Wanda Sykes: Limbaugh Had It Coming; Still Loves Prez Who Opposes Same-Sex Marriage

At this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Wanda Sykes labeled Rush Limbaugh a terrorist and “joked” about her desire to see his kidneys fail. Not only does she not regret wishing the talk show host dead, in an interview with Metro Weekly (via: NewsBusters) she says in so many words that Limbaugh started it:

METRO WEEKLY: Do you ever worry about stepping out of bounds, about doing a joke that’s gone too far?

SYKES:I don’t worry about it. My barometer is that I don’t want to be mean spirited – just to attack someone for the sake of doing it. If you started it, I have a right to go after you. If you did something, I can go after you. But I want it to be about what you did and not just a personal attack or something.

MW: Which is where Rush Limbaugh comes in. You leveled several vicious – and I would agree in his case completely earned – jokes in his direction at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. You got some flak in the press for it. Looking back, do you regret saying those things about Limbaugh? (more…)

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Tags: "teabagging", gay marriage, Obama, teabaggers, Wanda Sykes
Posted Aug 22nd 2009 at 1:07 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 20989073 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/08/22/wanda-sykes-limbaugh-had-it-coming-still-loves-prez-who-opposes-same-sex-marriage/Wanda+Sykes%3A+Limbaugh+Had+It+Coming%3B+Still+Loves+Prez+Who+Opposes+Same-Sex+Marriage2009-08-22+20%3A07%3A56John+Nolte

News Media: Stop Digging

The first rule of getting out of a hole you have dug yourself into is to stop digging.  But at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday, they handed out shovels at the door.

Let’s review the state of American journalism.  Newspapers are teetering on the edge of collapse, with a savvy investor sooner scooping up a handful of Chrysler common stock then pumping cash into the Boston Globe.  The New York Times’ stock is so toxic it can only be stored inside the Yucca Mountain repository, and I can’t drive by the Los Angeles Times building without some laid-off lifestyle columnist offering to wash my windshield for a buck.  Some newspapers have gone entirely on-line, making them not even newspapers at all.  (more…)

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Tags: Boston Globe, CBS News, Dan rather, Los Angeles Times, media
Posted May 18th 2009 at 6:39 am in Media Criticism, News | 1315103 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/05/18/news-media-stop-digging/News+Media%3A+Stop+Digging2009-05-18+13%3A39%3A26Kurt+Schlichter

Daily Gut: Wanda Sykes

So the White House Correspondents Dinner came and went, and once again your charming host was not invited. No matter – I had other plans – that pint of Ben and Jerry’s wasn’t going to climb into bed and eat itself, as I quietly sob to the final season of Men in Trees (I had pressed my paisley shorty robe for just the occasion).

Anyway, it appears the press is making much of Wanda Sykes – which is hilarious, because she performed the way you’d expect her to perform. And that makes me think that these reports of outrage were written before the outrage actually registered. I mean – the room was packed with reporters, and Sykes made jokes about conservatives. The stories about angry conservatives are like a model airplane kit – all the parts were there, just glue them together. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Maher, Gay humor, gay marriage, Obama, Rush Limbaugh
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Note to Wanda: Obama and Limbaugh Agree on Same-Sex Marriage

Wanda Sykes has decided to be the latest celebrity to cross the line from comedy into hate speech. Her refusal to let other leftists have all the fun without any social consequences has led her to embrace Ideological Bigotry.

At the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Ms. Sykes decided to lob verbal grenades at Rush Limbaugh. The leftist ideological bigots that make up much of the mainstream media will offer pathetic and predictable defenses. Inevitable choruses of “she was just making jokes,” and “Rush can dish it out, but he can’t take it” will try to drown out the truth.

This cannot be allowed to happen. (more…)

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Tags: Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Wanda Sykes, White House Correspondents' Dinner
Posted May 11th 2009 at 10:07 am in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Politics | 1316626 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/egolub/2009/05/11/wanda-sykes-may-her-vocal-chords-fail/Note+to+Wanda%3A+Obama+and+Limbaugh+Agree+on+Same-Sex+Marriage2009-05-11+17%3A07%3A03Eric+Golub

Grading the Comedian in Chief

Barack Obama is getting ready for his next career. The other night in he was the opening act for comedian Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents dinner. Soon he could be featuring at Funny Bones across America. It was interesting to watch a room full for allegedly unbiased journalists cheer for the President. It was obvious that their enthusiasm was not for the semi-flat jokes at times but for the underlying left wing politics.

The economy must be worse that the administration is letting on. I saw Warren Buffet and Richard Belzer in the house. Who are they writing for these days? In both the President’s and Wanda’s sets there seemed to be a lack of jokes about the administration. Since I have a few years of experience at stand-up and teaching comedy writing at undisclosed locations I thought might give a review of his work and offer some suggestions. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, comedy writing, Richard Belzer, Wanda Sykes, Warren Buffet
Posted May 11th 2009 at 8:34 am in Political Humor, Politics | 131698One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/05/11/barack-the-obamidian/Grading+the+Comedian+in+Chief2009-05-11+15%3A34%3A37Jeffrey+Jena

Wanda Sykes’ Gutless Performance

Hollywood’s favorite phrase is “speaking truth to power.”  It charts just above “She/he is the love of my life,” “Though we’re not together anymore, we’ll remain good friends,” and “Hey, where did I leave my underwear?”

Hollywood slings around the phrase “speaking truth to power” as if it were cocaine at a Sean Penn movie premiere party.  And they particularly love slinging it around at the time of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

A couple years ago, Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central was the beneficiary of the “speaking truth to power” Hollywood press machine.  He headlined the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner, and laid ‘em in the aisles with brilliant lines like, “Over the last five years, you people were so good-over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn’t want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. … And then you write, Oh, they’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!”  (more…)

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Posted May 11th 2009 at 4:41 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 13156215 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/05/11/wanda-sykes-gutless-performance/Wanda+Sykes%27+Gutless+Performance2009-05-11+11%3A41%3A23Ben+Shapiro