech, of course, but, there's a time and a place. This was supposed to be fun.

[spanone]

56. i found it hilarious....

:shrug: :hi:

[Reterr]

67. YMMV I thought Sykes was hilarious

This is the latest media nontroversy...

[Old Hank]

45. I didn't like the joke. Randi Rhodes was fired for something less offensive

Randi made an unacceptable joke, calling Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro "s**ts", but what Randi said was nowhere near wishing death upon a rival.

[noiretextatique]

49. people need to stop buying into this crap

what wanda sykes did was tell the truth about an asshole who has polluted the air with all manner of foul, hateful shit for a long time. it's the truth of her statement that has the rw's panties in a twist. as for wishing that his kidney's failed, it's pretty clear that she was referring to his comment about obama failing. it was in poor taste, but most of what the asshole says is in poor taste too. where's faux news when the asshole makes racist, sexist, zenophobic comments?

[TEXASYANKEE]

50. I turned her off.

Which is interesting because I usually really enjoy her and find her quite funny. But her jokes were lame and, I thought, beneath her.

[spanone]

55. fuggem...he's a vile defective unit

[Egnever]

58. Oh please the TV said we should be upset so we are

Pay attention to the TV!

More cows here every day.

[newinnm]

59. Dont we have anything better to put our energies to?

[WinkyDink]

63. So go ahead.

[Hippo_Tron]

61. I thought the kidney failure thing was a bit over the top and not really funny

The rest of it was fine.

[WinkyDink]

62. Not caring for my POTUS laughing at a "joke" about a citizen's death is NOT the same thing as being

"offended by Wanda Sykes."
I might not be offended by her one iota.

Too bad she didn't crack wise over Cheney's croaking. THAT I would want the WORLD to laugh at.

[Reterr]

66. Those are the people who are truly addicted to outrage

OMG a comedian did an edgy routine targeting a public bully/asshole!!!!! swooooon....clutch your pearls...aaaack!!!

How sheltered are these people's lives that they find this so offensive blah blah?

[certainot]

71. 'obama's head needs to roll' said limbaugh sept 10, second hour, 2008

limbaugh regularly suggests violence against particular dems but he can be subtle about it...

talking about celebrating with all his friends when the clintons finally get justice, etc...

or... after railing for awhile about obama being a traitor on the eve of a big public appearance coming up, he goes into a personal responsibility lecture suggesting people need to quit waiting for others to do what they should be doing themselves.

[Overseas]

72. Mon May 11 Daily Show said it really well-- mostly with clips

Started with clips of right wingers comments of outrage at Sykes' hard hitting humor. Clip after clip of their objections, with Stewart defending clips of her routine, using the standard justifications for torture-- it was a tense situation, the clock was ticking, it works, etc.

Then clips of right wing "moral leader" Bill Bennett stumbling over another attempt to defend torture.