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A weekend of laughter, no doubt. Two jokes, two different sides of the political aisle.

Guess which joker felt the need to apologize? That's not even a good rhetorical question. Everyone knows that answer.

First, from the Left, a sensationally funny joke:

Unfunny Comedian Compares Limbaugh to bin Laden; Obama Laughs (Update: Obama to Sykes: Great Job)

"You've had your fair share of critics. ... Rush Limbaugh said this administration fails. ... He just wants the country to fail. To me that's treason. He's not saying anything different than what Osama Bin Laden is saying. You might want to look into this, sir, because I think 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."

I hope you die. Funny, dat. Read Brian's excellent write-up, complete with videos, for more.

I think today would be a good day to listen to Rush.

The other joke you might not have heard. David Feherty laid this old 'three people, two bullets' joke on Nancy Pelosi...

CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty apologized Sunday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a morbid joke that went bad in a Dallas magazine.

"From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though," Feherty wrote toward the end of his column. 

"Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. 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."

BWAHAHAHAHAHA~!

Hmmm. Sorry. Obviously over the top. My laughter is inappropriate.  )

Not a lot of difference in these jokes. Both were over the top. But the tale plays out like an overused script.

One joker had the gumption to apologize...

"This passage was a metaphor meant to describe how American troops felt about our 43rd president," Feherty said in a statement. "In retrospect, it was inappropriate and unacceptable, and has clearly insulted Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid, and for that, I apologize. As for our troops, they know I will continue to do as much as I can for them both at home and abroad."

One joker had the President of the United States grinning from ear to ear. But don't expect any apologies from that lefty cooze.

One joker will probably lose his job, or at least find less work coming his way. There's not a great market at CBS for golf analysts; at least he wasn't employed by NBC, he would've been fired already. Doesn't Olbermann run that network now?

One joker will be celebrated and toasted, and reap economic benefits from her remarks (and will probably get a night in the Lincoln Bedroom, what you wanna bet? But watch out for Those Arms, Wanda, don't get any ideas, you'll get a hug that might crush your kidneys...)

One joker (who has gone to Iraq over Thanksgiving the past two years to visit with U.S. troops, and created a foundation to help wounded soldiers) will be truly sorry, and regret his intemperance.

But I'll leave it to you to guess which joker I would rather spend time with. Or which joker would fit in better as, say, an embedded correspondent in Afghanistan or Iraq.

See you on the course, David.

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