What do you do after saying that, if given the chance and two bullets, an American soldier would shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi twice instead of Osama bin Laden? If you’re golf analyst David Feherty, you apologize.

In a piece for D Magazine in Dallas about George Bush, in which Feherty was trying to relay American troops’ loyalty to their president, the CBS staffer wrote:

From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: 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."

The Ireland-born Feherty has since come under fire for the comments, including from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. While CBS also tried to distance itself from Feherty’s humor, the sports man issued an apology over the weekend, saying: "This passage was a metaphor meant to describe how American troops felt about our 43rd president. 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."

But if Feherty’s comments raised such a ruckus, why aren’t comic Wanda Sykes’ comments receiving a similar response, asks The New York Daily News.

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night, Sykes had some harsh things to say about prominent Republicans like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney.

"You know, you might want to look into this, [President Obama], because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight," she said. "Rush Limbaugh hopes the country fails? I hope his kidneys fail, how ‘bout that?"

What do you think? Double standard?