Monday, May 11, 2009

Just Desserts.

Kathryn Jean Lopez, you will be shocked to learn, didn't think Wanda Sykes was funny at the WHCD. In fact, she thought Sykes was very not-funny and insulting to her hero.

Somehow Rush Limbaugh, conservative stalwart, the embodiment of capitalist success, a man who has struggled with adversity with an inspiring humility, is someone we’re to disdain so much as to laugh at the prospect of his kidneys’ failing.


Eh.

A life-size oil portrait of El Rushbo, as he often calls himself on the air, hangs on the wall of the main staircase.


You know, I thought Sykes was great. I laughed heartily at the line about Limbaugh's kidneys failing. Not so much because the prospect amuses me, but because an African-American comic cracked the joke in the presence of an African-American president.

In other words, Limbaugh got exactly what he deserved -- from the very people that he has for years treated like absolute shit.

Right on, Wanda.

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