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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Great post and so very true they are fake Christian with a political agenda full stop.
LOL!
Thanks!
Love it!
Better a true conservative who supports the foundational principles - governmental, moral, and economic - on which this republic was founded than the libertine who says he is conservative but really is not, save perhaps in economics and national defense.
/gang message
C'mon! Laura Bush is the new Minnie Pearl.
Well, now you're done it; surely you will be damned to hell.
What are you, some kind of subversive? They read that book in public schools! Laura Bush has probably read it, too - and started her downward spiral.
I would be quite happy to say it to your face.
Insane? Crazy, yes. Insane, no. Running a show on primetime TV that glorifies adultery - in a day and age when marriages are failing, now THAT'S insane. Or at least it USED to be considered such.
Read this very carefully, dirtboy.......Laura did NOT promote adultery. Anyone who thinks she did, is looking for perversion where there is none.
Where did I say she promoted adultery? I said she referenced a show that does such. The point is, I really don't think we need to have the First Lady telling jokes that involve the most vapid, vile, depraved show in prime time - IMO that show instead should be condemned every possible opportunity. If that's insane, then that means that the depraved has become sane.
I agree my little hobbit
Ah, so you're just as crass in person as you are on the internet.
No wonder you don't have an issue with Laura's jokes.
Uh-oh! You opened up a big can o' worms! ;D
You highly doubt that most of us are Christians?!
There's no way to differentiate between what you say, and what the biased left wrongly stereotypes real Christians as thinking.
You blame others for your lack of discernment? (I'm curious about anything I said that sounds like something you think the left could use against us.)
The people whom I KNOW are Christians, almost to a person, were not offended by what the First Lady said.
So, there's hope for me, yet?
Methinks your politics has gotten in the way of your common sense, and your use of the moral high ground is nothing but a sham.
Well, that's nice.
So, are you saying that LB should be put in stocks with a scarlet letter on her forehead or were you talking about other founding morals?
Are you dissing Thomas Jefferon and the Founders now?
As pointed out in post 410, she did that very well --with some of her jokes. Others crossed the line.
And nobody ever said that it isn't "refreshing to have a wife get up and be the center of attention." I don't know what that has to do with the argument here.
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.
Ah, thank you so much for gracing us with your superiority and your insight into the minds of us low-functioning ones.
Are you a shrink, mayhaps? Or do you just play one here?
It's funny, by coincidence last night there was an interview with Dr. Charles Krauthammer shown on C-Span.
Dr. Krauthammer, who does hold a degree in psychiatry, went to great length to explain that even shrinks should not pretend to divine "emotional and intellectual functioning" from someone's political arguments.
LOL. That's not what the Bible says. But, that's certainly how the naysayers want you to read it.
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