Wanda Sykes' Comments at the Correspondents Dinner Options

[Hartmann]

I do not give much thought to Wanda as a comedian but I think the correspondence dinner is a bad place to say that you hope someone's kidneys fail (Limbaugh's). Save it for your comedy tour. She is wanting someone to suffer while she says that the Bush administration is a bunch of torturing heathens. Seems like a double standard to me.

Her comment about the media always catching President Obama with his shirt off was funny though.

[cmac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2ubJYJXUo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRpV4ccAj4...feature=related

haha

it's a joke. joke. america needs to lighten up.

This post has been edited by cmac: May 12 2009, 08:40 AM

[impala454]

Rush Limbaugh is their new public enemy number one. They'll do everything in their power to take him down. And while I have nothing to back this up, I've heard rumors that the democrats are going to attempt to silence political talk radio somehow.

[Hartmann]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2ubJYJXUo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRpV4ccAj4...feature=related

haha

it's a joke. joke. america needs to lighten up.

Sure, it's a joke, but I can guarantee that had it been a Republican up there saying that Helen Thomas needs to croak the other side would be up in arms calling for the dethroning of whatever comedian said it.

So Michael Richard's comments were "just a joke"? At what point should people stop laughing and starting wondering if what is being said is appropriate?

[Hartmann]

Rush Limbaugh is their new public enemy number one. They'll do everything in their power to take him down. And while I have nothing to back this up, I've heard rumors that the democrats are going to attempt to silence political talk radio somehow.

Fairness doctrine. Which is in the process of being carried over to the internet. Cass Sunstein is trying to get legislation introduced that would require sites to carry links to opposing viewpoints and for e-mail clients to force a "cool down" period between e-mails so that people do not write angry ones.

I. am. serious.

[cmac]

rush limbaugh said something to the effect of he wants america to fail because barack was elected. a serious statement.
he also said that michael j fox was faking his disease.
there's morons everywhere. who cares. we have a right to free speech. usually.
i think discussing his kidney failure is just grazing the surface of things that could be said about rush limbaugh.

[The Fanatic]

I hope Rush Limbaugh's kidney's don't fail. I mean I hate that crazy bastard but i'll miss him!

[chook]

Fairness doctrine. Which is in the process of being carried over to the internet. Cass Sunstein is trying to get legislation introduced that would require sites to carry links to opposing viewpoints and for e-mail clients to force a "cool down" period between e-mails so that people do not write angry ones.

I. am. serious.

That sounds pretty crummy. Although I lol'd about Limbah, shouldn't be abusing the oxycotin.

[impala454]

rush limbaugh said something to the effect of he wants america to fail because barack was elected. a serious statement.

My God how many people will take the liberal media's twist on his statement and run with it? His exact statement said that "If Obama's policies are to socialize our country, then I want those policies to fail". That statement he made instantly brought headlines reading "RUSH WANTS OBAMA TO FAIL". And people like you who are friggin sheep and take everything they say as the golden truth don't even question it.

he also said that michael j fox was faking his disease.

Wrong again. He said he felt he was exaggerating the effects of his disease, or did not take his medication. Considering Fox's political position in stem cell research, it seems pretty reasonable to me.

there's morons everywhere. who cares. we have a right to free speech. usually.

Nobody said she didn't have a right to make those comments. And obviously hartmann cares because he felt her comments were out of line.

i think discussing his kidney failure is just grazing the surface of things that could be said about rush limbaugh.

Like what? I'd bet the farm that you've never once listened to his radio show save for whatever 1-2 second clip that gets taken out of context that the media pastes for you.

[cmac]

Like what? I'd bet the farm that you've never once listened to his radio show save for whatever 1-2 second clip that gets taken out of context that the media pastes for you.

listened to him every weekday in lubbock and glenn beck too cause it was the only thing on talk radio. he has a lovely soothing radio voice.
you know what they say about assumptions though.

[The Fanatic]

I think the comments were inappropriate. Attack someone's policies not their personal health issues. Then again, Karma is a bitch.

[Spectatrix]

I think the comments were inappropriate. Attack someone's policies not their personal health issues.

Agreed.

[woody]

My God how many people will take the liberal media's twist on his statement and run with it? His exact statement said that "If Obama's policies are to socialize our country, then I want those policies to fail". That statement he made instantly brought headlines reading "RUSH WANTS OBAMA TO FAIL". And people like you who are friggin sheep and take everything they say as the golden truth don't even question it.

Wrong...

RUSH: I got a request here from a major American print publication. "Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency. We would love to include you. If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday night, that would be ideal." Now, we're caught in this trap again. The premise is, what is your "hope." My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance." Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed.

If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it.

Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated? Why do we have to play the game by their rules? Why do we have to accept the premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency, that we want him to succeed? This is affirmative action, if we do that. We want to promote failure, we want to promote incompetence, we want to stand by and not object to what he's doing simply because of the color of his skin? Sorry. I got past the historical nature of this months ago. He is the president of the United States, he's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me. We're talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids. Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it, four words, "I hope he fails." And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Shows you just how far gone we are. Well, I know, I know. I am the last man standing.
I'm happy to be the last man standing. I'm honored to be the last man standing. Yeah, I'm the true maverick. I can do more than four words. I could say I hope he fails and I could do a brief explanation of why. You know, I want to win. If my party doesn't, I do. If my party has sacrificed the whole concept of victory, sorry, I'm now the Republican in name only, and they are the sellouts. I'm serious about this. Why in the world, it's what Ann Coulter was talking about, the tyranny of the majority, all these victims here, we gotta make sure the victims are finally assuaged. Well, the dirty little secret is this isn't going to assuage anybody's victim status, and the race industry isn't going to go away, and the fact that America's original sin of slavery is going to be absolved, it's not going to happen. Just isn't, folks. It's too big a business for the left to keep all those things alive that divide the people of this country into groups that are against each other. Yes, I'm fired up about this.

Reasons number 249 and 50 why I'm not a Republican. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has been chosen to introduce Vice-President-elect Biden at a bipartisan dinner in Washington on the eve of the immaculation. Biden was one of Hagel's closest friends in the Senate. "Bipartisan dinners also held that night honoring McCain and Colin Powell. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina will introduce McCain at a dinner." So all these Republicans are being honored on the night before Obama is immaculately inaugurated, as though they're part of the Obama administration. Our presidential candidate is being honored. I can understand liberals honoring their losers, but I just -- (tearing up story)

transcript from his own site

From what i gathered, he said he hopes Obama fails & doesn't see why that's a bad thing to say considering no one on the left hoped GWB succeeded when he took office.

And the sheep who followed the headline...

got it from Rush himself...

damn near quoted

I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails."

[impala454]

That transcript is from someone already asking him about the original statement. Not the original statement itself. I was listening to his show when he originally said it. His original statement was like the day after the election. He's just running with it now, almost as a joke on the idiots in the media.

[THECHICKEN]

cmac: rush said he wants AMERICA to fail
Limbaugh: Wants OBAMA to fail

not same thing... i want Obama to fail... but thats because i WANT america to succeed.