Let's all be like the Rev. Bubba Flavel, and argue over what's dirtier...Shakespeare or The Bible.
So Sayeth the Shepherd!
So Sayeth the Flock!
The "Morality Police" - Keeping elections closer than they have to be for 50 years.
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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I didn't compare them. I contrasted them. Go "study up on" that.
Their criticisms are always over the top, and the bottom line is that most of them don't like the President and are simply using this in their latest Bush-bashing campaign.
The fact that David Corn is egging them on tells us that either they are easily manipulated by the left, or that they are actively working for them.
This is a tempest in a teapot, and anyone who continues to rant about it after expressing his/her negative opinion is trying to stir up trouble.
Nothing said is going to change what was said at the dinner. Either one thinks it funny or is offended. Those who continue to attack the First Lady on this are exposing more about themselves than perhaps they would wish.
The Bushes are a successful political family, far more adept than the much touted Kennedys, if only because of a greater degree of discipline. (Laura Bush's remarks comparing her mother-in-law to Don Coreleone are telling in this regard.) They are, at the core, old style Yankees. (This fact was noted in Mrs. Bush's remarks about Andover and Yale not having ranch management courses and Kennebunkport being like Crawford but without the night life.) They believe that the best political strategy is compromise and mediation.
Laura Bush putting on airs of being hip, contemporary, and non-prudish before an audience that was probably made up of a majority of inside-the-Beltway types, mixed Democrats and RINOs, was meant to send a message. What she was communicating was that her husband and his Adminstration, for all their catering to the Christian Right and talk radio conservatives, are willing to do business in the tried and true, "centrist" manner. Subtly dissing the moral conservative base with remarks about going to Chippendale's is an effective way of communicating that message. The "Desperate Housewives" joke is calculated to communicate that the Bushes do not adhere to the traditional code of discretion in private sexual matters.
It is a cold, but realistic calculation. The Bushes may have needed the Robertsons and the Dobsons, the Limbaughs and the Hannitys to get elected and then re-elected. However, in dealing with the Washington powers that be, a lame duck President has to distance himself from a political base that those powers regard as insufficiently "nuanced" or "unsophisticated."
Franklin Roosevelt once observed that in politics, nothing happens by accident. If something happens, you can be sure that it was planned. This high visibility speech before a crowd made up predominately of Democrats and RINOs by a player who is usually quiet (Laura Bush) was about as spontaneous as the Marine Corps' silent drill team. Social conservatives may not like it, but they have been outmaneuvered.
LOL!!!
Pushing politics aside, as long as we are mentioning Him, in the eyes that He has given me, I see Laura no differently than I did the day before. She is quite funny. But perhaps He has given you keener eyes than he gave me.
Sounded like he was milking HIS horse.
What is your source for the twins being the product of artificial inseminination ? Didn't think it was that common back in 1981.
Did you watch the entire thing? There was nothing in the routine that I wouldn't have watched with my grandmother.
The most risque part of the show was the horse joke. Anybody that grew up on a farm heard that joke from the time they were about 3.
This was a very funny routine and hats off to our First Lady for a fantastic delivery.
I will say, if The First Lady is desperate because GWB is asleep by 9pm, I'd be more than happy to crawl in through the back window to see to it that she becomes less "desperate"...It would be my duty to help out - she's very hot. LOL.
I thought she was great. The libs will tell jokes worse than that all day long but when a pubbie does it, whew! They're gonna go to hell! She didn't offend me at all. It was all in fun.
If someone told a joke like that in front of my wife or daughter, I'd tell him to watch his mouth.
"Farmer joke" - maybe that's a joke that farmers told each other when among men in some watering hole - not in polite company.
Also, it's not that funny. If you're going to work blue, you should at least have funny material.
Bush's weaknesses on abortion have not so much what he has said, or even done, but what he has left undone.
As a prominent member of the pro-life community--a friend of C. Everet Koop--told me last week, President Bush's main pro-life activity has been to give a recorded message (he's never appeared there personally--heavens!!) at the annual pro-life rally on Jan. 22.
Yes, he has put forth bans on human embryionic stem cell research (which seems to be weakening now). Yes he has passionately lobbied for passage of the ban on partial birth abortion (unconstitutionally overturned by the courts...). Yes he said some profound words in support of Terri Schiavo (again, unconstitutionally trampled by the courts). Still, the state of the law and policy about abortion in the United States is, with some exceptions, very little different then under Bill Clinton.
For example, amidst the other massive spending Bush has innitiated for education, a program of information & education about exactly what abortion is and does was proposed...nothing has been done about it--letters written inquiring on this are politely answered with form letters... As long as the conservative base is happy, nothing will be done. Clearly not a priority.
Please inquire of anyone seriously involved in pro-life work, they will admit Bush has been disappointing in that area.
Again, I suspect it's because W. Bush's sincerely held convictions are not backed up at home (or amidst some of his politicial advisors).
That picture just brings a smile to one's face, doesn't it?
Do you have one similar of the Clintons for comparison?
This is an excellent point, Miss Marple.
MANY of the perpetual Bush bashers on FR fall in line with NYTimes headlines or David Korn opinion pieces.
That's what makes it so hard to tell the malcontents from the trolls...........they say the same things.
I think you "Oh, I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED and OFFENDED" types are the ones that perpetuate the stereotypes of conservatives as doddering old fools who just want to make sure nobody has any fun. WE know those types are mostly on the left, but they manage to stick the label on us. You're not helping.
I was going to say the same thing, these jokes are probably typical of ranchers or farmers. It's part of daily life, not at all related to sexual relations.
The complaints are just plain silly.
I respect your opinion, as I hope you respect mine.
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