White House Rips Sykes' 9/11-Limbaugh Joke

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted May 11, 2009 7:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today distanced the administration from 9/11-related comments made by comedian Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents dinner, Politico reports. Some things “are better left for serious reflection,” Gibbs said. “There's no doubt 9/11 is part of that.” Sykes suggested that “Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.”

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jaguarj

May 12, 2009 12:53 PM CDT

Oh yada, yada, yada..we've all been "paying the price" for generations...get used to it. I don't like paying for the fucking war either!!!!

Derni

May 12, 2009 12:08 PM CDT

I guess if you're the White House ytou have to be politically correct-and it is difficult for thoise closely affected by 9/11 to joke about especually if they lost a loved one-but we have jokes about the Titanci-Peral Harbor-etc Jokes actually help us deal with material that is sometimes anxiety producing-in this case it was merely an attack on a character-I mean on someones character.

Thinker

May 12, 2009 11:12 AM CDT

Satan made Wanda say that.

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