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What was Wanda Sykes thinking? Perhaps more to the point, what was President Barack Obama thinking when he laughed and smiled as the comedienne wished Rush Limbaugh dead?
I was at the dinner and I began by laughing at Sykes's gentle teases about the press loving Obama so much they never capture him on film smoking but often seem to get him on the beach.
She then concluded: "Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs." Obama seemed to think this bit was pretty hilarious, grinning and chuckling and turning to share the "joke" with the person sitting on his right.
There's not much room for differing interpretations of what Sykes said. She called Limbaugh a terrorist and a traitor, suggested that he be tortured and wished him dead.
What was his crime? Hoping that Obama's policies - which he views as socialist - will fail.
That's way, way beyond reasoned debate or comedy and Obama's reaction to it was astonishing.
The major network news this AM reported that Obama and wife reacted with mild distaste at the joke. I was pretty surprised that it was one of their lead stories this AM.
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I was surprised that it would be one of the lead stories. - Had not previously heard that Obama was getting crrrap for his reaction so didn't know why it would be such a big issue that it would be a leading story.
Sounds like you are saying I "fell for it" and no big surpise that I fell for it. Wrong.
My point of the post was to show how the media paints their pictures and makes the world what they want it to be.
Imagine that - laughing at wishing someone dead, calling them a traitor and a terrorist. All because the guy hopes his liberal policies will fail and the America we all know and love will survive his disaster of a presidency.
So much for his rhetoric of a new kind of politics.
Imagine that - laughing at wishing someone dead, calling them a traitor and a terrorist. All because the guy hopes his liberal policies will fail and the America we all know and love will survive his disaster of a presidency.
So much for his rhetoric of a new kind of politics.
Do you ever think before you talk? Seriously. How is a presidency that is not even 5 months in a disaster already. It isn't you speaking, it is the right wing crazy as a lune bs Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannities that brainwash you.
to the obamedia, 'mild distaste' in reality equals 'guffawed 1 decibel less loudly than he did at the previous joke.'
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