Posted on 05/02/2005 6:00:13 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Who knew? First lady Laura Bush took over the podium from her husband at Saturday night's annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner and knocked 'em dead, keeping Washington's most powerful politicos in stitches as she worked the ballroom like a seasoned stand-up comic.
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Although Washington's movers and shakers laughed at Mrs. Bush's performance, some in the press woke up with a Sunday morning hangover and began to criticize her monologue as immodest at best and downright bawdy at worst.
"Laura Bush cracks risque jokes at the White House Correspondents' dinner," sniffed Agence France-Presse. CNN reporter Elaine Quijano, who attended the dinner, also apparently had her sensibilities scarred by some of the first lady's quips.
"In some respects, I think for some folks it was a little shocking because she kind of crossed the line a little bit in some people's minds," she said.
"It was very risque," the Nation's David Korn said yesterday on Fox News. "I was wondering what the social conservatives and James Dobson had to say about all these jokes that were laced with sexual innuendo. Not a very family-values-type speech. I'm not sure I want to explain a lot of those jokes to my 4-year-old."
Eyebrows were raised by the first lady's bit about the president's ranching skills, which Mrs. Bush said her husband lacked because the elite schools he attended, Andover and Yale, "don't have a real strong ranching program."
She then added: "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."
The crowd howled. The joke, a female Associated Press reporter said, "had women giggling in the bathroom."
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Conservatives can be just as "risque" as libs, especially at these types of functions. I heard Bill Bennett hand wringing this morning about it.
Hey Bill, get over yourself!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Imagine that, the French have apparently acquired a standard of taste in such matters. Even David Corn is has "standards" - who knew?
I was waiting for the crying and the complaints to start. Clinton getting Miltons in the oval office, hillarious. Mrs. Bush crackin' wise, the world is coming to an end.
It was not a Chris Rock act, it was pretty funny stuff.
I never thought I'd EVER agree with David Korn, but I do. While parts of the speech were funny, even very funny and well delivered, it was over the top for the wife of a president we elected at least partly for a change from Clinton-era moral slimepit. I have always liked Mrs. Bush, but she has slipped considerably in my opinion of her. It's telling that the people who most liked her humor was the Hollywood people there who recognize their own way of looking at the world.
aren't david korn and his ilk the ones that guffaw at the ribald antics of Whoopi Goldberg etc, at dem functions?
Oh please. People have been making "milk the bull" jokes as long as there have been cows. This just sounds like the rancher's version of a farmer's joke.
People need to get over themselves.
These jokes are "risque"? They must have left out the best ones.
It was funny. And it might have been Risque in 1807.
Being intellectually superior, of course, he should be able to do so readily.
Korn is just disappointed that she didn't use the ever-present-liberal-speech-requirement of the "F" word.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She may have said somethings that had sexual overtones but did she use the F bomb once? At the JF'nK fund raiser, ho many fbombs did whoopiepie Goldberg use? Were these same people shocked and faint? Come on , grow up.
It just goes to show that if a Dem does it, its OK. If a Repub does it, its shameful.
"Whatever Laura said, I highly doubt she crossed any of the same lines as, say...Robin Williams!"
Or Whoopie Goldberg, Cher, Sean Penn, Streisand....
David Korn is a typical snakelike looking liberal.
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