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Laura leaves 'em laughing, gasping (Not a very family-values-type speech..very risque: David Korn)
WashingtonTimes ^ | May 02, 2005 | By Joseph Curl

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


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To: fight_truth_decay

Conservative Christian here--my take is that everything was OK and very funny! Except for possibly the milking the male horse joke. That one is a little tacky and low class.


701 posted on 05/02/2005 10:39:21 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: dirtboy

Prissy, prissy, prissy. Even the Baptists aren't upset. You try to spin it anyway you want, there was nothing wrong with the First Lady's presentation.


702 posted on 05/02/2005 10:39:45 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: yellowdoghunter

Mission accomplished? hahaha

You just confirmed to me everything I've thought about you and your posts.


703 posted on 05/02/2005 10:40:48 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: dirtboy
You, yourself said that your wife was reacting to "the story." Did she even see Laura? Does she know anything about George and Laura Bush? Did she get her information through you?

I'm not accusing your wife of anything, and I will repeat...........to anyone who actually saw Laura and didn't have a prior agenda, it was obvious what Laura was doing, and that her husband loved it.

Good people may disagree with the details of what she said, but no one who knows anything about her questions her integrity.

704 posted on 05/02/2005 10:41:01 AM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: dirtboy
calling into question the First Lady mentioning a vapid show glorifying adultery is PRUDERY?

Good grief. She didn't ENDORSE that show. She made fun of it. You've already "mentioned" it more on this thread than she did in her whole routine.

705 posted on 05/02/2005 10:41:11 AM PDT by ShowMeMom
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To: dirtboy

Considering your frequent off color remarks on previous threads (like the bent billed wood pecker), I can only assume that your outrage and that of your wife, is disengenuous at best. If your wife was outraged at Laura's jokes, she would not be able to live with you.


706 posted on 05/02/2005 10:41:15 AM PDT by Eva
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First, check my sign up date and get it over with. I have lurked (OK, wiled away hours of my life) here for years and never thought I would actually get around to posting—because someone always says what I'm thinking. So there's no point. But I am so frustrated by this whole thing that here I am. After 600 posts though, I know that someone will post what I'm thinking immediately preceding this. Sigh. But here goes...be nice.

From a political point of view, and even a Christian one, I can not imagine anything much better than what Laura did Saturday night. It was stunningly brilliant.

A modest, quiet librarian took to the stage and proved that she and her husband know what is going on in the world...and have chosen differently for themselves. And she disarmed our biggest opponents by being just outrageous enough to get their attention.

She is constantly being attacked with thinly-veild references of being a stepford wife (IE. "She's really one of us, she is just brain washed by that evil husband of hers. No one could really like George.") So she stands up, puts on her feisty socks and whips out her sharp-edged humor sword. All in a quiet, self-depreciating way of course.

The main points where...

I am not a stepford wife, I'm not desperate. I am a smart, sexy woman with a smart, sexy husband, who is secure enough in our relationship to take a little ribbing." The Chippendales thing just illustrated (by way of contrast) just how empowered conservative women are. We are not reduced to our sexuality...and we are not afraid of it either. We just prefer it real with our husbands and not those cheap dancing monkeys. So there you stupid NOW womyn.

The horse comment was a back handed slap at all the ivy league educated idiots in the press (that George is known to have a real distaste for) "We had to bring George out to the ranch to really truly educate him...and now, he knows what's really going on in the world...how 'bout you?"

That's why the press is trying hard to spin this in a way that works against us. In order to hang on to their belief system...they have to keep us prudish, judgmental, bigoted, out of touch, stupid people. It makes them CRAZY that we are actually people who know what is going on in the world...but have enough self esteem to CHOOSE differently.

Now when the press attacks George, or Barbara or Laura about any of these things...they are going to seem petty and, well, prudish, judgmental, bigoted, out of touch and stupid. Which they have a propensity to be, after all.

Sigh. I'd just hate to see us take the most effective tool we have (humor) out of our arsenal. But maybe it's just me.

707 posted on 05/02/2005 10:42:02 AM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: yellowdoghunter
Can any of you write a post with out a snide remark?

Looking in the mirror when you typed that?

As to your obsession with groups, this thread is at the top of Latest Posts and hard to miss and offers an outlet for those who wish to post a comment on the matter.

Why not just discuss the topic and leave personalities out of it?

708 posted on 05/02/2005 10:42:21 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: pollyannaish

Well said!


709 posted on 05/02/2005 10:42:44 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: Peach
Prissy, prissy, prissy. Even the Baptists aren't upset.

Yeah, sure, let's just make a joke involving a show glorifying adultery - in a day and age when marriage as an institution is failing. Why fight the culture wars when you can laugh along with those ruining your social institutions - and they'll love you all the more for it?

You try to spin it anyway you want, there was nothing wrong the First Lady's presentation.

I disagree. So do many others. But that's what happens when Laura walked right along the line of propriety - because for others, they are looking at where the line used to be just a couple years earlier, and Laura was over it.

710 posted on 05/02/2005 10:42:49 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: Eva

Your post is as classless as the one calling Laura Bush a whore.


711 posted on 05/02/2005 10:43:05 AM PDT by CharacterCounts
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To: BigSkyFreeper
She probably didn't give a sh!t that Jane Fonda was in the crowd.

Then why was she pandering to them? Did you notice the applause when the little lady took the podium away from her husband? It was a performance tailor made to fit the feminist game plan: that even conservative republicans don't dare preach the New Testament truth that women are to be submissive to their husbands.
712 posted on 05/02/2005 10:43:05 AM PDT by farmer18th ("The fool says in his heart there is no God.")
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To: wideawake
Once one is aware that the First Lady approves of dismembering unborn children, her appreciation for Desperate Housewives and Chippendales immediately makes more sense and disappears into the background.

Give us a break it was a comedy routine yes some of it aimed at the MSM prejudices but at the end of the day it was a comedy routine period.

713 posted on 05/02/2005 10:43:37 AM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME - Vote Conservative 5th May 2005)
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To: dirtboy
I'm a lapsed Episcopalean. My wife is a lapsed Catholic. Neither one of us approves of what Laura did, but we're not calling her names, we're just questioning her judgement.

She was called a whore earlier on this thread.

714 posted on 05/02/2005 10:44:41 AM PDT by CharacterCounts
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To: Pippin

Absolutely Pippin this people need help I am still shaking my head over how they are twisted one of the oldest jokes known.


715 posted on 05/02/2005 10:45:54 AM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME - Vote Conservative 5th May 2005)
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To: gopwinsin04
This thread just made MSNBC! 'Countrecount' comments were featured prominiently...

It was?

Which comment?

716 posted on 05/02/2005 10:46:01 AM PDT by CharacterCounts
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To: gopwinsin04; COUNTrecount
This thread just made MSNBC! 'Countrecount' comments were featured prominiently...

That must be a different thread. I dont think COUNTrecount has posted in this one.

717 posted on 05/02/2005 10:46:37 AM PDT by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: farmer18th

Since her popularity is at 84%, she doesn't have to pander to anyone, including you stuffed shirt fringers.


718 posted on 05/02/2005 10:46:41 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Matthew 16:18)
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To: Eva
Considering your frequent off color remarks on previous threads (like the bent billed wood pecker), I can only assume that your outrage and that of your wife, is disengenuous at best.

I'm not the president of the United States, or the First Lady, on the bully pulpit. And regarding the bent-billed woodpecker, the line goes after Bill Clinton and does not condone or glorify him, but ridicules him.

And trust me, my wife gets after me if I cross the line. And it ain't because she's a prude - it's because she came from a very abusive childhood and was thrown to the wolves at a young age and had to fend for herself - and saw firsthand what the societal rot can wreak - and now sees that coarseness glorified, with young girls encouraged to act like they're ready to service the fleet. It ain't about being a prude, it's about knowing the time and place to say off-color stuff, and not condoning those who wish to drive this country into the gutter, because of the message being given to the impressionable in this age.

719 posted on 05/02/2005 10:47:11 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: Gabz
The fact is the Administration must have known (1) that Laura Bush's remarks would offend a portion of its political base and (2) that leftists would roil the waters to exploit it. The audience that Laura Bush was playing to were persons of considerable influence in Washington who see themselves as a nuanced, sophisticated elite, superior to the "redneck Bible thumpers" of flyover country and the "maggot infested leftists" in the big cities and the college towns. Mrs. Bush was playing to that audience. As for the social conservatives, they are basically useless to the Bushes since his re-election. The "true believers' among liberals never liked nor supported President Bush and never will.

So, for the price of a few bawdy jokes, President Bush and his Administration may get some favorable press and perhaps some good relations with some powerful lobbyists and corporate donors.

720 posted on 05/02/2005 10:47:14 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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