Media Criticism, Political Commentary

You’ll Be As Shocked As I Was

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…to learn that the president has no class:

Wanda Sykes isn’t of any interest to me. The fact that the American president was five feet away from her and had to laugh about her joke was of interest. A comedian wishes a citizen dead and the president laughs?

I can’t imagine such a “joke” being told about (say) Michael Moore during a Bush WHCD. I thought that the idea of the WHCD was supposed to be a “roast,” with those being lampooned in attendance, not a vicious attack on the president’s absent political enemies. And had such a thing had occurred, I can’t imagine the former president laughing at it. But with this president, we don’t have to imagine it. In many ways, it’s a return to the juvenile antics of the White House during the Clinton years. But it apparently gave Chris Matthews an extended leg tingle (shameful that, too, because Rush used to let him guest host for him back in the nineties), so I guess that’s all right.

15 thoughts on “You’ll Be As Shocked As I Was”

  5. “Juvenile antics” describes this very well. I think these people suffer from arrested development. They behave like adolescents determined to overturn the norms an adult society imposes on them.

  6. “After Bush put on that Display about hunting for WMD in the Oval Office
    and was yucking it up, no joke made at the WHCD can be as crude as that”

  7. no joke made at the WHCD can be as crude as that

    That was dumb, but it wasn’t hoping that someone would die of kidney failure.

    Why are you so stupidly incapable of commenting without inserting extraneous returns? No one else has a problem with it.

  8. “That was dumb,but”

    Tell that to the 100,000 troops who were in Iraq looking for WMD
    at the time.

    Tell that to the 15,000 combat casualties at that time.

    Should the Commander in Chief be yucking it up about the mission he has sent his men on?

  9. Jack is so imbecilically predictable. Any time I post any criticism of The One, you can count on him to show up with a deranged and pathetic “Bush was worse.” As though that changes my point.

  10. “A comedian wishes a citizen dead ”

    Wanda sykes said “I hope his kidney’s fail”. Many people live for years on Dialysis, and thousands of people have successful kidney transplants. There was even a kid in africa they hooked up to an orangutan for kidney dialysis. While wishing someones kidney’s fail is wishing them ill, it is not a death wish, certainly, not for someone of material means like Limbaugh.

  11. There was even a kid in africa they hooked up to an orangutan for kidney dialysis.

    They have a lot of orangutans in Africa?

    I googled all sorts of variations on dialysis & orangutans and didn’t find anything about kids in Africa. I wonder what percentange of your comments are based on things you remember from your dreams.

  13. Dan,

    I like search challenges, although I didn’t want to spend much time on this one, as I don’t have much at stake. Out of curiosity, I tried “xeno-hemodialysis” and I found a reference to a university in South Africa trying what Jack described with a variety of animals – they mentioned dogs, and implied others species were tried as well. No mention of Orangutans (which are endangered after all). I also saw references in the article to “Organogenesis”, which might look like something having to do with Orangutans at first glance.

  15. ( I found 2 oblique references to this, I remember reading about
    Xeno-Dialysis in the 80’s, the programs may have been banned
    prior to execution.)

    [PDF] Career Development Program in Department of Medicine at University …
    File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – View as HTML
    ical education to the study of xenodialysis for liver failure. De- partment members are expected to provide a report at the end of …
    http://www.medicine.med.ualberta.ca/Library/Documents/staff/cdev_faculty/ careerdev_dom.pdf – Similar pages
    by LJM MD – Related articles

    Transplantation Proceedings : A study of cobra venom factor in ex …
    … very low owing to dysfunction of liver; thus, application of ex vivo pig liver perfusion may have the potential to function well as xenohemodialysis. …
    linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0041134501026367 – Similar pages
    by SQ Shen – 2001 – Related articles

    http://www.amazon.com/Xeno-Chronicles-Frontier-Medicine-Transplant/dp/product-description/1586482424

    Oiliver sachs writes on Xeno-transplantation, which at least
    in the pig valve business is commonplace,

    http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_03/uk/ethique/txt1.htm
    here’s a reference to a baboon heart transplant for a child,
    which i may have confused with the Oragutan dialysis thing.

    “aby Fae became a household name when American doctors replaced her ailing heart with the heart of a baboon”

    http://books.google.com/books?id=yZDO2pOqnK8C&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=baboon+dialysis+patient&source=bl&ots=ycUU-OuSJz&sig=KXs6cjbktgD6ejoC-s-67LIscuU&hl=en&ei=ixYLSsyRG5DMMNjd9d0L&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

    Buried in that long URL is a reference to a patient extracorporally to a volunteer dialysis patient.

    So i’ve got some baboon organ transplants and one extracorporal pig used for dialysis.

    I can find no evidence to support the oragutan dialysis experiment, but, there was work done in baboon transplants and extracorporal animal dialysis.

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