I think Sykes can be very funny & biting but she misses the mark occasionally, as all comedians do.  She should be free to speak her mind or joke as she wishes, but if David Feherty's remarks in print are so vile as to require retraction or a public apology, then the same should apply to Sykes.  Whether you consider anyone's remarks 'classy' or 'classless' amounts to personal opinion.  I laughed my ass off at George Carlin's 'fuck the children' shtick; what Sykes said could hardly be considered worse than that, even if you don't consider it funny.

I don't believe either should be expected to apologize.  People's skins are way too thin these days, regardless of the skin's color.

Here here!

I'll drink to that!

How about a cold one Daiwa?

See, I find some of what Sykes does funny. Still, people need to grow a thicker skin and stop with the double standards. Either you support their right to free speech even if it is uncouth, or you don't.

She did cross the line only the bar has been changed since liberals are running Washington. Liberals get away with doing/saying classless things. Pelosi's been lying about being made aware of torture techniques...so many times now she can't keep her lies straight...and still...the liberal media is giving her a pass...I'd have never known if I just watch the alphabet channels for news. It's disgusting.

Same thing with Hillary....how many of you know that she lied while under testimony?

When Congressman Chris Smith questioned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month over the Obama administration's commitment to dismantling pro-life laws around the world, Clinton gave an impassioned response for "reproductive rights" that included a description of women in a Brazil hospital she witnessed, "fighting for their lives" after botched abortions.  However, when the National Catholic Register asked for details on the trip, Clinton's staff refused to substantiate the claimed visit.

"When I think about the suffering that I have seen of women around the world - I've been in hospitals in Brazil where half the women were enthusiastically and joyfully greeting their babies, and the other half were fighting for their lives against botched abortions," Secretary Clinton told Smith in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing April 22. (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gEA97EnxE4)

Department of State spokeswoman Laura Tischler told the Register yesterday that she was "unable to confirm where or when the trip she referred to in her testimony was - where specifically in Brazil she was visiting or when the trip occurred."

Tischler said she referred the question to Clinton's personal staff for a response, but was declined any information to substantiate the visit.

Daiwa, I am the last person to find it "offensive"... It is not that my feelings are hurt, but rather that I find it scary and wrong that our rulers would make such jokes. Sure people might, and it would have been actually pretty damn funny to see her to that as a stand up routine. But televising the president and his inner circle gaffawing at her "jokingly" wishing death on their detractors is reminiscent of a lot of evil.

It could be all coincidence but the similarities are too striking and worrying.

Lula, if the line was crossed I can assure you that there will be lawsuits!

Even Rush said, 'what should I answer to'  (or so goes my understanding). The point being that he isn't going to pander to their little kool-aid party. People are going to say ugly things.  I've had ugly things said about me.  You've had ugly things said about you. 

I'm not going to run around worrying about what people are saying about me.  I can ONLY control how I act and how I react.  I cannot control others nor would I want that capability. 

Pelosi is getting herself in hot water over this torture issue.  I think this truth commision is going to become the HUSH commission. 

So instead of running around worrying about who said what.

Let's all have a beer.  And for you non-drinkers how about a root beer.

cheers!