The White House Correspondent's dinner was this past Saturday night. It is always filled with self deprecating and otherwise somewhat bawdy humor. It is the press corp's time to let it's collective hair down, and the politicians do as well.
To wit... we had the President, in his remarks noting that former VP Dick Cheney couldn't be there because he was busy writing his memoir, to be titled "How to Shoot your Friends and Interrogate People". The President also took the opportunity to note that he was happy to be appearring at the event since:
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That line actually got him the best audience response of his remarks... save for the de rigeur teleprompter bit you just had to expect.
At the same event, comedian (?) and keynoter Wanda Sykes remarked (among other things) that she hoped Rush Limbaugh's kidneys would fail and that he would die, and being the 20th 9/11 hijacker, among other things. The president himself apparently got a good laugh out of that line.
And while I've seen pretty much only bouquets in the reportage of the event from the 527 Media, some attendees were apparently somewhat less than thrilled with it all.
But now today we learn that the White House is already beginning to distance itself from Ms. Sykes. Seems some of her more petulant anti-Limbaugh screed didn't sit well with some people, so WH spokesdude Robert "Beltway Bob" Gibbs got called on it at today's press briefing. And, not surprisingly, he side stepped.
I wonder how Ms. Sykes is going to enjoy it... being under the bus and all.
Contrast all that with something that CBS golf analyst David Feherty wrote for a Dallas magazine recently. Feherty and several other residents of the Big D area were asked to write a column about President Bush planning on moving to the Dallas area. Now Feherty is a card with the acerbic wit one often finds among those who hail from Northern Ireland, as he does. At one point in his column he threw in the following joke, speaking metaphorically about how the troops felt about Bush as opposed to a few other people...
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Feherty has been forced to publicly apologize, no doubt at the threat of losing his job.
Which brings me to the question posed by the thread title above. It's okay for the left to be as infantile and hateful as it wants to be... but it ain't okay for the right.
Truth or bullcorn.... you decide.
