Video: The Obligatory Wanda Sykes: Rush Limbaugh is the 20th Hijacker Post
Wanda Sykes OVER THE TOP comedy routine at last Saturday’s White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner.
So, was Wanda Syke’s routine inappropriate?
I’ve been to the White House Correspondents Dinner. And, if history is any judge, then comedians asked to perform there seem to do best when they joke with gentle jibes rather than go for the jugular. Someone should have reminded Wanda Sykes about that before tonight. Because not since Don Imus roughed up Bill Clinton at the annual event has a comedian been so mean-spirited. Certainly, Stephen Colbert wasn’t to George W Bush. But, unlike Imus or Colbert, Wanda Sykes didn’t lay a glove on the sitting president Barack Obama. Instead, she reserved her barbs for people who weren’t there: Dubya, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. I’m not saying pols and media don’t deserve to have the piss taken out of them. But even watching the WHCA dinner on television, viewers saw the room grew very quiet and then erupt as Sykes seemed to cross the line with what was more harsh partisanship than funny comedy. At one point, the C-SPAN cameras caught Fox News commentator Glenn Beck sitting stone-faced after Sykes had singled out one conservative after another for her insults. Even Obama seemed to look uncomfortable at times. Of course, the WHCA had to know what they were getting since Sykes has gone on late night television being just as outspoken. Which is why, when she was announced as the performer, I wondered why the journalists had chosen her unless they wanted her to cause controversy, which she certainly did tonight.
Flap thought 9/11 jokes were off-limits? But, wait it is the big bad conservative Rush Limbaugh.
Other key jokes, or left-wing unhinged commentary rammed down the throats of the attendees:
George W. Bush:
“I gotta say, he broke a lot of stuff. You thought you were moving into a new home, and you’ve got a fixer-upper. And there are a lot of things that need to be fixed.” About the criticism Obama received from animal rights activists concerning his choice of a pedigreed pup,” Sykes said, “The man has to rescue a country that’s been abused by its previous owner. Let him have a dog.”
Dick Cheney:
“Oh my god, that’s a scary man. Scares me to death. I tell my kids if two cars pull up, and one has a stranger, and the other car has Dick Cheney, you get in the car with the stranger.” And she criticized the former VP for “trying to defend torture”.
Rush Limbaugh:
Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails. That’s like saying, ‘I hope America fails.’ Or that ‘I dont care if people are losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq.’ He just wants the country to fail. To me, that’s treason. He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama Bin Laden is saying.” Then, turning to the president, Sykes added, “You might want to look into this, sir. Because I think maybe he was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on Oxycontin that he missed his flight.”
Realizing she shocked the crowd with that remark, she said, “Too much? But you’re laughing on the inside…”
But she wasn’t done. “Rush Limbaugh [says] ‘I hope the country fails.” I hope his kidneys fail. How about that? He needs some waterboarding, that’s what he needs.”
Sean Hannity:
Sykes noted that the Fox News commentator has offered to be waterboarded for charity. “Let Keith Olbermann waterboard him. He can”t take a waterboarding. I can break Sean Hannity just by giving him a middle seat in coach.”
Sarah Palin:
In a not-so-veiled reference to teenage daughter Bristol Palin’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy, Sykes said of Sarah Palin’s “early pull out†of the dinner, “Somebody should tell her that’s not really how you practice abstinence.â€
Todd Palin and most of the guests at his table fell silent while other diners gasped and laughed.
Fun is fun and light-hearted comedic jabbing at POLS is fair game. But, an unclassy act from the LEFT will guarantee that next year few POLS from the RIGHT will attend.
But, we have seen this type of conduct from Sykes before in the gay marriage fight here in California. The White House obviously knew what they were getting with Sykes.
Now, they need to accept the responsibility and cut out the crap.
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11 Comments
Ling
Worst part was, most of it wasn’t even funny. I mean, I get jokes about Cheney’s hunting talents or his eccentricity about being at undisclosed locations. All that’s fair game. But what’s funny about hoping that Limbaugh’s kidneys fail?
Katia
See that is what’s wrong with the left. They don’t even attempt to be classy. It’s all trash! How people can listen to all the trash is beyond me. Isn’t Wanda Sykes a Lesbian? Not a very good representation I would say.
Pete
I suppose it was classy of Rush to mock Michael J. Fox over stem-cell research? Where were all of you classy people when your boy was making fun of Parkinson’s Disease? It’s ok to be crass and mean-spirited if you’re a conservative talk radio host, but not if you’re a liberal comedienne?
Flap
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Sorry Pete.
You have your facts wrong on this one: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential3/mjf0.guest.html
Wanda was still classless especially at the WH correspondent’s dinner.
Typical leftist BS.
Pete
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That’s funny. You send me a web page from Rush’s site declaring his innocence. You mean Rush doesn’t cop to being mean-spirited on his own web page? I couldn’t find direct Youtube footage of his show that day, but I did find the relevant snippets within a different Youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6yrdInw6s
I know it’s from Keith Olbermann, but if you ignore the entire thing and view only from 1:00-1:40 mark, you will see exactly what Rush said about Fox and how he said it. Apparently you and Rush don’t consder mocking Parkinson’s symptoms that to be crass and mean-spirited.
Keep drinking the Kool-Ade. Republicans just need to move farther to the right to win back this country. Keep repeating that mantra and pray it all works out for you.
Flap
What a joke.
I give you a link specific to the issue where Rush defends himself and you give me a limk to Keith Olbermann.
Keep drinking the Leftist mantra and see how long you will be in office without Bush to scapegoat.
By the way, why are you diverting attention away from Wanda Sykes with a 2006 campaign ad?
Oh yes, the Alinksy playbook again.
Pete
None are so blind as those that will not see. I’ve tried my best. Good luck to you.
Flap
By the way, the Obama White House just threw Sykes over the side.
Robert Gibbs: I think the President — I haven’t talked specifically with him, but my guess is, Jeff — I think there are a lot of topics that are better left for serious reflection rather than comedy. I think there’s no doubt that 9/11 is part of that.
Lyn
Who is Wanda Sykes? I never heard of her.
Anyway as far as the Obamas go they’re low-class hoodrat trash so they must have felt right at home. Laughing at jokes about others is okay to a point, but this Sykes’ personal attacks were just petty.
I guess it’s too bad that Flip Wilson is dead. He could have done a cross-dressing routine and been funnnier than this Sikes person.
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Gab
According to Lyn, All of us who had the “damnation from God” for being born in a low income community are hoodrats.
ok.
I guess now somebody else is going to suggest that all the hoodrats in the U.S. should go to a nazi type gas chamber.
I really don’t agree that people who talk ebonics or African American Vernacular English are low class scums.
The reality is that, Like or not America has many various shades in its red, white and blue colors. If these “hoodrat comments are not racist then I don’t know what racism is.
Even though I thought she was great, I do believe people have a right to disagree with her performance. But your Hate is Offensive brother.
I also prefer controversial comments from a hoodrat comedian than from a narcissistic hate mongering conservative entertainer.
High Class and Low Class People can share the same Egos. Lust, Envy, Hate, Adultry, or whatever. Do not pretend High Class people hold the key to the gates of paradise because you are only elevating your self with your stereotype.
Much Love.
Out of curiosity, in what level of class did Martin Luther King, Gandhi, or Jesus christ belong to? or from who were they trying to protect the poeple from?