Next 100 days will be so successful, I will be able to complete them in 72 days

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I'll see your "Sour Grapes" and raise you:

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Been saving this one:

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[Pooky 3,930]

What's the difference between a Sarah Palin speech and a Barack Obama speech?

Sarah Palin can tell when the teleprompter's on the blink.

What's the difference between a George Bush speech and a Barack Obama speech?

Barack Obama has comic timing, George Bush is just timeless comedy.

What's the difference between Joe Biden and ####### Cheney?

Poke fun at Joe Biden and you're not likely to get shot.

What's the difference between a Wanda Sykes speech and a Rush Limbaugh speech?

Rush doesn't get booed by a friendly audience.

And the biggest joke in this thread is the people that try to pass Obama's speech last night off as his own brilliance. He had good scriptwriters. Very good, as it turns out. And he delivered the humor perfectly.

But these same people derided Sarah Palin for having people write her speeches in the election campaign. A case of double-standards if ever there was one. And the media, just lap it up, too. Same old, same old.

[Ban Hammer 14,635]

What's the difference between a Sarah Palin speech and a Barack Obama speech?

Sarah Palin can tell when the teleprompter's on the blink.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

What's the difference between a Sarah Palin speech and a Barack Obama speech?

Sarah Palin can tell when the teleprompter's on the blink.

Barry's TOTUS doubles as his new spiritual adviser. It channels thru him.

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And the biggest joke in this thread is the people that try to pass Obama's speech last night off as his own brilliance. He had good scriptwriters. Very good, as it turns out. And he delivered the humor perfectly.

But these same people derided Sarah Palin for having people write her speeches in the election campaign. A case of double-standards if ever there was one. And the media, just lap it up, too. Same old, same old.

Please point out where anyone on this thread said anything about Obama's brilliance just because he told a few jokes. The only compliments Obama got here were for his comedy.

So now Letterman and Leno deserve no credit as funnymen because they too have teams of writers? Being a good joke teller when it's not your own material is now less worthy?

I think we're kinda agreeing here ... Obama showed a knack for delivery and timing. Nothing more, nothing less. That's what you're saying (bold text). That's what I said initially:

Amongst all his other talents, who knew the guy was actually funny? In the tradition of Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Barack Obama - master of the punchline!

Oh, and regarding Sarah Palin. I never had a problem with her having speechwriters. All the politicians do. It's part of their game. I was much more concerned with her inability to articulate serious policy positions. Or to name a newspaper she reads regularly.

[jundp 191]

What's the difference between a Sarah Palin speech and a Barack Obama speech?

Sarah Palin can tell when the teleprompter's on the blink.

Barry's TOTUS doubles as his new spiritual adviser. It channels thru him.

You are so funny!!!

Oh, and regarding Sarah Palin. I never had a problem with her having speechwriters. All the politicians do. It's part of their game. I was much more concerned with her inability to articulate serious policy positions. Or to name a newspaper she reads regularly.

Ok, all sarcasm aside, that really is funny

Edited May 12, 2009 by jundp

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at least he is intending to be funny, totally insane is when the person is trying to sound serious and appear intelligent and what comes out of his mouth isn't

exhibit A:

Edited May 12, 2009 by TävôLuDô

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Tavo

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[scandal 951]

One more, on the aftermath of Wanda Sykes from Sat night.

This was the quote that made me want to post the whole article:

Isn't it interesting that everyone who insults Rush Limbaugh -- with the exception of Keith Olbermann -- ends up either apologizing or on the defensive? If only people who engaged in justifying the torture of detainees could expect to be similarly shamed.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09132/969476-153.stm

Sykes singes Rush, Washington fumes

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

By Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

With the exception of Stephen Colbert's brilliant carpet-bombing of the Bush administration and the Washington press corps at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the annual ritual of media-politico suck ups and self-congratulation is rarely funny to anyone outside the Beltway.

Last Saturday night, President Barack Obama and comedian Wanda Sykes changed the rules of the game. Mr. Obama defied the conventional wisdom that he's more earnest than funny by turning in an urbane and hilarious performance that Washington will be chattering about for a long time.

This isn't to say Wanda Sykes wasn't funny. She was, but her monologue -- saucier and more partisan than the president's -- suffered in comparison to Mr. Obama's more cerebral shtick. This isn't surprising. Barack Obama is quickly becoming the first American president in history to make it an occupational hazard for a professional comedian to follow.

Still, Ms. Sykes' good-natured jab at the president's hoop skills bordered on inspired. After observing that the "first black president" playing pickup basketball at the White House was "one step forward, two steps back," Ms. Sykes wondered aloud whether Mr. Obama was really "any good."

"I betcha think your game is really nice right now, don't you?" Ms. Sykes said as the president laughed sheepishly. "Yeah, you really do got good moves, huh? I mean, c'mon! Nobody's gonna give the president a hard foul with the Secret Service standing there. He's probably braggin' and everything: 'You shoulda seen me today, baby, I was ballin'."

Alas, Rush Limbaugh didn't find himself on the receiving end of such gentle ribbing. After accusing him of treachery for saying he hoped Mr. Obama -- and America -- failed, she added: "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 so strung out on OxyContin, he missed his flight."

The audience reacted to the tasteless reference with a mix of groans and laughter. Ms. Sykes glanced at Mr. Obama, who wasn't exactly waving a finger of disapproval at her. "Too much?" Ms. Sykes asked the crowd. "You're laughing inside, I know you're laughing," she said before splashing more fuel on the fire. "Rush Limbaugh -- 'I hope the country fails.' I hope his kidneys fail. How about that?"

She then finished with a comment that transposed Mr. Limbaugh with Fox's Sean "I'll Let You Waterboard Me For Charity" Hannity: "He needs a waterboarding, that what he needs."

It didn't take long for the false sanctimony of the Washington press corps to roll down like water on Wanda Sykes. Besides wishing renal failure on Rush Limbaugh, Ms. Sykes had the temerity to reach into truly dangerous places with her humor -- which is positively un-American.

Nearly two days after the laughter faded, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that the 9/11 terrorist attacks is a subject "better left for serious reflection than comedy."

It was inevitable that the Obama White House would distance itself from yet another supporter frowned upon by D.C.'s morally complacent cafe society. Once Wanda Sykes was denounced on "Morning Joe," it was over.

Isn't it interesting that everyone who insults Rush Limbaugh -- with the exception of Keith Olbermann -- ends up either apologizing or on the defensive? If only people who engaged in justifying the torture of detainees could expect to be similarly shamed.

The irony is that Wanda Sykes at her most extreme never approached the vitriol you'd find in a typical three-hour block of Rush Limbaugh's show.

Mr. Limbaugh makes $38 million a year. He has an eight-year, $400 million contract with Clear Channel, a failing radio network that has cut 1,850 employees from its rolls since January, according to Media Matters for America. He's not sweating Wanda Sykes' joke about failing kidneys, OxyContin or being a terrorist.

I hope the White House will stick by Mr. Obama's quip that Rep. John Boehner's complexion doesn't correspond to anything in the natural world. Now that was some major presidential wrongness.

First published on May 12, 2009 at 12:00 am

[Pooky 3,930]

The irony is that Wanda Sykes at her most extreme never approached the vitriol you'd find in a typical three-hour block of Rush Limbaugh's show.

Wishing an administration of a political party or persuasion other than one's own, as Limbaugh freely professes, is political commentary. Nothing wrong there. Politicians of opposing parties do the same, day in and day out.

Likening one man who you do not agree with to 19 mass murderers, responsible for the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans and foreign nationals in the single biggest terrorist attack the world has seen, then following that up by wishing that person dead, is hate speech. It is unacceptable and most of the room appreciated that fact.

Despite what some networks would like you to think about the President and first lady laughing at the "joke", I don't believe they were at all comfortable with what was said.

Again, the media, this time in the form of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, attempts to evade criticising a grossly inappropriate act by equivocation, bringing up the subject of torture to point out "Hey, they're just as bad as we are and they didn't apologise, so why should we?" What they miss is that by doing so, they fall to the level same level as those they oppose, when retaining the higher ground by staying on subject and laying criticism where it was due in this case would serve their point that much better.

But then, the media never learns, does it?

Edited May 13, 2009 by Pooky