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Lets see if this gets any attention from the mainstream...I doubt it. Lets also see if that pig apologizes like Fherety did.
Comedian Wanda Sykes pulled no punches as she skewered conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner -- but her morbid cracks set some guests' cringe-meters off the charts.
Sykes accused Limbaugh of treason, compared him to Usama bin Laden and wished for his physical collapse as she roasted the favorite target of liberals Saturday night at the Washington Hilton.
"Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails, so you're saying, 'I hope America fails,' you're like, 'I don't care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq.' He just wants the country to fail. To me, that's treason," Sykes said.
"He's not saying anything differently than what Usama bin Laden is saying," she continued, before addressing the guest of honor, President Obama. "You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight."
The crowd groaned, Obama smiled and Sykes may have noticed a little discomfort in the room.
"Too much?" she asked.
But then she piled it on:
"Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' -- I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs."
Obama joined the crowd in laughing at the crack about Limbaugh's "kidneys."
But White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Monday that Sykes' bit was considered in poor taste.
"I don't know how guests get booked," Gibbs told reporters. "I haven't talked to the president (about it), but my guess is there are a lot of topics that are better left for serious reflection, rather than comedy -- no doubt 9/11 is part of that."
After the appearance, conservatives bellowed that Sykes was way over the line. "Mean-spirited," "hateful" and "disgusting" were just a few of the words used by conservative bloggers and commentators to describe the performance.
"This woman comes up and says, 'I hope Rush Limbaugh dies,' and everybody giggles," said Tim Graham, director of media analysis with the Media Research Center.
National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg called it "particularly awful."
Sykes' publicist was not immediately available for comment.
Some critics said there was a double standard employed for conservative and liberal jokesters, pointing out that golf announcer David Feherty apologized over the weekend for his column in which he joked about U.S. troops wanting to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Feherty's line drew heavy attention from the liberal group Media Matters and earned him a "worst person in the world" dubbing by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
Graham said the relatively low-key coverage of Sykes' joke in mainstream media underscores the "slanted take on what's hateful and what's not."
"When a conservative says it, it's an utter outrage. And when a liberal says it, it's a knee-slapper," he said.
An editor with Britain's Daily Telegraph who was at the dinner wrote that liberals will give Sykes a pass, since her target was a right-wing talk show host. And he marveled at Obama's response.
"That's way, way beyond reasoned debate or comedy and Obama's reaction to it was astonishing," wrote Toby Harnden. "Imagine if a comedian 'joked' that Obama was a terrorist who was guilty of treason and should be tortured and allowed to die. There would justifiably be an outcry."
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No such thing as a Conservative comedian. Conservatives are just not funny, creative people at all. I can`t name a single Conservative comedian. Therefore given the lack of conservative comedians, you will never see them making jokes because they ARE the joke.
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No such thing as a Conservative comedian. Conservatives are just not funny, creative people at all. I can`t name a single Conservative comedian. Therefore given the lack of conservative comedians, you will never see them making jokes because they ARE the joke.
Dennis Miller, Drew Carey, and Adam Sandler.
What's funny (so to speak) is I think liberals often don't have a sense of humor.
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No such thing as a Conservative comedian. Conservatives are just not funny, creative people at all. I can`t name a single Conservative comedian. Therefore given the lack of conservative comedians, you will never see them making jokes because they ARE the joke.
Yes,Dennis Miller isnt funny.He is a million times funnier then ANY lib comedian.The lib comedians are not funny.People like Sandrah Bernhard and Jenine Geraffalo arent funny.The media pushes them as funny,but they are just rude idiots.
Rush NEVER said he wants America to fail.He said he wants Obama to fail,as do I.
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Unacceptible and out of line. I am not a Rush fan either but attacks like these have no business in public and the administration showed poor judgement here.
Adonis, thats an idiotic comment. You should be smarter than that. You are being blinded by the political machines that pit us all against one another.
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Unacceptible and out of line. I am not a Rush fan either but attacks like these have no business in public and the administration showed poor judgement here.
Adonis, thats an idiotic comment. You should be smarter than that. You are being blinded by the political machines that pit us all against one another.
He's not smarter, otherwise he would have a real job.
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Unacceptible and out of line. I am not a Rush fan either but attacks like these have no business in public and the administration showed poor judgement here.
A You are being blinded by the political machines that pit us all against one another.
But you know who is the most guilty of this... the guy who says he hopes an administration fails so his radio show will get ratings.
I doubt she'll apologize. People only apologize when money is in jeopardy. If she said she hoped all white people's kidneys would fail then.. let's face it. She still wouldn't have to apologize. She's black. We can say anything we want.
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But you know who is the most guilty of this... the guy who says he hopes an administration fails so his radio show will get ratings.
I doubt she'll apologize. People only apologize when money is in jeopardy. If she said she hoped all white people's kidneys would fail then.. let's face it. She still wouldn't have to apologize. She's black. We can say anything we want.
Wanting a socialist agenda to fail is not said to help ratings.Its said to save the country.By the way,I dont recall ONE democrat ever wanting Bush to succeed in Iraq.Perhaps you can name a few who rooted for Bush.I do recall that limp wristed girl ,Harry Reid saying "the war is lost.This war is lost".I guess thats rooting for America and that administration to succeed.
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Wanting a socialist agenda to fail is not said to help ratings.Its said to save the country.By the way,I dont recall ONE democrat ever wanting Bush to succeed in Iraq.Perhaps you can name a few who rooted for Bush.I do recall that limp wristed #### ,Harry Reid saying "the war is lost.This war is lost".I guess thats rooting for America and that administration to succeed.
I only WISH Obama had a more Socialist agenda.
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I don't recall any democrats saying they HOPED the administration would fail.
There is a difference. If the administration fails, the country fails. End of story.
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I don't recall any democrats saying they HOPED the administration would fail.
There is a difference. If the administration fails, the country fails. End of story.
How so:
If Cap & Trade fails - we dont get more energy taxes
If Socialized health care fails - we dont get thrid world health care and still have choice of who our doctor is.
If Card Check fails - businesses still have the ability to keep the union of of their companies and employees the privacy to choose or not to unionize.
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How so:
If Cap & Trade fails - we dont get more energy taxes
If Socialized health care fails - we dont get thrid world health care and still have choice of who our doctor is.
If Card Check fails - businesses still have the ability to keep the union of of their companies and employees the privacy to choose or not to unionize.
Do you realize that with Universal Healthcare you get to keep your insurance plan if you like it and if you choose the public option that enables you to see ANY doctor you like. Do you also realize that the quality of healthcare only goes up as a result of cutting out the middleman. Again, I have to stress that we do NOT have the best care as it stands and that is a direct result from not having Universal Coverage.
Again, I would like to stress that with Universal Healthcare, you get to determine whatever doctor you like to see. With your current for Profit system, you have no choice if they are out of network.
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Do you realize that with Universal Healthcare you get to keep your insurance plan if you like it and if you choose the public option that enables you to see ANY doctor you like. Do you also realize that the quality of healthcare only goes up as a result of cutting out the middleman. Again, I have to stress that we do NOT have the best care as it stands and that is a direct result from not having Universal Coverage.
Again, I would like to stress that with Universal Healthcare, you get to determine whatever doctor you like to see. With your current for Profit system, you have no choice if they are out of network.
Oh, Adonis, wake the heck up.
Companies are not going to pay for private insurance once they realize they can unload everyone on the govt system. At that time, the flood of new enrollees is going to destroy the system.
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Oh, Adonis, wake the heck up.
Companies are not going to pay for private insurance once they realize they can unload everyone on the govt system. At that time, the flood of new enrollees is going to destroy the system.
Why don`t you educate yourself a little bit on this matter.
Here is Obama from today on this VERY issue:
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Why don`t you educate yourself a little bit on this matter.
Here is Obama from today on this VERY issue:
First off, that teleprompter has to go.
Second, Obama is very good at describing the problem, its his "solutions" that trouble me.
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I don't recall any democrats saying they HOPED the administration would fail.
There is a difference. If the administration fails, the country fails. End of story.
Well you apparently dont listen very well.James Carville said "we want Bush to fail" right before the planes hit the buildings on 911.He then tried to retract it because of the crisis.So,there you go,thats a democrat [and a powerfull one at that]who wanted Bush to fail.
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Oh, Adonis, wake the heck up.
Companies are not going to pay for private insurance once they realize they can unload everyone on the govt system. At that time, the flood of new enrollees is going to destroy the system.
Thats pretty much it..any other theory as to where this leads is ridiculous.
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No such thing as a Conservative comedian. Conservatives are just not funny, creative people at all. I can`t name a single Conservative comedian. Therefore given the lack of conservative comedians, you will never see them making jokes because they ARE the joke.
QFT. "Beach Buns " is simply showing dellusion by this mention.
Limbaugh = a traitor. He would've been beheaded in the radio station's parking during the Renaissance.
End of the story.
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Dennis Miller, Drew Carey, and Adam Sandler.
What's funny (so to speak) is I think liberals often don't have a sense of humor.
Has Dennis Miller ever been funny? That guy amazes me, he's lost about every gig he's gotten and yet he always ends up with another chance. I think that is bought by the GOP. How else does such a flop keep on ticking failure after failure.
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Who cares what a fat hideous dyke thinks of an equally fat hideous talk show host?
They say politics is like Hollywood for ugly people. Unfortunetly most liberals are woefully unattractive to begin with- Having Wanda Sykes comment on Rush Limbaugh is like having that armless legless guy who fought MMA win a match against a deaf, blind racoon.
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Has Dennis Miller ever been funny? That guy amazes me, he's lost about every gig he's gotten and yet he always ends up with another chance. I think that is bought by the GOP. How else does such a flop keep on ticking failure after failure.
I never thought he was all that funny, but TA said he couldn't name a single comedian, not funny comedians. :)
I see marginally talented people in entertainment and politics all the time. Nothing new.
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Who cares what a fat hideous dyke thinks of an equally fat hideous talk show host?
They say politics is like Hollywood for ugly people. Unfortunetly most liberals are woefully unattractive to begin with- Having Wanda Sykes comment on Rush Limbaugh is like having that armless legless guy who fought MMA win a match against a deaf, blind racoon.
Did you know........
That George Orwell, the basis for your online moniker, was a lifelong radical Socialist (one of my great heroes) wrote 1984 to promote Socialism and to shed light on the evils of Totalitarianism, Capitalism and Fascism.
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Did you know........
That George Orwell, the basis for your online moniker, was a lifelong radical Socialist (one of my great heroes) wrote 1984 to promote Socialism and to shed light on the evils of Totalitarianism, Capitalism and Fascism.
I think you're missing the point of his "moniker"
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I never thought he was all that funny, but TA said he couldn't name a single comedian, not funny comedians. :)
I see marginally talented people in entertainment and politics all the time. Nothing new.
I know, just my comments seeing his name. It's amazing how he keeps going without an ounce of funny to him.
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I think you're missing the point of his "moniker"
Enlighten us all then.
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Unacceptible and out of line. I am not a Rush fan either but attacks like these have no business in public and the administration showed poor judgement here.
Adonis, thats an idiotic comment. You should be smarter than that. You are being blinded by the political machines that pit us all against one another.
Uhhhh, come again? ...who is blinded by the political machine that pits everyone against one another?
The was a Press Correspondents dinner. How did the administration show poor judgement?
If poor judgement was shown, it was by Sykes herself. The administration had nothing to do with it.
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No such thing as a Conservative comedian. Conservatives are just not funny, creative people at all. I can`t name a single Conservative comedian. Therefore given the lack of conservative comedians, you will never see them making jokes because they ARE the joke.
Rush Limbaugh?
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Lets see if this gets any attention from the mainstream...I doubt it. Lets also see if that pig apologizes like Fherety did.
Comedian Wanda Sykes pulled no punches as she skewered conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner -- but her morbid cracks set some guests' cringe-meters off the charts.
Sykes accused Limbaugh of treason, compared him to Usama bin Laden and wished for his physical collapse as she roasted the favorite target of liberals Saturday night at the Washington Hilton.
"Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails, so you're saying, 'I hope America fails,' you're like, 'I don't care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq.' He just wants the country to fail. To me, that's treason," Sykes said.
"He's not saying anything differently than what Usama bin Laden is saying," she continued, before addressing the guest of honor, President Obama. "You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight."
The crowd groaned, Obama smiled and Sykes may have noticed a little discomfort in the room.
"Too much?" she asked.
But then she piled it on:
"Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' -- I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs."
Obama joined the crowd in laughing at the crack about Limbaugh's "kidneys."
But White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Monday that Sykes' bit was considered in poor taste.
"I don't know how guests get booked," Gibbs told reporters. "I haven't talked to the president (about it), but my guess is there are a lot of topics that are better left for serious reflection, rather than comedy -- no doubt 9/11 is part of that."
After the appearance, conservatives bellowed that Sykes was way over the line. "Mean-spirited," "hateful" and "disgusting" were just a few of the words used by conservative bloggers and commentators to describe the performance.
"This woman comes up and says, 'I hope Rush Limbaugh dies,' and everybody giggles," said Tim Graham, director of media analysis with the Media Research Center.
National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg called it "particularly awful."
Sykes' publicist was not immediately available for comment.
Some critics said there was a double standard employed for conservative and liberal jokesters, pointing out that golf announcer David Feherty apologized over the weekend for his column in which he joked about U.S. troops wanting to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Feherty's line drew heavy attention from the liberal group Media Matters and earned him a "worst person in the world" dubbing by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
Graham said the relatively low-key coverage of Sykes' joke in mainstream media underscores the "slanted take on what's hateful and what's not."
"When a conservative says it, it's an utter outrage. And when a liberal says it, it's a knee-slapper," he said.
An editor with Britain's Daily Telegraph who was at the dinner wrote that liberals will give Sykes a pass, since her target was a right-wing talk show host. And he marveled at Obama's response.
"That's way, way beyond reasoned debate or comedy and Obama's reaction to it was astonishing," wrote Toby Harnden. "Imagine if a comedian 'joked' that Obama was a terrorist who was guilty of treason and should be tortured and allowed to die. There would justifiably be an outcry."
have u ever read our Bill of Rights? we have freedoms in our country, if you dont like it then move to Saudi Arabia or join the Talliban
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have u ever read our Bill of Rights? we have freedoms in our country, if you dont like it then move to Saudi Arabia or join the Talliban
Its funny how democrats always scream about the first amendment when it is one of theirs who makes idiotic statements.
I dont remember you saying the same about Rushs' rights when he said he wanted Obama's policies to fail.
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QFT. "Beach Buns " is simply showing dellusion by this mention.
Limbaugh = a traitor. He would've been beheaded in the radio station's parking during the Renaissance.
End of the story.
Good thing the libs are a bunch of girls because that wont EVER happen now.
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Good thing the libs are a bunch of girls because that wont EVER happen now.
Not if they had their own way.
Free speech for them, silence for everyone else.
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Rush can wish obama's policy to fail, he's a dick, but it's his right.
Now Rush dreaming of riots in US cities where citizens ie... whole nother ballgame
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Coach, what did you think of the President taking a shot (pun intended) at Dick Cheney?
"Dick Cheney was supposed to be here... but he is very busy writing his memoir, tentatively titled "How to shoot friends and interrogating people"".
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Rush says things in a way that causes there to be more attention to his show...its a business and he knows how to attract attention (both good and bad). I don't like that style, but understand it. He is not a politician.
He clearly stated that if Obama was persuing socialist policies then he hopes he fails. It was a very clear opinion that many people share. He wants the policies to fail because he does not feel they are best for this country. People that don't understand that either don't want to hear it (because they just want to criticize Rush) or they are stupid.
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The administration needs to clear the people to speak at the political event. Yes, Sykes is personally responsible for her comments but just as a boss is responsible for their employees, the white house staff that brought her in should have set better guidelines, or hired another speaker. (I said administration, not the president personally).
Remember, I don't give two shits about the republican or democratic party. Though I lean conservative on most economic issues, I am an independent thinker, not blinded by party team rhetoric.
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Rush can wish obama's policy to fail, he's a dick, but it's his right.
Now Rush dreaming of riots in US cities where citizens ie... whole nother ballgame
Ive heard a black congresswomen justifying the LA riots,no comment from libs.
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Ive heard a black congresswomen justifying the LA riots,no comment from libs.
I see. Out of the 150 million libs in this country, 100% of them endorsed the statement.
Gotcha. Billy, you're acting more like a gimmic every day.
Olbermann tore sykes a new one last night on his show. That's gotta burn ya up, huh? I guess in your eyes only 99.9999% of libs agree with sykes then?
No wonder the repub party is sinking fast.
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What did Olbermann say?
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I see. Out of the 150 million libs in this country, 100% of them endorsed the statement.
Gotcha. Billy, you're acting more like a gimmic every day.
Olbermann tore sykes a new one last night on his show. That's gotta burn ya up, huh? I guess in your eyes only 99.9999% of libs agree with sykes then?
No wonder the repub party is sinking fast.
Did I say they endorsed the statement,or said they said NOTHING?Now,please show me where Rush said he wanted riots.Remember ,predicting them,or joking about them is far different from wanting them.
By the way,the man who posts non stop about Palin calling someone else a gimmick?Hello pot,meet Kettle.
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Its funny how democrats always scream about the first amendment when it is one of theirs who makes idiotic statements.
I dont remember you saying the same about Rushs' rights when he said he wanted Obama's policies to fail.
I have said that I support all Free Speech, even the Neo-Nazi`s of Skokie and Fred Phelps. So you cannot say that about me.
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By the way,the man who posts non stop about Palin calling someone else a gimmick?Hello pot,meet Kettle.
you and whorewell bring up my name 40 times a day. I start 5 palin thread per week, maybe.
We see who is in whose head ;)
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you and whorewell bring up my name 40 times a day. I start 5 palin thread per week, maybe.
We see who is in whose head ;)
Ummm,I bring up your name when Im posting to you.I think I used your name two other times in posts and both were about Palin.I always have to post on your posts because you make no sense.Whats amazing is you just jump from one attack to the next,never answering the initial question or comment.Its quite an odd way of debating.
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Georgie doesn't post on this website 40 times a day- or even 40 times a week. In 5 years I dont even have 1000 posts. I personally apologize to 240 for having a life.
PS- Camel good eye. Obviously you have common sense and superior reading comprehension. Our brilliant and delusional resident left wing brownoser and world champion deadlifter "The True Adonis" cant figure that out. ::)
PPS- I hear Jag is a female of the ebony persuasion. I also have heard rumors that she in fact is Wanda Sykes. Can any moderators speak to this, or Jag, would you care to address these rumors?
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Coach, what did you think of the President taking a shot (pun intended) at Dick Cheney?
"Dick Cheney was supposed to be here... but he is very busy writing his memoir, tentatively titled "How to shoot friends and interrogating people"".
Obama's memoir will be "How to play on racial sympathies, dupe the poor and screw up the country further." How do you think that would go over? Both "books" would be based on true facts.
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Yes,Dennis Miller isnt funny.He is a million times funnier then ANY lib comedian.The lib comedians are not funny.People like Sandrah Bernhard and Jenine Geraffalo arent funny.The media pushes them as funny,but they are just rude idiots.
Rush NEVER said he wants America to fail.He said he wants Obama to fail,as do I.
Ahhh George Carlin and Chris Rock shit all over Dennis Miller...
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Fuck Limbaugh... All the racist, hateful shit he has said over his career... I hope his kidneys fuckin fail too... He helped promote this war that killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousand of Iraqis...
If anyone of us got caught with a JUG of OXYs in FLORIDA wed get 10 years... he got off several times...
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Fuck Limbaugh... All the racist, hateful shit he has said over his career... I hope his kidneys fuckin fail too... He helped promote this war that killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousand of Iraqis...
If anyone of us got caught with a JUG of OXYs in FLORIDA wed get 10 years... he got off several times...
Only a left wing loon thinks what Rush says is racist.However,your more then welcome to wish for his death.I for one will dance a jig when big fat drunken Ted Kennedy dies,I only wish his strung out drug addicted son could join him.
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Fuck Limbaugh... All the racist, hateful shit he has said over his career... I hope his kidneys fuckin fail too... He helped promote this war that killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousand of Iraqis...
If anyone of us got caught with a JUG of OXYs in FLORIDA wed get 10 years... he got off several times...
That's funny. His assistant Mr. Snerdly, who is black, does not think he is racist.
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What did Olbermann say?
i saw it. he absolutely didnt "tear her a new one" at all. he said she went too far. yes. but you take a conservative person saying the same things about a liberal radio personality and olbermann would have been absolutely outraged and called them one of the "worst people in the world". olbermann knew that he had to say something to the effect that he didnt think it was appropriate so he can still call himself "fair and balanced" to the idiots who actually think that he is.
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Guaranteed if a right wing comedian said some shit about the murderer Ted Kennedy and his health they would never work again. I bet if Bush/McCain/etc made a crack about Obama's coke habit or his daddy being a philanderer it'd be political suicide (although it's true) but Barry can make cracks without repercussions.