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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Exactamente!
Wasn't talking about the Jane Fonda. Was talking about the public-school-teacher crowd with whom Laura still apparently strongly identifies.
Get real it was done in a joking way to get a laugh from the audience which it did there was no feminist agenda here only of your making in your mind.
Anyway I was watching the news were they were showing them being released and I saw maybe 10 ducklings with the mother duck.
When I heard it, I laughed and I am a conservative Christian. I took it in the atmosphere it was given - a lighthearted attempt to make fun of Bush's early to bed philosophy by his own wife. Does anyone here believe she actually WATCHES desperate housewives? No, according to their biography "George and Laura" when they do watch tv at night, he usually watches sports, mostly baseball, and she reads...If they want to poke fun at their habits, it just shows they've got a good sense of humor...We're so used to the Clinton escapades we have to twist it into something ugly and that's just NOT the Bush Whitehouse!
They are probably among the 84% I mentioned that likes her.
Yeah, sure. I'm really sad. I should just be able to laugh with everyone else at the depravity of modern society. Promote adultery? HAR HAR HAR! Abortion? Hee hee hee. Marriages falling apart? Hardy har har.
You're right, I feel better already. I think me and my wife will become swingers now so that we're not so sad and priggish. Gotta go with the flow, you know.
The Chippendales joke was funny because the idea that those women would do such a thing is completely preposterous.
~the above is posted only for my own benefit... I am keenly aware the person I am speaking ~to~ is rabid beyond reason~
Your moral authority.....if you ever had any....... is GONE.
David Korn? Who is David Korn? Why would I care even if I knew?
The First Lady's speech was horrendously funny and we all loved it.
that even conservative republicans don't dare preach the New Testament truth that women are to be submissive to their husbands.
Your wife has no life or thought of her own?
Needlebutts are as bad as liberals.
We could just all stop posting to him. In America today, he can dominate no one who does not willingly sit at his table.
That is precisely why it is amusing. The visual picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Chippindales is funny, it just is.
I believe they hatched Friday or Saturday. This morning I saw video of the mother duck and her little ducklings swimming in a pond of water.
You have a problem with teachers?
Will any other Freeper women stand up and wave their hands, if they too are "whores" in famer18th's self righteous view.
Guess what farmer18th, I have told a few off colored jokes too!
Geez, I missed it!
Treasury duck, and her ducklings, moved to another location
WASHINGTON, AP
The mother duck - who had been under Secret Service protection for four weeks while she sat on her eggs was gently nabbed along with her 11 ducklings and placed in Rock Creek Park.
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may22005/update13114200552.asp
Read this very carefully, dirtboy.......Laura did NOT promote adultery. Anyone who thinks she did, is looking for perversion where there is none.
She was teasing her husband. She was speaking in absurdities for the sake of humor. She does NOT watch "Desperate Housewives" and IS not a "desperate housewife."
Your attack on her morality is WAY out of line, and it makes your motives suspect that you just might have your own moral issues.
We KNOW Laura is moral and upright. But, we don't know the same about you..........now do we?
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