Post by The Big Dog on May 11, 2009 15:22:51 GMT -5
The White House Correspondent's dinner was this past Saturday night. It is always filled with self deprecating and otherwise somewhat bawdy humor. It is the press corp's time to let it's collective hair down, and the politicians do as well.
To wit... we had the President, in his remarks noting that former VP Dick Cheney couldn't be there because he was busy writing his memoir, to be titled "How to Shoot your Friends and Interrogate People". The President also took the opportunity to note that he was happy to be appearring at the event since
That line actually got him the best audience response of his remarks... save for the de rigeur teleprompter bit you just had to expect.
At the same event, comedian (?) and keynoter Wanda Sykes remarked (among other things) that she hoped Rush Limbaugh's kidneys would fail and that he would die, among other things. The president got a good laugh out of that line. And while I've seen pretty much only bouquets in the reportage of the event from the 527 Media, some attendees were apparently somewhat less than thrilled with it all.
But now today we learn that the White House is already beginning to distance itself from Ms. Sykes. Seems some of her more petulant anti-Limbaugh screed didn't sit well with some people, so WH spokesdude Robert "Baghdad Bob" Gibbs got called on it at today's press briefing. And, not surprisingly, he side stepped.
I wonder how Ms. Sykes is going to enjoy it... being under the bus and all.
Contrast all that with something that CBS golf analyst David Feherty wrote for a Dallas magazine recently. Feherety and several other residents of the Big D area were asked to write a column about W planning on moving to the Dallas area. Now Feherty is a card with the acerbic wit one often finds among those who hail from Northern Ireland, as he does. At one point in his column he threw in the following joke, speaking metaphorically about how the troops felt about Bush as opposed to a few other people...
Feherty has been forced to publicly apologize, no doubt at the threat of losing his job.
Which brings me to the question posed by the thread title above. It's okay for the left to be as infantile and hateful as it wants to be... but it ain't okay for the right.
Truth or bullcorn.... you decide.
To wit... we had the President, in his remarks noting that former VP Dick Cheney couldn't be there because he was busy writing his memoir, to be titled "How to Shoot your Friends and Interrogate People". The President also took the opportunity to note that he was happy to be appearring at the event since
"Most of you covered me; all of you voted for me. Apologies to the Fox table."
That line actually got him the best audience response of his remarks... save for the de rigeur teleprompter bit you just had to expect.
At the same event, comedian (?) and keynoter Wanda Sykes remarked (among other things) that she hoped Rush Limbaugh's kidneys would fail and that he would die, among other things. The president got a good laugh out of that line. And while I've seen pretty much only bouquets in the reportage of the event from the 527 Media, some attendees were apparently somewhat less than thrilled with it all.
But now today we learn that the White House is already beginning to distance itself from Ms. Sykes. Seems some of her more petulant anti-Limbaugh screed didn't sit well with some people, so WH spokesdude Robert "Baghdad Bob" Gibbs got called on it at today's press briefing. And, not surprisingly, he side stepped.
I wonder how Ms. Sykes is going to enjoy it... being under the bus and all.
Contrast all that with something that CBS golf analyst David Feherty wrote for a Dallas magazine recently. Feherety and several other residents of the Big D area were asked to write a column about W planning on moving to the Dallas area. Now Feherty is a card with the acerbic wit one often finds among those who hail from Northern Ireland, as he does. At one point in his column he threw in the following joke, speaking metaphorically about how the troops felt about Bush as opposed to a few other people...
"From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though, 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."
Feherty has been forced to publicly apologize, no doubt at the threat of losing his job.
Which brings me to the question posed by the thread title above. It's okay for the left to be as infantile and hateful as it wants to be... but it ain't okay for the right.
Truth or bullcorn.... you decide.
