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Wanda Sykes Wants Rush Limbaugh To Fail

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TheLegendTomWing
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Philadelphia, PA
Wanda Sykes, at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night, let lose a ‘failure’ storm towards conservative poster boy Rush Limbaugh. According to Seattlepi.com, Ms. Sykes said:
“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. He's not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight."
And the kicker:

"Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails; I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good water-boarding, that's what he needs."

We all remember when Rush Limbaugh said he wanted Obama to fail, but there is a ton of controversy over this new ‘personal attack.’ Many say (conservatives, I’m sure), Ms. Sykes has gone too far. This is a load of bull. If Rush wants to go around making an idiot of himself by saying he wants Obama to fail, fine. But I don’t want to hear people whining that a “liberal” has gone off her rocker and taken it to the next level. It’s called Karma, what goes around comes around.

Dear Rush, grow up. You could be what the Republican Party needs, but you are too busy acting like an idiot. Obviously, this woman is a comedian, and isn’t going to ensure your kidneys fail. On the contrary, she wouldn’t have a routine without your sophomoric rhetoric. Furthermore, if you’d put the bottle of Oxycotin down, you could save your kidneys, no Wanda Sykes needed.

Stop complaining. Grow Up.
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Alex Layton
Alex Layton
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Puyallup, WA
33 months ago: I'm so glad 9/11 is finally funny. What a relief.

You know who really failed? Wanda Sykes. As a comedian.
elguapo
elguapo
Littleton, CO
33 months ago: She's a comedian, they are supposed to say stupid things, and go way over the top. Maybe Rush should take note, and announce that he has actually been dabbling in a failed comedic stint. Maybe then it would all start to make sense!
Billyberoo
Billyberoo
Cedar Park, TX
33 months ago: Isn't Rush the victim?? I mean he has a disease. Drug / Alcohol addiction is a disease. We shouldn't make fun of people with diseases.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=90688&page=2

I think that new, caucasian rapper from Canada, Michael "Shaky J" Fox, sang a song about not making fun of people with diseases.

Isn't that what Ms. Sykes did with the OxyCotin jokes.

The Political Correct crowd cannot have it both ways. I do happen to remember a whole bunch of the press lambasting Mr. Limbaugh, when he had an issue with a certain disease.

Now for the record I don't really care about who makes fun of who, but when the group of people that basically invented the "Politically Correct Handbook" are gathered together they should understand how some people got offended.

I was offended that the PC crowd in that audience did not get offended. You are either PC or not PC you can't, as the Lib's said when Bush and Cheney wwere looking at intelligence, "cherry pick," when you are Pc and when you are not. I don't believe in PC'ness hence the Michael J. Fox blurb.

Hypocracey that was the real offense. Nothing else.
Alex Layton
Alex Layton
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Puyallup, WA
33 months ago: My biggest problem with Sykes' jokes is that they're being called "jokes". Not just the ones she told over the weekend, but every joke she's ever told. She's just not funny. That's the offensive part.
TheLegendTomWing
TheLegendTomWing
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Philadelphia, PA
33 months ago: Boy, i have a few bones to pick with the comments, but i'll just stick to the main one. Wanda was just a out-of-line-ridiculous as Rush Limbaugh was, unfortunately, you are correct, the Liberals have not had a huge outcry over one of their own. I would look past that and just say it's Karma, he got what was coming, and that's why they aren't up in arms.
33 months ago: TheLegendTomWing
You have no clue, and you are making it apparent for the whole world to see.
Rush said he hopes Obama's socialist policies fail. I, and other like minded Americans, do too!
And you saying a liberal has gone of her rocker is redundant.
(By the way, Ms. Wykes and Obama showed some nice class.)
TheLegendTomWing
TheLegendTomWing
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Philadelphia, PA
33 months ago: Believe it or not, by wanting Obama's policies to fail, he is asking for the country to fail. If Rush needs Liberal policies to fail so he can sleep at night with his policies, then he needs to find some new policies.

Furthermore, Redstateguy, I think it's rather amusing your moniker is 'redstateguy,' since you decided to use conservative rhetoric. I have no problem with Right-wing views, most of the time I support them myself, but facts would be nice. Both the left and right are guilty of this partisan sophomoric rubbish. Facts, logic, etc. Thanks!
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
33 months ago: "sophomoric rubbish" is the line of the day...as both Sykes and Limbaugh have proven they have a forum for their extreme views. The sad thing is that any time at all is wasted on what either of them as to say about anything! The people who spend time listening to either might better be out doing good things to advance our country. What neither seems to take heart is that their comments do nothing but tear down. We need build up, not tear down.

As for Limbaugh's general notion that in order for his ideology to succeed other ideologies must fail, he's living in the past where it was believed that competition is the penultimate driving force toward survival as adapted handily from Darwinian Evolutionary Theory. Unfortunately, Darwin got this a little wrong as we know through modern evolutionary theory. Competition is not the major driving force in survival, rather it's symbiosis (ie. how one gets along with the rest of the competitors) that's more critical. Ironically, since our current two party system evolved in the middle 1800s it's been the interactions between these two basal ideologies of liberalism and conservativism that have propelled our nation to greatness. It is only when we allow the heavy, extreme, and fundamentalist side of either that we trounce down a worrisome path. The GOP tried it for 8 years of Bush and found it fractured the nation. Now the Democrats will try it with similarly ineffective results. The sooner members of both parties and their extremophiles get this, the sooner our nation can get back on its feet and start moving forward again.
33 months ago: Coloranter Raver.
You are obviously well educated and not a conservative.
Your words educate me, and I enjoy them; however, I understand things a bit differently.
You must defeat your enemy.
Period.
Both sides see it that way too.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
33 months ago: RSG: Why on earth would Rush Limbaugh see Obama as his enemy? Obama is our democratically elected President who won both the popular and electoral votes without any need for Supreme Court rulings or interventions. He enjoys the same luxury of Congressional support as did GWB in 2000. Who then, barely four and a half months into the Bush presidency, was saying they hope he failed? As I recall, the nation was hoping he would succeed in turning around the then financial crisis caused by the tech bubble, by sending out his $300 tax rebates.

I'm sorry, but this was a poor choice of words by Mr. Limbaugh He shouldn't have said he wanted Obama to fail. He should have said, I want any liberal agendas passed during Obama's presidency to fail. That would have been fine. When you start saying you hope the President fails, you are saying you hope America fails.

Whether Rush Limbaugh or anyone else likes it or not, Obama won the presidency fair and square. He is our President. Moreover, he has expressed agenda that struck a chord with the majority of Americans who voted. His success is vital for the future of our nation so there will be something left of it from which Mr. Limbaugh might derive his $40 million annual income. If Obama fails, so does our nation, and along with it any hope for a future. It is absolutely fair game for Mr. Limbaugh to believe that liberal policies will not succeed. It's unclear on what basis he's operating for 6 unchecked years of 100% conservative policies did not get the nation into a good place, but there is no reason to believe that 4 years of unchecked liberal policies will do any better. In fact, I've argued consistently that it is NOT the liberal or conservative agenda that will propel our nation; but, rather, the independent minds who don't lock their feet in the cement of a party that will eventually show us the way.
33 months ago: Coloranter Raver.
(You're up late, aren't you?)
You need to get more sleep.
Your memory has major lapses.
To say "Who then, barely four and a half months into the Bush presidency, was saying they hope he failed?"
Every, dang member of the elite, I'm important, my poop does not stink, "drive-by" media. Every one of them. From day 1 to the bitter end were beating him down.
You cannot be serious.
If Obama does not fail, our country is ruined.
PERIOD.
If Obama fails, our republic might yet be saved.
PERIOD.
You are dead wrong.
"6 unchecked years of 100% conservative policies" is absolute GOBLEDEGOOP!
There you go rewriting history.
There was not one conservative leader. NOT ONE.
I counter that conservative principals, freedom, liberty, smaller government, capitalism, etc. are the only way allow our country to survive and prosper.
PERIOD.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
33 months ago: RSG, find the sources on that. I was alive, breathing, reading the newspapers, and I do not recall anyone stating they hoped that "Bush would fail." Not anyone. And then, after 9/11 Bush enjoyed worldwide support unlike anything anyone has ever seen. Of course he promptly turned this into justification for war with Iraq, but then we all know that.

So please, please find me quotations from the "elite" and the "drive-by media" stating they hoped Bush would fail. I'm begging you. Truth is you won't find any because there weren't any. And when you use "elite" and "drive-by media" like you do, you reveal your Limbaugh-allegiance, not your ability to think on your own.

I'm tired of hearing about the "elite". There is no better example in the history of this nation of the elite gone wrong than George W. Bush who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth and never looked back. His family is one of the true "elite".

You are 100% wrong. If Obama succeeds so does our nation. If he fail, there won't be much of a country about which to worry.

Where do you get off saying I'm rewriting history? For six years, George W. Bush controlled all three branches of the government and people were talking about a "permanent moral majority" in Washington.

Now you can blather on and on that George W. Bush wasn't a conservative and neither were the majority of Republicans in the House and Senate at the the time. How funny? How fraudulent! Are you suggesting these people from Cheney on down were all liberals in conservative clothing?

I guess you're saying that Republicans aren't conservatives. Wow? What on earth are they? That's what they claim to be.

I'm so sorry but freedom, liberty, and capitalism are principles of liberals too!

You are right about one thing though, I was tired, but not too tired to hold you to your comments.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
33 months ago: RSG: Please, if you have time, read this...
http://www.kirkcenter.org/kirk/ten-principles.html

These are real conservative values from a real conservative think tank. It's compelling to read these and compare they to the reality of what you preach.

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