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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No, you weren't ATTACKED; people COMMENTED on your posts; that's the way it works around here, and everybody understands that, except for the perpetually paranoid.
Actually he is a WASP from Scranton PA. He is big on Mexican Nanny's for his daughter and he just loves the idea she speaks Spanish better than English. He is a typical Liberal Preppy that we made fun of in the 80's.
Get over it.
That is fine, Howlin. But I move on. I don't continue and continue bashing, calling my small group of friends to do the same, etc.... People are on to the routine and are sick of it.
Disgusting. And petty.
Telling an Aggie joke at an after hours roast when children are asleep on a Saturday Night is not forgoing the Christian base...we need to get a grip here!
That is because we take any opportunity to bash liberals.
We do it fo the same reason David Korn pretends to be 'shocked, shocked' when Laura Bush does it.
It neither case does it have anything to do with the actual propriety of the joke.
So9
Precisely!
Would you like this joke told at your next church banquet?
It's getting harder for the advocates of vulgarity on the thread to accuse you of being "born-again zombie."
Too bad you will punished for having good taste.
Oh, the "put-upon" have arrived, I see.
I read the whole article. Didnt see ONE joke that was over the top. This is news???? This is "risque"????!!?!?! What a bunch of whiny, panty-in-a-wad sourpusses.
With a remark like that, it certainly does.
Next time you talk about me, please do give me a ping, so that I can defend myself??
I have addressed the issue with twig and her right to speak her mind. SHE knows what I was doing............on the other hand, YOU clearly don't.
I am seeing lots of different "agendas" on this thread.
Some things are important, like the President being incompetent on one of the the most important conservative issues of our time, dismantling the Ponzi scheme.
People who focus on some goofy comedy routine by an unelected politico have truly lost their focus. That crap is nonsense.
If you see a thread where people want to talk about the debacle caused by the administration on the SS issue, please ping me to it. They are hard to find here because the truth hurts.
Nope, as I posted earlier, GWB is man enough to take it. We can all see that and that's one reason a lot of us love him. (Though I'd bet the ranch he's privately not real thrilled at the sarcastic --and lame-- "Mr. Excitement" joke.)
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