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Originally Posted by Bucco
These events are pretty brutal each year, but will agree that this went a bit over the top.....see below from the Canadian Press....Obama is getting more press because he thought it was funny !
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"Obama laughed at the joke, took a sip of water and continued to chuckle.
Bad move, said Canadian David Frum, a prominent conservative pundit and one of Limbaugh's harshest critics.
"The central part of the story is not the comedian but the president," Frum said Monday.
"One of the things I would have imagined, as an experienced TV performer like Barack Obama would know, is that you don't have to laugh at every joke. You know there's going to be a reaction shot ... if he had sat there and not laughed, not smiled at that, the story would be about her, not him.""
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Bucco,
This David Frum you mention here -- I just looked him up and skimmed through a few things. I have not read much, but so far, I think I rather like this guy. I picked up on an article he wrote in March about Limbaugh. He's got Rush Limbaugh pegged. I think Rush Limbaugh is a self-serving buffoon whose only real commitment is to Rush Limbaugh. David Frum seems to think that Rush Limbaugh may just be the Democrats' best friend ever.
Comedians get to and should take hits on Rush Limbaugh and any of the rest, either side. That goes with the territory. But 9/11 and kidney failure are completely off limits for jokes, in my book. I cannot imagine anyone joking about Pearl Harbor. And wishing somebody dead is not good joke writing. Venom spews in both directions I know.
Anyway, Bucco, thanks for pointing out David Frum to me. I will read more. I had not heard of him. Rush Limbaugh and the rest like him have been drowning out the others for me. And so I had stopped listening.
Boomer