The Fleischner's » David Feherty http://www.thefleischners.org Random Thoughts from Marc's Brain Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:27:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The Wanda Sykes White House Correspondence Dinner: We All Miss the Point http://www.thefleischners.org/2009/05/the-wanda-sykes-white-house-correspondence-dinner-we-all-miss-the-point/ http://www.thefleischners.org/2009/05/the-wanda-sykes-white-house-correspondence-dinner-we-all-miss-the-point/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 14:07:01 +0000 Marc172931 http://www.thefleischners.org/?p=111 So now people are up in arms over Wanda Sykes “performance” at the White House Correspondence dinner.   In case you missed it, she said some stupid things in the guise of humor directed at Rush Limbaugh.  Personally, I didn’t think it was funny, but she’s generally not my cup of tea.  But a lot of people are ticked off at her, and there are just as many people defending her.  Here’s the odd thing.  The same people who are defending Sykes are calling for the firing of CBS Golf commentator David Feherty for publishing a joke about about Nancy Pelosi.
Oddly enough, I read about the Sykes story on Fox News yesterday and read the comments afterwords.  “Typical Fox” was a regular comment.  Yeah, it is, suck it up.  And this is the real point that most of us are missing.  The media doesn’t want to tell us the story.  While Fox has a definite conservative spin, the rest of the media is to the left.  Here’s another example.  Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote a piece calling for the dismissal of Philly Inquirer columninst John Yoo.  For those who don’t know, Yoo is the former Department of Justice attorney that wrote the memo that made water boarding ok.  While Bunch stated the Inquier should get rid of him because of his views on torture, I think his real motive comes in the following paragraph:

“. . . Yoo was now a regular columnist, joining an increasingly rightward-tilting lineup that also includes the likes ex-Sen. Rick Santorum (at $1,750 a pop), Michael Smerconish, a moderate Republican who is also a forceful advocate for torture, Kevin Ferris and others.”

And this is the point we’re all missing.  Sykes and Feherty both told stupid jokes, but now it’s a chance for the powers that be to use them to tell the people what they want and score cheap political points.  There is a real double standard out their that we are all missing, and it’s affecting true discourse and dialogue.  The only one in the media that I found actually gets this is Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News, who wrote a column basically stating what I am.

The real problem is that we can no longer trust the media.  They are no longer governments watchdogs, but are the propaganda entities of the our political parties, and this Sykes/Feherty dust up is really all the proof we need.

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