Laura Bush Talks Naughty

The New York Times ^ | 5/3/5 | JOHN TIERNEY

[ricks_place]

The NYT prints that Bush is charming but it's easier for bashers to stay the course.

[sauropod]

Oh goody. The elites praise Laura because her jokes descended into the gutter.

BARF!

[anniegetyourgun]

I really hate this rag.

[Beth528]

What I would like to know is why Al Franken and the Hollywood crow was there!From what I understand Rush was not invited.Maybe this is wrong it is just what I heard maybe Rush declined the invitation.

I think someone should tell Laura Bush that she needs to get another writer.Sorry I just didn't see any humor in what she said..Don't get me wrong I love Laura and think she is still a class act but she should have never tried to play to the liberal media or the Hollywood wackos.

[Brilliant]

Don't you want to know what the nutcases are thinking?

[ricks_place]

It was an adult audience but there was no four letter vitrol; I thought she was pretty funny.

[Lazamataz]

I really hate this rag.

Don't you fret for a second. They've been their own worst enemy, causing more damage to their credibility in the last 10 years then we could ever have engineered. Most moderate and expecially most conservative commentators now mention this mythpaper with a near sneer-now.

[Beth528]

I forgot the most disgusting invited guest,Jane Fonda..yes old Hanoi Jane was there.

[sirchtruth]

For years they (reporters) have tried to convince their friends outside Washington that Mr. Bush is actually not a close-minded dolt, and Mrs. Bush is no Stepford Wife or Church Lady. Yes, they're Texans who go to church and preach family values, but they're not yahoos or religious zealots.

What? For years these MSM reporters have more than tried to convience us all that Bush is a yahoo and religious zealot...again they misrepresent reality with their biased spin.

Dorks!

[ken5050]

Beth has a valid point..allow me to expand upon it..90% of those in the crowd probably detest W..and voted against him..There's no way you can placate or win over these folks, so there is something that rubs one the wrong way when you try and get down to their level..you do demean yourself.. to what degree is in the eyes of the beholder..Even Tierney, who is the NY Times conservative new voice..and pretty even handed..still can't start the piece without using the word "yahoos" or "religious zealots"...which shows accurately the mindset of most in attendance.

What's very curious, IMHO, is that the truest statement that Laura said is the one that has gotten the least attention.."George hates going to these things." Absolutely true..he'd rather be out clearing brush than sitting their with all those pompous fools..

[libbybelle]

"an evening of cognitive dissonance", or scatological palliations.

[Peach]

The First Lady's jokes most certainly did NOT descend into the gutter.

[ricks_place]

The jokes were not for children but neither were the jokes in the gutter.

[RightFighter]

Stupid Michael Savage, who I've recently become disgusted by, was ranting and raving about this event. He was making particular issue of her talking about the president trying to milk a male horse, as if he thought she was implying that he was trying to milk a particular appendage on the male horse. I didn't get that impression at all from watching the video - she was just commenting that not only was he trying to milk a horse, but even if it HAD been a cow, he was trying to milk a male and would have obtained no milk. It was not the trashy, dirty joke that Savage decided to treat it as.

[MJY1288]

Posted last night and attracted every holier than thou nutjob here on FR

Laura Bush Talks Naughty

[Aquinasfan]

I think someone should tell Laura Bush that she needs to get another writer.Sorry I just didn't see any humor in what she said...

Me either. The fact that the NY Times approves is telling.

Don't get me wrong I love Laura and think she is still a class act but she should have never tried to play to the liberal media or the Hollywood wackos.

You are what you do and say. This wasn't any accident.

[JesseHousman]

Her comment about George milking the male horse will certainly endear the Bushes to the liberals. And, too, the very hilarious comparison of her mother-in-law to Don Corleone.

It sounds like a set up on the part of the joke writer, but then Laura read the quips.

[new cruelty]

I thought it was a decent read; particularly the latter half of the article.

[Wallace T.]

I suspect Rush Limbaugh knew that some of the material would be offensive to a considerable portion of the conservative audience, including his listener base, and decided not to attend. From what I understand, the 700 Club TV broadcast said nothing about the content of the First Lady's speech. Pat Robertson has been burned a few times by his own impolitic remarks and apparently decided to punt on this one. Bill Bennett did some hand wringing about it on his AM talk show yesterday. Michael Savage decided to go ballistic (surprise!) and use it to hammer at his view of "not a dime's worth of difference" between the two parties.

[roses of sharon]

Tell Savage he needs to get out more, the horse joke is an old, old, agricultural one. It teases city slickers for trying to be ranchers and farmers.

Mrs. Bush has been teasing him for years about becoming a rancher.

It never entered my mind that this was a dirty joke, since I have heard it all my life, being born and raised in Texas.

Even here in MI my husband understood the joke.

Besides why would Mrs. Bush even think this was dirty? It would not be funny if it was intended to be dirty.