You Can't Even Tell a Joke Without the Left Blowing a Gasket

'D' Magazine is a local publication dedicated to things involving Dallas. A recent issue focused on our newest high profile resident, President Bush.

There were a series of five articles in that issue from local writers. One of them is David Feherty, a golf analyst for CBS and a resident of Dallas. Feherty ended his column with a joke:

"From my own experience visiting troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though ... Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you give any US soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama Bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death."

Now, I think that's pretty damn good for a joke, and probably not far from an actual truth.

However, Feherty has drawn the wrath of his employer, CBS:

"We want to be clear that this column for a Dallas magazine is an unacceptable attempt at humor and is not in any way condoned, endorsed, or approved by CBS Sports." - LeslieAnne Wade, CBS Sports spokeswoman

Ferherty forgot that you can only make fun of people if they are Republicans. Democrats cannot be spoofed in any way in the mainstream media. If his joke had included Bush and Cheney instead of Pelosi and Reid, then the goofballs at CBS would be laughing their asses off instead of being upset. Feherty's job with CBS is probably very much at risk, because he offended some liberal sensibility.

Democrat attacks on the first Amendment continue.

Update - While Feherty has been apologizing for his joke to anyone who will listen (I would bet that he's been told to by CBS, or lose his job), left wing 'comics' can make jokes worse than this, and Obama and the mainstram media howls with laughter.

During the White House Correspondent's dinner, comic Wanda Sykes attacked Rush Limbaugh verbally in front of the crowd:

"Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails, so you're saying, 'I hope America fails,' you're like, 'I don't care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq.' He just wants the country to fail. To me, that's treason."

"He's not saying anything differently than what Usama bin Laden is saying. "

"You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight."

"Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' -- I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs." - Wanda Sykes

This photo was taken at the dinner, and is reported to have been snapped during Syke's tasteless tirade:

Some in attendance where shocked by the comments, and dismayed by Obama's responses:

"That's way, way beyond reasoned debate or comedy and Obama's reaction to it was astonishing. Imagine if a comedian 'joked' that Obama was a terrorist who was guilty of treason and should be tortured and allowed to die. There would justifiably be an outcry."

-Toby Harnden, Editor, Britain's Daily Telegraph, an attendee