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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Actually, you guys are getting unreal with the depths you will read into a comment.
Now that is an interesting take. I find the comments on this thread more about the people themselves than Laura Bush. It is a Rorschach test on their emotional and intellectual functioning and integration. Mr. Excitement now becomes a sarcastic, sexual innuendo. Hmmmm.
Bravo Laura. I have watched many of these incestuous correspondents' dinners and lame performances by Presidents trying to be comedians. It was refreshing to have a wife get up and be the center of attention and a President secure in own skin willing to be the butt of the jokes.
Believe it or not, it's a "she."
I'm glad you decided to post because yours is the most sensible post of the day, imo.
Don't be shy about posting and I'm glad we helped you keep sane during the election. LOL
Your husband sounds like mine. He'll say, "Well, just go tell the freepers; I've already heard it ten times." LOL
No sad you probably told her she should be outraged I bet you have a scintillating marriage.
ROFLMAO. Been there, done that!
That's not so bad.
Excellent post. Thank you.
You and your wife are entitled to your own impressions, but you really should respect the right of others to disagree with those impressions. A prig is not the same as a prude.
Prig - A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner
I'm with you; something else is going on here.
I can see why you don't have a problem with what Laura said - anyone who can post those kind of comments on FR is a pretty sorry specimen. You wouldn't dare say crap like that to someone's face, but get behind a keyboard...
Delivered to a very perverse audience.. Faulting her for it is what perverts DO.. They pervert things.. Entertaining Normalphobes is a perverse act.
Bush and minions are "Unite'ers not Divide'ers"..
Thats the problem, not DIVIDEING with abject Socialists and Globalists..
Moral; Lie down with dogs you come up with FLEAS.. And their social diseases..
Part opinion shapers who haven o idea how REAL conservatives think and act and part no sense of humor agenda drivers.
He's just right on this one.........and you're one of the sad fellows who needs to 'chill.'
Not if you live in the Stone Age.
I have said repeatedly on this thread that both sides have a point. However, you cast judgement on my wife, without knowing her at all, which is pretty crass. I would not do the same to your spouse.
Wow.
I love freepers...even the grouchy ones. Every neighborhood has an Oscar. Or two or fifty. Thanks
BALDERDASH!
BS - you crazy Christians can't win without the middleground.
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