Comments on: Obama, Sykes Slay at WHCA Dinner http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/ Just another Firedoglake weblog Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:22:24 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Neil http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3637 Neil Mon, 11 May 2009 02:10:13 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3637 <p>You might say WHCA 2009 was a perfect metaphor for WHCA 2006 except for just about everything that happened. Colbert skewered Bush and pissed him off. Sykes made fun of Obama with respect. The best line of the night was about giving Obama a break for not getting a shelter dog because Obama has taken on fixing all the country’s problems caused by the last owner who abused it for 8 years. It’s the first time I’ve been able to laugh about it.</p> You might say WHCA 2009 was a perfect metaphor for WHCA 2006 except for just about everything that happened. Colbert skewered Bush and pissed him off. Sykes made fun of Obama with respect. The best line of the night was about giving Obama a break for not getting a shelter dog because Obama has taken on fixing all the country’s problems caused by the last owner who abused it for 8 years. It’s the first time I’ve been able to laugh about it.

]]> By: shell http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3636 shell Sun, 10 May 2009 19:48:17 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3636 <p>It’s deja vu all over again. Remember 3 years ago, when Stephen Colbert was the entertainer at the same dinner? And remember how the average citizen LOVED it, while the Villagers thought it was NOT funny? Last night, I actually watched it on teevee. (Well, I TiVo’ed it and watched several hours later.) They had on a host, from LA, and the other 3 talking heads were: Pat Buchanan, Something Franken (not Al), and some woman. I swear! If you took all their ages and averaged them, it would be 75. In short, they felt it was NOT FUNNY! Well, Obama was a little funny, but Sykes was not at all funny, and Buchanan was especially angry that she dissed Rush Limbaugh. </p> <p>It is 2006 all over again.</p> It’s deja vu all over again. Remember 3 years ago, when Stephen Colbert was the entertainer at the same dinner? And remember how the average citizen LOVED it, while the Villagers thought it was NOT funny? Last night, I actually watched it on teevee. (Well, I TiVo’ed it and watched several hours later.) They had on a host, from LA, and the other 3 talking heads were: Pat Buchanan, Something Franken (not Al), and some woman. I swear! If you took all their ages and averaged them, it would be 75. In short, they felt it was NOT FUNNY! Well, Obama was a little funny, but Sykes was not at all funny, and Buchanan was especially angry that she dissed Rush Limbaugh.

It is 2006 all over again.

]]> By: Styve http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3635 Styve Sun, 10 May 2009 18:41:24 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3635 <p>Excellent explanation of the Right’s plight!!</p> <blockquote><p>They’re doing this because they have NOTHING. If you’ve noticed, these asswipes are already calling for Obama’s impeachment because he’s a “war criminal”, “has lied to the nation”, and “was not duly elected by the American people”. Now, gee, where have we heard that before? LOL They’re hoping they can create a wave of fake anger against President Obama using the TRUTHS against George Bush!</p></blockquote> Excellent explanation of the Right’s plight!!

They’re doing this because they have NOTHING. If you’ve noticed, these asswipes are already calling for Obama’s impeachment because he’s a “war criminal”, “has lied to the nation”, and “was not duly elected by the American people”. Now, gee, where have we heard that before? LOL They’re hoping they can create a wave of fake anger against President Obama using the TRUTHS against George Bush!

]]> By: wagonjak http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3634 wagonjak Sun, 10 May 2009 17:18:35 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3634 <p>O’s jokes work best when he lays one of his outrageous statements out with a straight, almost grim expression on his face…</p> <p>Lately, he’s started chuckling at his own jokes, and I don’t think that’s as effective…</p> <p>He was killer last night though, and I loved Sykes too…</p> <p>But the whole think is more then a little incestuous and chummy…the fine line between the powerful and the press has been breaking down for a long time, and in the last twenty years almost disappeared…</p> <p>Most of the famous bobble-heads are making more moolah then the top politicians, and both feel they belong to a privileged club that the rest of us are barred from!</p> O’s jokes work best when he lays one of his outrageous statements out with a straight, almost grim expression on his face…

Lately, he’s started chuckling at his own jokes, and I don’t think that’s as effective…

He was killer last night though, and I loved Sykes too…

But the whole think is more then a little incestuous and chummy…the fine line between the powerful and the press has been breaking down for a long time, and in the last twenty years almost disappeared…

Most of the famous bobble-heads are making more moolah then the top politicians, and both feel they belong to a privileged club that the rest of us are barred from!

]]> By: emerson http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3633 emerson Sun, 10 May 2009 15:22:29 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3633 <p>Jennifer Loven from AP. She leans to the reich.</p> Jennifer Loven from AP. She leans to the reich.

]]> By: jayt http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3632 jayt Sun, 10 May 2009 15:17:07 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3632 <p><i>Who was the lovely lady doing the MC duties?</i></p> <p>dunno, but I’d toast her.</p> <p>(I probably could have said that a little better….)</p> Who was the lovely lady doing the MC duties?

dunno, but I’d toast her.

(I probably could have said that a little better….)

]]> By: KayInMaine http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3630 KayInMaine Sun, 10 May 2009 15:10:10 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3630 <p>The callers are probably pretend-Dems/concern-trolls. They’re everywhere! I dislike them a whole hell of a lot wherever they are. </p> <p>Before the Inauguration, I was saying online that the trolls are watching what we’re saying (one troll on my blog said this to me), and if you’ve noticed, they’re using what we say as a way to go after President Obama and other dems. They’re doing this because they have NOTHING. If you’ve noticed, these asswipes are already calling for Obama’s impeachment because he’s a “war criminal”, “has lied to the nation”, and “was not duly elected by the American people”. Now, gee, where have we heard that before? LOL They’re hoping they can create a wave of fake anger against President Obama using the TRUTHS against George Bush! I say, “nice try idiots! I’m onto ya little pathetic schemes!”.</p> The callers are probably pretend-Dems/concern-trolls. They’re everywhere! I dislike them a whole hell of a lot wherever they are.

Before the Inauguration, I was saying online that the trolls are watching what we’re saying (one troll on my blog said this to me), and if you’ve noticed, they’re using what we say as a way to go after President Obama and other dems. They’re doing this because they have NOTHING. If you’ve noticed, these asswipes are already calling for Obama’s impeachment because he’s a “war criminal”, “has lied to the nation”, and “was not duly elected by the American people”. Now, gee, where have we heard that before? LOL They’re hoping they can create a wave of fake anger against President Obama using the TRUTHS against George Bush! I say, “nice try idiots! I’m onto ya little pathetic schemes!”.

]]> By: eCAHNomics http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3629 eCAHNomics Sun, 10 May 2009 14:49:34 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3629 <p>Oh boy, GE & Boeing sponser MTP. Now that’s a recipe for truth in programming.</p> Oh boy, GE & Boeing sponser MTP. Now that’s a recipe for truth in programming.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3628 SouthernDragon Sun, 10 May 2009 14:44:04 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3628 <p>Who was the lovely lady doing the MC duties?</p> Who was the lovely lady doing the MC duties?

]]> By: Waccamaw http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3627 Waccamaw Sun, 10 May 2009 14:42:39 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-sykes-slay-at-whca-dinner/#comment-3627 <p>A number of the callers on Washington Journal today were in a nasty royal snit about both Sykes and Obama……the ones who claim to be dems or say they voted for O. *but*………..and the litany begins. It never ceases to amaze how they always accuse him of doing exactly the same things bush did; project much?</p> A number of the callers on Washington Journal today were in a nasty royal snit about both Sykes and Obama……the ones who claim to be dems or say they voted for O. *but*………..and the litany begins. It never ceases to amaze how they always accuse him of doing exactly the same things bush did; project much?

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