Wanda Sykes and D.C.’s New Low
Just when you think that the elites in the media, the beltway, and the government couldn’t get any lower they go ahead and ask Wanda Sykes to speak at the Correspondents’ dinner in D.C.
Wanda is most definitely an edgy comedian and she has always been a favorite of mine due to her comic delivery and her offensive remarks that seemed to be equal opportunity for all. However, she never became too political in any of her routines and that is why I was such a huge fan in my early twenties.
However, all of that has changed since the comedian came out of the closet this past year due to prop. 8 and Barack Obama. She has continued to blast conservatives and republicans – for what reason, I don’t know, perhaps in in an effort to change their minds and be more accepting to the gay community? Attacking an opinion, with a tirade or diatribe, does not change the hearts and minds of many. In fact, the way in which conservative opinions are attacked appear to be more intolerant than the original qualm liberals seem to have with Republicans in the first place. Unfortunately, the ignorant masses will never realize the double standards unless they truly do their homework and research politics, as well as the incidents that are conveniently forgotten by the MSM.
Usually this dinner is in much better taste, where the headliner/comedian only roasts the president or his/her administration. This year was something entirely different and what made it ten times worse, in my opinion, was how much Barack Obama seemed to enjoy the slams against former VP candidates and their children, Rush Limbaugh, 9/11 , McCain’s wife, etc.
The tired excuse of Obama being just too likable to roast is getting old and really dumb to any independent thinking individual. At this point, between him and Biden, it would be incredibly easy to roast them. SNL still won’t flat out make fun of Obama, when they have every opportunity to rather, they go after the safer of the two; Biden. There is something inherently wrong with people, comedians, and the media who cannot seem to joke around about someone. I would assume that people are too afraid of the repercussions if they did make fun of him and possibly getting called a racist. Heaven forbid the left uses their obligatory race card AGAIN… Or perhaps they just happen to know that Obama doesn’t have a sense of humor to begin with.
Obama did alright last night, but now Hollywood wants to claim he is the next king of comedy… I personally thought Bush was much funnier and much better at self-deprecation. I knew people who personally worked for Bush and said the same thing. Obama is not funny in his personal life or at work. He tries to deliver jokes but is a beat or two off. I give him a B for a valiant effort, but it still fell a little flat – just my opinion in regards to wit and humor. (Different strokes for different folks)…
The most offensive comments of the evening came from none other than Wanda herself, regarding Rush Limbaugh and joking that he was the 20th hijacker involved with 9/11 but stayed home because he was too “hopped” up on Oxycontin to remember the plot. She spoke about Rush wanting Obama to fail (because he wants his policies to fail), but rather than make a witty quip about how great Obama’s policies really are or about Rush’s radio show, she wished he would die of kidney failure. She also made reference to Sarah Palin withdrawing last minute the day before the event and made reference to abstinence and Bristol Palin. The most benign zinger of the evening regarding a republican was in reference to John McCain and his wife Cindy. John McCain was apparently jealous of the helicopter that Obama gets to ride in and said that Cindy could just buy one for him.
It’s usual for a comedian during a regular routine at some local bar to use the audience and make fun of them, but not at a formal event in which a true roast is supposed to take place. It was low class and set a new low for the event. I am even more disenchanted with all those involved and all who laughed and cheered, including the President himself, at the jokes which had to stoop low enough to bash an 18 year old and wished for the death of another human being. I figure if Wanda wants to call a spade a spade and state that every addict should die then she should have included Biden’s daughter in on that joke and hoped that all the coke she snorted would make her heart fail… but it’s only “trendy” and “hip” to attack Conservatives when you are a liberal elitist or part of the establishment for that matter.
I will never be able to understand how it is that liberals can justify anything that their party does, even when it is so over the line and uncalled for. When/if a Republican reacts in such a demeaning fashion, I hope they are called on the carpet for it and held accountable IMMEDIATELY. I have no problem admitting that a Republican is corrupt, mean, nasty, or unjustified in a remark that was made, but liberals lack the ability to do the same towards their own. It’s called honesty and I hope that some liberals get a clue. Sadly, though, it is becoming evident that liberals are so secularized that they do not not have any moral standards at all… pathetic really. What’s worse is that Obama or somebody higher up had to approve this comic set first, and the more Obama laughed the more you realize how detached and emotionless he really is to things that should upset most normal individuals. The same goes for the media elites.
The Obama administration condemned the jokes aimed at 9/11 in a statement made by Robert Gibbs today. What was left out of their denunciation of the Saturday night snobbery gala, was the actual statements calling for the death of an individual and the attack on a child as well as abstinence education. Wanda Sykes may not have to worry about getting pregnant but young children should be taught the lessons and one of those lessons should be the only sure fire way to avoid it, and STDs, at all costs – abstinence. I was afforded the lesson when I was in grade school and so should all children.
On a side note, with all the 9/11 mockery going on, namely the Air Force One flyover, the initial denial of the event, the condemning of the event, the firing of a White House aide, the jokes about the Obama daughters and the flyover and Obama’s giggling during the Wanda Sykes 20th hijacker segment – I tend to believe that this administration thinks terrorism and attacks on this country are a laughing matter…
One Big Ass Mistake America… Progressives are the antithesis of all that is good and moral in this world. They really have no standards at all.
McCain Will Face 2010 Challenger in The Primaries
Good! Let’s get a true conservative/libertarian leaning politician in the Senate. It’s time to take back America and kick the bums out!
Social conservatives tolerated John McCain as the party’s nominee, but never trusted him, and he now appears to be facing a serious primary from the right in Arizona next year.
Chris Simcox, the founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and a prominent figure in the movement to clamp down on illegal immigration, will be announcing tomorrow at an event on the Mexican border that he’s resigned from the group to run in the 2010 Senate primary.
From a forthcoming release:
“John McCain has failed miserably in his duty to secure this nation’s borders and protect the people of Arizona from the escalating violence and lawlessness,” Simcox said. “He has fought real efforts over the years at every turn, opting to hold our nation’s border security hostage to his amnesty schemes. Coupled with his votes for reckless bailout spending and big government solutions to our nation’s problems, John McCain is out of touch with everyday Arizonans. Enough is enough.”
McCain was forced to abandon his own immigration reform legislation during last year’s Republican Primary, a move that may have cost him substantial Hispanic support to which his record could have given him access.
So he’s basically getting it from both sides on this one.
Simcox, with a national base and a high profile on the right, is well positioned to give McCain a serious local headache. He’ll find some allies among the conservatives who recently took over the Arizona Republican Party from McCain’s allies, and he has a national fundraising base.
UPDATE: Here’s his campaign website, which includes a clear effort not to be a single-issue immigration candidate.
And just for the record Politico – it wasn’t just social conservatives who didn’t find McCain palatable, but it was those who believed in the constitution, true Federalism, limited government and weren’t pro-amnesty.
Troop Support for Obama in Iraq was Staged
Now, this has occurred before with Bill Clinton, and it quite possibly could have been the same with Bush – the issue is how the MSM spins this and how it will report one way if you are affiliated with one party versus the other way when you have the “scarlet” R next to your name.
From Flopping Aces:
“Cheered wildly by U.S. troops,” begins Jennifer Democratic Operative Loven’s AP report on Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday.
Quite a contrast to the silent treatment Marines gave Obama at his Camp LeJeune speech in late February. Just how did Obama manage to fix that little problem?
According to a sergeant in Iraq :
We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up. [Via Macsmind.]
As supporting evidence for the digital-cameras part of the story, the sergeant (or Mac, can’t tell which), suggests that the identical cameras can be verified in the AP photos. Looks right:
Now Compare that to a story on Bush:
FLASHBACK: How the press treated the merest impression of a staged troop response under President Bush, even when there was no actual manipulation
Remember this headline from 2005:
Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged
It dominated the headlines and the television news-analysis for days, and the fabricated scandal was utterly dishonest. The so-called “staging” involved no manipulation whatsoever. A group of soldiers who were scheduled for a televised chat with President Bush were “caught on tape” discussing ahead of time who would answer questions on what subjects. There was NO discussion of WHAT should be said.
And just to provide several sources for how the troops polled before the elections:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1581284591.html and http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/mccain-garners-68-percent-of-us-troop-vote-obama-has-23-percent_100110214.html and http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2008/October/22/McCain-garners-70356.asp .
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/10/military_poll_100508w/ or here http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/10/military_poll_100508w/
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:wxq6tFQFVHcJ:rawstory.com/news/afp/Veteran_McCain_can_t_bank_on_US_mil_11012008.html+military+percent+vote+McCain&cd=31&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=opera and here is that poll ; http://www.gallup.com/poll/109654/Veterans-Solidly-Back-McCain.aspx
Pope Warns of “Godlessness” During Good Friday Mass
The Pope’s latest sentiments and words help me to know that I am not alone in my assumptions that secularism is on the rise in the West, especially in the United States, since I am not privy to the events currently going on in Europe. However, I certainly suspect the same thing exists there as well – if not more so than in the U.S.
I couldn’t understand how people could not see through the rhetoric, lies, and falsehoods of Obama during last year’s election. It was obvious through is connections, relationships and political history that he was not a decent, caring individual – and I feared for our country and the future if he did get into office. On the opposite end you had a war hero, and a woman of great integrity and faith, who came from humble beginnings and worked her way up without the help of the “establishment.”
Religion is under attack, as Pete recently posted. Those who practice what they preach and have a pure heart were mocked and ridiculed last year by the media and those on the left. Their fear-mongering and propaganda really affected various people, sucked in by the fraudulent reporting. Mormon churches were vandalized and an elderly woman was beaten because of proposition 8 disagreements. Nevermind the fact that the reason Prop. 8 did not go the way the gay activists wanted in California, had more to do with the minority vote (blacks and hispanics voting for Obama), than the Mormons or any other religions faction. Minorities are incredibly religious and socially conservative on the whole. Barack Obama, himself, has stated that he does not believe in homosexual marriage, however, gay protesters violently attacked those of faith and their places of worship.
I have never seen such hatred and absolute vileness come out of people. It’s as if the “light” scares them. Truth does hurt, and those who represent values that these people have either been made to fear based on false reports, propaganda or through their own fallacious assumptions, can only act out through hate and disgust – because they may find some truth in themselves that they have not been able to come to grips with. It’s incredibly sad and pathetic how hollow and superficial progressives have become. It must be extremely lonely having a hole in your heart that wide to not know what it’s like to have faith or to know a God of some sort.
Pope Benedict XVI last night attacked the rise of aggressive secularism in Western societies, warning them that they risked drifting into a ‘desert of godlessness’.
He used his Good Friday meditations to compare deliberate attempts to remove religion from public life to the mockery of Jesus Christ by the mob as he was led out to be crucified.
‘Religious sentiments’ were increasingly ranked among the ‘unwelcome leftovers of antiquity’ and ‘held up to scorn and ridicule’, he added.
‘We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink,’ said the Pope at an evening ceremony at the Coliseum in Rome.
‘Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode.
‘Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.’
The German-born Pope, who turns 82 later this month, prayed Christians would respond by growing in faith.
‘May we never question or mock serious things in life like a cynic,’ he added. He also condemned the oppression of women, saying there were ‘many societies in the world where women fail to receive a fair deal.’
‘Christ must be weeping for them,’ he said.
It makes me think that the Pope may have been watching our elections in the states…among other incidents in the world.
A Good Story: McCain Makes Trip Back to “Hanoi Hilton”
HANOI, Vietnam – Sen. John McCain paid a quiet visit to the “Hanoi Hilton” prison where he was held for more than five years during the Vietnam War on Wednesday, making a few deadpan remarks as he made his way through dark corridors and past musty cells.
McCain allowed reporters to follow him while he escorted Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina through the prison.
Vietnam’s communist government has turned the facility into a museum. It was originally used by French colonialists to hold Vietnamese revolutionaries, then used by the North Vietnamese after they took power to house Americans captured during the Vietnam War. The prison was called Hoa Lo but was widely known by the nickname “The Hanoi Hilton” among U.S. soldiers.
McCain, the prison’s most famous detainee, says he and others were severely tortured during their time there.
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McCain was held as a POW for 5 1/2 years after his A4 warplane was hit by North Vietnamese fire during a bombing run over Hanoi. He crashed into a Hanoi lake, breaking both arms and a leg. He became entangled in his parachute and was pulled from the water by Vietnamese civilians — then beaten on shore.
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He pointed to another tiny cell — about 6 feet by 3 feet (1.8 meters by 0.9 meters) — with nothing more than a bed frame with no mattress, just a straw mat. He told his colleagues it looked much like the one in which he was held.
“They kept the shutters closed,” McCain said. “It was very hot in there.”
During his captivity, McCain twice tried to hang himself using his shirt as a noose, but he was caught by guards who then beat him.
“I couldn’t control my despair,” McCain wrote in his autobiography. “All my pride was lost, and I doubted I would ever stand up to any man again. Nothing could save me.”
I will go off on a rant for a little bit here. If I ever hear another liberal or young spoiled brat making fun of this man who was TORTURED for more than 5 years in a prison the size of my closet I will lose it! If I hear one more comedian in the DC Improv make fun of McCain’s arms and his inability to write an email or lift them up I will throw a shoe at them. If I hear one more liberal mention how out of touch McCain was because of the number of homes he owned I will call them out on their hypocrisy when it comes to rich democrats, including their beloved Obama, and the fact that a man who has gone through what McCain has for his country deserves the best this country has to offer and all the riches of this world – plain and simple!
