White House: 9/11 no laughing matter

Sorry wingnuts, the 20th terrorist meme is going to stick. Druggy Rush is Bin Laden's pawn, creating 8 years of divisive misinformations which neutered our foreign, domestic and energy policies.

"I'm only an entertainer" was Rush's excuse to spread the Republican/Rove memo of the day, repeated by all of his co-conspirators on the air waves.

That whole bunch can be considered the "Faux Cell".

Cheney now deems Rush a better leader than Colin Powell. It's fitting, based on the fact that Cheney was actually running the Shrub Jr Puppet Show - that Clear Channel (Druggy Rush's employer) is equally as bankrupt as the GOP.

Boss Limbaugh is continuing what Bin Laden started, keeping things confused & unstable.

Typical Gibbs, an answer that doesn't answer the question at all.

Clearly, the president was entertained. He could have glared, instead, he giggled.

Past presidents -- the Reagans, Bushes and Clintons -- found self-deprecating humor to be safe and funny. Vitriolic references have no place in a White House function and only serve to embarrass the president who is served with the choice of being polite to a perpetrator like Sykes or doing the right thing and walking out.

It does NOT take a Republican to come to the conclusion that the Democrats, their ilk, and most of their supporters have literally lost their minds and grasp of reality. From an independents point of view, isn't this refreshing? I submit that it is, indeed.

Rush is a big boy.He should be able to handle,even thrive on any over the top comments made about him.

She is pretty whacked, they got the comedian that they booked.

Typical Gibbs, an answer that doesn't answer the question at all.

Posted by: Jeff | May 11, 2009 3:48 PM
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Clearly Gibbs should have taken his instruction from the Bush Administration, so conspicuous for their universally transparent, direct, honest and succinct answers to questions from the Press.

I don't know who books the guests.

I don't know who was flying Air Force One around New York.

Isn't it great to have an admninstration that knows so little?

So much for change.

Nothing is as obscene as Bush looking for the weapons of mass destruction (remember Phil Donohue's documentary?) and the audience roaring. What if the people in the audience had a family member killed by Bush's policy?

When a so-called comedienne like Ms. Sykes makes devisive remarks about a conservative the media applauds her right to free speech.
This is a repeat of the obscene remarks Whoppi Goldberg made regarding President Bush a little over four years ago.
But if a conservative said something controversial regarding President Obama the editorial pages, starting with the New York Times, would immediately condemn the remarks.

It does NOT take a Republican to come to the conclusion that the Democrats, their ilk, and most of their supporters have literally lost their minds and grasp of reality.

Posted by: therockofages | May 11, 2009 3:59 PM
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Really?, We're not the one's having Teabagger parties, you are.

I understand that it's difficult to admit to being a Republican nowadays but please, no one buying the "I'm an independent" schtik from you GOPer nuts anymore.

Sooo many people are laughing with Wanda and Barack.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Terrorism is a funny subject, isn't it?

Next thing, the White House will think about re-enacting a flyover of the 9/11 incident, this time using Air Force One--oh, wait...they've already done that...

and only serve to embarrass the president who is served with the choice of being polite to a perpetrator like Sykes or doing the right thing and walking out.

Posted by: Erica | May 11, 2009 3:49 PM
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So did you turn off your TV and walk away in disgust when Bush was joking about not finding WMD's?.....I didn't think so.

Next!

To Press Secretary Gibbs in response to who booked Sykes--Must have been the same guy who set up the Air Force One flyby in NYC or perhaps another incompetent person in this fiasco of an administration. The joke is on President Hussein and his continued lack of responsibility for his administrations gaffes as well as his own. As the saying goes, you can take someone out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the person. Oh, yeah, he never lived in a ghetto, he lived a priviledged life provided by his white Grandma. She just forgot to teach the man some class that he desparately lacks.

Instead he laughed when Sykes wished someone to have kidney failure. That's the change we wanted, and the return to class in the whitehouse right?

Wanda Sykes reminded us that the head of the Republican party is a drug addict who wants Obama to fail. I'm so glad she went after him!

As Gibbs correctly pointed out, the White House Correspondent's Association dinner is not a White house function.

Wanda Sykes getting hit by a bus or eaten by wild dogs? Now THAT would be funny!

But if a conservative said something controversial regarding President Obama the editorial pages, starting with the New York Times, would immediately condemn the remarks.

Posted by: Pat H | May 11, 2009 4:27 PM
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You Wingnut clowns have your own cable "news" outlet - Faux - and your fat drug addict leader (Rush) rules AM hate radio for you.

Quit Your Crying and Shut Up!

Wanda calls it as she sees it. If the person who booked her did not know her humor than that is the person you should be mad at...not Obama. She cracks me up! Maybe some don't like so much honest humor from a woman???

I don't think Wanda was harsh enough. But more than that, the very ones in the media who need to be doing something about Limbaugh and weepy little Seany Hannity and the misinformation that they spread have not stepped up to the plate to take these two idiots on. Or at least not without apologizing after they do it.

Too bad, it always has to be comedians who speak truth to power.

Wanda, you rock!

So, Wanda Sykes "calls it like she sees it"? Well, that's a problem. When the Boston Globe calls it like it sees it (remember the monkey cartoon), however, they're insensitive, racist, and worthy of an Al Sharpton sit-in. Double standard.

Thank God for Wanda!! It is about time somebody makes fun of that FAT RACIST PIG LIMBAUGH. He can dish it out but can he take iT???? How can you find his kidneys in all that FAT!!!! I agree ANY jokes of 911 are insensitive but of GORDO AND CHENEY GREEN LIGHT ALL THE WAY!!!!

A Rush quote from 1995.

"Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...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."

I don't give a damn about why the wingnuts think the dinner crossed some sort of line.

Their clown Republican president made jokes about not finding the weapons of mass destruction that were oh-so-imminent that he had to send thousands to die.

Their idiot Republican presidential team choreographed torture techniques in the White House.

These people do not get to decide what is funny or appropriate or classy. They just don't.

Oh no, someone made a joke about how Sarah Palin's abstinence-only education of her children has been a total epic fail. Yeah? And? Her knocked-up daughter is shilling for a pumps company with her talk of how regrettable it is that she has a son.

Oh no, someone made a joke about Rush Limbaugh being a junkie! Well, isn't that awfully classless, since he is, after all.....A JUNKIE!

Yeah, I really don't care what these people think. At all.

I don't know why people think Wanda Sykes is funny. In my eyes, she never has been. What would be funny is to lock up Sykes and Limbaugh in a room and let them have at each other. NBC is such a crappy network, that this would fit into their reality-show programming. Leno could referee.

OMG! Wanda Sykes is so funny! Rush Limnbaugh is a fat, pig and all you Bible toting, anti-semetic, Christian b.s. artists can stick it! DEMS RULE AND ARE TAKING OVER!

Wanda Sykes killed it on stage and had EVERYONE laughing, including the president. It's unfortunate that everyone has to be so politically correct with everything. I'm just glad Wanda is getting good publicity for doing a good job!

http://chicagoismynewblog.wordpress.com/

Hey Wanda, need some new material? How's this for a joke?

In the coming fiscal year President Barack Obama will outspend federal revenues by $1,800,000,000,000, shattering the previous deficit spending record by a factor of four and sending our weary creditors running for the hills, thereby forcing the fed to buy its own debt (aka, "print money") and send the country onto a path of permanent insolvency.

Not funny yet? Don't worry, here's the zinger:

Obama will diligently cut that deficit in HALF by the end of his term.

Get it?

It's fuzzy math! Quadruple the deficit, then halve it, and somehow conclude the result (still double Bush's worst deficit) is an improvement over what was "inherited" at the start of the administration.

Hilarious!

Wow, Sunny1, thanks for the lesson in bipartisanship.

You know what's really amazing - it's always the right wingers leading the charge that this country has become too "PC", that whenever Don Imus or whomever makes a joke that has racist or sexist overtones, everyone should just 'get over it'. But nooooooo, when one of their own gets skewered by a politically incorrect joke, they cry and whine like a bunch hypersensitive, immature babies....can you say HYPOCRITES!!!!!

Democrats are unpatriotic.

Great to see all these Republicans outraged about these comments, just like they were so outraged over all those similar comments from Ann Coulter!! You know, like how Tim McVeigh should've taken out the NYT offices, or how the 9/11 widows were exploiting their husbands' memories, or how Christians are trying to "perfect" the Jews!

****crickets*****

Oh well, it's great that she's a pariah among the right wing, shunned from Fox News and all the major right-wing events and vocally condemned by all the major right-wing politicians and personalities!

****crickets****

Spare us all the faux outrage, hypocrites...

I thought it was a pretty funny joke.

"Now let's see...I know those weapons of mass destruction are somewhere...(looking under Oval Office desk)"

At least this was a not-so-great comedienne cracking this kind of bad taste humor and not the President of the United States, who is responsible for thousands of flag-draped coffins because of his actions...

When the likes of people such as Wanda Sykes appear on stage to make classless remarks I wonder why any responsible person would invite
them to participate. So much for all the talk about Obama wanting to be a leader that unites the country.

Wanda Sykes? Yeah, that's who the Dems use for entertainment some ghetto hood comedian! Does the women even know how to speak English? Not really. Her comedy is ghetto and naturally only the poor and uneducated would find any humor in her tasteless humor.

The white house has become the new showtime at the Apollo!

I find it interesting that the Press did not report the hateful comments of people this mindless person didn't like. For a real report on this event and how our sophomoric president handled the comments in non-professional manner (there is legislature before congress that if passed and you were to say what Sykes said you would be marked as a possible terrorist) see link below. The President thought it was so funny he shared it with the person next to him. Never heard someone in the public eye as hateful as Sykes. Hollywood is getting less and less of my money all the time. Maybe none soon at this rate.

A full report is here;

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blo...

Too bad our president is a follower instead of a leader..........

I heard about this. Obama is a hypocrite.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3114544-i-married-a-spy-chapter-4

It's fuzzy math! Quadruple the deficit, then halve it, and somehow conclude the result (still double Bush's worst deficit) is an improvement over what was "inherited" at the start of the administration. Hilarious!

Posted by: Robert | May 11, 2009 8:09 PM
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Bobby,
Obama could spend the next four years straight spending and he still wouldn't come close to spending what your Republican heroes (BushCo) spent and they spent it on crap like a phony war in Iraq and tax cuts for the rich.

I laugh everytime Republicans like Bobby call themselves "fiscal conservatives":
http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/WindowsLiveWriter/FiscalConservative_14458/greenberg21_2.jpg

So, the Right-wingers want to censor comedy? What time is the book burning? I don't want to be late!!!

I have never heard of Wanda Sykes before and hope to never hear of her again. The fact that Pres "O" laughed at her comments is apalling. We are at a crossroads in American history and our new president is taking us down the wrong path. I don't know if we will ever recover from his actions. Republican or Democrat, please open your eyes and see what this "massiah" is leading us into. Hitler was a great speaker too. You may be sorry for what you have brought into being. I hope our children survive what he has already started to put into motion. Good Luck All!

I condemned the "joke" Mike Huckabee made during the campaign about someone taking a shot at Obama. In fact, I noted at the time that no one (Democrat or Republican) defended that "joke." I find it appalling that anyone would defend Ms. Sykes when she wished someone dead. In a civil society, it is never proper - let alone funny - to wish for the death of anyone. I have long noted how the "new tone" is nothing but more hate mongering that rivals that I've heard and abhorred on the right. So called progressives, listen: There is never, ever an excuse for wishing someone dead. That the President of the United States would laugh at this and encourage it is all the more disturbing.

I used to be a fan of Wanda Sykes, but the viciousness she displayed and her lack of any decorum turned me off.

I can't recall such an episode when the Republicans were running the show. I see nothing but hate. So much for bipartisanship and cooperation.

I think Sykes was just trying to be funny. Probabaly bad taste. I don't think there was any ill intent. Turn the page.

There is video shoing Obama laughing. He congratulated Sykes after her performance.

While I think there's absolutely nothing funny about wishing a US citizen dead for, essentially, having the temerity to disagree with an elected official, I found Obama's "joke" about the misguided Air Force one debacle even worse. He claimed to be "furious" about that idiotic stunt. Someone lost his job. (And in no way do I believe someone in the WH didn't approve of it. No way. You don't just get to take AF One up in the air for a ride without plenty of authorization.) And he treats it like a joke.

"I used to be a fan of Wanda Sykes, but the viciousness she displayed and her lack of any decorum turned me off."

Disgusted1, you're a phony. Any TRUE fan of Sykes' would be hip to her style of humor. It's always been acerbic, in fact, worse than what you're whining about. So stop trying to pull the wool over. No one believes--or cares about--anything coming from a party that referred to the President as a "Magic Negro," "terrorist," and "unAmerican."

Rush Limbaugh can lift his disgusting "Jabba the Hut" frame up and let all kind of filth pour from his hole and you say nothing. Someone actually responds to this insignificant waste of a human life then it's a big deal. Shut up.

Something, obviously is wrong with the whole picture of the President sitting down and being entertained with the type of comedy reserved for fools. Whoever found this Sykes for this occasion made a mistake. Basically, this unnecessary display of low-class banters tells the American people a lot of what kind of leadership we are under in right now. So sadly, where Democrats will take this nation to. Respect for one's country and a society's complete turnaround (as the insensitive comment on 911) has been made into a laughing stock. I never in my dreams would see this day, when my country have to listen to this kind of garbage. "Oh no, Mr. and Ms. Democrat... don't tell me it's simply for entertainment." There's many ways to that. You may go to your grandma and grandpa, and ask them if this is 'entertainment.' I bet you, their answer will surprise you.

I think what she said was so disrespectful to our President and far from funny. Making fun of Obama's white heritage or his mom and his kids grandmother was so distastful. Also, 911 wasn't funny and very upsetting to listen to her callous joke. But, if the president finds this funny, it only shows the integrity of this man. I, for one, would never disrespect him in this manner, calling it a joke, and I didn't even vote for him! We need to GROW up and be a country to be proud of, not embarrassed of. It is just like our so called news, now that's a joke!

"Basically, this unnecessary display of low-class banters tells the American people a lot of what kind of leadership we are under in right now. So sadly, where Democrats will take this nation to. Respect for one's country and a society's complete turnaround (as the insensitive comment on 911) has been made into a laughing stock."

Oh and Bush didn't joke about weapons of mass destruction? Wasn't he looking under the table for them and poking fun at the fact that none had been discovered? Odd you didn't find that as offensive. The entire reason the nation went to war was because of these alleged weapons and yet Bush was joking about the fact that none were ever found. Were you equally as bothered by that, Eva?

Wanda is a comedian, she was ans is so funny. Rush speaks and people don't think entertainment, they take his words and they become political positions, hoping the President fails has become a GOP position and I too hope that b4 Obama fail, Rush's kidney's would!

Wanda is a funny comedian.If Rush can dish it out,he should receive it.I hope he continues as the poster boy for the billionaire club (he knows where his BREAD is BUTTERED) and leads them into future elections oblivion.

Yeah, I hope wonderful Wanda's kids' kidneys fail - what a laugh riot that would be!

The first official act of the Obama Administration was to put another black family in government housing. Ha ha ha...
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What? Not funny? Why not? It was only a joke about the Obama's and NOT about an entire race. You know, like Wanda's joke was about Rush and NOT about 9/11.