For my money, the objections to Wanda Sykes are overblown.

She’s a pro. Like Leno and Letterman, she has the ability to take contemporary events everybody knows about and turn them into plausible fodder for jokes.

No surprise, then, that the line about Rush being a traitor had the audience slapping their knees Saturday night. After all, in just the last few weeks Rush has embraced a foreign leader who calls America “the Great Satan,” accepted an anti-American book from someone who calls the U.S. ”the most savage, murderous empire in the history of the world,” apologized on foreign soil for America’s innumerable transgressions, moved to scrap missile defense at the same time America’s enemies are developing deliverable nukes, ordered the release of documents that will inflame our enemies, sat through an hour-long anti-American tirade without uttering a single objection, moved toward the release of suspected terrorists in American neighborhoods, and suggested individuals who tried to find lawful ways to protect Americans be prosecuted.

Sharp eye for detail there, Wanda. You even had the president laughing.