Posted on 05/03/2005 2:10:11 PM PDT by EveningStar
Most of Mrs. Bush's humor at the correspondents' dinner was just right: Edgy but not over the edge. But I think the stripper and horse jokes were totally beneath her.
Just put it to the other-shoe test: If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is.
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What is that?....I just got broaband yesterday...and now Im behind again...
And an unintended consquence of the near take-over of FR by the extremist right is that I, a former so far to the right I was called Atilla the Hun, have moved to the center and a MUCH more moderate position. There is NO way I want to be associated with the extremists on the right. They are an embarrassment. And the left, well, they are dangerous. So what's left? The middle. An unintended consequence that the Holier than Thou brigade has caused.
No I can't....have you ever seen anything analyzed as much as this horse joke..?
1. The horse joke is typical earthy humor on the ranch/farm. Nobody with any country roots would get put out by that joke, I don't care how religious or otherwise puritanical.
2. The stripper joke was funny precisely because Laura Bush and Lynn Cheney are ladies. The thought of those classy ladies at Chippendales was funny because it was completely ridiculous. It wouldn't be ridiculous if it were Terry Kerry or some other Democrat skank.
I've been paying only some attention to this topic...but, your comment, Peach, caught my eye.
Pretty strong stuff. What have I missed? Thanks for 'splaining.
EXCELLENT. Another one agrees with me. Even the Bible study leader brought it up last evening, and said much the same thing. :-)
Laura was hilarious, but I agree, some of her jokes were a little declasse in such a public setting. Considering the fact that she almost never participates in such events and we rarely see her giving any kind of speech or interview, all the huffing and puffing about her jokes is a little overdone. We probably won't hear from Laura again about anything this year except for her book festival and the White House Christmas decorations.
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I lived in upstate NY until I was 14 and vacated there until I was 22.
The joke around the Adirondecks, told in ALL company including children, is about the NYC city slicker who came to farm country upstate and couldn't tell the difference between a horse and a cow.
If this offends you, it's probably best to dig a deep hole in your back yard and have someone bury you, because you'll never be able to avoid being offended.
For cryin' out loud, people, she told a joke about farm animals and her husband's ineptitude in dealing with them. It's a joke that has been around for eons. It's not like she used a strong of four letter words, or dressed in a skimpy little pop dive outfit and mounted the horse on stage. She did what every other normal housewife in the country does... poked fun at her husband. This whole reaction has to explain why when I go camping now, I have a hard time finding sticks for kindling. If those sticks are located where they seem to be these days, you can keep them. I certainly don't want them back, and your proctologist would charge double to remove them anyway.
Tasteless SKANK.... has quite a ring to it..
You can almost smell the phrase..
I agree with Michelle EXCEPT that the reason Laura can get away with it and not TerRAYza is because Laura has tons more class in the first place.
For Laura it is an obvious joke.
For TerRAYza we would be wondering if she really WAS at a stripper joint with dollar bills...
The difference is that Laura was joking about her own husband. If THK was saying the jokes, she would have been slamming the President not poking fun at sKerry. Heck, if THK were to say the same stuff of sKerry, he would probably have had her arrested.
Nahhh phooeeyy. I just ignore the weirdos and stay the way I always have. Nothing changing here.
Look, I'm sorry but I find that kind of scatalogical humor disgusting, I certainly don't want to hear about strippers and equine masturbators from the first lady.
everyone has to fit a certain mold you know.
if someone is offended by something and another is no then obviously the person offended is in the wrong, right?
i thought that was a trademark of the left but after a few years at fr i've found i was very mistaken.
I, for one, would have walked out with a mean glare on my ugly face.
Then again, I wasn't invited.
Which is a shame because she speaks well. And she did the other night as well. It's funny both she and her daughters are caught in sexual jokes. I don't remember Bush ever telling one.
I wouldn't care, except that the culture is so sex-oriented, that some don't really need to hear it from the White House as well.
We have gone from being a political web site to being taken over by people pretending to be Christians.
On various thread the First Lady has been called White Trash, a whore, and more. Her Christianity has been questioned because of ONE joke.
If the President and First Lady aren't Christian enough for us, then I give up.
There is a certain faction on FR that CONSTANTLY pretends they are Christian and the rest of us aren't Christian enough or conservative enough.
#1. Anyone can pretend to be anything on the internet.
#2. I live in the Bible Belt where you can't walk 20 steps without bumping into a Baptist Church. Nearly all my friends and neighbors are Baptist. NOT ONE of them has a problem with the jokes.
#3. I think MOST of the people pretending to be outraged at the First Lady's jokes are NOT what they say they are.
#4. I think they are paid opinion shapers who come here to stir dissent.
#5. Read the book for which Jim Robinson wrote the foreward -- Hillary's Secret War. It details exactly how the opinion shapers on the left come to web sites ilke FR and have been tracked as coming from the DNC and the Washington Post, etc., to come here and try to shape opinion. All under the guise of Christianity and conservatism, of course.
#6. Think about how many people you have met in real life who would be upset about a joke about some city slicker coming into farm country trying to milk a male horse and not being able to tell the difference between a cow and a horse. It's a joke older than I am.
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