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."

[cyncooper]

Well said.

And I, too, lurked for years and years for the same reasons; someone inevitably stated what I thought and I avoided flame wars. LOL

Now that your signed up, though, I triple dog dare ya to not post again.

;)

[Peach]

Your comment.

[Praxeus]

Come now.. There is no "side of the house" here. You nor I or anyone else is responsible for what another posts. Not to mention there are varying degrees of opinion on each of these so-called "sides". FR itself is considered a "side" by some. And we are, are we not? Is the cause conservatism or LB?

Furthermore, LB is a political figure. Having a negative opinion of something she says does not equate with something a private individual says. One does not need to clean house to have an opinion concerning a political personality, IMO. Politicians are elected and paid to have opinions and be had opinions of.. that's the nature of the beast.

Noone should feel pressured to get into a personal tiff with another poster in order to be qualified to make a statement of opinion concerning a political figure or issue. Did you disavow some of the distasteful attacks some from your "side" made before posting?

While I certainly do not agree with the fellow that made the w**** comment about LB, I in no way am going to believe I have to confront him to be qualified to voice an opinion on what a politician says, even if that politician is the First Lady, a politician I happen to admire. I just don't like the idea of monolithic litmus thinking being pushed within our "side".

[newgeezer]

She was called a whore earlier on this thread.

I seriously doubt that.

[dirtboy]

She was called a whore earlier on this thread.

Uh, what part of "neither of us" has anything to do with that?

[ohioWfan]

Ah...........another exemplary "Christian" heard from.......

Thanks for that uplifting and cogent post. You make all of us proud.

[Peach]

Oops. No ... it wasn't your comment. Another freepers comments were mentioned on MSNBC according to a new thread about this matter.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1395275/posts

[newgeezer]

Thanks.

[Howlin]

Oh, that's impossible; if the "small group" isn't being discussed, there's no reason to exist!

[MamaB]

You are unreal if you think that joke was sexual. You do not know people who lived on farms or ranches. It was something told about someone who did not know the difference between the animals.

[HairOfTheDog]

that even conservative republicans don't dare preach the New Testament truth that women are to be submissive to their husbands.

That's really what this is all about for you, isn't it? That this woman should never have had the audacity to speak without being spoken to. Well, Mr. Farmer, GWB is a big enough man to plan this funny stunt with hid wife, a prank that only the most knuckledragging Taliban Christian would see as a threat to his manhood.

[cyncooper]

~sigh~

your signed up = you're signed up

[snugs]

Well, Lynn's okay with her daughter bonking other women...

OOPS...

I wondered how long before someone sunk to this level and it is totally irrelevant there were no homosexual or lesbian references or jokes.

[ohioWfan]

I heard that.

He played excerpts and it sounded even funnier than Saturday night.

Rush also advised "Christians" who are wound up too tight about this to "chill."

He said, "IT WAS NOTHING BUT GOOD."

I don't always agree with Rush, but he was right on with this one.

[codercpc]

BRAVO!!!!!!!

Great post, and welcome to FreeRepublic, post often we need strong, intelligant posters like you.

[tomkat]

Welcome to (posting on) FR !

I'd just hate to see us take the most effective tool we have (humor) out of our arsenal

Well said, and entirely lost on the genetically humorless amongst us.

[Howlin]

Outstanding first post. Welcome to FR.

[snugs]

Sorry it was meant for wideawake

[newgeezer]

Well, I see what you mean. Sorry for my disbelief. I never would have dreamed ...

[MamaB]

I heard that joke as a kid and I am now a granmother of 2 high school students who graduate this year. It was funny way back then as it is now.