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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You've illustrated the point wonderfully.
I'd say you have real issues with women and civility.
That is totally uncalled for, and if you do believe that, you should seek help at ONCE!
It was a RANCHING joke. Get YOUR mind out of the sewer.
ROFLOL!!!
Perhaps we should all model our thinking, opinions and lives around skits on Saturday Night Live.
What a profound insight.
I agree. The point of joke isn't sexual at all. It' dumb enough to try to milk a bull and getting the snot kicked out you.
Uh oh.......looks like an attack by the "Holier Than Thou" conservatives!
You're the one that has made it dirty. The joke itself doesn't say he even found the "udder", only that he mistook a horse for a cow.
Only a liberal, a psychotic or a mental defective would call a Republican First Lady a whore in public.
Ronald Reagan's one great sin was inviting loons like you into the party.
So9
I listened to the roast twice; I thought it was one of those "City slicker comes to the farm" jokes. Was I wrong?
Goodness no. I don't understand how anyone could do that; I am disappointed about how low this entire thread has sunk. There have been some wonderful comments, well thought out and written, coming from both sides. But there's been too many really awful comments from both sides as well. And yes, I think you say it very well. I don't expect either the president or the first lady to agree with me in all ways (too bad!:) But there is a time when you have to forgive and move on.
More accurately, your comments had no point and your assumptions were way off.
It's amazing. So many Freepers seem to be Shakers and Snake Handlers straight out of the 18th and 19th centuries.
This thread has degenerated into a cesspool against the First Lady.
You have made your point clearly, and I understand where you're coming from, but I believe you would be best served by leaving this fight with what you have already stated. JMHO........and advice to a friend.
That has got to be about the funniest thing I have read...........ROFL.
That old joke is anything but.....it's a joke poking fun at "cityslickers" knowing nothing about animals....PERIOD.
Exactl right.
In Texas, at any rate, it was a joke that could have ben told at a church social, or from the pulpit, at almost any church.
So9
Bet most of these 'uptight religious right' guys aren't so religious at all........
What a pile of straight-laced prudes we have here. I'm in that upper age group listed above and I found Laura Bush hilarious! I've never seen Desperate Housewives, but I know what they are about and laughed away. I had to look up "Chippendales" later to see who they really were, but I got the gist at the moment and found that hilarious, too! The barnyard stuff is even funnier coming from such a proven lady as Laura Bush!
She made the other side sit up and look at Laura Bush in a way they never imagined. She has depth, as we know, and she can now add comedic humor to the layers. No one is going to take this sweet smiling, sit to one side lady for granted any longer. The fuddy duddies of the world have had their narrow little views shaken -------by one wonderful gal!
Go Laura!!
I had him pegged as phony as a three dollar bill long before he tried passing them at the casino.
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