Provisional talent, Wanda Sykes, had the honor of presenting fodder at the 2009 White House Press Correspondents’ dinner. Of course, the on-again, off-again comedic actress received much criticism for her tasteless railings against the former administration and its royalty, and the specific commentary regarding Rush Limbaugh.
Wanda pushed the bucket hard enough to see whether the compressions would disturb the natural progression of crests and troughs in the predictable waves of laughter throughout the room. Did she cross the line? What line? The bounds of decency or political correctness are more ambiguous each day. At least, depending upon the valuation standards employed by the critics of the day. Principled disapproval would certainly require any critics of Ms. Wanda’s nifty elocution to be up in arms against Rush Limbaugh’s continual blather. The thing about hypocrisy, is that it holds true whether one be of the left or the right, or of any racial persuasion.
What we should remember is that Wanda is a comedian. It’s her job to push the envelope. The correspondents laughed. They even responded to the frightening imagery of the arms of some of the former First Ladies. Additionally, she doesn’t have any shows that won’t be canceled before we can program them in the on demand functions, except for voice acting on the Nick network. She had to make the most of her moment. Wanda enjoys paying taxes and needs to make her money.
If you ask my opinion, and I know you didn’t, Mulloverthis says, “Leave Wanda alone.” Rush has a much broader and regularly scheduled sphere of influence where he leaps from the precipice and takes many of his gutter audience members with him.
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