Good post, Charles.
It's been explained and explained to the "holier than thou" contingent and they are just too offended to get it:
1) It was a ROAST!
2) The horse joke had nothing sexual about it. It was a "city slicker/country folk" joke.
3) By making these jokes, Mrs. Bush was actually poking fun at the media, by playing into their stereotypes of Republicans.
I'd bet you $100.00 that none of them have even seen Desperate Housewives. It's a soap opera, no more, no less. I wouldn't let kids watch, but then I wouldn't let them watch a show like 24, either. Desperate Housewives is entertaining because these are fictional characters. Take it or leave it, but the joke is in the absurdity of it all, that and the hiliarious mental picture of a bunch of high profile Republicans and Supreme Court justices at a Chippendales show!
It's usually the most hypocritical that see a sexual element in something that most normal people do not! I'd be embarassed to post that I thought that joke was about horse masturbation. Michelle Malking made a fool of herself with that comment!
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