Gibbs on Sykes: On second thought, 9/11 isn’t an appropriate subject for humor
posted at 4:55 pm on May 11, 2009 by Allahpundit
Isn’t it this guy’s job to convey Obama’s thinking to the media? Then how to explain this answer when we have video proof of The One merrily yukking it up during Sykes’s offending bit? Good lord, even Keith Olbermann thought it was “probably” in bad taste, which, coming from him about a fellow lefty, is tantamount to nuclear-hot outrage.
Ben Shapiro said all that needs to be said about the fundamental cowardice of dumping on Republicans at Obama’s big debutante ball:
Wanda Sykes, by contrast, is the most gutless and feckless performer ever to grace the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Sykes, for those who haven’t seen her stellar work in gems like CondomNation, Brother Bear 2, and Over the Hedge, is a militant lesbian with a grating voice and an obnoxious strut. She recently proclaimed during the California Prop. 8 debate that “Everybody that knows me personally, they know I’m gay … Now, I gotta get in their face. I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay.”
Well, apparently she’s not so proud to be gay. Because when given the opportunity to make jokes about the nation’s leading proponent of opposite-sex marriage, President Barack Obama, she said precisely nothing. Instead, she chose to gently stroke his ego with jokes about his pecs, his dog, and his basketball skills.
Eh, this is Clinton redux: Just as feminist outrage was muted then in the interest of serving the Democratic power structure, so is gay outrage muted now. In the great taxonomy of political identities, “Democrat” — the stamp of virtuous intentions — still trumps all.
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the er uh guffawing by Ogabe was simply a new way to express displeasure…..
Ogabe thinks 9/11 was a joke….
look at Scare Force Won and this…..
sven10077 on May 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Another flip-flop?
deidre on May 11, 2009 at 4:58 PM
once a Hypocrit, always a Hypocrit……
Nothing ever changes from Liberals….watch, if Rush even criticizes her, the MSM will be calling him Racist and a Homophobe…..
SDarchitect on May 11, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Gibbs.
Olby.
Biden.
Obama.
People I cannot fugging STAND. In that order.
Abby Adams on May 11, 2009 at 4:59 PM
I hope Gibbs chokes on his failed kidneys.
progressoverpeace on May 11, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Rush was smart not to even talk about it today.
Brat on May 11, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Now THAT was funny, bad taste or not.
Daggett on May 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Wanda Sykes, Wanda Sykes your bus is leaving on platform Obama in 3, 2, 1….
Caper29 on May 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM
What the president thought of the comments of Wanda Sucks was written over over his smirking mug.
RandyChandler on May 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM
flip the script, and a GOP administration would have to make someone resign for making Obama laugh
jp on May 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Brat on May 11, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Definitely. I’m glad he completely ignored it. He kept playing that Obama clip from inauguration…”put away childish ways…” That was good enough
youngO on May 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Yep! Like Ed said, don’t give her any more attention for the bad humor.
deidre on May 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Gibbs is such a mealy-mouthed wimp. Appropriate that he is the mouth-piece for President Pantywaist.
JAM on May 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM
I got into an argument with a friend that is hellbent on loving Barack Obama. She calls republicans bigots, heartless because we don’t nationalization and socialized healthcare, or same sex marriage.
I explained to her, why yes, I am a bigot. I want the government out of my house, my bedroom, and my life. I want lower taxes, smaller government, and I want our country to follow the constitution.
Oh, and one more thing. Your love, Barack Obama doesn’t believe in gay marriage either.
Wander Sykes is a crack ho. Enough said.
HornetSting on May 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM
You know………….
…….. is a recurring theme in these “White House” briefings.
Seven Percent Solution on May 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM
I can’t see the video, but did Gibba just throw President Obama under the bus? Can the bus work like that?
BadgerHawk on May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Isn’t that the truth. I don’t think anyone really believes he’s anti gay may marriage, though. I used to work with a lesbian who was a HUGE supporter of his, the same one who cried a couple years prior when VA passed the consitutional amendment banning gay marriage. SHe thinks he was just saying he was agianst it-gasp!-to get elected. He’ll find a change of heart in his second term, should that happen…
changer1701 on May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Not sure what “gay may marriage” is, but I meant just gay marriage…need to preview.
changer1701 on May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Well there is good reason. Most people would say “WHO???”
You can watch the wheels turning in his head buying himself time by talking about how guests get booked and using “filler” words until he says that some topics aren’t funny(or however he worded it).
Gibbs has the nerve to try to pass the buck, when his job is to speak for the President.
jeffn21 on May 11, 2009 at 5:06 PM
“I haven’t talked to the President about that….”
…….. is a recurring theme in these “White House” briefings.
Seven Percent Solution on May 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Right. Isn’t his job to talk to the president?
youngO on May 11, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Maybe Pres. Obama is a Truther. You can’t believe that 9/11 was a significant event if you will laugh at jokes about it and buzz NYC with a large plane.
Cindy Munford on May 11, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Gibbs: What president Obama meant to laugh at was…
Loxodonta on May 11, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Tsk, tsk. This is Hope. This is Change.
When are you cons going to get with the program?
/
RushBaby on May 11, 2009 at 5:07 PM
changer1701 on May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM
I think your friend is right. Ofcourse he’s for gay marriage. I don’t even think he’ll wait til second term. In some archives a while back there was a LGBT newspaper that had him saying he’s for gay marriage in the 90s.
youngO on May 11, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Just the logical conclusion of 33% of democrats thinking 9/11 was an inside job.
lorien1973 on May 11, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Interesting a room full of professional “journalists” can’t come to that obvious conclusion……….
Seven Percent Solution on May 11, 2009 at 5:09 PM
I don’t think he’s anti-gay-marriage either. He’s just another sleazy politician that will say anything to get elected, and knows taking that stand is a dead. The social pervs on the left know they have to take baby steps with stuff.
moonbat monitor on May 11, 2009 at 5:10 PM
I’m surprised Gibbs response wasn’t something like:
Gibbs: The president is not, um, familiar with the remarks. He was thinking about pressing matters of State. As soon as the video is made available, um, we’ll review it comment on it, uh, then. It just wouldn’t be appropriate to comment on this at this time. The president is a busy man and is working for the American people to fix the economy we inherited from the previous administration. Millions have lost their jobs due to the ummm, mishandling of our economy the last 8 years. People are hurting. I’m hurting. You’re hurting. We’re all hurting. Have you seen the new budget projections? 8 years of failed policies won’t turn around in a day. Ummm, as we invest in our future, the Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geitner, is currently reviewing where we can make additional cuts and stop all the tax cheating corporations from banking offshore.
Does that answer your question?
av8tr on May 11, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Seven Percent Solution on May 11, 2009 at 5:09 PM
It’s a disgrace to this country what the “journalists/media” have become
youngO on May 11, 2009 at 5:12 PM
It’s his way of voting ‘present’ in the WH.
HornetSting on May 11, 2009 at 5:13 PM
I thought Gibbs’ job was to be an interpretive dancer for Obama.
Loxodonta on May 11, 2009 at 5:14 PM
I wasn’t able to listen closely today – is that why he played the quote from Obama’s speech, about it being time to “put away childish things” and whatnot? I thought that seemed pretty pointed at the flaming hypocrite in the Oval Office.
capitalist piglet on May 11, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Gibb’s job is to star in the cartoon television show, “The Family Guy”.
capitalist piglet on May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM
They were full of hope that Obama would magically appear in the room and have a heated exchange with them.
Oh! Oh! Swooooooooooon!
Loxodonta on May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM
EVERY FOX PERSONALITY SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THIS! God knows MSNBC weenies would demand impeachment if a Republican laughed at 9/11 jokes.
Speedwagon82 on May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Yeah, talking about his daughters taking Air Force for a ride to Manhattan was in poor taste. I hope New Yorkers took note of it.
ALSO, and this hasn’t really been talked about, but talking about destroying the country in the next one hundred days with his agenda, but doing it in seventy two days….and resting on the seventy third day….was awful.
Good job, president, biggest failure evah.
HornetSting on May 11, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Yes. How do you fix this horrible injustice? You support policies that are clearly more friendly towards gay people. As it stands now, with all the Dem’s double-talk, the gays are still better off with them.
radiofreevillage on May 11, 2009 at 5:18 PM
capitalist piglet on May 11, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Yeah. I think he would rather show how hypocrital that statement was than to give sykes any publicity
youngO on May 11, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Oh, they are all gay!
Come on! As in happy and gay! They just laugh, laugh, laugh. Live, Love, Laugh. Hopey, changey. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
In the meantime, the nation is burning.
JeffinOrlando on May 11, 2009 at 5:19 PM
I thought Gibbs’ job was to be an interpretive dancer for Obama.
Loxodonta on May 11, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Well, hopefully he’s better at dancing than speaking. Because listening to him is torture…I’ll rather be waterboarding
youngO on May 11, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Unless you truly believe it is wrong and you won’t just bend over and use the topic for political expediency.
HornetSting on May 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Gibbs a smary smart ass sleaze. Notice troll Helen Thomas is not there to bust his stones.
RobCon on May 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Staying Classy.
Mommypundit on May 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Gibbs Response translation. Their mouths are amazingly the same.
portlandon on May 11, 2009 at 5:21 PM
I forgot where they are flipping from…
The White House is like the biggest McDonald’s in town… but their burgers are way more burnt.
Upstater85 on May 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM
I think you CAN believe 9/11 was significant AND laugh at jokes about AND send Scare Force One through NY City….
IF you are such a narcissistic egomaniac that you believe nothing is more important than your own appearance, the sound of your own voice, the gratification of your every whim…
Loxodonta on May 11, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I wonder if they paid for a Coach-under-the-bus…
Upstater85 on May 11, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Rahm is the dancer (literally). Gibbs is the “re-interpreter” as in “I’m telling you what the vice president meant to say” spiel he spun about Biden.
Brat on May 11, 2009 at 5:24 PM
The First Couple gave Sykes a thumbs up that night. Now, it looks like it’s speed bump time for Wanda. Don’t you just love consistentcy?
The wheels on the bus go thump…thump…thump.
kingsjester on May 11, 2009 at 5:24 PM
I wonder if Eric Holder and his law partners thought 9/11 was a big deal… for rolling in the bank!
Upstater85 on May 11, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Didn’t know she was gay.
Just goes to prove the old saying, you are what you eat.
>.<
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on May 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Ouch!
Upstater85 on May 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM
E L Frederick (Sniper One)
Gruesome!
Brat on May 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM
It’s like you gave Wanda a carpet-burn level PWNing there…
Upstater85 on May 11, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Well, Allah may turn and do the same to me… I would have a righteous cluebatting coming for that…
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on May 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM
This guy makes Scott McLellan look intellectual.
Jarhead68 on May 11, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Yes. Gibbs is torturing the English language and millions of observers.
Where are those Spanish Courts when we really need them?
Loxodonta on May 11, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I guess that means Obama has been on a steady diet of rump roast.
Daggett on May 11, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Here’s your punishment… http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/11/meghan-mccain-at-whcd-does-he-even-know-who-the-f-i-am/
Upstater85 on May 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I agree. That was a very good way to handle it.
(I just checked out your blog – looks good…I am a lifelong Packer fan, and I have to say I totally agree with your post there too.)
capitalist piglet on May 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I thought they were brothers
Upstater85 on May 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Really? Maybe you should tell Dan Choi that he’s better off with Obama in the White House.
Esthier on May 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Yep, HIV is taking a break while THE ONE shines his blessed light on teh gheys, and those not yet infected have more free time to find life-partners after the last round of lay-offs.
Just wait until ghey-meridge is legal and lawyers can start profiting from all those ghey-devorses! Obama + Gheys = w00t!
TMK on May 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Nice!
youngO on May 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Now Showing: “Get Under The Bus”
mojo on May 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM
How did Sykes get the job?
d1carter on May 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM
capitalist piglet on May 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
thanks. yeah brett favre lost me a couple of years ago. And i thought T.O. was selfish
youngO on May 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Ah, but even if they have AIDS, they only need to touch the filter of his cigarette to be healed.
Daggett on May 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Oh No!!!
Not Blondie McCain, please anything but that… waterboard me, make me watch “Plan 9 From Outer Space”… anything but Blondie…
Your an evil evil man….
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on May 11, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Once upon a time there was supposed to be some inherent dignity in the office of the Presidency. But now we have Mr. Tacky and his minions.
Terrye on May 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM
I’m dying here laughing.
Why do you want to kill me?
Loxodonta on May 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM
At least JFK was doing Marilyn Monroe in the Oral Office…
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on May 11, 2009 at 5:37 PM
This is so obviously unfair to the gay movement that only those who don’t think about the point will be hoodwinked by this argument. The reason that the gay Democrats don’t hold Obama’s stance against him has already been discussed at Hotair. We all, gays and Hot Air readers, know that Obama’s opposition to gay marriage is strategic, and will go disappear once the polling supports its disappearance. There are many things to complain about the gay movement like the sometimes fascism about dissent and the hate crimes laws. But not complaining about a covert supporter being political isn’t one of them. It’s simple common sense on their behalf.
thuja on May 11, 2009 at 5:39 PM
But that is only apparent to those who take off their rose-colored glasses and actually care to see. And that doesn’t include the MSM or the liberals they are pimping for.
ProfessorMiao on May 11, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Forget about the joke. She is a “D” List Comedian. And I use that word, Comedian, very loosely.
Which group in CA was instrumental in the passing of Prop 8? Which group in DC did mayor McCrack say would riot if Same Sex Marriage was legalized in DC? Which group, overwehlmingly, voted for Obama because of his skin color?
Obama said that he was against SSM during the Presidential Campaign.
Why isn’t the RNC using this against Obama? Can he afford to alienate the group discribed above? Hell No!!
Push SSM onto the front page and make Obama take a stand on it. He would either lose the Black vote or the Gay vote.
PappaMac on May 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Just for that here’s your punishment…
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/05/11/2009-05-11_meghan_mccain_a_real_pain_at_dc_dinner.html
I swear this thread is becoming like 9th grade history assignment in Pueblo, Colorado.
Loxodonta on May 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Likely Hillary was involved if ya know what I mean.
But as Seinfeld would say ” Not that there is anything wrong with that”
Jamson64 on May 11, 2009 at 5:45 PM
How can he when he’s got Obama’s **** so deep down his throat? Insert tea-bagging joke here.
cannonball on May 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Obama hates white people, and is turning the country into a socialist state. He is trampling on private property rights, and transferring wealth from those he hates to those he likes. He is also harming our traditional allies and making friends with our enemies.
Yet you think that saying he likes gay marriage will somehow turn people against him. You may be a so-called gay, but it ‘aint all that.
JiangxiDad on May 11, 2009 at 5:47 PM
if you think bambi would lose the black vote for supporting gay marriage, you are sadly mistaken. the blacks i know are vehemently, religously opposed to abortion. they will not believe anything i tell them about his pro-infanticide votes. not even when i show them the statues & the votes (they say that is just “white” men accusing obama of that).
kelley in virginia on May 11, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Lying is easy.
shick on May 11, 2009 at 5:49 PM
It will be gay June marriage next month.
Steve Z on May 11, 2009 at 5:51 PM
i am telling you, the obama supporters don’t believe anything you tell them about obama. they say we make it all up. no chart, no video, no dead fetus, no dead American soldier will convince them.
these are the same people who believe that the white man created sickle cell anemia.
kelley in virginia on May 11, 2009 at 5:51 PM
On first thought, Gibbs is an amateur, Obama is a dangerously arrogant & ignorant fool and Sykes is perhaps the finest argument for retroactive birth control. If this is Obama’s idea of entertainment then lets not bother with legislation regarding Hate Speech, Hate Crimes or any sense of decorum at any White House Function. The Ghetto Punk Presidency in full bloom.
After watching the video, it resembled a street corner scene in Haiti after the food rations were handed out and cheap bottles of wine were passed around before the cockfights.
No Class whatsoever.
old trooper2 on May 11, 2009 at 5:54 PM
So Gibbs is having a banner week. First he has to reinterpret Biden’s egregious swine flu panic statements. Then he has to reinterpret Obama’s laughing at a comic wishing death on an adversary and calling that adversary a terrorist, when in fact the last thing Rush would ever have done is killed any innocent american or fly a plane into a trade center tower or into any military or government installation. If Sykes wanted to speak truth to power, when she cited Limbaugh’s misquoted statement, she might have mentioned Carville’s similar statement on 9/11/01, and then asked the audience, which of those men were terrorists? And why did the democraps bury Carville’s statement but trumpet a false version of Rush’s statement?
Why no mention of the obsequious bow to Saudi royalty? Was there nothing humorous in that? Or Obama’s getting locked out of the Oval Office? Is Obama so thin skinned that he cannot take any needling or hard humor at his expense?
eaglewingz08 on May 11, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Most telling comment during the WH Correspondent’s Dinner:
CaptFlood on May 11, 2009 at 5:59 PM
I know this is overly dramatic, but I figured out why this stupid dinner party bugged me so much: You had a shrill woman publically wish death on an American citizen while the President yucked it up all the while.
And that’s not including the 9/11 references that were so full of laughs that Obama could barely contain his glee.
So what if Rush is an entertainment figure? He’s a citizen and not directly involved in politics. The 9/11 remark was just crass and vile. I don’t even care that Sykes said the things she did. She’s an idiot. I don’t expect more from her. But to have the POTUS up there giggling along was disgusting.
BakerAllie on May 11, 2009 at 6:00 PM
The classiest members of the GOP like William Buckley’s son and Peggy Noonan preferred Obama to Palin. And for better and for worse, Obama has the class of a college professor.
thuja on May 11, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Let me try that again…
Most telling comment during the WH Correspondent’s Dinner:
Obama:
“Most of you supported me… You ALL voted for me…”
Too true.
CaptFlood on May 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Maybe this belongs on the Meg Mac thread, but she sure does look VERY “plus-size” in that Daily News picture! She’s probably more of a heavyweight than her Dad–physically if not politically.
No tickie, no shirtie–on second thought, she should keep her shirt on.
Steve Z on May 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Thanks for the laugh. Especially the part about college professors having “class”.
Of course, O’bama was the Editor of the Harvard Law Review, but made history by being the first-ever editor to never write an article for that publication.
Del Dolemonte on May 11, 2009 at 6:04 PM
+100
Breaking. Overturned bus on Pennsylvania Avenue.
unclesmrgol on May 11, 2009 at 6:04 PM
That’s a keeper.
RushBaby on May 11, 2009 at 6:05 PM
So, then, Obama wasn’t REALLY laughing at Sykes’ joke about 9/11? Or was the truth…he was laughing on the outside, but crying on the inside?
originalpechanga on May 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Again w/the Obama/Palin references. Palin wasn’t running for President, doofus. So if Jr. Buckley and Peggny Noonan voted for O w/out considering the top of the ticket on the R side was a decorated war vet w/40 yrs. of service to his country, plenty of legislation under his belt, great understanding of world geopolitical issues and experience out the wazoo compared to Obama, then they are just SEXIST elitists, who got exactly what they deserved. Higher taxes and a set of complete gaffe-prone morons for president & VP. And just whom considers them classy?
As for Obama having the class of a college professor? Please. Whatever that means…
JAM on May 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM
I wonder what Chrissy Buckley et al think of Obambi now?
aikidoka on May 11, 2009 at 6:29 PM
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