Comedian Wanda Sykes drew little criticism from the "objective" media for wishing Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys would fail in a dinner thrown by the White House Correspondents Association in May. In her new HBO special, I’m A Be Me, Sykes continues her love for the Obamas, and her hate for anyone who crosses them. Sykes mocked people who didn’t like that the Obama family dog wasn't from a rescue shelter:
"How come he didn’t get a rescue dog? He should have gotten a rescue dog." I’m like, the man has to rescue a country that’s been abused by its previous owner.
Sykes also went on an extended riff about how beautiful Michelle Obama is, much more beautiful than Barbara Bush:
We gotta get used to having a beautiful First Lady, too. First Lady who likes to show some skin. I like that. Heard some s–t because she went sleeveless. The country is broke. Sleeves cost money, alright? (Laughter) They were sick because she was wearing shorts. I like that. She should show her skin. She has beautiful skin. She has beautiful arms. Show those arms off. Right?
Now some of the previous First Ladies, yeah, they needed sleeves. Barbara Bush shoulda been in a poncho. Those are [flaps her upper arms to wild laughter]...All that flappin’ around. Nobody wanted to see that. At least tattoo the flag on there or something [flaps both upper arms for comic effect].
Show those arms off, Michelle. You’ve got nice arms. I love that. Plus you let all those other little floozy girls, let all those little interns and s–t know, let 'em know, ‘Alright, you can try some s–t with my man if you want, but you’re going to get one of these babies around your scrawny neck!’ [Makes a Hans-and-Franz pose flexing her arms to raucous laughter.]
Okay, I laughed at the tattoo thing, but it certainly isn't nice or exactly fair. Michelle is 45 (just like Sykes). Barbara Bush was 64 in her first year at the White House.
Sykes then went on to joke that there's no need for adultery worries, that the Obamas were having a lot of sex inside the White House, with the typical line, "Oh, you want my stimulus package, huh?"
Sykes was also upset that the Obama White House had to face the issue of pirates off the coast of Somalia – so much so that she proposed not waterboarding a pirate, but amputation:
I was so pissed. You know, the one that we caught, we should have made an example out of him. Yeah, they should chop his leg off put a broom handle up there, put a hook on his hand, put a parrot on his shoulder, slap an eye patch on him and kick his ass back to Somalia. 'That’s a f—in’ pirate!'
Remember this the next time someone gets outraged that Rush Limbaugh mocked Abu Ghraib. A naked pyramid is a bit shy of an amputation.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Yeah, Wanda...
October 20, 2009 - 22:10 ET by FuzzlenutterWe all pretty much know what you would like to do with/to Michelle "Worf" Obama...
Hey, watch it there. Worf
October 21, 2009 - 04:55 ET by HockeyKidHey, watch it there. Worf had a gentle side.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
I can't wait for Wanda's
October 20, 2009 - 22:25 ET by metaphorsbwithuI can't wait for Wanda's new show. :-D
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Sykes-style retort...
October 23, 2009 - 07:46 ET by 12-String InfidelI hope her new show's kidneys fail.
Bush "abused" America by signing the Prescription Drug Plan...
October 20, 2009 - 22:31 ET by R D Helm...as well as the hideous education bill he signed while sucking up to Ted Kennedy, and he really blew it by being hoodwinked into signing the bailout bill by libs like Paulson.
But even all of that lunacy pales to insignificance when compared to what Barack Hussein Obama is doing to this country now.
-Dave
Our elected representatives have failed us.
Comedy is abused by THIS sick puppy....
October 20, 2009 - 22:36 ET by SlyrrSykes is about as funny as David Letterman. It's all of comedy that's been abused by her and her ilk.
The genuine, classy and true comedians of bygone days would be ashamed of this woman, and every other so-called 'entertainer' in today's media.
Sykes!
October 21, 2009 - 09:06 ET by blazermaniacWhy would FOX want this hack to do any show is beyond me. Her humor is horrible and she is a liberal hack!
Ask for a refund
October 20, 2009 - 23:15 ET by RousseIs this typical Sykes humor? Someone pays this woman money to be funny?
If they didn't pay her,
October 20, 2009 - 23:21 ET by mattmIf they didn't pay her, they'd be racists.
Wanda Sykes, Affirmative
October 21, 2009 - 04:52 ET by HockeyKidWanda Sykes, Affirmative Action Comic. hehe.
Actually, her black audience members seemed to find her insanely funny. I guess that just means her show is "culturally normed". That means racist, for those of you in Rio Linda.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
She gets paid with TARP
October 23, 2009 - 09:59 ET by celatorShe gets paid with TARP money.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
With statements like this...
October 20, 2009 - 23:32 ET by PrairieSky"She should show her skin. She has beautiful skin. She has beautiful arms. Show those arms off. Right?" ...I'll bet Ms. Sykes wants MO to "...show some skin..."
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
WORF??
October 20, 2009 - 23:59 ET by chuckkOMG.. lol
Much nicer since...
October 21, 2009 - 00:35 ET by AZTech2020Michelle's arms are much nicer since they buffed the drag marks off her knuckles! Anybody else notice that His Holiness has to come down Air Force One's stairway sideways to give Michelle's double-wide a** enough room. That female is fugly!
beauty is in the eye of the
October 21, 2009 - 02:40 ET by surfergirl54beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, real beauty is inner beauty which is reflected in a person's face.... so no more.... since it is ugliness that is reflected upon M O's face
FYI for Wanda Dykes:
October 21, 2009 - 04:43 ET by ckc1227FYI for Wanda Dykes: Presidents don't own the country, though the current one likely believes he does. When all is said and done, this country will smell like Obama's campaign plane.
Wanda look down, see that?
October 21, 2009 - 05:41 ET by shirtsbyericWanda look down, see that? It's called a gunt. I don't think you should talk about other women's looks.
p.s. learn to speak English.
Maybe Wanda should shut up
October 21, 2009 - 06:19 ET by motherbeltMaybe Wanda should shut up until she sees what Michelle looks like at 70.
And this doesn't bode well....
Michelle Obama
October 21, 2009 - 06:37 ET by nadadhimmiMichelle Obama is not an attractive woman. She has shoulders as wide as an NFL linebacker with wide hips and a bubble butt, no poise and grace at all and walks like she is traversing a swamp. The photos of her next to Sarcozy's wife, Carla Bruni, were embarassing. Bruni is everything the sychophantic presstitutes claim Obama to be, a truly beautiful, graceful and refined woman.
BO Has E.T. Hands
October 21, 2009 - 11:32 ET by miss911ninjaThere's a photo on YouTube of Michelle and Carla sitting next to each other. Carla is facing forward and you can see her beautiful delicate features in profile. And she looks so sweet! MO is turned toward Carla and is just GLARING at her. She looks so ugly by comparison! I don't think she's bad looking when she smiles, but man is it scary when she's not! Same with BO. And while we're on the subject, have you ever noticed that BO has E.T. hands? His hands begin at his slender wrists and go straight to his skinny fingertips with hardly any noticeable palm area. It's CREEPY! I don't know what's worse: Looking at the guy or listening to him. I try to avoid doing both things at the same time.
Before the makeover...
October 23, 2009 - 09:54 ET by 12-String InfidelAnybody remember what Michelle O. looked like around the start of the 2008 Primary...you know, back before she had that amazing $10.000.00 Oprah makeover? She kinda resembled Buddy Guy in a 'Prince Valiant' wig, even though I hesitate to so disparrage a great blues guitarist like Mr. Guy (Sorry Buddy! I still really dig your music, man...)
Sykes/Racist!
October 21, 2009 - 07:09 ET by Nortoi am getting tired of the reverse discrimination going on. If Columbus had not come here and opened up this place so that Africa could have a safe place to go? Close the reservations, stop welfare handouts, let the chips fall. Now I have to go take people to their appointments. Tax payer funded transport and taxpayer funded healthcare, the best and most accommodating in the world. Without spending the $2trillion that reid let slip. See Pelosi is spoouting the $900billion number this am.
I'm Becoming....
October 21, 2009 - 07:36 ET by GeneralAlI'm becoming a racist! Until the decent blacks stand up an renounce this blatant racism coming from these idiot pigs in entertainment, I'm going to assume that you agree with them! Perhaps you are too young to remember the White folks that stood with your people during rhe Civil Rights movement during the sixties! They did so at great risk and cost! Are you folks going to stand with us or do we assume that you endorse this kind of racism? If you are not with us you are against us! Take your stand!
Damn right
October 21, 2009 - 08:54 ET by nadadhimmiCharleton Heston marched with MLK in the 60's and was destroyed later in life after he got Alzheimers, precisely because he was NRA President. Jesse HiJackson blatantly lied about MLK dying in his arms, then smeared Kings blood on his clothes way after the fact to make his lie look good, HiJackson was deified by the presstitutes, Heston vilified. That says all you ever need to know about racism and the msm and Hollywood racists.
Call me part of the tinfoil hat brigade
October 22, 2009 - 20:56 ET by Tugboat Philbut I always wondered about Jackson and the MLK assasination. Name the one person from that incident that has made a career from "being there." No evidence, just have always wondered about that.
Gun Control - The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
Personally I go for a
October 22, 2009 - 18:15 ET by buddycPersonally I go for a woman's face. Michelle's face looks like a buck toothed donkey. Her "shape" is really nothing to brag about. Can't think of many men who focus on some woman's upper arms. W's wife had an attractive face. She was a little heavy but a very attractive woman. Once the face is bad, there is no use looking at anything else. My views of Michelle never get past the face.
Wanda you can have the arms.
Isn't Sykes the same lady
October 21, 2009 - 07:46 ET by mikejIsn't Sykes the same lady that is in one of those PSA commercials confronting 3 teenagers about not using the word "gay" toward something you find stupid or making fun of someone because it is hurtful and not nice?
If so, then her entire act and character is hypocrisy at it's highest level. Shocking I now.
Whats new
October 21, 2009 - 07:48 ET by John53Another Obambot told to speak. Look at the picture beside the article; of course she thinks the Kligon (Michelle) is beautiful. My god if you woke up after a drunken evening with that, you would chew your arm off rather than wake it to make your escape. She has been idolizing for the Obama’s since the primaries.
Wanda Who???
October 21, 2009 - 08:03 ET by fatharryIn short, who the Hell cares what Wanda Sykes thinks? Why do we even give her any attention. She is a second-rate comedian who gets more publicity from conservative web sites than the does from the press for God's sake!
Edd B.
Shes An.....
October 21, 2009 - 13:54 ET by GeneralAlShes an affirmative action comedian! She is allowed to be this way because of her race. It doesn't matter that she is not funny! The entertainment community has to have its percentage of token minorities to prove their authenticity!
Clean
October 21, 2009 - 08:49 ET by sevenMichelle Obama isn't clean enough to keep her bar license.
Barbara is clean enough to keep teaching or get reinststed if it reuires continuing ed
Lets see what Michelle looks like after Obama has been in office for 4 years and out of office for 4 more. 8 years from now.
OH YE!!!!
October 21, 2009 - 08:58 ET by charlietexasWELL.....BARBARA HAS A BETTER BRAIN THEN MICHELLE AND BARRY PUT TOGETHER......WHAT ARE HER ARMS GOOD FOR ANYWAY??
NANABOOBOO...........STUPID GIRL
mommy
Double standard for all to see
October 21, 2009 - 09:51 ET by Blogger Guy00001It's OK for certain people to wish others dead. Certain people have immunity. They can do and say whatever they want. They can hate, and that's OK.
Other people do not have this immunity.
This is known as the Double Standard.
Liberal tolerance on
October 21, 2009 - 10:11 ET by wiwfLiberal tolerance on parade
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
This "comedienne"
October 21, 2009 - 11:03 ET by kdizzydazeis a joke in and of herself and her description of the President as "owner" when discussing what kind of dog the Obama's got (as in, the last "owner" that beaing Bush, of course, screwing up the country) is so telling of her lib/socialist mentality. Again, so much wrong with that comment that it is not worth the time to tear it up here.
She is a mental midget and is playing to the other useful idiots out there.
Comedian?
October 21, 2009 - 11:02 ET by Tom in NCSaying "Comedian Wanda Sykes" is like saying "Humanitarian Charles Manson". There's nothing funny about this bitch.
Um...
October 21, 2009 - 12:40 ET by chiefpayneWho IS this Sykes person? A commedian I see...but what is she? Someone who works in a local bar somewhere or something?
Never heard of her myself.
Wanda
October 21, 2009 - 12:55 ET by charlietexasShe is totally a racist. I will not watch her.
Black Comedy
October 21, 2009 - 13:44 ET by jpatchNearly all of mainstream black comedy in centered around race, and much of it is racist in nature against whites, and at times against blacks. Much like the majority of hip hop music is focused on money, drugs, sex, cars, ruling the world, murder etc., it seems as though black comedians have followed suit and find it easy to appeal to blacks by mocking whites and in glorifying their "blackness" through their perpetuation of being victims.
I still am confused about the N-word, because every day I ride the subway here in New York, and I hear it shouted nearly a dozen times by people, nearly 99% of the time they are black. So what's the deal? Black people can shout "n*gg*r" in public and its ok but if a white person said it a fatal beating would be justified? I'm sure of it.
People like Wanda Sykes only reverse race relations in this country. Not only that, but they make it "cool" to be a racist...as long as you're on the right side...much like their politics works. You're allowed to be a hypocrtical, lying, greedy corrupt p.o.s., as long as you're on OUR team.
Re Black Comedy
October 21, 2009 - 14:37 ET by slickwillie2001The exception of course is Cosby. He would walk onto a stage with his chair, set it down and talk about his childhood and his family for an hour and you would laugh so hard that your face hurt the next day. They don't make them like that anymore.
Funny the exception is Bill Cosby...
October 21, 2009 - 16:56 ET by jpatchHe's the only one of the lot that has a brain in his head, and isn't afraid to talk about the plight of the black man that doesn't include playing the victim.
Even Richard Pryor and Eddy Murphy were extrememly vulgar and at times very racial when they came onto the scene and really paved the way for modern black comedians.
It's not comedy when you're mocking your own race and attacking another race. In fact, its very detrimental to race relations...although that seems to be lost on the majority of people that consume this "entertainment."
Not so!
October 25, 2009 - 17:41 ET by AZTech2020IMHO, Cosby stopped being funny when he started taking himself too seriouosly.....decades ago.
Perfect example of liberal
October 21, 2009 - 14:35 ET by general companyPhilosophy: Heard some s–t because she went sleeveless. The country is broke. Sleeves cost money, alright?
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
this person is sub human-
October 21, 2009 - 16:04 ET by JIMMY1660so why repeat her rants at all.
she is everything America is not.
BHO- THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE
Rude, Crude & rymes with witch
October 21, 2009 - 16:48 ET by ptsonTHIS piece of craaaap is going to have her own tv show soon? Who exactly is going to be watching? Aside from Michelle and the girls of course. NO ONE you unfunny, obnoxious, crude, carpet munching, ignorant waste of time.
Brave New World
October 22, 2009 - 21:36 ET by NCMikeHumor apparently doesn't have to be clever or funny. Mocking the appearance of a sixty year is a real hoot. . . if your audience is 8 years old. The "tolerant" liberals are disgusting. They'll howl to the high heavens about hate speech, but laugh there heads off with smarmy comments about an old lady. The liberals think they're the "in kids of the third grade." They laugh about others' looks, clothes, etc., pat themselves on the back over their "concern" about others, and then yuk it up by calling names. It wasn't funny when they were kids, and it's down right evil now that they're allegedly adults. What was the word I was looking for? oh yeah, LOOOSERs.
Me too
October 23, 2009 - 09:22 ET by chiefpayneSo I can make sure to avoid it.
Anyone with this much hate in them and who goes off the deep end so much is to be avoided...much like those in the rubber rooms.