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Wanda Sykes goes after Rush Limbaugh at White House Correspondent’s dinner
By April MacIntyre May 10, 2009, 16:43 GMT
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Most comedians go 'over the line', so what's the big deal with this one.
I'm with Wanda, I wish Rush would have kidney failure too!!!
Good job, Well done, Wanda.
When some sell-destructive pundits went over the line, no one seems to make a point. But that is wrong. It is like we Republicans are destroying ourselves and no one seems to stop it.
Wanda, as a comedian (not a politician), you are not over the line. It is a wake-up call for those who failed to see themselves. As President Obama said, 'you Press keep us humble'. Only listening to others can often improve ourself. Obama is a humble man. That makes him a respectful human being. We haven't seem such a president for decades. There is no sense of arrogance, no sense of being superioirty over other human beings. Isn't that a great feeling!
We often need others to remind ourself that we will not doing our country a service by attacking the opposite party, it can only do harm to yourself and reflect your self-arrogance, and self-superiority.
Amazing how Rush Limbaugh gets away with all the hatred and venom he spews and then the right start talking about how she crossed the line. They have these amnesia attacks on a daily basis
Limbaugh crossed the line when he mocked Michael J Fox. Remember that?
I'd say he's met his match in Wanda Sykes.
Perfect pitch.
He has to go on-air as a guest defending the GOP, which has defected from its own principles. Must be frustrating. Here's Pat's own words from 2000, and certainly Cheney, AKA Jabba the Veep, would not agree with any of them. All Pat can do now is whine about 'language', while his own party has corrupted the country, leaving in place $1.3 trillion from the 2008 deficit and the TARP for Obama to deal with. Then, the retarded GOP supporters call it OBAMA's deficit. When Clinton left, there was a SURPLUS. Bush and Co-President Cheney squandered our money, and our soldiers' lives. Iraq is a tinderbox waiting to go up after we draw down - and that would be true if we remained for another decade.
Cheney is an egomaniac out of touch, just like Limbaugh. Both traitors to the American people. Powell is a class act, and Obama should now sign him on as a formal adviser on both defense and foreign affairs.
www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Pat_Buchanan_Foreign_Policy.htm
Interventionism is the incubator of terrorism
In the presidential campaign of 2000, we failed to make foreign policy the issue. But what I said then retains relevance:
How can all our meddling not fail to spark some horrible retribution.... Have we not suffered enough--from Pan Am 103, to the World Trade Center, to the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam--not to know that interventionism is the incubator of terrorism? Or will it take some cataclysmic atrocity on US soil to awaken our global gamesmen to the going price of empire?
America today faces a choice of destinies. We can choose to be a peacemaker of the world, or its policeman who goes about night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle.
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Cuba: Siege mentality is pillar of power; end embargo
A supporter of sanctions in the past against Cuba, Buchanan said conditions had changed with the fall of Soviet Communism. “Because of the siege mentality our embargo has created inside Cuba,” he said, “our sanctions may today be the main pillar of Castro’s power.” Dictatorial governments do not justify sanctions, Buchanan said, adding, “No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world. Have we succumbed to the hubris of hegemony?”
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Russia: Offer EU membership instead of encirclement
Wounded and amputated, bereft of its cubs, the Russian bear should not be provoked. Rather than encircling Russia, let us enlarge Russia’s stake in peace. Bringing Russia into the European Union would be a far wiser guarantee of Europe’s security than a threat to go to war to defend their frontiers. By moving NATO onto Mother Russia’s front porch, we are driving her into the arms of Beijing and creating a hostile alliance it is in our vital interest to prevent.
Although I do not wish any harm to people, Rush gets what he deserves in the way of Wanda's remarks, ( except for the kidney failure) He can dish it out but he can't take it or should I say the Republicans can dish it out.......
If they were so unhappy about it why not just turn the channel. No one forced anyone to watch it.
I for one loved the entire show as it was all supposed to be in FUN. The Pres. shouldn't have to explain to his daughter's the joke he made about Rham. they should have been in bed long before the show aired and that was a bit of adult humor so any mother ( and I am one ) should have taken it for what it was A JOKE!
boxcar full of crap---Buchannan, Limbaugh and Cheney. Too bad all three of them do do all of us a favor and move to Iraq. They deserve a country filled with hatred, death and destruction, not a country full of hope.
I love negro humour !!!! LOL Good one girl. BTW, the OxyContin did make him deaf, why did'nt you work that one in there???
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boxcar full of crap---Buchannan, Limbaugh and Cheney. ...
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The GOP only operates on getting elected - and all they have now is the shrinking 20 percent who put their own petty bigotries ahead of the country. Limbaugh has a big soapbox, and he ends up representing the GOP by default .... since they only have idiots like Palin to represent them.
The American people realize that any party who would run Wasilla the Hun for Veep cannot be taken seriously. This is what happens when their smart people won't run for office. Rush has paralyzed a candidate like Huntsman whose personal views are at odds with the drug-addled egomaniac.
Buchanan is saddled with his principles; but is riding a dead horse with the GOP. If Buchanan said what he really thought, he'd lose his readership. The treatment of Spector, and now Powell, indicates the groveling mindset of the GOP, which is losing power (but not quickly enough).
They're essentially down to the Klan and the fundamentalists as a base, and those too frustrated with a job loss to think straight. The GOP always gains in bad times (which they brought about themselves); and need someone like Obama in office as their whipping boy. They have no platform of their own, and no solutions - just a bunch of loudmouths and people brainwashed into thinking that the earth is 6,000 years old. Our own Taliban, in effect.
When we get the talk radio Fairness Docturine/Localism passed by the unfilibuster proof FCC, we will never even remember the names: Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Levin et al. (That 1st admendment thing is waaay overated)!!!!!!
I'm always disgusted that some ilk like Limbaugh could make millions on nothing more than a big, disgusting,no-talent mouth. And more disgusted with the people who tune him in to support it.
If he were so effective; why'd the GOP lose that badly?
The GOP lost the center; and will do anything to hang onto the troglodytes on the right. The radio stations pay Rush a lot of money to hold that base; and the result is someone inflexible to the point of coming off as traitor or idiot to the elected government.
The mistake is to give Limbaugh more credit than he has. The kowtowing by Steele and some others, when Limbaugh barks, is similar to a wolf pack obeying its leader. If they want to eat, they have to follow.
The hard-right base is probably 20 percent of the electorate - either so worried about their non-attached phallic symbols that they think that the government is going to disarm them. Meanwhile, traffic of weapons to criminals, and to the Mexican drug gangs, continues. There are some where a 'social' issue such as gay marriage or abortion turns them into one-issue voters - and they would be guilty of the same lack of patriotism to the elected government as Rush is.
Our nation's problem is that these people earn any attention - that's in part a problem stemming from Roger Ailes and Fox News, as well as Richard Mellon Scaife, and Ruddy of Newsmax.
Ruddy raised $15 million for Newsmax from provide investors, and Scaife bought up their stakes. Ruddy owns 60% of Newsmax, and Scaife 40%.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife
Scaife owns and publishes the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. With $1.2 billion, Scaife, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, is No. 283 on the 2005 Forbes 400.
Scaife is particularly well known for his financial support of conservative public policy organizations over the past two decades. Scaife has provided support for conservative and libertarian causes in the U.S., mostly through the private, nonprofit foundations he controls: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Carthage Foundation, and Allegheny Foundation, and until 2001 the Scaife Family Foundation, now controlled by his daughter Jennie and son David. Scaife also helped fund the Arkansas Project, which ultimately led to the impeachment proceedings of President Bill Clinton.
Well, I wonder who will be the successor to the one-term mulatto.
RE: Well, I wonder who will be the successor to the one-term mulatto.
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Obama already broke the mold - the American voter now wants someone intelligent, who can speak in complete sentences.
The GOP pushed Palin for VP, and celebrated Joe the Plumber.
The GOP now needs to rescue itself by finding a leader with ideas, instead of photo-ops. The problem is if Cheney and Limbaugh have a say in it, they'll go for some ass-kissing bigoted retard.
See - YOU have a shot .....
as Cheney declared he would be on the side of Limbaugh over Colin Powell.
Why is Cheney out talking now when we hardly heard his mouth open in office?
Designed for everyone who is sick of (C)heney ...
I'm not a particular Wanda fan, but she deserves an emmy for her Limbaugh segment - she gave it back bigtime. I don't listen to his show, but can imagine what he has to say, also O'Reilly.
I think when last year Rush repeatedly made remarks about Obama doing the 'spade work' in the campaign he lost the right to expect courtesy from black comedians. Rush has his popularity because he says outrageous things every day so to those defending poor Rush should grow up.
Limpbaugh is an overblown creep who is in love with the sound of his own voice and Cheney is right along with him.
..the number of liberals who actually listen to Limbaugh as opposed to real conservatives like me. God, I've never seen libnazis hate anything like they do Rush. Then again, when I ask libnazis what, exactly, they object to, they lose the power of speech.
Curious....unless you already know libnazis are just bigots.
After all, Rush says the same thigs he said 20 years ago.
Anyway, nice to see sykes is getting some work.....'Florida has so many strip joints the state flag is just an empty brass pole!'
God..that's fabulous.
Rush Limbaugh is a joke. This guy is out of his mind and the scary part is people think just like him. Like Garry that works at best buy in canton ohio. I know you think Bush was a good pres but really man snap out of your coma.
Wanda Sykes did go over the line with many of her quips. She was downright nasty about George Bush, Dick Cheney and positively horrible saying she hoped 'Rush Limbaugh's kidneys failed'. Who the heck asked this idiot to speak. Especially at a correspondent's dinner? Not very bright at all.
wanda was great am still laughing
If you can't take a joke then stay out of politics, or the public eye.
Wanda was on her game for her style of humor,although her nervousness
was showing a little.
Wanda, thanks for pointing out the humour in what is usually just a lot of hubris. Common sense and humour should rule the day!
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