Digby: Wanda Sykes' Limbaugh jokes give media people the vapors

[BurtWorm]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/smelling-salt-alert-by-digby-are-we.html


Smelling Salt Alert

by digby

Are we really going to have a hissy fit about Wanda Sykes making crude jokes about the fatuous gasbag now? Really? It's inappropriate now for someone to joke about Limbaugh being the 20th highjacker? The guy who called the majority leader "Mullah Daschle?" Who called Obama, "Osama" about 7,320 times? Even Keith Olbermann is wagging his finger over this --- the guy who names Limbaugh the worst person in the world virtually every night.

According to Keith, the problem isn't so much what she said, it's that she said it at the White House Correspondents dinner which is an inappropriate venue. These are very sensitive, important people, you know, and it's rude to be rude in front of them. It embarrasses the poor souls to have someone make crude jokes about the crudest, most despicable man in politics. Why that should be, I do not know.

But Pat Buchanan gets to the heart of it: it was mean to the Republican Party. Attacking Limbaugh was attacking Republicans everywhere according to him. He wasn't even there but he is the head of the GOP and And no matter what swill he puts out on his radio show to millions of people every single day, that just isn't done.

They should just get rid of these stupid events. Every year the press corps demonstrates what idiots they are. They get huffy when the joke's aimed at them, they think it's hilarious when it is crudely personal and aimed directly at the first lady, they laugh uproariously when the president jokes about not finding weapons of mass destruction but get the vapors when somebody takes aim at Rush Limbaugh. Really, it's just too ridiculous.

[butterfly77]

1. KICK! and recommended...

[edbermac]

2. Didn't Rush refer to Chelsea Clinton as the White House dog?

Boo-hoo-hoo...poor Rush...:cry:

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Or, make WHC dinner stand for Whiny Hypocritical Corporateshill Dinner.

NT

[islandmkl]

4. i thought Keith was taking an easy way out last night...a surprising way out, actually...

KO was yukking it up the time (or two) he was on camera Saturday night...

i guess he chose to take a 'safe' time to demonstrate that he is 'not partisan'...

it seems like he could just as easily dismissed Wanda's rant(s) as the 'humor they paid for'...and possibly relayed some of oxyboy's more notorious rants for relevance...

even KO is part of 'the gang' collected in that room...and he is only on due to GE what?...trying to find a way to catch Faux...they catch up, even make any inroads, they make $$$$....

on edit: KO is my favorite, has been for a while....Ed is catching up, for me, and quickly...and Rachel is merely the smartest one in the room (i think they should put her on before KO, instead of Tweety rerun and put Ed on after KO)...

[Cha]

5. I totally disagree with KO on this

and love digby's view.

I love it even more now that I've read buchanan's whine.

"They should just get rid of these stupid events. Every year the press corps demonstrates what idiots they are. They get huffy when the joke's aimed at them, they think it's hilarious when it is crudely personal and aimed directly at the first lady, they laugh uproariously when the president jokes about not finding weapons of mass destruction but get the vapors when somebody takes aim at Rush Limbaugh. Really, it's just too ridiculous."

Did Keith bring up the WMD that they laughed at when bush was jokin' about the war?

Fuck limpbaugh.

[asjr]

6. I thought it unwise of Keith O. to make a remark

along the lines he did because usually he is right on. Is he trying to be a kingmaker?

[Goblinmonger]

7. Lewis Black does a GREAT bit about his stint at this dinner

and how you can't offend these people and their delicate sensibilities.

[DCKit]

8. Shoot, and I was so looking forward to seeing David Gregory and his trick poodles...

in black-face doing a tap routine (timely, eh?) or juggling chainsaws. After his whatever-the-fuck-that-was with MC Kkkarl, the follow-up would have to be spectacular.

You just don't get that quality of entertainment in a regular venue.

[opihimoimoi]

9. No Solutions, No Fresh Ideas, no Concepts, only nit picking MOOT Level Crap

and they wonder why peeps don't listen to them...

Wanda was GREAT

[snot]

10. Actually, the event and reactions thereto help gage current levels of hypocrisy.

[my2sense]

11. K&R - I thought Wanda went pretty easy on them

it could have been MUCH worse and it would have been well deserved.

[nashville_brook]

12. so, KO, who took gratuitous potshots at Britney Spears every night during her breakdown, is now the

arbitor of good taste and decency.

good to know.

[Wednesdays]

13. K&R

:kick:

[mzmolly]

14. "Are we really going to have a hissy fit about Wanda Sykes making crude jokes about the fatuous

gasbag now?"

:rofl:

Great stuff BurtWorm. :hi:

Edited to add, glad to give you rec # 33!

[ProfessorPlum]

15. I'll K&R anything written by the great Digby

especially something I completely agree with.

[goclark]

16. Me too