She’s dead.
No? Nothing?
How about: You know, I heard Obama was the 20th hijacker but missed his flight because Larry Sinclair just “couldn’t seem to finish.”
What? Too much? You know you’re laughing in your head.
Let me tell you something I’ve observed in comedy. When a comedian follows a harsh joke with a comment about going too far, it is normally because it’s being delivered into an awkward quiet, marked by scattered nervous laughs. You know, the kind of quiet that happens when you make a joke about Obama. The kind of quiet that says “can he … do they … is that allowed?!”
It is also true that normally, when a comedian follows a joke with such a comment, it’s because the comedian expected or intended that awkward silence. And when Wanda Sykes, this weekend, joked that she thinks “Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight,” she obviously expected that discomfort. But as anyone who saw the video knows, the audience didn’t deliver.
Sure there was some groaning, but there was raucous laughter as well. And what do you expect? The courtiers and courtesans know when to laugh and when not to by viewing their king’s reaction. And the king was indeed amused. Wanda Sykes did what a million comedians before her have done: she made a joke that was intended to be “too far” so she could follow up with the “you’re laughing in your head” comment. It’s a bit. It seems, though, Obama has no “too far” for Limbaugh nor even, it seems, joking about 9-11.
In fact “there is no too far” should have been the theme of the evening. How many celebrities and secondary balls and galas is too far? When you have a red carpet to make the Oscars blush and a constellation of after-parties and “galas” that would put Marie Antoinette to shame, is that too far?
How about ego? If you take what is traditionally a roast of the President and pals, and instead turn it into a roast of the prior President and pals, is that too far? When you not only presume to be above a roasting, but cast your haughty gaze about your sea of adoring glitterati and expect them to agree; When sycophantic comedians use their roast time to lavish you with praise while attacking your favorite bad guys like your own personal attack dog, is that too far?
What about the media? Is the gushing coverage of the President’s bash at last a reason to question their objectivity? That they gloss over “Limbaugh is a terrorist” jokes that would have seen someone stoned to death had they been about a democrat; that they report the event like Teen Beat fans given backstage passes to the Jonas Brothers … is that not too far?
But of course, none of these will be considered too far. For the left, in this game of political struggle, the embrace of Machiavelli is total. Or let us say Alinksy. And there is no outcry, no pushback (yet) in the public at large.
Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann conjecture that conservatives are suffering brain disfunction and there is nary a peep. But Michael Savage titled a book “Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder” and is banned from Britain, to the cheers of the American left.
They call Tea Party protesters racists by rote. The Huffington Post paints the Tea Partiers as scary and dangerous despite their long silence over the left’s destructive protests. Will the hypocrisy be noted on a Sunday morning talk show? Is there any assault too far? No.
The President and all the king’s men have set this new tone quite effectively. It is common and unexciting to sound the death knell of conservatives and Republicans. There is no shame in rejoicing and shouting good riddance to political diversity or the two party system. Far from it, there are galas and celebrity hugging to be had in such triumphalism, for it’s the President’s stock in trade. From bashing Rush via the bully pulpit to pretending the Tea Party protesters don’t even exist; from “I Won” to grinning regally when kept comedians obsequiously do his bidding. This is his new tone.
And it’s a new tone that isn’t that new. It is the roaring left, seeking whom they may devour. It is who they have been for some time now, and he is one of them. The One of them. Perhaps not always in practice or policy, but in spirit and in tone.
Like everything the President does, this weekend’s dinner was focused on three things. 1. Extreme partisan rancor. 2. Hollywood glitz. 3. Glory to The One. These are the items exemplary of this administration. Like on spending, porkulus and expansion of government, like with ego and partisan hate, like in every non-gift-giving activity Obama undertakes, excess is the rule. The sum of his strategy is what will no doubt be the theme of his legacy: Too Far.
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No more Mr. New-tone.....
speciallist (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:48AM EST (link)I like…
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Erick Erickson (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:48AM EST (link)n/t
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5! Very well said.
randy streu (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:49AM EST (link)Sadly, if anything comes out of this, it will be that these little press galas are OTR from here on out.
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Our last President fought those who supported the 9/11 hijackers
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:50AM EST (link)Our current President find it so funny to joke about the 9/11 hijackers.
Yeah. And people wonder why there are rumors.
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She didn't try to eat him???? nt
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:57AM EST (link)55555 - nothing more to add! nt
Achance (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:58AM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
Awesome...5∞....nt
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:59AM EST (link)conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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Joe Cor (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:00PM EST (link)decide enough is enough, and combat the President’s, and his cronies, shameful insults, snears and personal attacks with a simple enunciation of the truth?
Whatws that line from Animal Farm...
larryp Monday, May 11th at 12:02PM EST (link)“all pigs are equal but some are more equal than others”?
All animals are equal
ceili_dancer (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 12:29AM EST (link)7th Commandment, Sorry to get all trekkie or LOTR or whatever geek reflex that comes to mind. Then in chapter 10 it’s turns into, “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
Yes indeed. Excellent posting!!
USNJIMRET (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:04PM EST (link)But one has to wonder, where is the outrage on the right?
Will it be confined to sites such as this, ones the left and, by default, the Administration marginalizes and all but ignores?
“To far”????
Not something the left acknowledges even exists, unless it is someone on the right even continuing to breath.
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E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:05PM EST (link)Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Hey EPU....
jdub19 Monday, May 11th at 12:27PM EST (link)Happy Birthday dude!!!! old farts have to stick together!!!
” Got to love the Lord for making things like that.”
Morally Compromised
Thanks John!
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 6:30PM EST (link)And you need to be checking your email. Look for something in the last month with ‘EPU’ in the subject line.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
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Totally AWESOME!!!!....nt
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You Mean New Tone Didn't Work? Zounds!
streetwise (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:25PM EST (link):>)
Great commentary, Caleb!
azaeroprof (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:33PM EST (link)I like the one:
Q: What’s the difference between Obama and cocaine?
A: They both hang around the White House, but Obama doesn’t have to hide in Malia’s teddy bear.
(crickets)
‘Can he SAY that??’
I love that one.
itrytobenice (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:38PM EST (link)It’s too bad there isn’t anything about BO to joke about or some late night comic would be able to think of something like that.
But he’s just too smart and successful to be funny.
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Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Speaking of Obama & drugs,
blooch Monday, May 11th at 1:09PM EST (link)I heard one today about Obama raising taxes on aspirin, but that’s all I’m going to say about that…might offend the fish called Wanda.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Good Observation Caleb...how bout this one
cump Tuesday, May 12th at 9:54AM EST (link)Hope this isn’t an ‘old’ joke on Red State, I just heard it:
A few years back, it was said when a black man becomes President pigs will fly. Well, after only 100 days into Obama’s term….Swine Flu!!!!
Just my opinion on this, so take it for what it's worth, cump...
randy streu (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 10:00AM EST (link)I’ve heard the joke, but I don’t think it’s “old” here at RS. The reason for that is, as much as we don’t much take to that “political correctness” BS around here, that joke IS, in fact, borderline racist. (Yes, it can be argued that it isn’t actually racist, and I would argue that it isn’t — but it does step near the line, hence “borderline”).
More, though, THE party that has always made an issue of Obama’s race is the Democrat party. We at RedState have always stayed away from it, because it DOES NOT MATTER to anyone but Democrats, which is why it’s mentioned only in context of what some liberal idiot said. I see no good reason to go into race speech here in any other context, including humor.
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cump Tuesday, May 12th at 10:18AM EST (link)Yes, I can see where one may see this joke ‘stradles the line’ of racism, however, it was not meant to inflame any passions of racism. If it offends anyone, then please accept my apology, I have used the joke in mixed crowds and received no negatives. Mixed can be defined as multiple races, and sexes.
However, in light of this kind of statement of only a few years ago (when pigs fly)….and the current election of a multi-raced person to the Presidency…(I think the majority of America has determined that racism is not the problem it once was, and have made significant strides to eliminate it)…. And with the current swine flu issue (and the jokes of pigs in the campaign-both sides) it is current.
Again, no deparaging was intended, unlike the latest attempts at humor from this weekends dinner, or possible racial slights in the upcoming SCOTUS opening.
So this is what post-partisanship looks like.
itrytobenice (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:40PM EST (link)I wondered.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
And of course...
itrytobenice (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:42PM EST (link)What I meant by that is that the politicians, the glitterati, and the media can remove their masks and show themselves to be on the same team. We knew it all along, but they made some effort to lie about it.
Your diary is excellent, Caleb. Dugg.
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Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Huzzah, Caleb!!!!! Now then, everybody, what will we say when they come for him?
janis (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:47PM EST (link)We will all stand up and say “I AM CALEB!”
Are you with me?
So Sykes isn't over the line, but Feherty is?
tcolegrove (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:48PM EST (link)From Foxsnews.com
Feherty, one of the most popular golf analysts for his sharp wit and self-deprecating humor, was among five Dallas residents who wrote for “D Magazine” on former President George W. Bush moving to Dallas.
“From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though,” Feherty wrote toward the end of his column.
“Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”
CBS Sports distanced itself from Feherty’s writing, saying it was “an unacceptable attempt at humor and is not in any way condoned, endorsed or approved” by the network. The PGA Tour also criticized him for an attempt at humor that “went over the line.”
No Flipper!!!
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:55PM EST (link)Just flipped Fox on a few minutes ago… the President’s on TV (again) and we’re gonna miss flipper!
Is there any way of getting this narcissistic camera whore off TV for longer than the weekend? Anything where the solution doesn’t include the three twits in the line of succession? Every firrikinin’ day this guy has to be in front of the camera telling us has he’s gonna help, well help destroy America etc…
sigh…
/grumble
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
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It's about desensitization of the public
civil truth (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:57PM EST (link)It’s a key step in the ultimate aim to dehumanize the right so that civil rights and liberties no longer pertain – and that camps and liquidation will be just rewards for enemies of the state. The attitude that led the Nazi elite to make lampshades from the flesh of concentration camp victims – because they were inferior.
This is always the outcome of totalitarians – not necessarily specifically expressed in the racial lunacy of the Nazis – but always ending in the rejection of individual integrity and viewing individuals are simply the property of the State and those who run it, putty in their hands, lower than the animals,
But when these Washington “beautiful people” who give obeisance to the new power in Washington view the face fo true evil which they midwifed, they will have no recourse – their tongues will cleave to their mouths before they suffer the fate of those they depised – and most will have no clue as to what went wrong because they possess no moral substance.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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Okay, now that one gave me some uncomfortable goosebumps.
janis (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 1:03PM EST (link)It’s hard not to see that what’s going on is positively biblical in nature and scope. What’s hard to believe is that more don’t see what is happening and start screaming to stop it. I will be very interested in how the Tea Parties are looking by July 4th. And I’m extremely grateful the the swine flu tanked bigtime, because I was sure that would be the impetus for not allowing large public gatherings by then.
It is a concentrated campaign to create a Weberian "Other"
Achance (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 1:44PM EST (link)that isn’t a member of the group and isn’t really human; the next step is then whatever they want it to be. I’m always impressed by the fact that Nazi Germany was far and away the most democratic country in WWII and that most of the things the Nazis did were perfectly legal under German law. The phrase, “the healthy opinion of the volk” figures prominently in court cases from those days.
In Vino Veritas
In Germany the truth was suppressed
David123 (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 12:00AM EST (link)Here, the truth is not suppressed – anyone can find out the truth. But someone who doesn’t dig may not learn it – or they won’t have the background knowlege to understand it. Pop culture and today’s common knowledge don’t give Americans the truth.
The left and the MSM harping on casualties in Iraq comes to mind – if you know about Anzio, Tarawa, D-Day, or especially Antietam Creek, you know that our casualties in Iraq have been quite low. But how many Americans know about those other battles?
The best propaganda isn’t lies, it’s the truth – but the truth with wrong emphasis or wrong context.
A bad 8 years under Bush is better than:
a bad 8 hours under Lincoln
a bad 8 days under Roosevelt
a bad 8 weeks under Wilson
a bad 8 months under Johnson or Truman
… and uncomfortably close to being much better than a bad 8 seconds under Kennedy.
David123
I think that may be part of the goal for NTA
ceili_dancer (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 12:34AM EST (link)The teachers union may be there to leech more money from our wallets, but the intellectual laziness form them does the next generation a major disservice.
Did you hear this one?
Crippy (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 1:03PM EST (link)What happened when Nanci Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama Bin Laden, and a U.S. Marine with two shots left in his rifle got on an elevator? Pelosi got shot twice, and Reid and Bin Laden were strangled.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/10/golf-analyst-feherty-sorry-pelosi-joke-dallas-magazine/
-Crippy’s World
Yeah, amazing that's outrageous to the left
Erick Brockway (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:11PM EST (link)Of course Feherty HAS to apoligize, think Sykes will be even ASKED to by the left? Heck no!
No double standard here.
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Variation on a lawyer joke
Lammo (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 1:17PM EST (link)You’re in a room with a rabid tiger, a hungry lion and a lawyer. You have a gun with two bullets. What do you do?
Shoot the lawyer. Twice.
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)
Two jokes - simular theme but different reactions
Michael M. Keohane (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 1:22PM EST (link)When Bush 41 was in office, there was a joke going around that, if anything hapened to Bush, the Secret Service was under orders to shoot Quayle. There is another joke going around this time that says, if anything happens to Obama, the Secret Service has orders to shoot Biden and Pelosi. The Quayle joke was considered funny but I doubt that the Biden/Pelosi joke would be considered equally funny.
Do not classify the words or deeds of your opponents as being hatefull, malicious or criminal in nature if they can also be easily characterized as simple ignorance or gross stupidity. Anon.
remember how funny
voc_55@yahoo.com Tuesday, May 12th at 11:46AM EST (link)g w bush was at the 2004 correspondence dinner? when he was showing a photo of him looking out a window, saying “those weapons of mass distruction have to be here somewhere…” much laughter ensued. then he followed that by looking under his desk. “nope. no weapons over there.” more hilarity. then another picture of bush searching his office. “maybe under here.” genius, i tell you. making light of the phony claims to get us involved in a phony war. how many troops died laughing at this, as opposed to dying in battle?
you people here are sick. now you’ve dickhead cheney suddenly sprouting up all over the place, with his vast knowledge of ‘facts’. there was a time when he refused to be interviewed at all, much less answer questions with any more than ‘i don’t read newspapers….’, ‘i don’t look at the polls….” now what? suddenly he’s learned to read. what a sick evil puddle of poop he is.
remember how funny
voc_55@yahoo.com Tuesday, May 12th at 11:46AM EST (link)Wet Cleanup on Aisle 5, we have an idiot running loose. nt
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 11:49AM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
His mom sent him out for his Huggies.
blooch Tuesday, May 12th at 12:05PM EST (link)She’s tired of that smell in the basement from his kidney problem. Better see a pediatrician, jrboo. Could be serious.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
WMD Handy refererence...direct Pouters to this old-school RS 2.0
speciallist (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 12:11PM EST (link)http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/speciallist/2008/may/29/quotes_that_kill_or_the_definitive_bush_lied_people_died_smackdown
rrefeerrreerencer...
speciallist (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 12:12PM EST (link)lol
You CANNOT joke about Obama because...
Paul_In_Houston Monday, May 11th at 1:52PM EST (link)He doesn’t really seem to have a trace of a sense of humor.
Malignant narcissism can make one so full of himself there simply is no room for one. As a result, he takes himself FAR too seriously, and if YOU don’t take him equally as seriously, you may be an enemy he must do something about.
Of all his failings and shortcoming, THIS may actually be one of the most dangerous.
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Exactly so, as I noted on a different thread
civil truth (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 2:39PM EST (link)(after the first couple of paragraphs) including a remarkably excerpt from C.S. Lews that sums it all up http://www.redstate.com/librick/2009/05/10/redstate-a-liberal-report-card/#comment-130.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Visualize that timid, bespectacled student
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 11:58AM EST (link)who became the cold-blooded Red Army general ravaging the countryside from his armored train in Dr. Zhivago. That is the personality that underlies that suave, smooth surface and he shares that personality with most committed communists.
In Vino Veritas
Try reading THIS...
Paul_In_Houston Monday, May 11th at 2:18PM EST (link)with a straight face:
Letterman writer: Obama ‘too competent’ to make jokes about
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Tried, couldn't do it
Erick Brockway (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:13PM EST (link)I “verped” uncontrollably.
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I'm not fooled, Sykes is a man.
johnt Monday, May 11th at 3:49PM EST (link)Either that or the ugliest woman this side of, wait, let me try and pick from thousands of ugly Democratic women.
The least Obama could have done is covered Sykes head with a cabbage, he really does have a mean streak. She does look like Bill Cosby though.
In any case I think Sykes, whatever it is, is confusing Limbaugh with Michael Moore. Now that’s a little more realistic, and we know how Moore was received by Dem big shots.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
The difference
hoosierteacher (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 5:19PM EST (link)When I saw Pesident Bush at a WH Correspondents Dinner, he was making jokes at his own expense. Jokes about his speaking disorder, jokes about not being able to find the WMDs, etc. It was funny, and he was a class act.
In the Obama era, jokes are at the expense of others. They are hateful, mock a man for being addicted to a prescription medication, and wishing death on someone. That’s not humor at all. And I’m not being partisan on this either. I was equally upset when Bill and Hillary Clinton (no friends of mine) were humiliated by Don Imus with jokes about interns under the desk. It was tasteless behavior in front of a president (no matter how immoral the president may have been).
I’ve never heard of this Sykes woman. Makes sense. She has no talent, other than being repugnant on a grand scale.
Shame on the president for laughing too. He had a chance to show some class, and blew it.
“Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep” – Defoe
You can't show it if you don't have it. n/t
janis (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 5:58PM EST (link).
hear Obama is looking for a Presidential Physican....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 6:30PM EST (link)I also hear Jack Kevorkian submitted his resume…zingggggggg!
What is the difference between Obama and Ayers? Obama uses the Congress and DOJ to kill the cops!
How have Democrats picked up so many seats in recent elections as well as the White House…..because there is a sucker born every minute!
If Sykes wants to call I can give her jokes about Obama all day long…it is so much MORE fun to make fun of the leader of the FREE WORLD ( however long that lasts)….she isn’t trying hard enough!
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Obama is like breast implants....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 6:33PM EST (link)sure they seem good but they are FAKE!
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LOL Jaded!
mom2oneson (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 6:37PM EST (link)One put in they can disable the primary function of breasts too!!
Obama promised to 95 percent of the American people a tax cut....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 6:41PM EST (link)no job, no income, no taxes…promised kept!
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Why won't Obama release his birth certificate?
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 6:55PM EST (link)because the ink isn’t dry yet….
See how easy that is Sykes, Letterman and all you former comics….because not a one of you is funny ANYMORE because your liberalism will not only be the death of a FREE ECONOMY it will be the death of your livlihood…YOU ARE NO LONGER FUNNY….here’s your sign you all are through!
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This is excellent on several levels.
redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 7:03PM EST (link)Rare for something so entertaining to be equally thought-provoking. Dictators great and small also have a penchant for too far. Are incidents like this markers that will start to wake people up? I still believe that most Americans are decent people, so we shall see.
Caleb, this is stellar work!!
Susannah (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 9:28PM EST (link)Take a bow. Awesome job!
Great article
wellsy (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 9:39PM EST (link)The event, which I wisely steered clear of, smacks more of self-aggrandizement than self-deprecation. The joke that really went down sour for me was the “All you voted for me” line to the press, which they thought was hilarious. Yes, a forfeiture of your ethical duty and an end to journalistic integrity is pretty knee-slapping, isn’t it?
Did you notice the "king's" note of condescension?
penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 10:22AM EST (link)I wonder if any of the sycophants recognized this? I think he was actually laughing at them, his servile minions!
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When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills
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blooch Tuesday, May 12th at 10:38AM EST (link)That was no joke. It was a statement of fact and a little reminder. Journos voluntarily participate in the pilot program for Card Check…kind of a loyalty oath for them.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
The Real Haters Are.......
avgamerican (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 9:45PM EST (link)the ones in favor of hate speech legislation.