(AP) In his daily press briefing today, Robert Gibbs distanced the president from comedian Wanda Sykes’s joke comparing Rush Limbaugh to a "9/11 hijacker" at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
At the dinner, where Obama was the guest of honor, comedienne Sykes blasted Limbaugh for saying he hoped Obama’s administration would fail, joking: “I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.”Obama appeared to smile at the remark.
PHOTOS: 1. President Barack Obama reacts with laughter to comic/actress Wanda Sykes who entertained the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. on May 9, 2009 (AP/J. Scott Applewhite). 2. Rush Limbaugh and the destruction of the republican party; 3. Comic actress Wanda Sykes speaking at the White House President Obama, far left, as the guest of honor, Jennifer Loven, the White House correspondent for the AP, is at center (AP/J. Scott Applewhite).
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