So annually we now have the perfect storm of boorishness in the White House Correspondents Dinner. Each year it gets worse, and this year a woman named Wanda Sykes, hired as a comedienne, failed in the useful role of court jester, as she wished sickness and worse on those "traitors" she did not like. The highest officials of our land joined in the harsh laughter and added sexual innuendos. Like the Vandals who ridiculed the archaic Roman senators, they mocked abstinence from vice and dissected virtue as weakness. The cynicism matched Oscar Wilde saying that a gentleman is one who never inflicts pain unintentionally.
A coupla notes:
a) "a woman named" is superfluous, unless the author is afraid his readers will think Wanda is, I dunno, a fish?
b) I'm pretty sure only sex tourist Rush Limbaugh was called a traitor. Singular.
c) We can debate whether or not Obama's laughter was "harsh," but what are these sexual innuendos of which you speak? Perhaps I missed it when the President put his arms at a 90-degree angle, made a thrusting motion with his hips, and pantomimed an ass-smacking.
d) The Wilde quote is useful. It case you'd forgotten, Sykes is gay!
e) It happened a week and half ago ferchrissakes.
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