Posted on 04/30/2005 7:56:02 PM PDT by wjersey
WASHINGTON - First lady Laura Bush stole the show with a surprise comedy routine that ripped President Bush and brought an audience that included much of official Washington and a dash of Hollywood to a standing ovation at a dinner honoring award-winning journalists.
The president planned a speech late Saturday at the 91st annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, but was quickly "interrupted" by his wife in an obviously planned ploy.
"Not that old joke, not again," she said to the delight of the audience. "I've been attending these dinners for years and just quietly sitting there. I've got a few things I want to say for a change."
The president sat down and she proceeded to note that he is "usually in bed by now" and said she told him recently, "If you really want to end tyranny in the world you're going to have to stay up later."
She outlined a typical evening: "Nine o'clock, Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep and I'm watching `Desperate Housewives'." Comedic pause. "With Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife."
But she said they obviously were destined to be together as a couple because "I was the librarian who spent 12 hours a day in library and yet somehow I met George."
Joining the Bushes were Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne, nine Cabinet members and two Supreme Court justices, Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer.
News organizations hosted show business and sports stars such as Goldie Hawn, LL Cool J, Richard Gere, Jane Fonda and the starting quarterbacks of this year's Super Bowl, Tom Brady of the New England Patriots and Donovan McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Award winners announced earlier this month:
_Ron Fournier of The Associated Press, the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure for his stories on Bush's victory over John Kerry.
_Susan Page of USA Today, the Aldo Beckman Award for her stories on the presidency and the presidential campaign.
_Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams of the San Francisco Chronicle, the Edgar A. Poe Award for a series of stories on athletes' steroid use.
Presidents since Calvin Coolidge have attended the dinner hosted by the association, which was established in 1914 as a bridge between the press corps and the White House.
The perfect lady.
Actually .. the hate-Bush crowd (who are her supporters) consistantly poll at 37-39%.
And .. I swear they do it just to slap Bush in the face - and what's really funny - Bush doesn't care what the media does.
Thank you for the ping.
Laura Bush is one of God's blessings to this country.
Need a smile?
I did after reading this thread.
My vote would go to Laura Bush.
I'm talking about registered Democrats.
Laura was great. She had better comedic timing than Cedric the Entertainer, IMO. And Cedric said he was very impressed with her routine too.
I guess I have to agree with you about Laura Bush, since the moderator here seems to think this is GOPRepublic.com instead of freerepublic.com.
Oh, isn't Laura Bush wonderful? Oh, she's so marvelous. Oh, she's a saint. Oh, she's so funny. Oh... I want to puke.
Perhaps the moderator can explain which FreeRepublic rule I broke in my message #86.
I found Laura's jokes to lack class and lost a great deal of respect for the woman. To pander to the leftist media and depraved Hollywood scum by talking dirty is unfunny to me.
Let me do some analysis:
Mrs Bush joked that on a typical evening the president was asleep by 9pm, "and I'm watching Desperate Housewives".
Adultery is hilarious now? Isn't that what that trashy TV show Desperate Housewives is about?
The first lady went on to quip that one night she went out to Chippendales, a male strip bar, with Vice President Dick Cheney's wife Lynne, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top Bush aide Karen Hughes. "I wouldn't even mention it, except (Supreme Court Justices) Ruth Ginsberg and Sandra Day O'Connor saw us there," she said. "I won't tell you what happened. But Lynn's secret service code name is now 'dollar bill'."
Joking about going to a male strip club is somehow classy? Shouldn't we be championing modesty and morality and not pretending that going to a strip club is somehow OK or funny and something other than shameful?
She also said her husband knew little about ranching when they bought their ranch in Crawford, Texas. "I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year, when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse," she said.
Somehow, having the First Lady making a joke that includes our President stroking a horse's penis in an attempt to cause it to ejaculate doesn't strike me as funny. It doesn't show any sort of class at all. It is sick.
Celebrity guests at the event included Hollywood actors Richard Gere and Jane Fonda and rap star LL Cool J.
Leftist media and depraved Hollywood types will never respect the President no matter how much pandering and dirty joking anyone does. Is Laura Bush going to try a "costume malfunction" at next year's event? I'm serious, I just lost a lot of respect for a woman that, until I read these jokes, I felt had a lot of class and character.
Flame away - I'll still be disgusted.
I saw your post got pulled. You and I fell similarly about this particularly unclassy humor. I'm sure my post will be pulled as well. What's up with that?
Oh Spiff, you're such an uptight jerk! I can't believe that you would be offended by such classy wit. There's nothing wrong with TV shows that promote adultery, public nudity, and the President yanking on a horse's penis. That's all in fun. You need to get out more, you are such a prude. You silly Mormons...
Oh good, they're featuring the first lady's dirty jokes on thepoliticalteen.net. This is precisely the kind of garbage I try to keep my teenage daughter away from. Thanks for the warning.
I guess she's funny and cultured and you're not. That's all I can figure.
That's why the event was a private function up until a few years ago. It's supposed to be somewhat tasteless. Always has been. Same with NYC's Inner Circle dinner. One year they got Rudy to dress in drag.
It was a great night all around. To each their own, I guess. Cedric told CSPAN he normally doesn't do political humor, but he did rather well.
I just read your post, and I agree with it. I hope it doesn't get pulled. My post was taken out along with a response right after it, so maybe I got flamed and the moderator just removed both posts to quiet things down.
I saw some of the celebrity arrivals on C-Span. I was disappointed Paris Hilton and Tinkerbell weren't able to make it. They would've fit right in.
LOL! Thanks for speaking for the rest of us. You're being sarcastic, right?
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