Rush Limbaugh gets to vent all sort of bile and hate on a daily basis, for several hours a day, with no consequences whatsoever. The Village press accepts this as fact.

Wanda Sykes tells a joke about Rush at a once a year Washington event and the Village press declares she's over the line.

Poor Rush. He's apparently no match for a black lesbian comedienne.

[UPDATE] Andy Serwer nails it cold.Then she got really personal. She joked that Limbaugh was a racist who doesn't want black people to "escap[e] the underclass." She accused him of being responsible for killing "a million babies a year," and aired her friend's theory that Limbaugh himself was a terrorist attack," a followup to 9/11. She also, most disgustingly, said that if conservatives kept apologizing to Limbaugh, they'd eventually contract "anal poisoning." She wondered when Republicans would finally stop "bending over and grabbing their ankles" for Limbaugh, and finally concluded that Limbaugh was just a "bad guy." Oh wait. Wanda Sykes didn't say any of these things. These are things Rush Limbaugh has said about Obama or other Democrats in the past year, the kind of statements few reporters found offensive enough to write about, despite the fact that most of them were said with the utmost seriousness. And while Sykes is a mere comedian whose influence on the Democratic Party is negligible, Limbaugh's influence in the party is so great that Republican leaders can't even criticize him without having to issue apologies after the fact. Once again, Rush spouts this crap daily. But his skin is so thin he has to have other wingnuts to make his crappy defenses for him.