Laura leaves 'em laughing, gasping (Not a very family-values-type speech..very risque: David Korn)

WashingtonTimes ^ | May 02, 2005 | By Joseph Curl

[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."

[Gabz]

There would be a 2,000 post entry railing against their poor taste were they the ones who made such remarks.

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.

[snugs]

The type of woman we have seen Laura Bush to be over the years I am certain those women who were mentioned in the Chippendale joke it was either mentioned to or she knew them well enough to know they would not take offence at 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.

[Wallace T.]

What's not to understand? The Administration, through Laura Bush, is dissing a portion of its base (social conservatives, who are, in the view of the Administration, not needed) before a crowd made up predominantly of prominent and powerful Democrats and RINOs. He needs their support or at least a lesser degree of opposition from them to achieve his goals. It is absurd to believe that this was a spontaneous outburst of creative wit from Mrs. Bush. Nothing in Washington public events is casual. The elder Bush stumbled badly in 1990 when he agreed to tax hikes that may have caused his defeat to Clinton two years later. The younger Bush has better political instincts.

What is hard to understand are those who gush about the Bushes like the Democrats do about the Kennedys.

[sissyjane]

>>"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.....

[PISANO]

What crosses the line? Laura was precious and if needlebutts have a problem with her it is simply an indication of their stupidity

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.

[Jackson57]

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.

[CharacterCounts]

Fiest, you clean your own house - then others.

[Servant of the 9]

You don't get it. I posted something critical about it and I was attacked. I like George and Laura Bush. They've brought dignity back to the White House and are good people. However, I still reserve the right to point out that Laura made an error in judgement by telling suck off-color jokes.

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

[shhrubbery!]

many FReepers are giving Laura Bush a pass on these remarks they would never have given Hillary Clinton, Tipper Gore, or Teresa Heinz. There would be a 2,000 post entry railing against their poor taste were they the ones who made such remarks

Truer words never spoken.

[snugs]

Absolutely people are reading too much into the horse joke and making if far worse it is an old old farm joke and certainly does not have the sexual connotations that some are putting on it.

[an italian]

She was fantastically funny... That's all.

[Howlin]

Good grief, quit harrassing people.

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."

To: wideawake

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.

368 posted on 05/02/2005 11:36:53 AM EDT by yellowdoghunter (FR is so popular that people repost our thoughts on different message boards! It is an honor!)

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[yellowdoghunter]

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.

[sandbar]

Well, we all know that Republicans have no sense of humor, no sex, no life. We are all dowdy puritans.

[motzman]

You know, your comments are far more filty and offensive than anything the first lady said. Just where is your mind that you found something whorish in what was said. I think you have a serious sexual problem, and you probably should seek professional help before you do something horrendous.

Yep.

[ohioWfan]

Au contraire............MOST words spoken are truer than those were.......

[wideawake]

You are certainly aligning yourself with people on this thread who ARE calling her a whore.

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?

[TigersEye]

I suspect that some of feminist, anti-male attitudes of that establishment have rubbed off on Laura, and she was out to impress that crowd --at the expense of her husband.

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.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thank goodness the 'Perpetual Panties in a Bunch for Jesus' crowd is on the case...

[Praxeus]

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.