Robert Gibbs doesn’t like his boss’s taste in jokes
The White House Press Secretary weighed in today concerning a couple of Wanda Sykes’ jokes Saturday night:
In his daily briefing Monday, Robert Gibbs distanced the president from comedian Wanda Sykes’ joke comparing Rush Limbaugh to a 9/11 hijacker at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
“I don’t know how the guests get booked,” Gibbs said, adding that he hadn’t “talked specifically” with Obama about Sykes’ crack.
“I think there are a lot of topics that are better left for serious reflection rather than comedy. I think there’s no doubt 9/11 is part of that,” Gibbs continued.
Tell that to your boss, Mr. Gibbs. This screen cap is from the second Sykes finished her “joke” about Rush Limbaugh being the 20th hijacker on 9/11 (click the pic to see that particular segment):
I think we have a new slogan for Obama’s re-election campaign: “Laughter: The new offended.” I haven’t seen Obama this angry since Daniel Ortega’s speech.
While we’re on the subject, why don’t comedians do many jokes on Obama? According to Bill Sheft, a writer for David Letterman, it’s because Barack is just too damn competent. Sheft just wrote an Obama joke and probably doesn’t even realize it.
Writing jokes about President Obama isn’t as tough as they’re leading everyone to believe. I even wrote a few in today’s column. They may not be the greatest, but I’ll put them up against Wanda Sykes’ 9/11 material any day of the week — the difference being that Obama won’t laugh at mine.
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Oh Snap!
This is going to be hysterical. I am tuning into Hannity this afternoon!
Ha! Doug, you’re too modest, that one’s the nuggets!
Liberals never hold themselves accountable to anything.
LOL. OK, I admit it. I laughed. That was good.
Can the political right say anything it wants as long as it is in the form of a joke?
“I tell ya, I don’t get no respect, no respect at all. When my mother told me to clean up before dinner, she’d strap me to a waterboard…“
Priceless.
I hope obamas kidneys fail, he gets water boarded and is the 20th hijacker!!!
HA HA HA HA = cover for anything I say.
I guess Obama’s theme music is a perpetual string of rimshots.
The joke’s on us, folks.
Rodney Dangerfield while looking at Wanda Sykes: “Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it!”
One word you will never associate with Obama — CHARACTER.
Black? Check
Female? Check
Lesbian? Check
Democrat? Check
Popular? Check
What’s not to know? I think this is a case of “feigned indignation”.
On May 11th, 2009 at 3:23 pm, tarpon said:
One word you will never associate with Obama — CHARACTER.
Yes you can. If you just add “lack of”
Of course she’s funny! Didn’t you see Satan the Devil laughing??
He must be talking about somebody besides Obama. The Barack that I see daily in the news is such a target rich source of jokes that I was thinking comedians are holding back for fear of killing the guy.
Here’s what I would have said had they invited me to host.
No no. Cover for anything you say is
, remember?
That was pretty good.
That’s some funny stuff; but, Doc, I do think you give hissy-Chrissy a bit too much, ahem, ‘credit’.
But I tell ya, it’s nice to see
Barry’sBarack’s ears withoutSEIU’sThe UAWACORNGeorge Soros’ hands on them.“I don’t know how the guests get booked,” Gibbs said, adding that he hadn’t “talked specifically” with Obama
Doesn’t the White House press corps get tired of Gibbs never talking to the President?
Oh. Nevermind. I forgot. We’re in the era of kneepads journalism…
OMG!!
“If you’re dumb, you join the Army and end up in Iraq HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW /kneeslap” – to paraphrase John Kerry
Your choice of humor and your response to it is a window into your soul.
We learned much about Obama Saturday Night. Actually we jsut got confirmation on what we already knew.
In recent memory, when the White House Correspondents have had a comedian for entertainment at their dinner, the White House incumbent has been the butt of the jokes, and those jokes have on occasion been extremely nasty — certainly in the case of Bush, and certainly in the case of Clinton. They did not continue to dump on Clinton once Bush took office. But now that BO is in the White House, he gets a free pass, and they pick a vulgar, ignorant little someone someone who continued to dump on the Bush administration.
And his Civilian Security Services will be called Prenatal Care Specialist? And I will not say one ward about Taters ears comment, no Sir, not one word.
But I will sure repeat it a lot
The guy is a pig – why wouldn’t you want his kidneys to fail?
TRUTH:
Obama = Terrorist
Hillarious!!!
So, all pigs must die? What the heck is this? More swine flu knee jerk over-reaction?
Gibbs is only one of the biggest jokes in the White House.We have about 500 more of them in the congress as well.
Hey ILMC, most of us here think you’re a carbon based gelatinous bag of mostly water, and a complete waste of blood, but we still wouldn’t wish bad kidneys on you. That’s what separates us from the liberals and the rest of the animal kingdom.
Now THAT is funny, I don’t care who you are…
I think you need to ask yourself why anyone deserves to die, beccause they have an opinion?
You have encapsulated why the majority of the people on this site detest The Left. How can you have a civil discussion with a group of people who want you dead, because you do not share their opinions or value systems?
If you cannot debate your opinions with civility, using facts, and keeping personal insults out of the discussion, there’s the door.
Why do you hate obama so much???
Well you can’t, Flyoverman. Just ask Israel.
You’d have to show ILMC how to turn a doorknob before he could leave.
I have a couple of jokes, too.
Obama was going to appoint Billy Graham to a cabinet position. Then he learned the reason he never paid any taxes is that Churches don’t NEED to.
The reason Obama hasn’t attended Church since he won the Presidency is he feels he’s just hearing his own words repeated back to him.
Obama tried attending one Church. But the preacher asked him to leave because he kept saying, “That’s not what I said!”
Obama was recently filmed ordering a hamburger. What wasn’t shown, though, was him asking Joe the Plumber, “What is this thing, and how do I eat it?”
I want Obama’s liver to fail. Maybe then he can “de-liver” an impromptu speech.
Bwahahahahahahaahahah…bwaaahahahahahaha.
Hey NeroBama and Wanda Yikes:
Kidney Failure is a real laughing matter.
I had kidney stones a few years ago and it was the most excruciating pain I have ever experienced. At the emergency room they told me to have a seat. I guess they don’t like people passing out in the lobby (I didn’t even make it to the wating area). Within five minutes I had an IV of Morphine in me ( it truly is a wonder drug).
Yuck it up Obama, you insensitive idiot.
This is ILMC we’re talking about, so you can add “without blatant plagiarization” to that list.
okay, I give up.
3 tries to post my response to chap. Still can’t figure out what the bad word is.
+1
+2
spaceycakes,
I guess it must be nice to know that you are so certain that your opinion is correct that you do not need to test it and you think you have nothing to learn from someone who has a different opinion.
It’s the mindset that gave us the Inquisition and the Salem Witch Trials. But as a former infantryman, I can live with their preference, if that’s their choice for Plan A.
CHAP The ha ha ha is a new addition to the
Its a brave new world
Well now that’s just overkill.
Could it be the word, Chap? Maybe the filter algorithm has become self aware.
chap, I wish I could have posted the rest, but I probably reflected too much of my dark side so it hit some sort of censor.
Flyoverman
I like the way you think.
Come with me if you want to live…
Oh crap, another self aware AI that we have to smash before it starts developing human hunting robots…
Super.
I am now to blame for the Rise of the Machines.
Good thing I called Old Glory last week.
worms
organs
trying to figure out the bad word
The word was hot p.oker. werid.
If the next words you try are:
tasty
corn flakes
I am going to be very concerned.
Do you remember when some members of the “black community” complained that BO was not “black enough” to ‘represent?’
Oh, how wrong they were…weekly par-tays with homeboys (Chicago mob), and ‘ho’s (liberal press corps and Hollywood personalities)…EVERY WEEK!
Nero fiddling?
ILMC is simply following the tone that is set. Several posters have expressed wishes that Obama get assassinated or otherwise die. One of the more popular conservative posters expressed a wish that my house gets bombed. I have kids in my house sometimes. I subsequently expressed a sincere wish that she OD on her meds. The bar on this site is low, and, scummy words comes from the Right more that from the Left on this particular site.
sonofdy:
worms
organs
Using those in the same sentence sounds really yukky. No wonder the word eater decided not to post it.
chap, I figured it out. P oker is a bad word.
Organs being eaten slowly by flesh eating worms? a-ok.
badum, pshh!
sonofdy,
It really makes you wonder what other combinations can’t get through.
spicy taco sauce
sexy woodland creatures
glistening ear sweat
Right and massive organ failure is a laugh riot.
Just don’t say p oker.
Maybe that particular word is used in spam postings and mail a lot, you know, for gambling sites.
That makes sense chap.
I disagree with Gibbs, but rather subscribe to the views of the late Sam Kinison: “Anything can be made funny”.
The most famous 9/11 joke was done by Gilbert Gottfried a few days after the tragedy at Hugh Hefner’s roast. He had a great line, but it was a bit ill-timed for that event. He endured hisses and shouts of “too soon”. Gilbert subsequently got the crowd back on his side by doing a disgustingly, hilarious take on “the aristocrats”.
I hate that word filter it’s so arbitrary and stupid.
Is it really not possible to have an actual human moderator on this site? I can’t imagine that this site doesn’t generate enough revenue in ad space to pay for something like that.
Rick Moran used to moderate.
Those were the bad old days.
I think undresiege was the 20th hijacker!!!!
too soon???
oh better cover myself.
ha ha ha
PBoilermaker:
When was that? I have been coming to this site since before the period when the comments were disabled (though I don’t recall commenting at that time).
I’ve always thought Aloha would be a good Mod.
I would definitely use my power for evil and not for good.
Crikey; I said ‘twat’ once…
make that twice. LOL
Get down John Connor!!
psst: chap IS a terminator…
It was a while ago, but I distinctly remember him being a decidedly active “moderator”. His involvement started off in stealth mode, but he gradually became an instigator, inflaming arguments and insulting members (plus, he went crazy with his comment editing permissions).
Not quite the role of a “moderator”.
He was dang good at it. He was fairly consistent in deleting or banning those on the left and on the right. After he left, the tone of the threads got much more Kos-like. That’s fine with me as long as MM is done going on O’Reilly talking about how clean she keeps her thread. She’s lost the use of that talking point after Moran left.
I just popped over to http://rightwingnuthouse.com/
…as some of you might imagine. I like this guy.
We need him back.
On April 30th, 2009 at 9:43 am, spaceycakes said:
LOL undresiege! <—she thinks we care.
Aaaanyway. George Bush is a real cowboy. But, you know, he’s not president anymore.
Obama isn’t a real anything. He stands for nothing & falls for anything. Much like his cheerleaders.
Oh, and I’m a cross between Marilyn Monroe & Catherine Deneuve. In 5-inch heels. And I swallow.
Smart guy and classy. Of course for many here, he wasn’t conservative enough. He had the unmitigated nerve to actually criticize some to the conservative comments here. Can you imagine that. Geesh.
Well sure… when your brother is Austin Powers, people tend to cut you a lot of slack.
Careful now, Wanda Sykes is ex-NSA.
She stutters?
There’s something else that got through the filters….
Did you keep that in your pink ‘Hello Kitty’ diary, undre?
Ha!!
“she stutters”.
Too funny PB!
P oker. It’s anti-gamboling software.
can’t use gam-bling
I did a spit-take on my keyboard the first time I read it. Spaceyfreakencakes has made MM.com history. She’s part of the lore. Rick Moran would have deleted it or banned her. Then again Rick Moran would have banned me and many others a long time ago. It is what it is, I guess.
But on On April 30th, 2009 at 9:43 am, spaceycakes said:
Spaceycakes became a legend. Wow just wow.
Anyone disgruntled and looking for a new home can always go over to LGF and get banned. Yea, I’m a banee and that was one of my finer achievements! My post that day was poetry, straight and to the point, not a swear word used.
I like Rick Moran too and visit his site often. This and HotAir are my most visited though. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when blogsites have to start charging to cover expenses again. You’ll see a lot of needlers, disturbers for the sake of stirring things up, staying home. Perhaps it’s time.
The list of people disrespected by the Obama administration continues to grow:
- Bible owners
- Gun Owners
- The British
- Special Olympians
- Manhattanites
- Returning veterans
- Secure border advocates
- Citizens who protest reckless taxes and spending
- Kidney patients
- Intelligence operatives
- Conservative media
- Corporate executives
- Securities investors
Do you see a pattern here? I seen one of veiled contempt for American citizens that may disagree with His policies. Compare His accomodating stance towards anyone that might actually be considered an enemy of America. Speaks volumes about His true nature.
I keep it, and break it out when I need it. Usually when my girlfriend is out of town, and I’m feeling lonely. Could you please upload a photo?
Nah–not into casting pearls before swine.
Well I got the image and that’s quite enough for now. Wooooooh. You are a wildcat. Are spaceycakes like pot brownies. I do believe I am in love with you spaceycakes. I gotta run, but it’s good to know that you’ll always be around when I need you. Muah!!!, babycakes. Muah!!!
what-what?
Why don’t comedians do jokes about Barack H Obama they got the memo from Rahm: Happy Mother’s ?E#@&(@ not to.
False Spring?
http://dai-strategicconservativealliance.blogspot.com/2009/05/if-you-are-like-most-bo-philanthropists.html