Sykes, a Black woman, insulted a WHITE MAN in public and on nat’l tv. That’s her crime and I’m sure she will soon be sentenced, just like Oprah.

What was she thinking?

A million blogs about this today, but none of them point out what the woman actually did that may destroy her – PUBICALLY INSULTED A WHITE MAN IN AMERICA.

Hey wanda,
I notice your were standing next to a cocane user, and a man from Kenya who can’t seem to find his birth certificant, and by the way, what’s that on your wire mesh? Is that where some liberial racist pig slip a rat in the nest.
PS: I hope you have a most marxist,communist, socialist great day. Oh! did I miss some thing? well that’s OK, I’ll pass it on the nexr time you open you magget mouth against any orther great American, unlike you and what I see around you.
PS” You don’t like what i said, guess what, go to hell….take the slow way round, remember the ruber nect ties?SURE YOU DO.

Timerunner: ?

LDCharris: minor point which is really nitpicking–kidney failure does not equal death. niether does water boarding. not funny absolutely. but not wishing death on somebody–and frankly, even if she did, it wouldn’t be the first time a comedian wished death on somebody. How many jokes have we heard through the years about “the bitch” aka a wife who is harrassing a husband needing to be bitch slapped/shot/fucked up/etc?

Look, I really don’t want to get into a “what’s worse” scenario. all I’m asking is *really*? Is D.C. that freaking sensitive? washington D.C.? The home of Rush Limbaugh? *really* it’s that sensitive?

I think it’s got a lot to do with what LDC had to say–a black lesbian woman is joking around about white men. What’s next? Our Magic Negro president imprisoning anybody whose families used to own slaves?

Wanda Sykes overstepped her “EGO” being a “black lesbian” I never witnessed so much racism and hatred EVER! She should not be a “Spokes person” for ANY reputable organization including homosexuals… I’m not gay or black for that matter but I do look down on anyone who supports her “CAUSES”, And who is “PRESIDENT” Obama to laugh and applaud such boasting of her hatred towards other Americans! ALSO why now is their a “Black” person around on every interview or commentary about Obama???? POLITICALLY CORRECTNESS has gone too far. THE AMERICAN VOTERS MADE A MISTAKE…. AND I AM ONE OF THEM….. SORRY! I won’t even get into the policy issues we are going to see……. but he can ALWAYS blame it on Bush!!! RAISE MY TAXES!!!!! LOL

That is funny and whoever finds it not funny will have to contend with all the other not funny material out there. This however was FUNNY, so contend with that.

A person “wishing” the failure of a president and by association a nation insults many. Speaking of one person who wished that and wishing anything short of their slow torturous death is acceptable in my books.

Heaven knows if it’s about Rush the idiots who like him will scream like babies until they’re blue. Hopefully that will make it easier to identify and ignore them

I’m with you HJ, I rarely find her funny, ad I don’t necessarily find her voice that irritating, but I do think that she relies too much on the “joshing around” sort of joke telling, rather than setting a story up and using irony, sarcasm, etc.

I think that the 9-11 joke wasn’t in bad taste–it wasn’t making fun of survivors or any of that–I just think it wasn’t that funny. I see her point–she was *trying* to say that limbaugh has the same ideals as the hijackers–but it wasn’t skillfully told and didn’t rely on any of the above mentioned irony, sarcasm, etc. I think somebody like stephen colbert could have used that same premise (limbaugh=hijackers) and made it funny some how by using something as simple as a raised eyebrow.

Take some smelling salts, you touchy, humorless Aunt Sallies.

I thought Wanda was hilarious! I just saw another clip on MSNBC of the “kidney failure” joke…and although I can understand how people reading about it here would harrumph and take offense, her delivery was what really made me blurt out a big HA! again. Limbaugh is the kind of jerk that dishes it out so he can certainly take it too.

My husband and I were watching on Sat. night and he could barely stand it because he’s recovering from heart surgery. Laughing hurts! We knew that come Sunday all the thin-skinned whiners would start coming up with reasons to take offense. So predictable. You think Wanda didn’t know y’all would react like that. She doesn’t care. She a comedian. Not a CNN anchor or the Atty General.

Camille–I agree totally that Limbaugh is a total jerk and can dish it out beyond dishing it out—that’s why I really am finding all the outrage to be well, ironic and rather amusing–Limbaugh needs defending? really?

also, again–why does a black woman making a joke about kidney failure=wishing death on somebody=she really means it–but a white guy making the same sort of joke=just joking=he doesn’t really mean it?

Limbaugh made fun of Michael Fox’s Parkinson disease.
Limbaugh and Osama bin Laden both called for violence against Americans. Limbaugh repeatedly called for violence during the Democratic Convention.

Limbaugh wants the economy to fail because he feels this would help Repbublicans get elected. Sykes think it’s wrong to want more Americans to suffer the loss of jobs and homes. So she basically said if Rush wants Americans to suffer then she want him to suffer kidney failure. Kidney failure not heart failure. Hundreds of thousands of people suffer kidney and continue to live for years using dialysis machines.

I applaud Wanda, and hope that she continues to speak truth to racist power, such as to that ass limbaugh. Of course, we all know that he and others of his racist ilk wish President Obama to fail, because they want all African Americans to fail. They are also upset because, as an African American woman, Sykes has the nerve to call them on their racism. Keep it up, Wanda!!!

I don’t know why everybody is more upset then Rush….I think he saw it for what it was because he does the same thing. Have conservatives become that sensitive that they are taking a comedian words so seriously. I think the GOP needs to focus more energy discussing there own agenda instead of falling for these silly time wasting traps, so independent like me can actually make a comparison on who polices are better…Dem or Rep?