Wanda Sykes has decided to be the latest celebrity to cross the line from comedy into hate speech. Her refusal to let other leftists have all the fun without any social consequences has led her to embrace Ideological Bigotry.
At the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Ms. Sykes decided to lob verbal grenades at Rush Limbaugh. The leftist ideological bigots that make up much of the mainstream media will offer pathetic and predictable defenses. Inevitable choruses of “she was just making jokes,” and “Rush can dish it out, but he can’t take it” will try to drown out the truth.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
I personally have never had any major objections to Wanda Sykes. I find her humor tasteless, but nothing more. Her skit about tying the feet of black quarterbacks so they would stop running around may have been the death knell for the once brilliant program “Inside the NFL,” but by then the show was already in free fall.
Yet suppose I were to remark that as punishment for her poor humor and caustic comments, she should be waterboarded or hung from the nearest tree. I would be branded a racist, a sexist, and a bigot. I might be arrested and charged with plotting a hate crime. The reason for this is because there is nothing funny or humorous about killing somebody.
Yet liberals fail to respect this view.
Jon Stewart and other comedians have referred to George W. Bush as a war criminal. Leftist radio personalities joke about raping Laura Bush and Condoleezza Rice. “Abort Sarah Palin” t-shirts are trendy among Democrats on college campuses. Miss California Carrie Prejean was verbally and emotionally violated by Perez Hilton, who feels that spreading ideological bigotry is the way to spread tolerance of his own lifestyle.
Now Rush Limbaugh is being Garofaloed by Wanda Sykes.
Her “comedy routine” was motivated by the same factor that got Jon Stewart to lash out. Any criticism of President Barack Obama will be met with large heapings of liberal abuse. In fact, if either Sykes or Stewart were attacking a Palestinian, the response would be mischaracterized as “disproportionate.”
Rush Limbaugh was asked whether or not he wanted Barack Obama to fail. Limbaugh very clearly stated that if Barack Obama were to try and enact policies that would be bad for the country, then the attempt to enact those policies should fail.
In an adult and reasonable world, that is called “disagreeing” with somebody.
Wanda Sykes went on television and made a ludicrous comment. “Rush Limbaugh wants Barack Obama to fail. That means he wants America to fail. He wants this country to fail…”
No, it does not mean that at all. Yet what she said after that truly became speech that only a liberal could embrace.
“I hope his kidneys fail.”
Are any liberals going to condemn this remark?
President Obama will not. He was too busy laughing. The media toadies will not. They made sure that Barack Obama found it funny, and then allowed themselves to find it funny.
Ms. Sykes also expressed the heinous notion that Rush was “the 20th Hijacker on 9/11.” She reasoned that his being responsible for the atrocities that murdered 3000 people was due to his “being high on Oxycontin.”
For those curious as to why Ms. Sykes has such rage, I read her Wikipedia page. She was married to a man for eight years. Her marriage failed. There is no joke here. I do not want anybody’s marriage to fail. She then became a lesbian and married a woman. Whatever a person’s views on gay marriage, I do not want that relationship of hers to fail either. She is an outspoken advocate of gay marriage, and very militant about the passage of California Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage.
There we go. Now we know why she despises conservatives.
If the left had an ounce of intellectual honesty, they would admit that Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh have the exact same position on gay marriage. Barack Obama may not mean it, but the issue is not that he holds beliefs out of political expediency. Giving a prominent liberal a pass for beliefs that are identical to a conservative expressing those beliefs, and then lambasting the conservative, is ideological bigotry.
This is not about issues. It is about leftist hatred.
Leftists hate people who disagree with them. Conservatives cannot be a noble opposition. They are evil, and need to be destroyed.
When conservatives use words like “evil,” and “destroy,” they are referring to Al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, and their ilk.
Liberals see conservatives in this vein. Comparisons of President George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler are as common as they are odious.
Wanda Sykes is a black, female, lesbian, liberal. Rush Limbaugh is a white, male, heterosexual, conservative. Therefore, his criticism of Barack Obama’s policies are considered hate speech, while her calling Rush a murderer who she wished death upon is considered comedy.
This madness has to stop. Ordinary people have to stop cowering in fear. Hatred is poison, and no minority group should use past injustices as a sledgehammer against innocent victims today. It is not about race, gender, or sexual orientation. It is about basic human decency. So once again, let me explain to the left how human decency works.
I want Barack Obama to personally succeed. I want his marriage to remain strong, and his children to grow up and lead happy lives. I want him to experience intellectual growth, emotional nourishment, physical strength, and medical normalcy.
I also want Barack Obama’s policies to fail if I believe they are bad for America.
His health care idea in its current form is too heavy with government bureaucracy and too light on free enterprise. The idea in its current form needs to fail. If he would work with Republicans on a better plan, that plan may deserve to succeed.
His cap and trade idea has the potential to become a regulatory nightmare that will destroy the American economy. Any plan derived from that idea should fail.
He wants to raise capital gains taxes. This will be a disincentive to invest. This will be a disincentive to take risks. America was founded on the idea of entrepreneurship and risk taking. Raising capital gains taxes is bad for America. I want this policy to fail. If he tries to lower capital gains taxes, I will want this policy to succeed. I do not care where good or bad ideas come from. I care about the actual ideas.
This is why I am a conservative. I have no patience for ideological bigotry.
Some liberals will howl that I am lumping them all in with Wanda Sykes. My response to them is that if they want to be separated from such vile speech, they must unequivocally condemn it. They should howl at Ms. Sykes, not me.
Evil exists when good people do nothing to stop it. Calling somebody a murderer and wishing for their kidneys to fail, even in the context of a joke, is evil. Yet I don’t want Wanda Sykes to die. I don’t want her kidneys to fail. I want her to become a better human being. For now, the world will be a better place if Wanda Sykes has one thing fail…her vocal chords.
When every leftist bully from the executive level to Congresspeople to their parasitic defenders from Hollywood and the media gets laryngitis, the healing can begin.
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
blacktygrrrr@earthlink.net
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