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 respectfully disagree. The comments against them making the same remarks would would be the same as those currently criticing Laura Bush. From those who are not, the comments against Clinton, Gore, or Heinz making them would be about the delivery .............it would not be the same.
None of the aforementioned would have been able to pull off those jokes in the same manner. The performance was hilarious in both it's delivery and it's absurdity.......she was poking so much fun at the left, in such a subtle manner that many can not see it.
Think of how Lynne Cheney who was the one mentioned in more than one joke laughed; at one point I saw her throw her head back in laughter hardly the action of someone who was offended.
What is hard to understand are those who gush about the Bushes like the Democrats do about the Kennedys.
>>"I'm not sure I want to explain a lot of those jokes to my 4-year-old."<<
...Well then how did you explain what #42 did in the Oval Office ??Hmmm.....
It seems PC has entered FR. To compare the "FREE SPEECH" spewed by the Hollywood TRASH to the "RISQUE" monologue of Laura Bush is just so much silliness.
You're wanting to debate Social Security reform in a thread about jokes told by the First Lady? Seems like YOU'RE the one who has lost focus.
Fiest, you clean your own house - then others.
I get it.
I just question your judgement in thinking those jokes were off-color.
Any of them could have been told from the pulpit with perfect propriety.
SO9
Truer words never spoken.
Do you not understand how this forum works? People have a right to make stupid statements, sure, but that doesn't mean the rest of us are going to sit back and let it scroll down the page without commenting on it.
Of course, in your paranoid mind, anybody who posts something contrary to what you say is criticizing and/or bashing you.
And if I were you, I wouldn't be so quick to point fingers at people; you sling mud with the best of us, all the while decrying being criticized and harassed by "the usual suspects."
Don't you know that you aren't allowed to have an opinion that differs from the Christian bashers? When will you leran child....just kidding....I know you know.
I mean, if you disagree with them then you are horrible, terrible, low-life, Jimmy Swaggert loving,....I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
Don't let the usual suspects get you down....they are a small group.
You personally knew President Reagan? Wow! I am impressed. What an honor.
I am assuming this since your comment makes it appear that way.
The point is, people can have different opinions on this and still be good conservatives, etc....I just get sick of the bashing by a small group who think they own the board.
Well, we all know that Republicans have no sense of humor, no sex, no life. We are all dowdy puritans.
Au contraire............MOST words spoken are truer than those were.......
So in other words, you admit to putting words in my mouth, but you're not going to apologize for it.
That's fine.
BTW - I oppose abortion. Does that mean I align myself with Eric Rudolph?
Yeah. I'm sure George is just devastated. He may have to fire up the chain saw and cut down the rose garden to get over it.
Thank goodness the 'Perpetual Panties in a Bunch for Jesus' crowd is on the case...
Well.. I notice that one that advised you to "stand down" continues to post to the issue.
And I certainly fail to see how expressing an honestly felt opinion in anyway harms the President.
I DO see how all the bickering has obscured an honest discussion.
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