Drudge posts dubious picture of Obama "laugh" at joke about Limbaugh's kidneys
SUMMARY: Matt Drudge posted a picture of President Obama in a context that suggested that Obama had laughed and pointed at comedian Wanda Sykes after her joke about Rush Limbaugh. However, a video that Drudge linked to of Sykes' remark about Limbaugh does not show Obama pointing at Sykes.
Internet gossip Matt Drudge posted a Reuters picture of President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on May 9 in a context that suggested that Obama had laughed after comedian Wanda Sykes said of Rush Limbaugh: "I hope his kidneys fail." The picture of Obama pointing, presumably at Sykes, and smiling was placed directly above a link saying: "President Laughs at Wanda Sykes Joke about Rush Limbaugh: 'I Hope His Kidneys Fail'..." However, the video that Drudge linked to, which was a C-SPAN clip of Sykes' line about Limbaugh posted on BreitbartTV.com, does not show Obama ever pointing at Sykes. In fact, after reviewing C-SPAN's video of the speech, Media Matters for America found only one instance of Obama pointing at Sykes: after she made a joke about Obama possibly giving the pope "a Bluetooth" as a gift.
The picture was posted on the Drudge Report from 9:09 p.m. ET on May 10 until soon after 10:36 a.m. ET on May 11, according to DrudgeReportArchives.com:
Below is a screenshot of Obama's reaction after Sykes joked about Obama giving the Pope "a Bluetooth," from C-SPAN's broadcast of the event:
Limbaugh is the same hypocritical jerk who regularly made fun of drug addicts on his show and called for the incarceration of them...all the while he was secretly a junkie. Limbaugh deserves no sympathy in my book...
Now do you care to address that issue or will you do the usual dodge and distance maneuver?
I look forward to your convoluted, utterly dishonest defense.
On top of that, AA. His comments about M.J. Fox skipping his meds to exaggerate his Parkinson's symptoms was so far past the line of decency its disgusting. In case you didn't know, the medicines cause the movement, not vice versa. He never apologized. He never said he was wrong and constantly mocked Fox and his illness. Three people in my family have the disease, AA and he owes them a sincere apology, but apparently making fun of the diseased is ok if you're Rush. But, I didn't see you or your fellow Rush listeners speak out against him then (please correct me if I am wrong). I have very little sympathy for such an ugly, disgusting man.
My sincere good wishes for those in your family suffering from that disease.
I remember discussing the issue, however the particulars of the discussions I engaged in escape me. I do remember MJF making a political ad and I do believe his disease and the resulting shakiness had an effect on the issue. That opened MJF and the Democrats up for honest criticism for using MJF's victim status for political gain.
However that was a long time ago... and at this point is a disingenuous argument. If you say it was wrong for Limbaugh to make comments regarding MJF then it is wrong for Sykes to do the same about Limbaugh. It's that simple. It looks like hypocrisy to me by those here those defending Sykes by citing Limbaugh and MJF.
It is not a disengenuous argument and its not that long ago, AA. If you look at my original post, I wrote that I did not laugh at the joke. See? I didn't find it funny and I didn't defend Sykes. All I said is that any man, like Limbaugh, who spouts off that all drug users should be sent up the river, then falls victim to addiction and doesn't apologize gets very little sympathy from me. He made a point to either spout off on Parkinson's without doing his research or lie about MJF in November 2006. That's recent. Rush is either a liar or someone who spouts off without thinking. Which is it? Where is his apology to those who suffer from Parkinson's? How can you defend his tirade against MJF?
A hypocritical drug addict should be judged as someone with a disability but someone with Parkinson's disease should be judged as a political opportunist? Don't you see what this Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hanitty, Beck our team versus their team mentality has done to you? Shame. It continues to warp the minds of people on the right that should have something to contribute to the conversation and destroys the political discourse in this country.
Don't tune out the nuts on your AM radio dial for our sake, do it for your sake and for the sake of your country. It deserves better.
Joanne
You obviously are not paying attention. I do have a problem with that.
I find it rather telling that you left out the fact that guy apologized.
You, AA, have been around for a while. Please provide a link when Rush made fun of Michael Fox (worse, he claimed it was to win stupid votes) and you did NOT find in funny.
And, by the way, Rush and Fox are planets apart.
Do you call yourself a conservative? Wonderful example of personal responsibility.
I'm wondering where all the outrage was from Drudge during the 2004 WHCD. Did he post the George W. Bush slide show searching under sofa cushions in the Oval Office looking for weapons of mass destruction while US soldiers and Iraqi civilians were dying by the thousands in the Middle East? "Those WMD have got to be somewhere..." HILARIOUS!
I'm not going to bother looking at Drudge's archives, but I'm going to venture to guess that that post doesn't exist.
Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyRog2w4DI&NR=1
Randy
Your post is classic projection. :-)
This was after you claimed that your use of NOTUS to describe President Obama wasn't racist.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200904300006#comments
He may even have come up with yet another explanation of "NOTUS" that doesn't do the exact opposite of explaining it. Seems AA was criticizing Obama for apologizing by using the term "Not Us" (as in "Not Me"? the words of somebody NOT taking repsonsibilty) or calling him a narcissist, a type of person not known for taking resposibility or apologizing.
I hope he tries, it could be funny, but I'm expecting him to slink off to his next pile.
And AGAIN my question to you: did you flag the colonel's post?
The video clearly showed Obama laughing at the 'kidney' joke. This is typical MMFA misdirection. Who cares that the image of Obama laughing was at another moment in her routine? (The post now has a different picture - so is the video more accurate now?)
Keep up the good work MMFA!
I thought this thread was about Drudge trying to make Obama look bad by laughing at a joke? But I see that in your wisdom, you have discerned that this thread is really about Bush derangement syndrome - of which you obviously suffer.
There's a cure for BDS, by the way.
If Drudge's choice of that picture is what MMFA calls 'misinformation,' they need to get a life.
Since you think this is a non-issue, I want to know what you thought of Bush's joking about the reason he sent thousands of troops in harm's way. You think Obama "laughing" about Rush is bad, why didn't you think Bush's jokes about WMD's were bad? Where was Drudge then?
Anyone who defends him obviously never listens to him. The words that spew out of his mouth on a daily basis are as bad as and worse than anything anyone can say about him. If and when you defend Rush, you just show what a clueless wonder you are.
Unlike Ms. Sykes. And by the way, Rush has never said that he wants America to fail. what he has said is just what Carville said of Bush in the morning of 9/11/2001 - that he wanted the President to fail - to not achieve his agenda.
I agree with Rush - I hope that Obama fails as well. I hope that we as a country will be able to recover our capitalist economy from the clutches of 'clueless' socialists and so-called progressives.
But man, this nation will be better off when he dies. Let's just hope it's from old age, and that we'll all ridicule him into obscurity until then.
Rushbo belittles, humiliates, pontificates and lies for hours on end evry day. He has made fun of sick people, he has called people in the military who spoke out against 'his' presdient 'fake soldiers' he thinks we are asking him to honor the man in the White House 'because his daddy's black'
He hates my country, he hates anything that isn't given the Rushbo Stamp of approval and i will laugh at him, and his kidneys, any chance I get.
I wish the bloviators at Fox News would make more of the Oxy joke. Then we could talk about how the Rushbo loves his 20's.
This is a lie. A caller used the term. Rush asked him to expound and now left wing sites have picked up the ball and run with this OUT of context.
However, her comments were nothing compared to Limbaugh's daily hate, racism, and sexism, and constant comparisons to liberals as terrorists, etc...
That is a patent lie. I challenge anyone to prove Limbaugh ever said he hopes the country fails.
The rest of her schtick was based on that lie.
Gotta love those liberals who will stoop to lies and character assassination for their comedy ...and our President laughs right along with it. Ah yes. Gotta love those open minded and tolerant liberals!
Aren't you a big fan of Ann Coulter? And haven't you been busted countless times at this site blatantly lying ? Or is that another Anotheramerican?
Oops, i better watch it, somebody might fill out another Hurt Feelings Report on me.