JAMES TARANTO: What makes Wanda Sykes’s witless vulgarity amusing to the president? “In Obama’s wide grin as Sykes was telling her joke, we saw the smug look of a man who enjoys seeing his critics dehumanized. The president of the United States should be better than this.”

UPDATE: Christopher Hitchens: “‘The president should be squirming in his seat. Not smiling,’ he said. ‘The black dyke got it wrong. No one told her the rules.'”