President Obama is definitley laughing and has the smug look.

In fairness to the president, we’d say “pretty hilarious” overstates the case. He does not appear to be laughing uncontrollably, although there is no doubt that he is amused. So are the folks at the left-wing Puffington Host, where the headline proclaims “Wanda Sykes Kills.” (In comedy, kill means “to perform successfully”; the antonym is die or bomb….)

What makes Sykes’s joke funny to a liberal, then, is the sense of danger that accompanies her risky themes, combined with the secure knowledge that since the joke is at the expense of a liberal hate figure, the usual rules do not apply. It’s the same reason people on the left evince particular glee when they attack Clarence Thomas or Michael Steele in expressly racist terms, or when they use antigay innuendo against their political opponents (regardless of the latter’s sexual orientation).

In Obama’s wide grin as Sykes was telling her joke, we saw the smug look of a man who enjoys seeing his critics dehumanized. The president of the United States should be better than this.

Now, if a conservative would have dared to ridicule a liberal POL or celebrity in this fashion, the media would be crying “HATE SPEECH.”

The hypocrisy and mean-spiritedness knows no boundaries with this crowd – Obama included.

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