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Check Out Obama’s Jokes at the Correspondents Dinner

It’s a fact of life that sometimes, events unfold in such a way that you can smell a White House Press Corps obsession coming from a mile away. And while this Sunday’s morning chat made me feel like a whole lot of new attention should be given to our regional partners in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region, I can tell you for certain that today’s press cycle shall be given over to the subject of laughter.

Specifically, the topic of Wanda Sykes, and the laughter of President Barack Obama at this weekend’s White House Press Correspondents’ Dinner, and specifically a joke, made at Rush “I Hope He Fails” Limbaugh’s expense. “I hope his kidneys fail.”

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White House Say Sykes 9/11 Joke Crossed The Line

Wanda Sykes Disses Limbaugh At White House Correspondents’ Dinner

At the annual White House sorrespondants Dinner, Wanda Sykes said that Limbaugh was actually the 20th hijacker on 9/11 and dissed Hannity for not living up to his pledge to be waterboarded for the troops.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alpha111906/ alpha111906

    ahhh…I love her…in front of the president too…that’s what you do…say what everyone else is scared to say.

    If only George Carlin was still alive.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NeoPanther/ NeoPanther

    Somebody needs to dis thank punk ass racist…let them know the price they have to pay when they come against us. The day is over when we sit back and let some openly racist cracker try to make a name for himself by taking shots at us. What she said was soft compared to what I would say.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VANITY666BONET/ VANITY666BONET

    those stupid azz whites in that audience.She was dissing all of them since blks are the most racist son of a bytch their is out there.
    they feel so entitled
    stupid azz crackas

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VANITY666BONET/ VANITY666BONET

    Oh this is the same hoe cosby dissed in her fycking face

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/C4pricorn/ C4pricorn

    Wanda is the MAN.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/testpageBP/ testpageBP

    Wanda Sykes is joke without ever trying to be funny. Truly pathetic.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/susplicious/ susplicious

    Wanda you the best girl..lololol..you always manage to make me laugh..lol!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kupidsarrow/ kupidsarrow

    OUTSTANDING….I was in the Army for 10 years and people still can’t handle the TRUTH…maybe you need a little sugar to help the medicine go down!!! Bravo girl.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ncruze/ Ncruze

    Im glad she on our side but dammit if you wanted a clown, WHY DIDNT THEY GET JAMIE FOXX! he would have lit the place up. who knows he prolly would have got on Barack himself, lol dude is outta control!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    that was good shyt and I laughed my a$$ off, matter of fact I’m still *Crackin da phucc up*

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DRACATTACK/ DRACATTACK

    Not Bad!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Cmoore_78/ Cmoore_78

    I have never thought Wanda Sykes was funny. Her voice is very annoying and she just seems to try too hard. Glad someone liked. I agree that Jamie Foxx would have been a better choice.

    However, someone would have questioned having him since the hoopla surrounding comments made on his radio show about Miley Cyrus.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/YOURNAWTEEGIRL/ YOURNAWTEEGIRL

    OBAMA HAS A GREAT SMILE..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/G-WIN/ G-WIN

    Jamie Foxx would have been a better choice

    played as wanda
    (the one he plays on living color)
    now thats one ugly mugly looking broad. LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JoshSmiley84/ JoshSmiley84

    F**k wanda sykes, f**k jamie foxx, f**k barack obama!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LADboy/ LADboy

    Yo Ol girl is funny I liked that one; Bump that fat cracker anyway, cut some bacon off his back

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/onyx11_76/ onyx11_76

    Cmoore I agree I have tried to laugh at Wanda’s jokes but she is just not funny. I absolutely agree that her voice is very annoying and she does try to hard. I can’t believe that she has a fan base.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Girth757/ Girth757

    I like wanda sykes because she says whats on her mind in a “funny” way. Shes not really funny to me, but she reminds me of an aunt that always says whatever tryna be funny. And shes from Portsmouth, my hometown.

  • http://newsone.blackplanet.com/obama/obama-clowns-michael-steeles-slang/ Obama Clowns Michael Steele’s Slang | NewsOne

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kenn-09/ Kenn-09

    I’ve spent my entire life hearing about Rush Limbaugh dissin black people and democrats. I would say alot worse about him. I wish they would put me and him in a ring. I would give him tha a@# whippin he missed out on as a child.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/davettalashley/ davettalashley

    You’ve gotta be kidding me. After the ignorant, hateful crap that Rush Limbaugh spews every day on that moronic radio show of his, I couldn’t care less what anybody has to say about him. If he can dish it out, he can take it, too. Hell, I’ll take it even further and add that I hope that everything he does FAILS until he does the right thing by the people he’s caused problems for.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jody-g-man/ jody-g-man

    Love what she has to say.Freedom of speech is what America is all about.Besides she is only speaking her mind and thoughts.Luv YA WANDA.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tallerthanyou/ tallerthanyou

    Good job Wanda i thought you were on their sad at 1st.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/OregonWebmaster/ OregonWebmaster

    it is no mystery about rush…drugs and sex vacations with the underaged in the gulf. wanda was mild, very mild. i say you go wanda, give us more, take this on a national tour. maybe you are the one to finally stand up to this old, fat, drugged up pedofile

  • http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/critic-on-wanda-sykes-the-black-dke-got-it-wrong/ Critic On Wanda Sykes: “The Black D*ke Got It Wrong” | NewsOne

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ktreasure32/ ktreasure32

    Obama was funnier

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/anxiousfrednc/ anxiousfrednc

    I like Wanda, and dislike Rush, but let’s get it right. This is a Presidential event, and it should have more class than that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4merHorse06/ 4merHorse06

    “It is to laugh…”

    If some conservative comedian had made the same or simular comments about a liberal or (gasp!!!) the Anointed One Messiah Obama, you’d go deaf from all the howling cries of racism/intolerence/_______(fill in the blank). BUT, dredge up talentless, sorry-azzd Wanda Dykes & let her make those remarks & it’s all good in the hood. Even the Anointed One Messiah Obama gets a good chuckle. Just another case of demo-liberals showing their TRUE colors and (some) knee-grows too damn stupid to see it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/guitar102/ guitar102

    Wanda rocks! Every word was a jewel! Besides, they’re never politically correct at these dinners anyway, and now there’s at least something about Limbaugh that historians will remember.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/stephenfrazier/ stephenfrazier

    OK, all you CRUDES who rail about “all the hateful crap” that Rush Limbaugh “spews out every day”; I challenge you to name just ONE hateful thing Rush has said about ANY race, color, ethnic group or sexual persuasion, let alone liberal or anything else. C’mon, CHUMPS. Lets hear it. But look, I don’t want to hear all the dribble about how anyone that disagrees with DA PHILOSOPHY OF DA HOOD hates blacks. I want specific instances, not psychobabble talking points that you heard from Tavis Smiley or Wanda Sykes. I’ll publish it all in my newsletter. Fair and square. If you think you can handle the TRUTH (99% of you probably have never heard Rush’s show)use the CONTACT link right here and talk to me if you have the nerve. I know NONE of you will respond. That’s the way it is with people who get their knowledge and COURAGE of conviction from listening to what other people say, without taking five minutes to (big word coming) ANALYZE information. If I sound ANGRY, it is because I AM. It is pitiful, day after day, reading all this sh*t, which mostly just affirms the white man’s impression that the vast majority of blacks couldn’t hold an intelligent conversation with a ROCK if critical thinking was one of the requirements. I am also angry at myself for spending the first FORTY YEARS of my life thinking that it was the white man that was holding us back, then gradually realizing that it is our own da*ned STUPIDITY instead. The smartest thing the KLAN ever did was to leave us alone so we could, through our own ignorance and dumb decisions, destroy ourselves. Reading the tripe in this place every day seems to indicate that D-Day is upon us.

    Of course this diatribe does not apply to those of you who have made cogent, relevant and thoughtful submissions on this and other issues. I salute the three or four of you who have demonstrated that you can see more than one side of an issue, even if you disagree with it. My ire is towards those who are like the black woman who shouted “Now that Obama has won, I don’t have to pay for my house” or those who thought his running mate was Sarah Palin or that he is pro-life or that Dan Quayle could not spell “potatoe” or that Bill Clinton was the best president since JFK.

    You know, this message is soooo GOOD, that I am going to post it on my website at blackindependent.com FIRST, so that it can be exposed to people who have the guts to challenge something if they disagree with it, and use their own intellect to formulate their responses. By the way, does anybody realize that, because of the recession, Social Security projects a deficit of 181,000,000,000 over the next two years? Oh. Sorry. Didn’t mean to interject some RELEVANCE into the atmosphere.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dazzle803/ Dazzle803

    She’s a freaking comedian. Do they think she cares about politics? They did the research. They knew what kind of performances she gave. I watched it and it was hilarious. Job well done. I’m tired of these people acting all stuffy and worrying about what someone else says. Savage and Limbaugh say off the wall stuff everyday! So freaking what. Everyone needs to stop acting so up tight.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/damnear40/ damnear40

    It’s hypocritical to censor in the land of freedom. However, even Russell Simmons pre-screened the stand-up performances prior to taping Def Comedy Jam. Bush’s team insisted to comedian Lewis Black not to use profanity during his White House Correspondence performance… D.L. Hughley would have been a better choice. I’m sure he understands protocol now that he’s with CNN

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnpinedo/ Johnpinedo

    I think she went too far and she was way too easy on obama
    What ever happened to being fair?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/moniQTee/ moniQTee

    Did the poster @ 9:03am sign onto BP JUST TO TELL US THAT?

    PLEASE. GET THE FUK OVER IT! ITS CALLED THE 1st AMENDMANT! YOU PEOPLE ARE RUINING THE CONSTITUTION WITH YOUR FUKIN RANTS ABOUT WHAT CAN AND CANT BE SAID! NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS. EVEN 9/11! AND IM NOT EVEN A FANOF WANDA SYKES.

    SO SET AND READY TO CALL HER “GHETTO TRASH” WHY? BECAUSE SHE IS A BLACK WOMAN? YOU RACIST PIECES OF SHT! PREJUDICED AGAINST YOUR OWN PEOPLE. YOU ARE THE SC** I CANT STAND.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnpinedo/ Johnpinedo

    1st AMENDMANT!are you kidding me ask Miss Calif about 1st AMENDMANT! That want her dead and all she did was stand up for her self she said she hoped that gay people’s kidneys fail GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnpinedo/ Johnpinedo

    1st AMENDMANT!are you kidding me ask Miss Calif about 1st AMENDMANT! Thay all want her dead and all she did was stand up for her what she believes she never said she hoped that gay people’s kidneys would fail GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dee-314/ Dee-314

    man wanda sykes could have went a little harder on obama it was cool but could have been better

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/damnear40/ damnear40

    What’s problematic about this is that mostly everyone’s giving this “What’s good for the goose…” argument. President Obama has ran his entire campaign on Change and taking the high road. He shouldn’t be mentioned with people who take cheap shots and low blows like Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage and others. He’s trying to keep it real by inviting our black comedians such as the late Bernie Mac (during his campaign) and Wanda Sykes this weekend but they’re not realizing their own personal responsibility to perception of the world and community that Obama has worked so hard to build! If nothing else they need to step back and respect that and conduct themselves a little more classy.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnpinedo/ Johnpinedo

    Wanda should have just sat in obamas lap that what’s she really wanted to HELL WHY HIDE IT Wanda boy I wonder who she voted for???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnpinedo/ Johnpinedo

    Hollywood and the mainstream media you’re all pathetic! If obama told you the jump off a bridge you would say when and where FOLLOWERS ALL soon we will see the obama youth,1939 all over again Media SC**!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Rgeezy/ Rgeezy

    stephenfrazier…

    I normally don’t try to engage one sided ignorance. I read your post. You have way too much time on your hands. You are also a very angry individual who seems to be somewhat racist. Not commenting to argue with you, while that would be no challenge-you would lose that one most certainly, my purpose is merely to let you know how truly ignorant you are. When I have time , which I dont now. I will address the SEVERAL ignorant points in your post when time permits..on you blog…whatever.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/254Fat_Boy/ 254Fat_Boy

    I just don’t think it’s funny to call on law-abiding Americans to be tortured and die of kidney failure simply because they’re not bleeding-heart liberals. I’ve talked with liberals who couldn’t find anything but excuses for the VC who crippled McCain in their torture camps, but at the same time, they can’t find any reason to justify the waterboarding of Khalid Seikh Mohammad. To people like that, conservative free speech is worse than murder. The only consolation is that Sykes’ is so fitting, because I can’t believe for a moment that her “jokes” truly reflect her personal views.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pinktwizler/ pinktwizler

    Thank you Wanda Sikes. Sister you did as our parents would say.”You killed two birds with one stone. In case you didn’t know you were funny as hell, at the same time told the damn truth. Hat’s off. Since when did we start taking political advise from a pill popper. Bush is and always has been an alcoholic,now Rush Limbaugh is the spokes person for the Republicans. Sounds almost as desperate as a black man leading them now LOLLLLLLLLLL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Karif3333/ Karif3333

    254fat-boy stop talking like a house-n****r im sick and tried of you WANNABEWHITEOREOS ranting on youcoon and on black web sites putting down black men and women.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nish83/ Nish83

    All these ppl saying President Obama this and President Obama followers that. Shut the f**k up you all did the same with bush a bunch of stupid bush followers.

    And to all the secretly hidden racists who wont admit it but really don’t like seeing President Obama as president b/ he is black yeah f**k you all too!

    Wanda you’re my hero! Actually she was nice I wouldn’t have been much much worse I think rush need to s*ck Dan (ann) Coulter d*ck then have kidney failure. Bleeding heart liberals? No were just common sense individuals unlike you dumb ass repugnant fools.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/knappylocsdiva/ knappylocsdiva

    Wanda was off the hook and to the point. It’s ” funny” when “Politically correct” folks talk about Black people but when the tables are turned it’s a “national disgrace”. Save the drama people, it’s our time to shine and you can’t take it!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/posseonbroadway/ posseonbroadway

    whoa when she said give her Texas it was so funny

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/254Fat_Boy/ 254Fat_Boy

    actually yeah, I listened to the rest of her speech and it was funny. all i’m saying is that it appears kind of hypocritical for democrats to oppose waterboarding al-Qaeda leaders and then joke about waterboarding radio talk show hosts… HMM

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/West_Philly_miz/ West_Philly_miz

    everything she said was true.LOL if them cavemen don’t like it, f**kem.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/toyab_baby/ toyab_baby

    ok and wanda was wrong where???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SugaRae72/ SugaRae72

    Waaahh… thats all you hear out of the “right” these days… Wanda had it goin on! If you aren’t laughing at this, you need to fix your specs and your hearing aid! Go Wanda… We are behind you!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cy47/ cy47

    She’s very funny I wish she would do a comedy Tour, like Chris Rock. Bump what people say about her, I could careless.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chooseylover_1/ chooseylover_1

    Yeah, wanda is a dyke, and she is black. So what? And i agree with her 100%. It was a joke, but f**k limbaugh and sean hannity.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shirley61_2009/ shirley61_2009

    Wanda, love all your doing!!
    keep spending the word… got your back 100% YOU GO GIRL!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnpinedo/ Johnpinedo

    Hollywood and the mainstream media you’re all pathetic! If obama told you the jump off a bridge you would say when and where! I am sadden to see so many followers on this site soon we will seeing the obama youth,1939 all over again Media SC**!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnpinedo/ Johnpinedo

    1st AMENDMANT! are you kidding me ask Miss Calif about 1st AMENDMANT! Thay all want her dead and all she did was stand up for what she believes she never said she hoped that gay people’s kidneys would fail GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Whos_GiNa/ Whos_GiNa

    Go Wanda..Go Go!! Go Wanda!! Go Go!!! People are just mad because the truth hurts…especially coming from a gay black female at that…lmao. Do tha dam thing Wanda!!! Make em Sweat!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JERSEYDRIFTER/ JERSEYDRIFTER

    ok… America, let’s look at torture….pure and simple is it right or wrong?
    Did Hitler ask the gestapo, what they were doing with the jews in eastern europe?Why did we help pass the Geneva Convention? To outlaw torture in the first place. Do we want other anti-america forces torturing our troops? Im a vietnam veteran, I opposed this war, but now that we are occupying two countries for oil corporations let’s not forget what is morally right

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ldarkkisses/ ldarkkisses

    Wanda is so funny. You go girl. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Janique301/ Janique301

    People it was a dinner with Comedian intertainmen?! Comedians say what they feel is funny and ENTERTAINING. So what if Wanda supposedly “cross the line” Comedians do it ALL the time!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/YoungEx19/ YoungEx19

    WOW! Just another reason why Wanda Sykes is one of my favorite comedians. She spoke the truth.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/manofleisure/ manofleisure

    Sure Wanda Sykes is funny – but to me most of her “jokes” lacked a critical ingredient for a political event: Tact.

    Some things that are funny to joke about. But I find it difficult to find humor in:

    - 9/11 Hijakers that killed thousands of Americans
    - “Breaking” other entertainers using waterboarding
    - Other entertainers substance abuse problems (considering Wanda is herself a recovering alcoholic)

    Maybe its me – but I just cannot see anything funny about any of those topics. I have never had a substance abuse problem, but I have watched “New Jack City” enough times to know that its not all that fun to have a habit, or trying to beat it.

    Now if Wanda (or the President) had the guts to actually attack the substance of the arguements against the President’s policy decisions…well, I might have laughed at that. But that takes guts. Bill Cosby, Martin or Jamie could have pulled something like that off: ROTF LOL humor – with class. But its far easier to dip into the toilet, and make a personal attack or two instead.

    Because thats funny, right!

    Wanda’s “jokes” were not that funny to me…but watching Obama laughing at those jokes made me weep for the future.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kenzo7o6/ kenzo7o6

    I just founda new respect for Wanda. She hit the nail on the head.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Imperfect_Gentleman/ Imperfect_Gentleman

    Obama had to take a drink. after the Limbaugh joke.. that was funny as hell1

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EFEEZEE/ EFEEZEE

    It’s funny how someone can be so critical of a comedian. That’s what they do is talk s**t…. all of them. Some don’t get political but many do and as long as you know what your talking about it’s fine with me. And Wanda is just to real for alot of people (manofleisure) and for someone with such a laid back name sure is hella critical of a comedian who’s telling the truth. Or mabye if she was making fun of a bunch of black people instead of white mabye that would be funny huh?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/12Playa/ 12Playa

    I think Wanda’s comments were very poignant and very funny, especially the part about Limbaugh and Hannity.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/12Playa/ 12Playa

    “weep for the future” you got to be kidding me!!!! If you wasn’t weeping because of all the wrong doing this last administration has done, then you should be Rejoicing for this one. I never heard such ridiculous mess in all my life!!!!

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