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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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.
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.
Mission accomplished? hahaha
You just confirmed to me everything I've thought about you and your posts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Well said!
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.
Your post is as classless as the one calling Laura Bush a whore.
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.
She was called a whore earlier on this thread.
Absolutely Pippin this people need help I am still shaking my head over how they are twisted one of the oldest jokes known.
It was?
Which comment?
That must be a different thread. I dont think COUNTrecount has posted in this one.
Since her popularity is at 84%, she doesn't have to pander to anyone, including you stuffed shirt fringers.
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.
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.
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