Wanda Sykes is as classless as it gets. She has no idea what is appropriate and what isn’t. She mentions treason and then goes on to call Rush Limbaugh the 20th hijacker. And she doesn’t stop there. She says she hopes his kidneys fail.
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Here’s CNN’s Johnk King, Donna Brazile and Bill Bennett.
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Spineless Donna Brazile says she’s gonna leave it alone. Bennett’s pissed but doesn’t get to go off because wimpy John King goes to commercial – without weighing in himself.
KING: Well, let me turn your subject to another person who told a joke at last night’s event. I don’t know if we have it to play. I hope we do in a second. But the president was very funny. Poked fun at himself, poked a little fun at John Boehner, a little fun at the Republicans, a little fun at us in the news media.
Wanda Sykes came on next, she was giving a very funny routine. Then she said something about Rush Limbaugh, we’ve talked a little about it, that many thought crossed the line. Because Rush is on record saying he thinks Obama is way left of center, socialist policies and that he wants that to fail, criticized for it even by some Republicans. But what Wanda Sykes last night said rolled some eyes. Let’s listen. She compared Rush Limbaugh to the 20th hijacker.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
WANDA SYKES, COMEDIAN: The me that’s treason. He’s not saying anything differently other than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You might want to look into this. I think may be Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
[Kind of says it all that they didn't even play the full clip.]
KING: You two politely debate the issues here all the time. You both always say let’s not keep it personal. Rush is fair game. He’s in this debate. He pokes fun at people. Was that over the line?
BRAZILE: No. It was funny. She thought it was funny. Some people thought it was funny. Some people did not think it was funny. So, I’m not going to debate whether or not a comedian said something over the line. She’ll be criticizing me tomorrow. I’m leaving it alone.
BENNETT: Way over the line. I hope he fails was the next line, I hope his kidneys fail. What the hell is that? Can we — I understand the dislike of Rush, the disapproval of Rush by liberals. But can we at least put some decency in our remarks? Michael Savage was criticized rightly for saying to a gay caller, I hope you die. You do not talk about people like that. You never talk about people like that. She was way over the line. This is why Elaine Bennett and I did not go to this dinner. We went twice and twice we had to leave because of remarks by comedians.
I’m for vigorous debate and exchange, but I don’t care who you’re talking about, and there are people I strongly dislike in this world, you don’t go beyond decency and she went way beyond that. “I hope his kidneys fail.” Come on.
BRAZILE: She was …
BENNETT: Joking.
BRAZILE: … trying to make fun of somebody who makes fun of everybody, Bill.
BENNETT: I understand that.
BRAZILE: He has said some things, Bill, I tell you, I won’t repeat because Rush Limbaugh, he has — he gives everybody the blues, including many Republicans.
BENNETT: He has said things in the past for which I have criticized him. But when it gets to the point liberals will not criticize their own when they step over the line, then they’re out there way over the line.
BRAZILE: We criticize our own. We’re not perfect.
BENNETT: I’d like to hear somebody step up on this one.
BRAZILE: What’s the point?
BENNETT: What’s the point? Just say that’s too much.
BRAZILE: What’s the point? She is an entertainer.
BENNETT: So is Rush an entertainer but you’re happy to criticize him.
BRAZILE: Of course.
BENNETT: What would have been too far? What would Wanda have said that would have offended you, anything?
BRAZILE: Of course. Of course.
BENNETT: Like what? She said I hope he dies.
BRAZILE: No.
BENNETT: I hope his kidneys fail.
BRAZILE: No. She was making fun of Rush Limbaugh and Rush Limbaugh makes fun of everybody else.
[In his own workplace not at a White House dinner. Even he knows what decorum is.]
BENNETT: I’m sorry, I know what it means to be made fun of and I know what it means for someone to say I hope you die.
KING: I’m going to call a time-out here because the last thing I want is a divide between you two.[Or be forced to grow a set.] So I’m going to call a little time out here. You both have very strongly held opinions on this one and did it in a polite way, which is the way we like debates here on STATE OF THE UNION.
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One thing she said was funny:
SYKES: It’s funny to me that [photographers] have never caught you smoking. But they always catch you with your shirt off. I know you’re into this transparency thing, but I don’t need to see your nipples.
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