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 said nothing "disgusting" about Laura Bush. I pointed out in somewhat clinical language the meaning of one of her jokes. There's nothing to take back.
Please link to where I claimed that I was the victim? I did not say that.
Let me also say that I don't agree with those who bashed you for liking the jokes. It is crazy. However, those that are in a small group and ping each other to come and attack those they disagree with is getting really old. And it is constantly making fun of Christians who happen to be very conservative in their philosophy.
Once again, I never claimed I was a victim.
She knows what I was doing, and I wasn't the only friend of hers saying it.
You have misunderstood the situation.
How about sin of ommission? Your not challenging that statement?
Was it fine by you that he called her a whore?
Asking if she would have a 'wardrobe malfunction next year'........no matter how much you backtrack on it........was DISGUSTING.
Another perfect example of someone jumping to wild conclusions about someone they have never met....and it won't surprise many on this board to see that it was you.
You seem to be having a really good time on this thread! :-)
You "QUACK" me up, LOL!
Actually, that's the only one that made me wince.
Not that I didn't find it funny, but I couldn't help wondering how the Don was going to take it. ;o)
Thank you, Howlin. I thought I was going to get flamed for my remark. Never the less, I am prepared and zipped up in my flame suit.
You're on a roll today, iconoclast. LOL!
Very well. There is obviously an issue here I am unaware of.
I will kindly butt out.
Regards.
I agreed with your response on that post.
If you want the more libertarian/low tax crowd to stop voting GOP, fine. You won't get too far. At least we don't whine and cry weekly that we are leaving the Republican Party because W has rocked back the year to 1832.
You're offended by the term "wardrobe malfunction" but not by Laura Bush talking about "milking" a male horse!? You've got to be kidding.
Everyone really respects your opinion now, farmer. You are a veritable icon of virtue and respectablity....
Whereas, Laura.............she's just trash.
So, in things popular-media oriented, I resort to the wife test. I gauge my wife's reactions to the story.
She wasn't happy at all. She despises Desperate Housewives and the role it plays in continuing to coarsen culture. She asked why the First Lady would give any attention to that show. And, IMO, she's right.
With each passing month, the popular media gets more and more deranged. 20/20 did a show on strippers a week ago, and Good Morning America spent a lot of time promoting that show - as if we need yet another breathless expose of the fact that a wide range of women become strippers because of the money. Knock me over with a friggin' feather.
And I think there is a relevant point here. What the First Lady said wasn't that risque by this month's standards - but we are never going to arrest this slide by moving into the salacious territory just abandonded by the liberals in their march to Gomorah -and then calling it virtuous because the liberals have already slithered past that point.
Sometime, someplace, leaders have to say, no mas. Even if it ain't hip. Even if MSM reporters won't laugh very hard at your jokes.
Yeah, David Korn is a flaming hypocrite. Yeah, Laura wasn't as bad as a lot of stuff that out there. And sure, Laura got raves and approval from the MSM for being semi-cool. But at what price? De facto validation of the other side's depravity in the cultural wars? She was on the bully pulpit - and used it as a platform for fanning the flames instead of trying to pour water on them.
Yeah, feeling feisty today. I get a kick out of people who feel it necessary to interject their own agenda into any situation just so they'll have an excuse to bitch and moan. And to feel superior. "ooohhh, you're not talking about what's RRREEEEAAALLLLYYYY going on in the world. yyyooouuuu don't care like I dooooo" .... wwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaa
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